The album cover look

It doesn’t take long for any shoot with Clair the Cape Queen to start talking about album covers: let’s face it, LP cover design was in a world of its own, pushing an artist as quickly as possible as you flicked through the album racks.

It’s something that especially influences our urban shoots and the walls in the background here reminded us of a John Mayall cover – the one where Eric’s reading The Beano. OK, there was no graffiti on the walls in our shoot, but the effect was very similar.

Here’s Clair in an American, 1960s nylon number which looks the part and it certainly kept her dry as the clouds above that part of Mercia decided rain was the order of the day.

And remember, the Pluvmantelo shop is now open for business…