How to photograph beautiful women without making it cliche/ how to give them agency as characters in a non cliche way

Hello I kindly ask that you please read my full message before replying based on the title. I’m a fine art student. I’m primarily doing photography as a means to get references to paint from, but I’m just a pretty decent photographer I think. My work is always about people, characters, stories. I have to incorporate narratives, that is the basis of my work. I don’t really want to make fashion photography.

My situation is: Ive asked 3 of my beautiful friends/classmates to do a photo shoot with me. They’ll be wearing beautiful silk dresses and we’re primarily shooting in a jazz club type place, but I also want to take pictures outside, basically all over our town, in any places I can find. both pretty places (fields, brooks, nice buildings) ugly places (alleyways, bins, brick walls, whatever). but when I think about all my idea concepts it all feels so stale. Whether it’s pretty girls in pretty places (Acting out a fancy event, acting being upper class ladies) or pretty girls in ‘ugly places’ doing ‘rebellious‘ things (not limited to but, smoking, squatting in the alleys, etc) it feels as if I’m still using my girls as props in pretty dresses. It’s all cliche, done before, etc, and no matter how I try and think about it I can’t come up with anything original. does anyone get what I mean? I’m struggling to think of a way to photograph them that doesnt feel shallow/ kind of Pinteresty.

My primary influences are the illustrators of the 20th century. Search up the work of Bob Peak, Bernie Fuchs, Dean Cornwell, etc, if you are curious to know what that basically looks like. I think maybe a problem with my shoot is I’m taking too MUCH inspiration from these artists including the time period they were made in (Pre 70s), where the women they painted basically DID look like props, even though they did have a CHARACTER (They were illustrations for short stories etc basically featuring basic damsel in distress or femme fatale archetype next to an attractive man) HOWEVER. There won’t be any men in my shoot, so I can avoid that.
but very importantly I also want to avoid that particularly corny ‘Girls girl‘ ‘feminine energy’ ‘braiding each others hair’ narrative. Sorry if you like that stuff, I mean no insult. But for my personal tastes I find it unappealing, and it doesn’t fit my work.

But I don’t want such a basic story like for example, just three girls on a night out.

People who photograph women (particularly pretty women in pretty clothes), how do you do so in a way that feels humanising? unrelated to the pretty women, how does one create stories when they’re coming up with their photoshoot ideas? to be honest, I don’t entirely know what question I’m asking but I wondered if anyone could discuss with me about my shoot. Feel free to dm me privately too I would appreciate if any photographers or even storytellers could chat.

By the way, I’m a 19 year old girl myself.