I shot Sam at Izquierdo Studio, where he works on costumes and elaborate outfits for all sorts of things. Movies, events, the gigantic wings that the models wear for the Victoria’s Secret runways… basically I seem to know more than my share of people who make things that Heidi Klum puts on her body.

As we walked in he told me not to mind Wes Craven, which I took to be a metaphor for all the dark masks and wings all over the walls. But seconds later we were setting stuff down and getting situated in a room where Wes Craven was sitting in the corner, looking over and approving some things for his next project. Kind of humbling to have my rinky-dink little camera and light bulbs on stilts in the presence of a guy known around the world for his cinematics.

My favorites are the first two below. And he’s wearing Tyra’s wings in the last one. They must have some lingering mojo because he sprouted a heavy mane of stick-straight brown extensions and a monster ‘tude the moment the wings touched his body. And no matter what anybody was talking about, he found a way to bring up some unrelated story about himself.