LET THEM EAT PEARLS Concept, art direction, hair & photography: Armando Branco @armandobranco_fic - Styling: Maggie Thedinga @maggthe via Patrick Hiemstra @studio.HIEM - Models: Andrei, Job, Keijo, Laurynas, Lenny, Maksim, Robert, Ruben, Sanjay & Stijn FIC Model Mngmt @fashion_is_cannibalistic - Special thanks:  Sonja Ayal @sonjaayaldesign

Labels: @boss, @bow19details, @colourfulrebel, @hm, @jofelvintage, @karllagerfeld, @lauradolsvintage, @myjewellery, @odanna.nl, @shoeby, @sonjaayaldesign, @studio.hiem, @ysl, @zenner.nl

This year Armando Branco want to explore more who he is as a visual artist. ‘So I decided to create a shoot that says something about how I experience the current state of the world. In my humble opinion it seems that we are back in the time of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), where the rich seem rather clueless about the state of society. Also the whole of Europe seems to be leaning more and more into a right wing kind of politics. Xenofobia, homophobia etc. they eat that as breakfast, lunch and dinner.

To explore that kind of cult state of mind I wanted to create a new cult, with sexual undertones, but also with virgin sacrifice & mad priests kind of rituals.’