Sharon van de Pas by Michael Schwartz for Black #12

I felt like there was a lack of energy in this shoot.

She's no good

I agreed with katie, that the shoot is lacking energy. I just checked out her book and she actually has a lot of potential you just can't see it in these bad pictures

but what does it MEAN? weird visual messages.

A homeless girl

I've taken it as a girl recently lost her home or was kicked out, she has some bags of her stuff and has no idea where to go or what to do so she just sits in the park for a few days pondering where to go. And this photoshoot is just capturing those moments of her completely bored and with no idea what to do.

I personally like the shoot, it's very subtle. I do agree about the lack of energy, and understandable as to why it's disliked, but I think there's a nice concept behind it and it works. It just could've (and should've) been up at the next level.

I think the shoot lacks energy because it's commenting on the vapid, empty nature of people who live only in a world of la glmour. Perhaps she looks and acts like a robotic, superficial, empty-hearted Stepford girl, because that's all she is. She spent all her money on stuff; it's gone and she's just a shell of a person going through the motions. On rare occasions, fashion is known to criticize itself. Socially, many people — even rich people — look at fashion this "lacking energy" way, especially today. That's why active philanthropy is now chic — and for real, too, among many models. They, too, want a different relationship with fashion and the world. I sat on a bench on Madison Avenue last night to eavesdrop, and many of these people walked by me on the street. Their conversations amazed me — every woman was talking dirt about another woman to her friend. I was like "wow, this is all they have to say?"