Ariana Grande in 'Pure Fantasy' by Elizaveta Porodina for Vogue Italy March 2025
Top talent gets the [IG] treatment, styled by in Maison Valentino on the cover with luxury riches from Dior, Gucci, McQueen, Palomo Spain and more in her editorial.
The mega star’s fashion story ‘Pure Fantasy’ ignites marvels among many of her fans, who have never seen her look so ethereal, so mystical, so lovely and other-worldly for March 2025 issue./ Hair by GaborK; makeup by Michael Anthony
As she moves into an orbit of photographing high-profile talents — many of whom request her today — specializes in transforming her subjects, who have never appeared in images like hers. It’s as if she’s doing a psychological excavation of people — especially women — who have been photographed thousands of times, if we count the fan cameras following them everywhere.
Porodina speaks a language they’re not accustomed to hearing. And who knows what is going on inside their minds and emotional selves. The artist is not afraid to speak directly, leaving her famous subject emotionally impacted by her words. If Elizaveta didn’t connect deeply with her muses, she could not write words like these:
Where do i begin - i still can’t believe this happened!!! Working with you, @arianagrande - for the cover of @vogueitalia - was simply a dream come true.
From the moment you entered the studio , you brought this incredible energy —so focused, so driven, so genuinely present and ready to give your all to the images. Every click of the camera captured not just your iconic talent, but also that unique warmth, a special aura -that i still can see in our images.
But what truly blew me away was how kind and down-to-earth you are. It is a special skill to be so switched on, so present and still make sure everyone felt appreciated and included.
I am so grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with someone as talented, funny, smart, and kind as you are. This is one for the books- and hopefully only the first chapter of many to come. I can’t wait for everyone to see what we created together.
This is not the first commentary AOC has quoted from an Elizaveta Porodina photoshoot. She gives her entire self in creating bonds with the people she’s photographing. In our increasingly superficial world, these images have a lasting and transcendent value that lives in the private spaces of Ariana Grande’s being.
Photographer [IG] brings her creative combustion talents to a fashion story for [IG] June 2024, featuring ‘Killing Eve’ actor .
styles the shoot, with set design by ./ Hair by Shon; makeup by Miranda Joyce
will hit June 21, 2024 movie screens in Jeff Nichols’ film ‘The Bikeriders’, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy. There is such disorder in the movie house, that there is we can conflate Porodina’s images with a blood and guts Chicago biker gang — even one with Austin Butler.
The film is such a unique story about packs of Harley Davidson riders in 1960s midwestern America, that it requires its own post.
Japanese actor is styled by and Modern Media group fashion director in ‘Celluloid Dreams’. Top photographer IG is behind the lens for China’s Spring 2024 Fashion issue.
