Riitta Toro Design Jewellery

Life is fun 

My jewellery reflects experiments 

found objects

silver

body chains

 Recycled class and plastic and metal.

Model Elisa Brusila and Veera Lehtonen 
Location Tampere Finland
 

Riitta Toro Design

What happened to the Photographer who got bored? 

She started designing.  

Riitta Toro Design was born out of the passion for recycled materials, conscious ideas of fashion and personal choices. 

Throwing away clothes and buying new never appealed to me. Why? First because I hate shopping. I am not so typical female then. Secondly, I wanted to show what you can do if you use fabrics from pre-loved era and how you can have lovely jewellery without reaching cheap China shop online. Yes, you can. 

That is how my selection of clothes and jewellery started and it is very exciting area. You never wear anything than unique. 

I am still a photographer. However now I photograph mostly my own designs.

 Dixie Feather kindly posed for me the outfit for Xmas. All recycled.

 Apromodel in Finland stood for my silhuette look. 

I worked few occasions with Tashienna Bookal who kindly posed fantastic images of my pom poms.   

1960's vibes

I do start posting more Riitta Toro Designs, so keep this blog in mind.

Thank You 

The day with Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray (Jason Farries) was preparing his tour to Italy on a summer 2017. I got interested in idea of two faces of Dorian Gray. Jason and me met and discussed abpout the make-up I liked to do for him. It was in my interests to try and create two different looks; the young Dorian and the aged and sinful Dorian. If you know the story of Dorian Gray, you remember how he sold his soul to Devil to gain eternal youth and purity. His portrait in his attic aged and showed his sins but he remained the same charming youthful boy. 

In one nice summer day in Banbury who made Dorian Gray alive. 

Photography, hair and Make-up Riitta Toro  

I was born and protected well
Never had to worry
Lived the life of a richman's song
Devoid of distress and sorrow
But all of this was wishful thinking
This life looked so well to me
The perfect picture of myself
Forever never growing old

Dorian Gray is one of my names
All of my stories are written down
I have learned to play the games
And sometimes I am the clown
Dorian Gray is one of my names
All my stories have been told
I have learned to play the games
And I'm never growing old

I had to lock my dreams away
The self-sadistic imagery
The more I ran, the more I lost my sense of dignity
Every day was worse than the last
But still my life went on
In the end God left me with no choice
I had to take the gun

Dorian Gray is one of my names
All of my stories are written down
I have learned to play the games
And sometimes I am the clown
Dorian Gray is one of my names
All my stories have been told
I have learned to play the games
And I'm never growing old

A life so fun of tragedies
A world full of disaster
I will never, never be free
The wheel is turning faste

The poem from Google page 'Lyricsmode'.  Copyrighted.

Dreams has no age limits.

I was modelling High end fashion jewellery during the Nottinghill carnivals in Whiteleys London 28 of August 2016. These items are known from the videos of Madonna and Lady Gaga. There were several white crystallised white masks with horns in Madonna's video. The jewellery is designed by Marianna Harutunian by USFashionSource. She makes custom made jewellery for artists like Beyonce and actors in many tv -series in USA.

I am very thankful for this opportunity and I totally enjoyed the day in London doing this.The jewellery is dramatic and I loved it.

You can buy the jewellery in Whiteleys shopping centre at US Fashion Source.

Have a great shopping!

Riitta Toro 

Creating fantasy

Collaboration with Maria Furla. Maria is my russian model and very creative lady. In this shoot we created warrior princess. She has got very large collection of costumes and we put our heads together to style this image. I made a skull headpiece. I found that deer skull from the hills of Surrey where I often collect feathers to my head pieces.

Maria has done post prosessing to above image and I did one below.

Our styles are very different, she likes more romantic edits and I like clear and strong ones. We have now worked together few times and it has been like two creatives together. Here some of our images:

I am charge of the props and she is charge of the costumes. Photography by me.

There was a lady in red
               all tied and humble
     she climbed into your bed
                          and world took a tumble

She had her power
          She had her will

Looking at you
               ready to kill.

Don't mess with ladies
                     not ending well

                 Hurt once, hurt twice
she''ll cast her spell

You would be condemned
      for the rest of you life

soon or later, she will be your wife..

What then? you ask
             well there is a tought

who ever is your wife, the Karma has fought.


Image Copyrighted Riitta Toro
Poem C same
All rights reserved Model Miss Rainbow.

Life less ordinary

Life less ordinary

Happened once

Happened twice

Give me advice.

I took the road no return

I am so wise

wings went 

they burned

stomach churned

love was sweet

but 

give me that advice

do I do it twice

Yes, I do that million times

It is just too nice.