BODY OF WORK
Jan 01, 2020
5 minutes
BY HONG XINYI
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DARREN GABRIEL LEOW
ART DIRECTION BY MATILDA AU. STYLING BY DESMOND LIM
It’s a balmy morning in a tranquil corner of Singapore’s Upper Peirce Reservoir Park. Outdoor photo shoots can be tricky, but this one goes so smoothly that even our cover star remarks on it. “That’s one of the fastest cover shoots I’ve ever done,” Liv says after we wrap. “It’s really hard to do what you guys just did.”
We’ll gladly accept the compliment but let’s point out the obvious reason why the morning went so well: Liv hasn’t been a professional model for a while now, but the decade she spent in that job has clearly etched a kind of muscle memory in her body. It isn’t easy to do what she did—strike poses that look natural and unstudied; connect with the camera while looking
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