Music and Sound Design by Ensemble/Olivier Alary
Watch Alexander McQueen's SS21 Film "First Light" Directed By Jonathan Glazer
Back to London, coming home.
“Shape, silhouette and volume, the beauty of the bare
bones of clothing stripped back to its essence —
a world charged with emotion and human connection.”
-Sarah Burton
Watch The Premiere Of "I Love Mexico City" A New Short Fashion Film From AllSaints
In the latest of its global creative initiatives, AllSaints has chosen to explore and celebrate Mexico City. The resulting short film, entitled ‘I México City’ champions the people and spirit of the city, focusing on the ways that local individuals use their personal style, identity and environment to put a unique stamp on AllSaints’ collections. Wil Beedle, AllSaints Creative Director: “Over seven days in March, we set ourselves the task of exploring Mexico City to find a diverse range of kindred spirits, who we feel express the values and attitude of AllSaints. Having photographed and filmed them in and around their own homes, streets and neighborhoods, we immediately shared the resulting imagery in a huge installation that became the backdrop for a local party we held in their honor. Just like the city itself, the week spent filming ‘I México City’ was chaotic and unpredictable, and more inspiring than most conventional ‘fashion-week’ experiences we’re ever likely to have.”
Watch "The Uncanny Valley" By Philippa Price for Stella McCartney's New Collection
Visual director Philippa Price has brought her vision of futuristic surrealism to music videos, music performances and installations globally. In the debut of the series, Philippa heads to the Clown Motel in the Nevada desert to inspire a wacky and wonderful slant on Stella McCartney's women’s and men’s collections.
Watch The Exclusive Premiere Of "Nonna: Paris" The First Chapter In A Film Collaboration Between Giu Giu And Hamadou Frédéric Baldé
Giuliana Leila Raggiani and Hamadou Frédéric Baldé, met in LA in March 2016, and immediately began a collaboration. This merge of their two creative worlds, manifested in the form of a film series, called “NONNA” (the name of giu giu’s reproduction of her grandmother’s original turtleneck). Hamadou’s perspective possesses an inspirational contrast; a balance of being unfiltered and honest, yet sensitive and dream-like at the same time, meshing effortlessly with giu giu. With little planning, they serendipitously traveled to the same places -- Paris, Morocco, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo -- and shot in each location. And after much evolution, the film has now become an expression of movement between a multitude of ages, races, and genders. In each city Hamadou and Giuliana traveled to, they encountered beautiful, real people. Each with their own story, and special "essence," in the way they view life. Each belonging to the limitless world Hamadou and Giuliana envision, where each human is interconnected and perceived equally. The Nonna turtleneck became the common thread woven through each chapter of the film. The turtleneck was used to show the body, through natural forms of movement (krump, ballet, contemporary/modern, running, walking, dunking, yoga, and even subtle movements, such as the movement of water, a blink of an eye, or lifting a finger). The turtleneck is timeless, recycling itself in this generation. Each city represents a different color from the original Nonna collection. What they anticipated to be a short fashion video, grew to be something deeper and unexpectedly more profound, and their collaboration took on a life of its own. The duo has been presenting the full 20-minute piece at exclusive screenings in the various cities featured in the film. Otherwise, it is launching online as a series, each chapter releasing individually, with the première of the first city, PARIS. Ultimately, the main intention of Hamadou & giu giu is to use “Nonna” as a catalyst in promoting a universal concept of love, during a time when it is needed most in the world.
Watch Alyx's 360-Degree Fashion Film Shot In New York's Times Square Featuring The Brand's FW 2016 Collection
Shot and edited by Tyler Ross, Dave Hung and Jacob Smith, featuring Alyx's Fall Winter 2016 collection.
Watch Proenza Schouler's Fashion Film "PS I Love You (Ithigi Lithigove Yithigou)" Directed by Harley Weir
Eckhaus Latta's New Fashion Film "Roach" Perfectly Captures the Lonliness of A Post-Internet World
Ever wonder what life was like through the hole of a pierced septum? Directed by Alexa Karolinski, Eckhaus Latta's fall/winter 15 collection film is a pastiche of diary-esque snapshots of the human condition in an era where binge watching television is a reality and reality itself is a virtual mirage set against the backdrop of green screens in a darkened room. Eckhaus Latta has a distinct history for pushing the boundaries when it comes to projecting their sartorially visions - each one of their fashion films finds a way to capture the essence of the collection in a distinct thematic way. For "Roach," the label has tasked Dev Hynes to create the soundtrack and Nora Slade to read a poem penned by the designers for a romantic ambiance that has us yearning for shelter as the impending winter gets closer and closer.
Three Rivers Is A Mysterious Fashion Film for Golden Goose Deluxe Brand's Fall Winter 2015 Collection
The mysterious new film for Venice, Italy based fashion brand Golden Goose Deluxe's Fall/Winter 2015 collection is set in the Sequoia National Park and stars Lauryn Holmquist, River Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth who play fashionable adventures that exist in a strange and shape-shifting reality. Directed by Marco Prestini, the film also features an original haunting score by Guido Smider.
Watch Miu Miu's Beautiful, Mysterious and Glamorous “Subjective Reality"
Directed by legendary fashion photographer Steven Meisel, Miu Miu's FW 2015 fashion film, entitled "Subjective Reality" – starring the likes of Maddison Brown, Mia Goth, and Hailey Benton Gates – is a beautiful, mysterious and glamorous tale set in the city.
