Photography Sara Bille
Fashion Emine Sander
Words Tessa Swantek
Grooming Lovisa Lunneborg at Mika's Looks
Photography Assistant Nils Löfholm
Casting Director Caroline Alm
Retouching K and K
Models Rick, Carl Magnus, Rémi and Desmond at Mika's, Anton at Select Model Management, Dustin, Mola and Alfons at Nisch Management
A faint fragrance of drying paint saturates balmy air as sunshine seeps through glass windows, casting silhouettes on bare walls. Contour lines are painted with sunlight across cheeks and collarbones. Spring dewdrops form on faces, thirsting to dry in a palliating summer night’s breeze. Shadowed leaves crawl up lime-washed walls as seeds of newness sow themselves into the crevices of herringbone floors. There is a nostalgic freshness in each room exposing cedar wood doors and copper pipes, like the ephemeral feeling of winter softening to spring’s warmth and spring melting to summer’s heat.
There is beauty in the in-between.
Simmering anticipation lives there. It is when a faded sketch on a blank canvas is just about to become a masterpiece. Photographer Sara Bille captures these moments in between concentrated sunbursts and diluted shadows. People often look different in a home - they are open and off-guard. The boys linger in waiting with dropped shoulders and open shirts, just before who they are behind closed doors meets who they are to the world. Captured is the second when posture is not quite a pose.
Emine Sander’s styling is inter-seasonal. Puffer jackets meet linen shorts, wool socks reach toward polyester boxing shorts, and heavy knits hang loosely over bare skin. The boys are painted in a sunrise of hues as if the surrounding art floods out from their frames. Like the boys, the fashion pieces are together, but distinctly separate. Each boy’s day will be unique from the next, but for this brief moment, they exist in the same space as the same perfumed air fills their lungs. Here, they can collect and just be. Glints of light flash from their eyes that have yet to see how the day will pour into their empty cups.
above left: Rick wears shirt by Our Legacy and necklace by All Blues
above right: Rick wears vest by Tiger of Sweden, necklace by All Blues, jeans by Hope and boots by Our Legacy, Rémi wears vest by Our Legacy, jeans by Eyty's and trainers by Acne Studios
above left: Anton wears t-shirt by Acne Studios and jeans by Filippa K
above right: Desmond wears jumper by COMMN SWDN and necklace stylist's own
above left: Carl Magnus wears vest by Acne Studios
above right: Anton wears t-shirt by Acne Studios and jeans by Filippa K, Dustin wears shirt by Our Legacy and trousers by ADNYM, Desmond wears jumper by Acne Studios and jeans by Our Legacy, Carl Magnus wears jumper by Acne Studios, jeans by Levi's and shoes by Eyty's
above left: Anton wears shirt by Our Legacy
above right: Desmond wears jumper by COMMN SWDN, trousers by Stockholm Surfboard Club and necklace stylist's own
above left: outfit as before
above right: Mola wears vest by Acne Studios, necklace by Slic and trousers by Stockholm Surfboard Club
above left: Mola wears vest by Acne Studios, necklace by Slic, trousers by Stockholm Surfboard Club and trainers by Eyty's
above right: Dustin wears top by Acne Studios
above left: Mola wears t-shirt by Our Legacy, necklace by Slic, trousers by Tiger of Sweden and trainers by Eyty's, Alfons wears t-shirt by Our Legacy, necklace by All Blues, jeans by ADNYM and shoes by Acne Studios
above right: Alfons wears jumper by Eyty's, jeans by Hope and trainers by Acne Studios
above left: Anton wears shirt by Our Legacy, shorts and socks by Acne Studios
above right: Dustin wears top and trainers by Acne Studios, belt by Tiger of Sweden and jeans by Levi's
above left: outfit as before
above right: Carl Magnus wears vest and jacket by Acne Studios and shorts by Hope
above left: Rémi wears jumper by ADNYM
above right: outfit as before
above left: outfit as before
above right: Rick wears shirt by Our Legacy, shorts by J.Lindeberg and necklace by All Blues
above left: Rémi wears jumper by Hope, jeans by Our Legacy, trainers by Saucony and hat by Acne Studios
above right: outfit as before
