Galleries / Amy: Good Girl, Bad Idea
Three wardrobe changes, one gray backdrop, and a girl-next-door with a wicked streak.
Amy showed up to the studio with three garment bags and absolutely no intention of being precious about any of it. By the time the lights were warm she'd already cycled through her first look — a slip of a floral dress, a paper parasol twirled over one shoulder, and a smile that says she knows exactly what she's doing.
Then the dress came off the hanger and the pinafore went on. White tights, a black skirt, red heels, and a fat hardcover book she has clearly never intended to read — Amy's take on the schoolgirl trope lands somewhere between honor-roll and detention, and she plays both with a straight face and a sideways grin.
The last act is all attitude: a cropped leather jacket, hands gripping the zipper, chin down, eyes up. No props, no parasol — just Amy proving that the girl-next-door and the girl who keys your car can absolutely be the same person.
Shot entirely against a single gray backdrop in 2013, this is early-era AntiPretty at its most stripped-down: no location, no gimmicks, just one model, three personalities, and a camera trying to keep up. No airbrushing, no apologies, no boring.
Photography by Adam Aragon
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