This idea came into existence as I decided to form a story that can be connected to the idea of remembrance, as we struggle to accept reality.
Across northern France and Flanders (northern Belgium), the brutal clashes between Allied and Central Powers soldiers tore up fields and forests, tearing up trees and plants and wreaking havoc on the soil beneath. But in the warm early spring of 1915, bright red flowers began peeking through the battle-scarred land: Papaver rhoeas, known variously as the Flanders poppy.
Struck by the sight of bright red blooms on broken ground, McCrae wrote a poem, “In Flanders Field,” in which he channeled the voice of the fallen soldiers buried under those bright poppies.
Since that time this bright-coloured flower started a symbolic link with the word remembrance in the world of humankind.
In this frame, the model is the bright flower in the barren land where once the word remembrance use to linger.
This look was selected for VOGUE ITALIA
