Elyse's comments on the shoot:
"I was modeling the beautiful designer nun suit and other clothes for a magazine editorial. I CAN'T WAIT for the pics to come out; I adore the photographer [Baldovino Barani]. He only uses natural light, not studio lights, which liberates the entire shoot: in a studio situation, if I so much as kneel down on the ground, everything grinds to a halt while the photographer and his assistants adjust a ****load of lights. THIS photographer took me out on the streets of HK...when a trolley rolled by, he yelled, "Get on it!" and I ran down the sidewalk in my enormous gown and climbed up on the trolley while he took pics. We shot inside of fruit stands, in an elevator, on the sidewalk where I tried to convince old men to give me a hug...it was awesome.
Furthermore, in Asia, the photographer usually shows the model a "reference" picture- something he's ripped out of Italian Vogue or the like- then asks her to copy the pose. This photographer's "reference" was a bunch of pics of evangelists and faith healers from the 1920s! There was no stultifying pose copying; he just said, "OK, we've dressed you up as a bizarre extraterrestrial evangelist...go!"
This shoot was an example of the absolute zenith of fun and glamor of my job. I loved it. And at the end of the day, I pulled that little hood off my head and did indeed ride the bus home in full makeup and matted sweat-hair, making that face the whole time!"