After party.

Eveningwear is almost always photographed at the start of the night: arriving, posing, untouched. This concept starts where the night ends, after the guests have gone.

A woman comes down a grand carpeted stair in a black off-the-shoulder gown, holding the hem. Two friends lie flat on red velvet in pale pink and powder blue, a glass raised. Pink tulle spills over a white armchair in a panelled room. Gold satin and black florals sweep out of an old brass lift. Someone laughs on a velvet bed, champagne in hand. A floral gown waits by a red velvet curtain.

No flash, only lamps, sconces and chandeliers. The dresses look worn in the best sense: moved in, sat in, danced in. That is what eveningwear is bought for.