Jack Wills Christmas Term Handbook by Eleanor Hardwick

So it happens that, for my sins, I receive the Jack Wills handbook (their posh name for catalogue) every term (their posh name for season)-they do really nice trackies, ok?!-more for the photos at the front for anything else. The christmas photos seemed to have a great new direction-instead of the whole preppy sloaney thing the styling was a bit punked up, but in a good way (although sadly the boys were not quite up to scratch...casting needs a bit more attention I feel or where am I going to get my wall candy from?). I only found out today that the photos are by Eleanor Hardwick, who I blogged about a while back. Since I last visited her sight she's got a few solo exhibitions under her belt and has shot a few ad campaigns for various fashion brands; a visit to her site is well worth the time. I hope her success will continue because I think she has such great potential to be a really interesting fashion photographer.

Actually the reason I originally decided to write about the photos was because the above reminded me so much of a Tim Walker shot. At first I got really excited and thought it was the same tree painted on the wall, but then...no. Still, I'm likin' the linkin' (did I really just write that? Evidently. Well who cares, IT'S CHRISTMAS. My excuse for everything).

(jackwills.co.uk; flickr.com)