Fashion photographer Mary Karhu about favorite things

FOR RUBBER "WARDROBE" we take pictures of beautiful, original or strangely dressed people in their favorite things and ask them to tell related stories. The heroine of the new material, photographer and artist Mary Karhu shows how to wear the Agent Provocateur corset in everyday life and skillfully combine vintage and Topshop.

Topshop coat, vintage shirt and hat, Vagabond shoes

By choosing their wardrobe, people are trying to choose things in stores that coincide with their inner world. I was looking for a Topshop coat on eBay: it was sold in the brand’s stores a few years ago, but I was obsessed with it. When I look like this, I rather ambitiously want people to look at me and think: "She is the reincarnation of Cruella de Ville, and her blood is red wine."

Vintage dress and hat, Primark earrings, Topshop belt, Vagabond shoes

This bow will call "a popular girl from Pennsylvania." I adore cool hats. Now I want to buy a big cowboy hat and maybe a pair of matching shoes in which you can walk around the tables in saloons.

H & M dress, jacket painted by herself, earrings with Etsy, Vagabond shoes

What I lack in manners, I fill in this hellish bow. The name on the jacket, Hestia, belongs to the Greek goddess of architecture, hearth, family and other things. Hestia is the Greek equivalent of the Roman Vesta. Vesta is the name of my best friend.

Vintage bathrobe and scarf, Topshop necklace, earrings with Etsy

I would not venture to introduce you to my fantasies about 18th century mansions with marble baths, expensive linens and snakes as pets.

Vintage shirt, Topshop skirt, hair decoration

I want to be a forest queen who lives inside different plants. Even in this outfit, I can convince the little girls that I am a fortune teller. There are also two colors that I seem to collect: emerald and amethyst.

Motel dress, party shop glasses, Topshop tights, Vagabond shoes

The color of this dress is reminiscent of shiny tropical bees. I love everything brilliant.

Vintage coat and shirt, Topshop sweater, Urban Outfitters shorts, Topshop belt, Vagabond shoes

On ordinary boring Mondays, I can just dress all pink and start dreaming about a female punk band. Or sit in a pink car from the 1950s, go to the diner for a strawberry milkshake and have fun with the guys from The Breakfast Club.

Topshop sweater, American Apparel skirt, vintage bag, H & M tights, Vagabond shoes

Now I am inspired by the heroines of fairy tales. This bow is reminiscent of Alice from "Alice in Wonderland." Here I tried to look sweet, but at the same time able to roll the neck of anyone who looks askance at me.

Faux fur coat, necklace and tights Topshop, Agent Provocateur corset, Vagabond shoes

That’s how I’m going to look when I’ve dramatically entered hell, making some moves from Beyonce’s arsenal to take the place I’m prepared for - the throne. Awful, but now I have repeated the Gothic period, which was still in twelve years.