My first job after grad school was partnering with a venture capitalist to start a fashion brand, and one of our early collections featured these hand-beaded, floor length caftans. It's a lot of look, but it's an entire outfit in a single piece -- super easy to wear, super high impact. Since we were a startup, we were trying to save money, and I started taking the pictures myself for our photoshoots. We needed a picture of this dress totally last minute. I convinced a friend who was working from home to come pose for me for an hour, and we set up in front of an orange wall on relatively empty street and got to shooting. And then, a Chinese tour bus drove up and stopped, and 40 other cameras went off, psyched to have stumbled upon us.
