where's the (friend) love?

i love this incredible spread from harper's bazaar of stam and heidi mount

but it made me realize that friendship is really an uncommon theme in fashion photography.

what about high fashion seems to inspire alienation? sure, there are numbers of shots with models... standing next to each other? or using each other as scenery?


but editoral content of the women interacting as if they actually know and LIKE each other is kind of rare. which is almost the opposite of what big time retailers do. they always have gaggles of pals having fun in their clothes like this h&m ad:


so i scoured my personal archives of fashion photos to find a few photos that portray friendship, something that i consider to be one of the most important aspects of human life! (wouldn't you think that more photographers would want to capture something so full of energy?)




images from fashion gone rogue