FIREFLY

PHOTOGRAPHY: ILARIA D’ARTI 
FASHION DIRECTION: ANNA CASTAN
HAIR: LORENZO BARCELLA
MAKEUP: RICKY MORANDIN
FASHION ASSISTANT: CHRISTIAN MARCHESICH 
MODEL: LUISA VAGEDES / FABBRICA
WORDS: ALISSA THOMAS

After dusk I will flock to you. Alight. Ablaze. Suffused in tints of neon and gold. I seem to pirouette on diamonds. But am I stolen from the stars, or drawn from the moon? Am I lightning across a darkened sky or lava from a distant ocean? Am I a celestial apparition, a Pharos, flickering beneath the universe?  

You will see me. You will see my beauty and its tinkering magic. You will try to catch it. But you can not trap a dream. I will move closer and closer, and I will be mesmerised by you. You will fall into my luminous spell, and with a staccato chase follow me through the blackened world. We will be called to each other, burning and rampant, faster and faster until we dare to stop and idle, for just a moment, in the night together.  

It’s fleeting. My fiery haze, exploding in circles, disappears at dawn. So I will dance into the darkness, painting the air with my lingering light. And while all else is in shadow, quiet and cold, you will find me. Electric and breathtaking.  

Find me, adore me. Before I fly away. 

“FIREFLY” IS PUBLISHED IN THE 14TH EDITION OF GRAZIA INTERNATIONAL. ORDER YOUR COPY HERE.