Virtues & Vices at the Witchery
Edinburgh, UK
Donna Elvire goes to meet Dom Juan for an audition… But she ends up welcomed by his servant, Donatien Alphonse François
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photography by Marco Joe Fazio
“When she's abandoned her moral centre and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanour...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure... enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting... taking everything I dish out to her... at that moment she is never more beautiful to me.”
– Marquis de Sade
"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
– Laurence Sterne
“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
– St. Jerome
“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all – ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
– Marquis de Sade
“Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the others.”
– Marquis de Sade
“Only the united beat of sex & heart together can create ecstasy.”
– Anais Nin
“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannises.”
– Marquis de Sade
“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
– Marquis de Sade
“It’s when I feel you, look at you, or think about you, that I find myself no longer able to breathe. But I know I’ll be just find – because the only thing I need to inhale is you.”
– Unknown
“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
– Marquis de Sade
“… Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.”
– Marquis de Sade
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
– Marquis de Sade
credits & acknowledgments
photography // Marco Joe Fazio (AOP)
production & styling // Victoria de Bussy
make-up artist // Anna Miller
model // Peach
model // Krzysztof Mroz
garments & wigs // Costume Studio, London
cupcakes // Cupcakes & Ribbons, Musselburgh
a special thanks to all the Witchery staff, whose courtesy and professionalism allowed us to work and make our magic!
