DAZED sport

RACE ME RACE ME began as a university styling project that aimed to create empowering, playful, sporty, female characters to comment on the historical exclusion of women from sports and to challenge the notion that femininity and sportiness are mutually exclusive. I used car toys to create playful props that carried a political message by resonating with the shared experience of many women who were socialised into refraining from playing with ‘boys’ toys’ growing up. Below are the BTS film shots captured by different members of a collaborative team put together to create an editorial shoot for RACE ME, as well as the final digital images. Styling & Set Design Myrto Peristiani Digital Photography Mikaela Smila Art Direction Myrto Peristiani and Mikaela Smila Make Up Artist Raphael Arcadios Model Alicia Smith 1st Styling Assistant Natalie Constantinou 2nd Styling Assistant Tanis Marchand Set Design Assistant Lex Saunders Wearing Bread & Butter Collection, Neil Zhao, WIJNRUIT, Tanis Marchand FILM PHOTOGRAPHY