Sauce Shoots: Urban Flower

Photography/direction: Katya Brook
Makeup: Olga Gill
Hair: Rae Boriboun
Styling: Emma Cotterill
Talent: Frankie at Priscillas
Assistant creative: Vlad Tichen

Red has never simply been a colour. Across art, architecture and design, it has functioned as a visual strategy for directing the eye, creating rhythm and introducing some element of tension within an otherwise restrained composition.

Few understood this better than the artists of the twentieth century. For Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, primary colours weren't decorative but structural, bringing balance and order to the canvas. Later, Josef Albers dedicated much of his career to exploring how colour changes depending on what surrounds it. His landmark series Homage to the Square demonstrated that a single shade of red could appear to vibrate, recede or intensify simply through juxtaposition, a reminder that colour is always relational.

Furniture and interior designers have long embraced the same principle. Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce used saturated reds to inject emotion into sculptural forms, while the radical design collective Memphis Group treated crimson as punctuation within playful, geometric interiors. Even in minimalist spaces, a single red chair or lacquered object becomes an anchor, drawing the eye through a room with the confidence of a perfectly placed brushstroke.

Fashion continues this conversation. A red shoe beneath tailored black, a scarlet knit against camel, or a crimson lip paired with clean lines all borrow from the same visual language established by artists and designers decades earlier. The effect isn't about maximalism. It's about intention.

Perhaps that's why red feels so compelling today. As wardrobes become quieter and interiors increasingly tonal, a carefully considered flash of colour offers contrast without clutter. Like the best works of art, it reminds us that sometimes one bold gesture is all a composition needs.

Frankie wears The Injury lace top, MAISON ESSENTIELE lace skirt, Nine West shoes and a vintage bomber jacket.

Frankie wears MISHA black jacket, Vanessa Moe tulle skirt, Max Mara heels.

Frankie wears Scanlan Theodore purple silk dress and jacket with Max Mara Heels.

Frankie wears Vanessa Moe suit, Millicent Darling red latex top, Scanlan Theodore earrings and Nine West shoes.

Frankie wears Scanlan Theodore jacket and earrings, Harris Tapper velvet skirt and Max Mara heels.

Frankie wears Scanlan Theodore leather pants and top, Saël living necklace, Max Mara heels.