LOOKBOOK COOKBOOK MODEL EATING FROM ONE OF THEIR OWN
By Karli Smith
LookBook CookBook is a website/blog where food meets fashion, and all treats sinfully delicious and sweet are showcased by models in fashion shoots. From chocolate banana smoothies, to cinnamon rolls, cookie dough truffles, ice-cream sandwiches, strawberry shortcakes and coconut cream, all recipes on this food/fashion blog are gluten free and vegan friendly. Enticing and offering a guilt free indulgence, because of the clean, thoughtful, chemical and refined sugar free ingredients at hand, well why wouldn’t you? If you are anything like many of us at COVET, we love a good bake up on the chilly weekends, to treat ourselves and friends alike. So who is the mastermind behind a concept that combines a girls two greatest ever loves and how did such an idea come about? Meet Jessica Milan, a vegan and self taught photographer from Toronto- Canada, who lives in Ibiza during the summer months (jealous us?) and is a ‘’total sucker for cupcakes, pancakes and chocolate.’’ Before turning her hand to photography, Jess spent several years in the fashion industry, modelling throughout Europe and Asia. ‘’ There was a few years gap between both modelling and photography,” she says, “but while modelling I always had a camera in hand.” Growing from a natural urge to capture the moment, initially what was “more so to take lifestyle photos” became a sparkling eye for fashion photography. Jessica revealed she has been coveting the Canon G12 camera. ‘’I just got it a few days ago, so I’m a happy girl now!” Along with her love for fashion and photography Jessica revealed she has always had a ‘’huge passion for vegan cooking’,” originally she wanted to create a normal food blog to showcase her recipes but as she was doing a lot of fashion shoots at the time, she thought it would be ‘’a fun twist ‘to have some of the girls pose with the food.” And how refreshing is it to see models actually eating desserts and enjoying themselves!? When asked how Jess goes about choosing the clothes and models for LookBook CookBook, she revealed that most of the models on the site are actually her friends or 42
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