He worked with beautiful model, Tessa Shimizu, with the assistance of accessory designer, Shell Weinz, who filmed the installation. After meeting up with Tessa and discussing the possibilities, materials, and various methods of creating and presenting the work, they contemplated on the best method for presentation. They decided to do the installation outside in front of the Nexus Townhouse, rather than inside, as Zander was invited to do by artist Brad Baker, who flew in from Berlin for the party. This was the most strategic presentation to maximize exposure and the optimize the attention they would grab.
Setting up and working in front of the Nexus Townhouse turned out to be the perfect meeting point, proving to draw people from the outside in and the people from the inside out. They sparked an interest from people in line awaiting to enter the party, from people coming out, and they even stopped traffic a few times, with some cars even throwing on the reverse to back up and get a better look.
A beautiful part Japanese and part European babe, Tessa stole the show. Wearing a statement of anti fashion crafted by Zander even caught attention from Modacycle.com journalist, Kari Jensen, who was covering the entire NYC Fashion Week. They were both interviewed by Kari and after the completion of the X Fashion installation, they proceeded to step on the red carpet, taking the elevator up to the party.
Upon entering, they instantly began mingling with the guests, ranging from countries such as Pakistan, Spain, Turkey, and Germany, and including designers and models alike. All were instantly infatuated with the couple gracing the party in their underwear, only wearing paints.
Tessa sparkled on the rooftop and drank coconut water of all assorted flavors. After mingling and showing off the art, Zander & Tessa left.
Days later we worked again with Tessa on an X Fashion installation in Central Park.
Tessa-with a double major and having graduated with honors-has done print work, was featured on a dating web series-to name a few-and continues modeling, based in NYC. Aside from modeling, she also takes pride in her job as a drug counselor, as she is very keen on helping people through difficult times and possesses the compassion and supporting demeanor to help any persevere.
Each experience working with Tessa flowed as if we'd worked together dozens of times before. She was very humble, yet confident, and was incredibly graceful. Her physique is flawless, with long, tone, legs, an incredible torso, and magnificent breasts. Not to mention her beautiful countenance, and again we must reiterate her gorgeous, long, flowing hair, providing infinite possibilities. She is a photographer's dream, and any hair stylist and makeup artist for that matter. We would recommend her a dozen times over to any and all agencies, photographers, or anyone looking for a perfect model for just about any look they want to pull off. She has everything anyone could ask for in a model and is perfect for print, catalogue, and advertising. She's clearly proved herself as a performance artist, with runway, body painting, and even having worked in television.
Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/TShimeez
Find her on Model Mayhem: Tessa Shimizu ModelMayhem
Check out this website featuring her: Tessa Shimizu
THANK YOU SHELL WEINZ FOR FILMING AND HAVING FUN WITH US!
Accessory Designer Shell Weinz: http://www.pearlsb4swnz.com/
Modacycle Journalist, Kari Jensen: http://modacycle.com
