Cape Fear Unzipped

In 2006, Palm Beach Post Fashion Editor, Staci Sturrock and I conceived a fashion shoot that tapped into our storm-battered readers' anxiety (caused by some wicked storms the two years prior) over the approaching hurricane season. Photographer Ray Graham agreed to do the shoot.

Staci summed up the story here:

Cape Fear Unzipped!

A FASHION THRILLER RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES!
A HURRICANE FRENZY THREATENS THE FASHIONABLE SET
ONE MAN STRUGGLES TO SAVE HIS FAMILY - and his Brooks Brothers suit!
SAM: BATTENED DOWN AND BUTTONED UP, HE'S THE HANDSOME, HANDY HUSBAND EVERY GAL DREAMS OF!
ONE MAN MOCKS MOTHER NATURE - and Mr. Blackwell!
MAX: FLYING BY THE SEAT OF HIS UNPRESSED PANTS, HIS STORM PREPARATIONS ARE AS LOOSE AS HIS WOMEN!
Does hurricane season make you feel like there's a dark cloud over your head even when it's sunny?To give you a cheap laugh we've re-created scenes from the 1962 movie Cape Fear - with a style twist.
OUR (FASHIONABLE ) Cape Fear 2006.
Staci's writing is laugh-out-loud funny. Excerpts are included below. More of her text here.

A Style Disturbance in the  Atlantic
Cape Fear Unzipped opens with Max Cady (Nick Mochella) being interrogated by police detectives Mark Schwed, Pat Crowley and Officer Fred Marion (all are Palm Beach Post staff.) Max Cady has been accused of stealing Tapcon screws and cans of tuna from his neighbors as they prepared for a gathering storm.

 
"A Menace To Sobriety"
Max: "I got somethin' planned for your wife and kid that they ain't nevah gonna forget. They ain't nevah gonna forget it . . . and neither will you, Counselor! Nevah!"
Sam: "You shocking degenerate. I've seen the worst — the dregs — but you . . . you are the lowest. Makes me sick to breathe the same air." from Cape Fear, 1962

Enraged but resplendant in Tommy Bahama wear, Max stalks his equally fashionable neighbors. (Aime Dunstan, Michele Kelley, Mark Schwed)

Fear Grips Coastline
 "As style anxiety rises, Nancy and her pals dash for shelter. Madras and eyelet, vintage-inspired dresses and skinny jeans - they all pass inspection."
The models featured here were students at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach. Staci Sturrock plays the "teacher" at the top of the steps, right.

Stop in the Name of Layered Tanks
 "Although the mysteries of the four-way stop have flummoxed another young driver, there's no mishap in the way Nancy and her friends track the trends. Full skirts and fashion-forward denim are insurance against looking out of style."
The look on the driver's face is priceless. This is my favorite scene in the shoot.

Daddy Do Right
"Sam secures his shutters - and admires his family's stockpile of updated preppy classics."
All the sites we used were built circa the 1920's. Period props (including the 1950's paper bag she's holding) finished the look of the scenes and meshed with the classic style of the clothes.

Peggy Panics: "I've got Lake Worth Power!"
"She'll be dressing in the dark after the first gust but that'll be a breeze thanks to this stylishly simple caftan, left. (Where's her perfect hubby, Sam? On the lookout for Max, who is threatening to turn Sam's turbine caps into punch bowls.)"

1 comment:

  1. Clever my man....appealing, good stuff, and a pleasant break from the every day 'garbage reading'.....keep it going.....bravo!

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