Skin first. Everything else is decoration on top of it.
Beauty & fashion studio, Dhaka · Banani, Dhaka
Roopkotha is four people in one room in Banani. We do editorial, bridal and campaign work, and we take about a hundred bookings a year rather than three hundred.
The studio is built around skin. Everything else — colour, hair, the clothes — sits on top of that, and if the first part is wrong none of the rest saves it.
The full day, from the first light to the last guest. Trial included, and we stay to fix things.
For magazines and labels. We work from the mood board and argue with it where it needs arguing with.
Product and fashion campaigns, on location or in the studio, with the retouch brief agreed before the shoot.
Small courses for artists starting out. Six people at a time, four Saturdays.
Fourteen hours, a power cut and an outdoor shoot, and the face held. I have never had that before.
Bride, GulshanThey pushed back on our mood board and they were right. The cover is better for it.
Fashion Editor, Dhaka