Shannon Read Graduate Portfolio

anthophile

noun. anthophile • (plural anthophiles) (zoology) • an organism that visits flowers. a person who loves flowers.

Temeka Fathers dress, Right: Prada shoes, Stylists own tights & clutch

“anthophile” is a still life and fashion editorial that depicts the soft language of flowers, alluding to a sense of femininity.

Flowers bring a sense of happiness to our lives each with its own unique appearance and traits, quite like our personalities. “anthophile” highlights how the beauty and vitality of blooms mirror the strength and grace of the feminine spirit. The narrative explores the juxtaposition of ice’s texture, characterised by its cold and hardness, with the soft nature of petals.

Left: Aje dress, Valentino bag

Left: Prada shoes, Stylists own tights

Left: Illustration by Shannon Read

Right: Zara earring

“flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

Right: Aje dress, florals by big luv club

luther burbank

Left: Illustration by Shannon Read

Left: Zara shoe

the language of flowers with Juls the florist aka ‘big luv club’ “I love a rose, but I feel like that’s a typical answer…

I love sweet pea actually, it’s really cute and fragile” Juls, Director and Florist of Big Luv Club, has been a Sydney florist for 3 years now. She describes her floral style as colourful, soft and romantic. Not fitting into one specific category, she likes to focus on the details in her work. When asked what flowers mean to her, Juls states that it sounds cheesy but they are a reminder of the fragility of life, they are so beautiful and To Juls, flowers being something it makes her feel very grounded. that can reflect the soft nature of femininity is all about how flowers are so vulnerable, the fact that they are a living thing and that there’s a definite feminine quality to them.

A popular flower choice Juls has noticed are roses, all the time, they always work.

Right now what’s trendy is the summer garden look, very classy, “a spring soiree kind of thing”, a lot of grouped flowers and abundance, but things always come and go with flowers.

Shannon Read

Temeka Fathers dress, florals by big luv club

Right: Phillipa Signorelli top & skirt

Right: Illustration by Shannon Read

Left: Stylists own clutch

Right: Aje dress, Leanne Whitehouse’s boots

acknowledgements creative direction shannon read graphics & layout photography illustration styling editing models alexandra maze

natasha velkovski

hair & makeup lexi weignberger florals big luv club garments temeka fathers

phillipa signorelli the volte

assistant deeva kalia

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by shannon read