Exhale
April 2021
Creative Team:
Photographer: Alise King
Designer: Marlena Prast - BEYOU
Assistant: Sam Mandich
Assistant: Aga Kardasz
MUA: Eva Cassie
Models: Viona Charles / Tarren Garcia / Christien Williams / Jordan Farish / Eden Moskona / Mia Domenech / Nat Norberg / Joie Cousin / Lilla Farkas / Malaika Nasimok
Exhale is a photography and video collaboration with Paris College of Art fashion design
student, Marlena Prast. Prast’s collection highlights inclusivity while challenging the
stigmas of mental health by creating high functioning and aesthetically pleasing
garments implemented with sensory tools. These sensory tools aim to promote
productivity and security for the wearer, particularly for people suffering with anxiety.
The concept of the film is to properly showcase Prast’s designs while telling a short
fashion story playing off feelings of anxiety and moments of tension that transition to
calm, peaceful moments. The intention is to allow the viewer to see that the sensory
tools installed into the garments provide comfort and security during moments people
experience anxiety. The film is accompanied with photographs of each garment, meant
to be shown as a look book. The photos portray the subject surrounded by chaotic
motion moving all around them, yet they remain still as the garments keep them at peace.