Hannah Green | Yie Sandison | The Creatives | 'La Vie En Rose'
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Women and flowers have been intertwined for thousands of years. Diane Ackerman wrote in ‘A Natural History of the Senses’, 1990:
“A flower’s fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.”
And Michael Pollan added in ‘Second Nature’, 1991:
“Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.”
Yie Sandison website brings these words to life, photographing Hannah Green in ‘La Vie En Rose’ with very traditional styling by Cheryl Tan. ‘La Vie En Rose’ isn’t as sensually voluptuous as the words that precede it, making it a marvelous idea very tightly wound — the very opposite of the world that inspires it. /Makeup by Helen Samaryan; hair by Koh Tanyawanichapong.
