Vestis Fall Fashion ...

    Ever wonder what’s really out there? Beyond Harvard that is? Beyond Sperry Topsiders, Longchamp totes and Barbour Jackets–all these trappings of clean, preppy Harvard style? For Vestis’s Fall Fashion extravaganza, we took three Harvard models off campus and out...

Vestis Fall Fashion ...

Fall should be a time to dabble in the whimsical, the ethereal and the weirdly wonderful. For the second half of our fall fashion shoot, we took escapism to its limits, inspired by the idea of a modern day fairy tale with a dark twist. We hope you...

The Great Escape: Be...

While the end product may be all arty and nice, fashion shoots actually do take a lot of work and time–albeit incredibly fun and frenetic labor. This particular shoot took an entire month and a half of emails, model castings, fittings and two all day weekend shoots to put together, and I...

Harvard Ballet Compa...

  Ever since Harvard alum Natalie Portman’s incredibly chic if slightly deranged turn as ballerina Nina Sayers in last year’s Black Swan, Vestis has been aching to do something similarly balletic. Enter the Harvard Ballet Company and their upcoming fall show “Out of...

Behind the Scenes: H...

  Vestis did a collaboration recently with the Harvard Ballet Company. Here are some behind the scenes, totally candid shots from a long Saturday afternoon of shooting. The actual shots taken by the actual photographers will be up soon in all their frou frou’d glory. -Thomas...

Project Comp #3

What to do when you have attitude to spare and a serious clotheshorse habit? Band together and make Vestis proud. Freshman compers Emily Chen, Kristie Han, Gloria Hong, Jacqueline Clark, Erica Smith, and Jay Drummond put together this photoshoot for their comp. Set in and around...

Project Comp Part 1

Vestis’s fall compers have been hard at work over the past week putting together some fab pieces for the blog. I’m in love with what they came up with and I’m sure you will be too. Up first: Micere Johnson 14′ and Rachel Epstein 13′ put together a 60′s...

Color Chemistry

Julia and I had some fun the other day playing around with different colors and proportions. Inspired by the bold, colorful style of Nicole Warne, the blogger behind Gary Pepper Vintage (a wondrous new blog and online vintage store Julia stumbled upon), we mashed cream knitwear with ivory...