#SquadGoals: Style Blogger and Friends Slay in SuperHero-Themed Photo Shoot

Blogger Paola Mathe and associates Cacsmy, Kristia, Nichole all teamed up with photographer Aaron of NYC_Underground to tug off a loopy superior hero-themed shoot within the New York subway:

The thought got here as a result of I prefer to show how robust ladies are in just about something. My firm, Fanm Djanm focuses on the power of all ladies by African impressed vogue and headwraps. However I needed this to concentrate on the fashionable black girl in right now’s world, and to make it enjoyable, I needed us to have tremendous powers! After I provide you with a narrative or a message I wish to work on, the individuals all the time come first. Who can play this position? What do they imply to me and the story? Why them?

Their mission as superheroes:

We struggle for individuals who are informed their tears don’t matter. The place the police damage greater than serve, and consuming institutions are constructed simply to shorten the lives of the neighborhood. We struggle for the robust who’ve been stripped of their powers. We struggle for the invisible.

Mathe on how she fashioned her flawless woman squad with in-sync appears:

I love Cacsmy with all of my coronary heart. I’ve beloved her the very first time I met her at one in every of my pop up retailers downtown Manhattan. Kristia turned my muse earlier than she even knew it. I used to buy at a retailer she labored at, and each time I noticed her, I might inform her how stunning she is! And Nichole contacted me by my web site to {photograph} me for her “Be the Queen You had been Born to Be” photograph undertaking, and she or he additionally turned a muse in my thoughts throughout our photograph session. These ladies are inspiring dangerous ass dream catchers. They make me really feel higher simply being round them. And all of us by accident had related hair cuts! It was simply meant to be. I’m grateful to have associates who assist my work and loopy concepts.

Take a look at the remainder of the photographs from the shoot under and pop in on Mathe’s weblog FindingPaola.

Did they slay or did they SLAY?! Share your ideas within the feedback under!