(adj.) mysterious and entrancing;
beyond ordinary understanding
Orhpic by Dorhout Mees is inspired by phenomenon, striking of lightning.
In nature, but also the fascination of what happens when lightning strikes a person, who survives..
The movement of light, heat and electricity in such a concentrated vorm through matter..
What happens..
The heat can change a strong trunk of a tree into darkened cole, electricity can change metals into beautiful oillike oxidated surfaces, and lightning can create these scars on the body that look like frozen electricity into the skin.
Painfully beautiful tableaus.. and so the main inspiration for this new Dorhout Mees collection.
Being about skin tones of different kinds, but with 3D structures that move over the skin heightened like scars.
Corcets accentuating the body , combined with leather sneakers, both with chaotic almost woven laces crossing on top and over each other mimicking these same structures on the body
And a sliver of silver lying on the body as a shiny metal second skin, showing each joint, where electricity was put through the material to make it react in these rainbow like patches.
Transparanty, showing the body and skin, combined with asymmetrical structures define the silhouettes.
"The combination of something that is so beautiful to behold and at the same time so dangerous was so interesting to me, the fragility of a material or our own body in that way was for me such an interesting thought.. that it created my whole collection..”
-Esther Louise Dorhout Mees
(adj.) mysterious and entrancing;
beyond ordinary understanding
Orhpic by Dorhout Mees is inspired by phenomenon, striking of lightning.
In nature, but also the fascination of what happens when lightning strikes a person, who survives..
The movement of light, heat and electricity in such a concentrated vorm through matter..
What happens..
The heat can change a strong trunk of a tree into darkened cole, electricity can change metals into beautiful oillike oxidated surfaces, and lightning can create these scars on the body that look like frozen electricity into the skin.
Painfully beautiful tableaus.. and so the main inspiration for this new Dorhout Mees collection.
Being about skin tones of different kinds, but with 3D structures that move over the skin heightened like scars.
Corcets accentuating the body , combined with leather sneakers, both with chaotic almost woven laces crossing on top and over each other mimicking these same structures on the body
And a sliver of silver lying on the body as a shiny metal second skin, showing each joint, where electricity was put through the material to make it react in these rainbow like patches.
Transparanty, showing the body and skin, combined with asymmetrical structures define the silhouettes.
"The combination of something that is so beautiful to behold and at the same time so dangerous was so interesting to me, the fragility of a material or our own body in that way was for me such an interesting thought.. that it created my whole collection..”
-Esther Louise Dorhout Mees
Editorial | Liselore Chevalier & Jacob van Rozelaar
Lookbook | Niels van Veen
MUA | Katinka Gernant
Hair stylist | Hester Werert
Film ORPHIC | Label | Dorhout Mees
Director | Esther Dorhout Mees
Executive producer | Esther Dorhout Mees
Producer | Pamela Menzo
Model | Kiki Visser
Director of Photography | Ezra Reverda
Focuspuller | Kevin Vidal
Drone | Thijm Huijbrechtse
Gaffer | Huib Berkhoff
Licht Assistent | Dennis Vlot
3D Light projection | Edward van Dongen
Editor | Wouter van Luijn
Music & Sound design| Guido Maat
Grading | Daphne Maierna at Darlings Postproductions
VFX | Darlings Post Productions
MUA | Katinka Gernant
Hair Stylist | Team Hester Wernet