GRACE & STELLA

Lip Butter Bar, 2026.

Stills, motion and social content in collaboration with Kent Mathews.

Scott Corbett and the grace & stella creative team imagined a Lip Butter Bar: a candy-pink hangout, openly studio-built, with a treat for every flavour. Art director Jen Ives and the team used AI to visualise it, from mood boards to a first render of the bar. We built the real thing.

Elena Horn designed the set and Rich Morrell built the walls and floor. I built the butter bar and the shelves. Philo supervised the build day, found the pet shop round the corner at lunch, picked his own treat and refused to come back.

On the shoot day three sets ran in parallel on a ten-minute grid, from 08:00 to 19:00, with 65 minutes of contingency. We used all of it and wrapped on time. When I first showed the schedule on a call, people went quiet. Very German, apparently.

I produced and took the stills. Kent Mathews directed the film. Hind Adib covered still life and extra video.

The bar made everyone smile. It now lives in their office, ready for future TikTok content.

Credits: Client grace & stella · Concept Scott Corbett and the grace & stella creative team · Creative Operations Andrew Greenwald - Art direction Jen Ives · Production and photography Benjamin Kaufmann · Director / DOP Kent Mathews · Still life and additional video Hind Adib · Set design Elena Horn · Set art direction Austeja Gokaite · Set build Rich Morrell · Butter bar and shelves Benjamin Kaufmann · Styling Issie Gibbons · Food styling Lucy-Ruth Hathaway · Make-up Cat Parnell · Hair Keiichiro Hirano · Nails Metta Francis · Digital operator Jason Lewer · Assistants Andrew Mayfield, Dmytro Shovgelia, Yousouf Moossa, Ashley Spirer, Masami Ho, Holly Galliver, Hattie Baker, Ella Haase · Models Annie K @ BMA Models, Lena B @ Body London, Sachi @ SevenSix Agency

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