Bridal editorial
The Air Between Us.
A couture campaign by Moira Hughes, shot in the mist above the Shoalhaven gorge.
- Client
- Moira Hughes Couture
- Photography
- Brooke Arte Studio
- Format
- Editorial campaign
- Collection
- The Air Between Us
- When
- 2025
The brief
Shoot the campaign for a collection made for the wild romance of the Australian landscape, in that landscape.
Sydney couture house Moira Hughes brought The Air Between Us to Caoura Cliffs, the campaign for a collection carrying the promise “as light as air, as strong as love”, shot across the open country above the Shoalhaven gorge.
The property gave the shoot its weather. Mist lifted out of the gorge and rolled low over the paddocks, wind moved through the tulle, and an old eucalypt held the lace against its bark. Light, cloud and land shaped every frame. Nothing in these images was staged that the landscape didn't offer first.
It was a natural pairing. The collection fuses vintage detail with modern craftsmanship (signature corsetry, heritage laces, whisper-soft satins) and was created, in Moira's words, for the bride who carries both timeless femininity and untamed spirit: gowns designed to capture the wild romance of the Australian landscape. So the house came to where that landscape is most itself.
Editorials like this are part of what happens here between weddings: 1,100 private acres, ever-changing light and complete seclusion, room for a creative team to chase the conditions from first light until the cloud closes in.
Explore the collection at moirahughes.com.auHow the property was used
The open paddocks
Mist lifting out of the gorge and rolling low over the grass, with wind moving through the tulle.
The old gums
A eucalypt holding the lace against its bark.
The escarpment
The hilltop above the Shoalhaven, with the gorge disappearing into cloud.
What it took
What the property carried.
- A schedule that followed the weather: the mist came up off the river and stayed all morning
- Exclusive use of the property for the crew and talent
Gowns · Moira Hughes Couture — Photography · Brooke Arte Studio
Brand Activations
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Tell us what you're making and who it's for. We'll come back to you about the property and a site visit.