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Ur energy will always overcome ur appearance

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Photo by Filip Polak

Dress by Natalia Repkovska

Stylist / model Lea Valachova

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#inprocess

Exploring the disruption of identity when one's perception is affected by mental illness through visual image making..

#SOON

#mentalhealthawareness

#mentalhealthisimportant

#isolation

#anonymity

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2018

Art direction & styling by Lea Valachova

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Art Direction by Lea Valachova

Photography by Anna Korbelova

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Marko Damian

2017

Art direction & styling by Lea Valachova

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(not a final version)

2019

This year was, for many of us Slovaks, a year of a tragic loss to our (not just underground) culture. We’ve lost our, like some used to call it, nAtIoNaL tReAsUrE due to a Very silly gentrification. Rest in Peace, Subclub. You are still loved ’n’ missed. I clearly remember this situation feeling STRANGELY ridiculous to me, so I, with a great naivety running in my veins as per usual, started an online petition, and overall campaigning against the shutdown on social media. What was I thinking?? hehe. Lost battle before we’d even started. But I get very enthusiastic & passionate when there is something so adorable, unique and important for the culture like this thing. The club was running since the separation from the Czech and formation of our own independent Slovak Republic in 1993. That’s over two fucking decades! The whole time since our country has been on its own. Until the bloody ‘19. You can imagine how many people it has formed certain cultural way throughout these years. My parents, who are now in their 50s, used to go there in the ‘90s. Used to be a grunge place then. When I started going at the age of 15, it was mainly d’n’b club, with techno/indie events and occasional theatre plays. Tough security duo at the door, and TheN the long trippy tunnel into this strange underworld of electronic music. A place for everyone.  A club located in a military bunker in the hills with Bratislava castle on the top?? wHAT tHe hEll??? Yeah, we’ve lost that. Anyways, from what I distorted-ly remember,  there was a couple of thousands of signatures. Like 2-4k maybe. Thank you all of you who signed back then.  We agreed on the same thing. We wanted Subclub to stay. We all wanted to party in Subclub again. That’s definitely a ‘positive vibes only’ attitude, and I appreciate that, friends and fellow party-goerz. Again, RIP SUBCLUB. We won’t forget. AND I will post an updated finished polished version of this short film sooooooooooooon.

Very soon.  

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year 3; term 1; collaborative experimental practice; mental health issues; protection; undercover; balaclava 

design by moi ( Lea Valachova; 3rd year Styling and Production student from London College of Fashion )

brought to life by Abbas Alam ( 3rd year Knitwear Design student from Central Saint Martins ) 

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Burgas, Bulgaria

housing estates architecture

August, 2019

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/“I fear everyone and everything.. But if I put a fake smile on, do my eyes speak the truth?” a short series of editorial and video shoots dedicated to mental health issues.../

balaclava prototype (for my upcoming collection) designed by me, brought to life by Abbas Alam (BA Fashion Design with Knitwear at CSM) 

photography by Patrik Machata (BA Fashion Sportswear Design at LCF)

styling by me in garments from Hundred Showroom : dress Adam Frost; corset Chema Diaz

art direction & postproduction by me 

November, 2019

London, UK

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photography : Amy Peskett

https://www.instagram.com/amypeskett/

skirt / Dominika Kozakova

London, United Kingdom

July, 2019

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campaign video for Blame Trace’s merch 

shot by : Patrik Machata, Raul Hijazi, Lea Valachova

cut & edit : Patrik Machata, Lea Valachova

models : Patrik Machata as Blame Trace, Lea Valachova

music : Blame Trace 

March, 2019

London, United Kingdom

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“SUBCLUB”

photography : Lea Valachova

May, 2019

Bratislava, Slovakia

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moodboards done by me

(images not my own, all sourced from books - Terry Richardson, Mario Testino; magazine & internet) 

January, 2019

London, United Kingdom

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photography : Raul Hijazi

styling & model : Lea Valachova

May, 2018

London, United Kingdom

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photography : Caroline Bonarde

https://www.instagram.com/carolbonarde/

styling / model : Lea Valachova

December, 2017

London, United Kingdom

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“WE THE CULTURE”

photography : Mara

https://www.instagram.com/littltroublegirl/

models : Marko Damian & Lea Valachova

styling, make-up, art direction : Lea Valachova

November, 2017

London, United Kingdom