Mika had come in via bus to my home town the night before. We had spent the previous evening drinking and gossiping on my sofa, lamenting that the network of models and photographers we all work with will probably never get together and form the kind of supportive, communicative community that so many of us desire. She was leaving for LA the next day, so we only had that Sunday morning to shoot, so we decided to try out a bunch of new corsets and lingerie designers had given her.