There’s a quiet confidence that threads through this feature photoshoot. It’s an exercise in tension: between freedom and control, opulence and restraint. 

Layers of golden tulle shift with each gesture, the fabric’s transparency revealing glints of sequins beneath, pulling the palette away from romance into something more electric. 

Here, the volume of the gown is less about grandeur than about atmosphere: it frames space, holding light, as if the air itself were part of the garment. The tone is almost cinematic: not in scale, but in stillness. 

Through Fynn Badgley’s lens, and under Basil Waris’ direction, the clothes become architecture, movement, and pause all at once. This is fashion that lingers not for its drama, but for its precision: each piece caught in the act of becoming something else.

Credits

Model | Arabelle Gregoire @aaarabellenicole Agency @morganmodelmgmt

Creative Director + Lead Stylist | Basil Waris @basilwaris

Photographer | Fynn Badgley @fynn_badgley

Stylists | Mariana Maradiaga @styledfrom_mars Afarineh Hosseini @afarinehstyles

Makeup | Nihed Ouled Zaoui @nihed_mua

Hair | Yamima Isaac @yamima

Photography Assistant | Vladimir Schekoldi @visualbyvs

Designers | Adam X @adamxatelier YLYNX @_ylynx_ Élantur @elantur.inc Betsey Johnson @betseyjohnson

Jewelry | Rita Tesolin @ritatesolininc

Realty | Team Torkan @petertorkan @paige_torkan

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