BOTANICAL COUTURE 2023

DESIGN BY SARAH WAGSTAFF

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CECILY GUBITOSI PHOTOGRAPHY

a few photos with her camera, Sarah devised a floral mohawk headpiece (a nod to Rufio), wrapped his wrists with floral cuffs, and donned his fingers with floral rings. "It's really beautiful to watch him developing this connection with the world of gardens and plants, because I helped to cultivate it, too."

In the final moments of the photo session, which took place at SUOT Farm + Flowers, Sarah's husband Keith agreed to model a floral headpiece and have his beard flowered. "I often feel like flowers are assigned a feminine trait, but they don't have to be gender related," Sarah says. "I really wanted to use male figures leaning into this aspect of botanical couture . . . to show how flowers can be gender bending."

Botanical Couture 2023

DESIGN BY NAN MATTESON + LINDA SPRADLIN PHOTOGRAPHY BY JILL BADER