Behind the scenes: Ladies who lounge
The fashion team reveal what goes on behind the scenes on a Fabulous shoot...
We arrive in Ibiza on Sunday afternoon to glorious sunshine, a relaxed atmosphere and a beer by the pool at our private hotel. Forget traipsing around America with jet lag, this trip is going to be plain sailing - if only someone could have told the weather!
We wake the next morning at 7am ready and raring to go, dismissing the looming clouds with lots of optimistic chatter about it burning off.
Piled into the van we bump along an unfinished road to the most impressive front door I have ever seen. It is at least 12 feet high and opens to marble stairs leading to the most beautiful villa. Everything is white, from the floors to the ceiling. It is open plan with multiple levels leading to smaller coves and the view from the rooftop is breathtaking. Overlooking the Mediterranean, set high on the cliff face it has a view to die for and at £150K + rent in the summer some would! According to the owners it was recently rented by none other than P Diddy himself.
As we begin shooting it does appear that the sun will break through and we all start moving things along excitedly. Three shots in the bag and we have to stop for lunch. The sun is too high to shoot and as the cloud has burnt off we consider re-shooting the first shots later with blue sky.
We kick back with some local tapas, catch a few rays on the double bed sun loungers and start to relax. Because the roof is gleaming white it takes longer than we had hoped for the sun to drop and after trying (unsuccessfully) to block the glare with black clothing (see pic) we give up and visit the villa's private beach instead - 214 steps down the cliff (according to our trusted photographer) and hope that within the hour we can get going again.
At 4.30pm its decided that the time is right and we can get the model dressed and ready. Tucked away in one of the bedrooms, we had no idea what was happening outside. As we step out we quickly discover there will definitely not be a problem with the sun. It has turned grey and overcast and the glorious sunshine is a distant memory.
As they say, the show (shoot!) must go on and we manage to wrap up the last 5 shots in record time. Although the sun didn't shine the shoot still looked amazing and as we pile back into the van at 8pm we congratulate each other on a great (long) first day...
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