Hóng huā (Red Flower)
A collaboration based on the color palette of flowers from photographer Angela Huizer’s travels morphed into an exploration of the color red. A significant and important color in Chinese culture; the heritage of both Huizer’s collaborators for this story, red is the source of inspiration for our latest beauty story.
PHOTOGRAPHY ANGELA HUIZER @byangelahuizer @stickystuffagency
MAKEUP AND HAIR XIU YUN YU @xiuyun.yu@eeagency
MODEL LIEVE AUW @lieveauw @knownmodelmanagement
THANK YOU ALLARD EQUIPMENT @allardstudios
“Your lips are like a southern lily red,
Wet with the soft rain-kisses of the night,
In which the brown bee buries deep its head,
When still the dawn’s a silver sea of light.
Your lips betray the secret of your soul,
The dark delicious essence that is you,
A mystery of life, the flaming goal
I seek through mazy pathways strange and new.
Your lips are the red symbol of a dream,
What visions of warm lilies they impart,
That line the green bank of a fair blue stream,
With butterflies and bees close to each heart!”
Excerpt from “A Red Flower”, 1922, by Claude McKay
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