A few wornettes got a room — excuse me — were given a room by the Gladstone Hotel. While images of champagne, Chingy songs, and bed jumping may come to mind, we assure you it was all business (though we must admit the occasional chuckle escaped at the sight of Peter Wornette’s fantastic shimmying). Keep on the lookout for the final photo in Issue 13.

- Casie Brown

When Avyn Wornette told me she wanted to do a photo shoot for issue 11 on her friend’s farm with a zebra named Marty, I was skeptical. While Avyn was sketching out looks with Marty lying complacently amid heeled and hair-sprayed models, I cautioned that she should plan for shots with the zebra wandering around somewhere in the background.

The reality of the shoot was somewhere in between. Marty behaved a lot like any horse I’d encountered… friendly and interested, but only on his own terms. He strutted and posed with the best of them, until he got bored and wandered off to hang out with the llamas. This was the most ambitious photo shoot we’d ever planned - the highest number of models we’d ever put in a shoot, the biggest change of looks in a spread, the farthest location (three hours away in Avyn’s hometown of St. Mary’s), the largest crew, extensive props, and, of course, a real live zebra. The day was long and exhausting, but extremely satisfying.

Model Sam using a ladder to get to a location over the electric fence.

Hillary Wornette frolicking through the waist-high brush. We were all soaked and covered in little bits of nature at the end of the day.

Art director and stylist Avyn hopping the fence and lookin’ cute.

Hillary Wornette helping set up the tent scene and also lookin’ cute.

Hair stylist and de-facto make-up artist Jamie Furie leading the models on a trek through the brush.

One of WORN’s favourite photographer’s Alyssa K. Faoro looking though her selects, and Marty hanging out and lookin’ cute.

- Serah-Marie

…it’s a bunch of Wornettes in the sky.

Staff meetings, no matter how many cheezies and beer might be consumed during, always have a tendency to be more business than pleasure. However, when Anisha said she could give us access to her apartment’s roof (and, ahem, indoor pool) for the evening, we were up there faster than a teen getting pregnant at Degrassi High. I think every meeting could be made more productive when you are eye-level with the CN Tower.

photography by Hillary Predko and G. Stegelmann

Our intern-turned-full-time-staffer (I think her official job title is “Head of All That Artsy Stuff”) Alexandra wears some of the coolest things. These transparent jelly shoes make her look like she’s walking on air.

Photography by Deua Medeiros