Elizaveta Porodina's Ballerinas in Carolina Herrera by Wes Gordon for Vanity Fair

Elizaveta Porodina's Ballerinas in Carolina Herrera by Wes Gordon for Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair Magazine’s November 2020 issue shares six global ballerinas in motion, creating a sensual color explosion of Carolina Herrera by Wes Gordon’s FW2020 collection. German-based photographer and visual artist Elizaveta Porodina collaborated with Gordon to create the experimental images.

“[They feel] very poetic, and fresh, and colorful, and alive,” Gordon said of the final photographs, “all the attributes I aspire to for Herrera.” The ballerinas are caught in sweeps of movement, somewhat abstracted by the layers of equipment Porodina uses in her newly created technique. “[I] started to develop this technique, piling up equipment completely making the living room full of stuff,” said Porodina. And once Gordon had given her his blessing to create pictures that “are next level and that they are an explosion of colors,” she said, “it made me look for even more equipment, even more levels of abstraction.”