HAUTE COUTURE BY GOTTFRIED

Good afternoon,

thanks to our lovely friend and model Irina we got to meet the Austrian based Designer Gottfried. Gottfried was in need for a photographer to showcase some of his work - beautiful haute couture gowns and some ready-to-wear pieces.Thanks to Gottfried's rather good connections in his home town Jürgen Knoth got to shoot Irina in a museum for modern art, which is all concrete walls and straight lines. A perfect backdrop for her wearing Gottfried Haute Couture :)

For hair we decided on big Hollywood curls, and I kept the make up simple with sculptured cheekbones, soft caramel eyes and a dark red lip. For a second look I took Irina's hair up in a kinda undone styled low bun, changed the lip color to a soft nude and enhanced the eyeshadow color just a tad. 

Cheers,
Heidi xxx

HAIRITAGE - AUSTRIA'S NEXT TOPMODEL FOR VANGARDIST

Good evening,

I've been dying to talk about this for months, but had to keep my mouth shut until last week... Now I can say it: I was on TV! I'm famous! Nope, I'm just kiddin, not about the I was on TV thing, but about me being famous ;) But let me give you a bit of background information...

In July Jürgen got contacted by Vangardist Magazine to shoot an editorial for their November issue, which is themed all around the topic 'Hair'. Why the November issue you might be wondering, well... because it was for the TV show 'Austria's Next Topmodel'! This editorial was supposed to be one of their 'real jobs' where the candidates go to a casting and one or some of them will get the job. Since the show was filmed in the summer, but started being on air only in September it couldn't get published any earlier. 

So off we went to Baden during some crazy hot summer sunday. There was some filming action, some casting action and some interview action. Our episode aired Oct 30th 2014. Watch the casting by clicking the following link. It's right at the beginning of the video :)

http://www.puls4.com/topmodel/videoDetail/id/2611074 

Jürgen and Julian from Vangardist decided that ANTM candidates Miro and Lydia would be the best choice for our editorial, which was all about edgyness, roughness - and a lot of hair! To get a small behind the scenes glimpse, click on the link below, our part starts around minute 9).  

http://www.puls4.com/topmodel/videoDetail/id/2611078

Now comes the best part: I got to do the make up for our editorial! I was inspired by hair in general, especially bird's hair, i.e. feathers :) I kept the skin very highlighted, using the silver and white from my MU4E flash palette, and made feather bits and bobs that could be attached to eyebrows, brow bone and also lashes. Danny Wutzl created some cool hair style to go with it, Jürgen took some effin cool shots and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. 

Here are the final pictures, enjoy!

Cheers,

Heidi xxx

JUST EVE PANTS COLLECTION

Hey guys,

this year in August, Jürgen and I got invited through a lovely friend (thank you again Vanessa!) to attend a networking event in the beautiful Austrian village Bad Gastein. This event is organized biannually by Bianca Schwarzjirg, who is one of the hosts of the morning show 'Café Puls' on the Austrian TV station Puls 4. She's super nice, beautiful and smart and it is incredible what a bunch of awesome people she got together for that weekend!

For breakfast on both days we happened to come across two lovely ladies, one from Munich and one from Vienna. The German beauty Eva has recently started her own fashion label Just Eve and in just a few years the brand has done amazingly well and became super successful. The Austrian beauty Carina is just as successful with her PR company Young creative media agency, and is responsible for a big part of the success of 'Just Eve'.

We stayed in touch with Eva and Carina and not too long after our weekend in Bad Gastein, we got the chance to shoot a look book for 'Just Eve's' new pants and leggings collection. For the shoot we had another girl doing our three models' hair, while I was responsible for the make up. We started of with a natural make up with a slight focus on the eyes, moved on to some fun smokey eyes and finally put on a bold lip as well.

Here are some of the final pics, always with a little zoom-in on the make up. We did a crazy 24 sujets during this one day, too many to show all of them :)

Natural make up on Ivana.

Natural make up on Mary.

Natural make up on Marlies.

Cranberry eye make up on Ivana.

Dark brown and bronze eyes on Mary.

Brown, blue duo chrome eyeshadow on Marlies.

Dark eyes and red lips.

