The Square Mile

One woman against the City’s dress codeLondon

The City is built for people on their way somewhere else. A white dress interrupts that efficiency. In these portraits, stone, traffic and office light stop behaving like background and begin to press their rules upon a woman who has no reason to obey them.

Woman in a white gown resting against the plinth of the Wellington statue at Bank, blue sky above

Black and white: woman in a white gown striding across a City street between black cabs

Woman in a white halter dress before a Tudor doorway, hand at her cheek, in hard sun

Black and white: woman in a white gown leaning against a stone bust outside a City portico

Woman in a long white halter dress in a shaft of sun against a monumental column

Woman in white leaning on a stone balustrade and looking back over her shoulder, grand facade behind

Close portrait of a smiling woman with dark curls on a City street, traffic blurred behind

Woman in a pale slip dress leaning back on a stone balustrade, curls loose, Georgian brick behind

Woman on stone steps lifting the slit hem of her white gown, dark portico behind

Woman in a white gown with a thigh-high slit on a City pavement, red buses down the street

Woman in a pale gown leaning against a concrete column in a dark passage

Woman in a white gown against a deep red wall, head thrown back

Woman in a white gown exhaling smoke in a dark City courtyard

Woman glancing down past a glowing red stage lamp, bare shoulders in white

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