[FIRST LOOK] Insight Releases Their Incredible Fashion Film Featuring An Assortment of Rebels and Misfits That Break Into A Mansion and Wreak Havoc
Insight Clothing has just dropped their new video, entitled Since Last Time, introducing their Fall 15 range. "The local groms raided our stash and caused some mayhem in the southland. Directed by our superstar homie Ace Norton, this clip will make you break into a mansion, slip some sleeping pills into a steak, feed it to the guard dog and get nude in the pool!" Since Last Time is already gaining acclaim by way of becoming a official selection for Best Fashion in the International Fashion Film Festival before it has even been released.
Gypsy Sport's Autumn Winter 2015 Collection Video Lookbook is An Afro-Futuristic Acid Trip
Haturn+Grid World is the video look book for Gypsy Sport's Autumn Winter 2015 Collection. Inspired by Afro-futurism, urban athletics and hallucinogenics. Haturn is the name of the Gypsy Sport logo, 2 baseball caps balanced to form 1 planet. Grid World is a reference to 90's video games and screen savers.
[FASHION FILM] She Said, She Said Starring Marisa Tomei for Co
A lesbian couple (Marisa Tomei and Elodie Bouchez) on the brink of divorce attempts to divide their possessions through mediation. Directed by Stuart Blumberg and featuring the Co Spring 2013 collection.
Fashion Film for Viva Vena!
Fashion Film, starring Lizzy Caplan and directed by Matthew Frost, for the line Viva Vena! takes a satirical look at the traditional fashion film in all it's typical ubiquitous corniness and pastiches of the hipster chick lifestyle in an abashed attempt to market to a very obvious demographic.
[FASHION FILM] Valérie Ciriadès "Indochine"
Indochine, a fashion film for Belgian, Brazilian designer Valérie Ciriadès' Spring Summer 2013 Indochine Collection inspired by the designer's trip to Cambodia, is a homage to Marguerite Duras, L'Amant, and Jean-Jacques Annaud's movie with the same name. It tells us the story of a beautiful french woman that falls in love with an Asian man in a hot Cambodian summer. The story is told with the help of a music, especially composed for the film, and interpreted by Brazilian Top Model Michelli Provensi, that also stars in the film as "The Lady." Indochine -the music and the film- was written and directed by Luigi Dias, Valérie's husband.
[FASHION FILM] Charlotte Free for Complot
Watch Charlotte Free get chased by ghosts while riding a magic rainbow unicorn in this psychedelic fashion film for Argentine brand Complot'sSpring/Summer 2013 collection.
[AUTRE TV] Vanishing Point by Augustin Doublet
Of his six-minute black-and-white short Vanishing Point, French director and writer Augustin Doublet says, “It’s all about creating a maze of memories and fancies out of this endless labyrinth that you find in Brooklyn. I refer to the subway tracks, to the shades...I was trying to get behind the skin of the city, and to explore this kind of dynamic between dream and reality. So to do that, I thought that to make a portrait of an artist, a woman, was the right way to do it. I tend to like to tell stories about women. And so this kind of descent into her own broken relationships, her broken dreams, was dynamic. I think that was the concept behind it. And one could say that there is something about masochism, which has a very strong link with the practice of art... the practice of painting... I think we take inspiration from our scars. I was interested in the remains of the ink, the remains of internal scars, psychological scars... how the trauma manifests itself into shadows of ink."
Vanishing Point paints a darkly stunning portrait of an artist living in Brooklyn. The film is bleak, discordant, smacking with violent urgency—and yet there is, at the same time, a certain fragility, a delicate quietness underneath its rough exterior. Perhaps this is borne out of Doublet’s own experience living in the ever-growing and changing neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn; watching the juxtaposition between the grittier, rougher “low-life reality,” as he calls it, and the burgeoning artist’s community that has begun to emerge in past years.
Since his arrival in New York, Doublet has written, directed and produced several of his own short films. Initially fascinated by the “harshness, dirtiness, and loose eroticism” of the New Hollywood cinema of the 1970s, he says, “My imagination and my desire are very related to the location and environment I’m in.” Originally from the Belleville area of Paris, Doublet has been living for three years in The Schoolhouse (the interior of which is shown in Vanishing Point), a unique three-story red brick building in Bushwick that has worn multiple hats since its establishment in 1883—it functioned as an elementary school until 1945, when it was sold and used as a manufacturing space; then it was abandoned and finally converted into artists’ living and working spaces in the 1990s. Now, each floor houses an array of creative individuals—musicians, painters, poets, filmmakers and photographers who often collaborate together (Vanishing Point is set to the spoken words of Mariette Papic, a poet and fellow Schoolhouse resident who Doublet commissioned for the project). About New York, he says, “…if you’re able to project yourself, your energy and your ideas on the city and break through the glass, [it] gives you back so much…”
Text by Annabel Graham for Pas Un Autre
Dollywood
As part of SHOWstudio's Fashion Fetish film season, Liberty Ross collaborates with photographer Polly Borland to create Dollywood, a subversively sinister view of eroticism. Liberty explains, 'I wanted to make a film that blurred the line of primitive sexual fetishism with naive and childlike play. To me the act of dressing up, tying up and fetishism has its primal urges in childhood.' Inspired by Borland's current artwork, the provocative work tackles the taboos surrounding fetish, questioning the extent to which sexual acts have their basic roots in youthful urges.
This Is Not a Fashion Film
Fashion film for London based David David's AW 2012/13 collection which premiered at Canon Cinema in Somerset House during London Fashion week. Direction, script and production by Adam and Tree Carr from the East London film/radio/event factory Today is Boring in collaboration with the British Fashion Council. David Saunders, the designer behind David David was originally an artist and switched to fashion 7 years ago - he was once artist Tracey Emin's assistant. The film tells the tale of two strangers who spend the night together – the girl awakens first in the dude's apartment – either he has the weirdest roommate ever or she is completely losing her mind....