Portraits 1 February 2025
What to wear for portraits
The only three rules, and why the rest of the advice is noise.
People ask this more than anything else, so here it is in full: wear something you already own, something that moves, and something you are not managing all day.
Movement over pattern
A photograph of two people is mostly a photograph of how cloth behaves when they walk. Linen, silk and wool all do something. Structured synthetics do nothing.
I wore the jumper. It is the best picture of me that exists.
Everything else, the colours of the season, the forbidden shades, matching the bouquet, you can ignore.