Cranberry eyes and cherry lips :)

Cheers,

Heidi xxx

PRIVATE SESSION

Hello,

following our photoshoot with Irina from Stella models some months ago I got the chance to work with her again. Irina asked me whether I would like to do her make up for a photoshoot with the Viennese based photographer Christian Postl. Of course I agreed! Working with another photographer is always nice :)

So off we went to Linz, Irina's home town, a picturesque and quite town about 1.5 h drive from Vienna. It shouldn't be our last trip to Linz, but more about that in a couple weeks :) For the shoot Christian wanted to photograph Irina in a natural setting, without much posing and without her modeling persona outshining her true self. I really like the pictures and I hope you do, too!

Cheers,
Heidi xxx

GET REAL

Dear readers,

not too long ago the annual 'Impulstanzwochen' festival took place in the city. This two-weeks long festival is a great mix of dance shows and workshops. You can watch professional dancers setting the stage on fire, but also take the first steps on the dance-floor yourself.

We took the opportunity to use the Art4Art Studio as a location for our photoshoot with Cat Jimenez, a professional hip hop dancer. Except for the annual Impulstanzwochen Art4Art is closed to the public, as all stage elements you see in theater productions in Vienna (e.g. for the Opera) are build here. Such a cool and inspiring space!

For the shoot I did Cat's make up and hair, as well as styling and also, I'm proud to say :p used my marginal photoshop skills to layout the pictures. Photos and retouching by the amazing Jürgen Knoth!

Cheers,
Heidi xxx

STREET FASHION

Hey guys,

it's about time to show you some of my new work, isn't it? It's been ages since my last post and we've had several photoshoots happening in between, snuck in a few short days (waaayyy to short!) of vacation in Croatia and got drunk at a couple weddings :p

So here's the result from a super fun group shot, outdoors for a change (much prefer this to studio work!) at the Campus of the Business University in Vienna. Fashion was by Adidas, Björn Borg, Tiger shoes and a streetstyle shop called Blue Tomato. Make up and hair was all pretty natural, with gold eyeshadow or a red lip here and there. 

I included a few backstage shots as well. Chica, Jürgen's dog seems to like having her picture taken, hence her slight over-presentation in the making of shots :p 

I played around with the layout a bit (which I love) and really like the outcome with the transparencies and different layers!

Here are the making of pictures! Thanks again to the whole team, our professional models Yemisi from Tempo Models and David from Mother Agency, our dancers/ breakdancers Kinscö, Sandra, Miro and Farmer, as well as Sam who plays his guitar as he would a woman :p Also thanks to the PR lady from the WU Campus who gave us a from that protected us from the ever present security guys, the stylists Driton Kosovrasti and Daniela, and last but by far not least, the photo assistants Isabella and Kaarina. Oh and Jürgen Knoth, he took the pictures ;)

Cheers,

Heidi xxx

WILD COLORS

Hey guys,

so I FINALLY managed to add some final touches on the pics from our last shoot. It was AGES ago! Mental notes to myself: get more organized, get faster with photoshop. :p

Anyways, this time we had Kristina Nikolic visiting the House of Knoth and I put some color in her face :) We combined colorful beachwear with blue eyeshadow under the eyes, green eyebrows, a vertical orange stripe and blush on her temples; unusual but pretty nonetheless. 

Here's the outcome, hope you enjoy!

Cya soon!

Heidi xxx

WILD COLORS - PREVIEW

Hey guys,

yet another beauty shoot with the amazing Kristina from Wiener Models is coming your way - here's a little teaser :) Watch this space for more pictures from this series!

Cheers,
Heidi xxx

HOLLYWOOD GLAM

Good afternoon lovely readers,

a couple weeks ago Miss Irina from Stella Models visited the House of Knoth for yet another test photoshoot. 

Just some background info on Irina for you guys - just to make us normal people feel bad about themselves :p This beautiful lady you are seeing before you has already given birth to two (!) super cute kids! I mean, I'm beyond words, she looks freakin amazing! Frequenting the gym every once in a while doesn't seem so bad, considering... Oh, and good genes help, too :)

For the shoot I decided to try my hand on glam hollywood curls (did I mention that Irina has the most enviable hair ever? Like ever!). I paired it with a neutral eye and my favorite red lipstick, Lady Danger by MAC; et voila there you have your classic retro Hollywood Glam look. 

Cheers,

Heidi xxx