"From Me to Me" with Shelly Samuel

PHOTOGRAPHY: DP Jolly
MAKEUP: Tahira
NAME: Shelly Samuel AKA Shoegal4ever
AGE: 41
NEIGHBORHOOD: Kensington, Brooklyn
There is something to be said about the power of playing dress up in your parent’s closet. For Kensington resident, Shelly Samuel, that power came in the form of a pair of red strap sandals her mother owned. “They were so pretty and sophisticated,” Shelly recalls while showing me the first two looks of our shoot. “I felt as though they were s