SEXY PINK KITTY STUDIOS OFFERS A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE
FOR WOMEN
Photography Studio Run by Women for Women Heats Up Southern
California
Los Angeles, CA - One year ago, two women well
established in glamour and pin-up photography joined forces to form Pink Kitty
Studios. Lori Mann, a veteran professional photographer, and Adrienne, a long-time
clothing stylist and production designer pooled their strengths to offer high-end,
glossy, sexy, no-holds-barred intimate photography to everyday working women and
moms wanting something special, romantic, and yes, erotic to give to their husbands
or boyfriends (or even just for themselves).
"Back in the
80's 'boudoir' photography arrived on the scene, and many women started having
photo shoots done in this manner. But the style that most photography studios
offer today hasn't changed in the last 20 years, and women no longer want that
soft-focus, buried in scarves, look. They want to look like the girls in Maxim,
Playboy or even Penthouse," says Lori Mann, "and they are thrilled when they find
that they can be photographed in that style by women, rather than a man, and in
a comfortable home studio environment. Even the whole pornstar look is incredibly
popular right now - women don't really want to be pornstars, but they want to
pose like one for their husbands, for just a day."
One aspect
of their work that Lori and Adrienne find particularly rewarding is the emotional
reactions sparked in these "real women" by the photo shoots. "Unlike professional
glamour models, these 9-5 women and housewives have never before experienced having
professional hair and makeup done, being shot under formal lighting and then having
their images retouched at length, as is always the case with the models you see
in magazines. The resulting images they see show them looking like those models,
and they can't believe it," says Lori. She adds "more than once we've seen women
break down in tears when they've come to realize that they are just as beautiful
as the women in the magazines. They've told us that the positive effects on their
self-esteem and even their sex life after that experience are phenomenal."
Lori
Mann has been photographing women for over 12 years, and has worked with such
models as Playboy Playmates Victoria Fuller and Ava Fabian, Playboy Playmate and
Penthouse Pet of the Year Victoria Zdrok, and mega-pornstar Brittany Andrews.
Her fine art erotic work is represented by Ferguson Fine Arts Gallery, and she
has been published in numerous magazines and books including the recent "Women
by Women: Erotic Photography".
Adrienne has many years experience
with several glamour and men's magazines, including Playboy, as a wardrobe and
set dresser. She has worked with many top models, including Pamela Anderson. Pink
Kitty Studios has been featured on radio on KROQ's Morning Show With Kevin and
Bean and on television on KCAL's 9 On The Town.
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Today's
Military Wives Are Becoming Pinup Girls For Their Guys in Iraq!
Following
the current trend towards all things vintage, Pink Kitty Studios gives women with
husbands and boyfriends in the U.S. military overseas the chance to become calendar
girls and centerfolds in order to keep the home-fires burning.
Los
Angeles, CA August 17, 2005 -- In a hot pink house in Los Angeles, California,
a photography studio run by two women has become the site of a growing trend -
wives and girlfriends of soldiers stationed overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan are
wanting to send a different kind of care-package to their men. Instead of cookies
and magazines, they are sending sultry photographs of themselves in the form of
prints, books and yes, even calendars! Nowadays, the pinups taped to the boys'
foot lockers may just be their own girl back home.
All things
"retro" are back in. "The look the women are going for when they come in for a
photo shoot is that vintage-style posing made famous by such classic pinups as
Betty Grable and Jane Mansfield," says Lori Mann, photographer and co-owner of
Pink Kitty Studios. "The gals often wear classic clothing, and we have lots of
props that are throw-backs to that WWII era." Vintage hair and make-up styling
is also essential, and trained experts are brought in to the studio to spend a
couple hours with the women before shooting begins.
"The funny
thing," says Adrienne, the set and clothing stylist at Pink Kitty Studios, "is
that although the photographs are very classic throwbacks in feel, the technology
we use is completely modern. So along with the calendars and centerfolds that
the women send to their husbands, they usually send a cd of all the images that
the men can look at on their computers while stationed there." Space is an issue
for the soldiers, so a small book or cd of sexy images of their wife or girlfriend
is often preferable to stacks of girlie magazines. Adrienne adds, "I imagine the
women packing up the cds in tissue and ribbon with a spray of perfume, just like
the love letters of old."
Lori and Adrienne are co-owners
of Pink Kitty Studios, and both have been in the glamour photography business
for over 15 years. What makes them unique is that both have been in front of the
camera themselves many times, so they know what the customers are going through
and how it feels. Plus, the women are more comfortable with them then they often
are with male "boudoir" photographers. "And," Lori adds, "many of the women state
that they're not sure how their husbands would feel about them shedding their
clothes for a male photographer while they are stationed 10,000 miles away!" Pink
Kitty Studios has been featured on radio on KROQ's Morning Show with Kevin and
Bean and on television on KCAL's 9 On The Town.
Please
call us at (323)982-0323 or email
us for more information!
