[I] have been thinking a lot about love affairs: my great love affair with photography, and how something that can bring you so much joy can cause so much pain. The thing about love affairs is that there is always a beginning and an end. Summer, for me, is the greatest love affair of all. The way its beauty and light hurt in your memory on cold winter days. How much you look forward to it when it blows in through the window and how sad it is when the light of day ends and golden leaves begin to fall. Summer is love. Summer was made for love.
Leilani Bishop knows the bittersweetness of summer. She makes perfume oils that entrap the florals that dance through the long, hot, sticky afternoons. The single note scents of a delicate flower that rub off on summer lovers and reminds them of you long after the last petal falls. Here Leilani plays our muse who is trapped forever in an impossible love affair as the end of summer prepares to turn the page into fall…

Starring Leilani Bishop and Zach Lynd, styled by Kelly Framel, hair and makeup by Ana Sicat. Shot in Amagansett, NY.

above: Candela Skirt, Todd Snyder Coat

below: Mara Hoffman Dress, Maggy Frances Coat, Birkenstock Sandals 

above: Mimi Plange Skirt, Todd Snyder Coat, Vintage Fedora 

below: Candela Dress, Confezioni Crosby Coat

     

above & below: BCBG Dress, Kaelen Coat

above & below: Miguelina dress, 10 Crosby Derek Lam Coat, Birkenstock Sandals

Modeled by Leilani Bishop and Zachary Lynd / Photography by Jamie Beck / Styling by Kelly Framel  / Beauty by Ana Sicat / Shot on location in Amagansett, NY

Remember last year’s end of summer editorial?…