NYC Shibari x Emily Ratajkowski
for perfect˙ magazine
Author/supermodel Emily Ratajkowski tied in custom editorial rope bondage by NYC Shibari artists Samjay and Zero-Gi.
See full video and full credits here
With Amber Later, shot by Steve Mackey for Perfect˙ Magazine Issue Two.
Also featured here in photo spread accompanying an interview by Later discussing this editorial shoot and Ratajkowski’s new bestselling book My Body.
A man waved a cardboard sheet across a lamp to make it seem as though Emily Ratajkowski and I were watching a film, with light from a moving image flickering on our faces. The screen in front of us was empty, a blank and silver wall.
‘Where are you looking?’ she asked me to ensure our lines of sight would be coordinated in the final image.
‘In the middle, right above that stand.’
Under the screen, a team of photographers, videographers, stylists, and hair and make-up artists prepared to shoot. Standing at the entrance was a guard and courier assigned to the expensive necklace that adorned my collarbone. It could touch me, but I could not touch it – there was a designated handler to fasten and unfasten the clasp.
The following month, Ratajkowski and I spoke again and I asked her what, if anything, she imagined was playing on the screen while we were being recorded…
