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Friday, 12 March 2010

Friday, 5 March 2010

Oliver Peoples 2010 Campaign: 'Les enfants sennuient le dimanche (The children are bored on Sundays)


Oliver Peoples' 2010 Campaign film 'Les enfants sennuient le dimanche (The children are bored on Sundays), directed by Autumn De Wilde, featuring Elijah Wood and Shirley Manson (from Garbage). Soundtrack 'Just You and Me' by Zee Avi. 
www.oliverpeoples.com

2010: A Space Odyssey by Rodarte


Guinevere van Seenus stars in Aanteni, a high-fashion techno-thriller from CFDA award-winning design sisters Rodarte, shot by their friend and frequent collaborator, the photographer and video artist Todd Cole. Set in the deserted grounds of Paypal founder Elon Musks Space X jet lab in Hawthorne, California, the film was inspired by the pioneering spirit of the space race, which, according to Rodartes Kate and Laura Mulleavy, has defined generations of artists in their desire to use new mediums and question the established rules they were taught to follow. This cinematic collision between rocket science and visual daring is an apt match for Rodartes spring 2010 collection—a symphony of flesh-colored crochet knits, fluorescent fibres, leather bandages and distressed plaid. Costumed in a series of these exquisite creations, Van Seenus blurrily emerges from a shimmering seascape before running through the starkly alluring spaces of the Space X facility—a former Boeing airline hanger that has been transformed into what the Mulleavys call a world defined by color, texture and material. Van Seenus hallucinatory journey, punctuated by glimpses of mysterious experiments and sudden rocket blasts, is chillingly soundtracked by LA noise-merchants No Age. We advise you to strap in and don a helmet for the spectacular finale—a truly stratospheric experience that takes Rodartes unique vision beyond the final frontier.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

A film for Wonderland Magazine

This is a short film William Pine made for Wonderland magazine for a fashion story.

Wonderland Fashion Viral

Black and white arthouse style viral film that both documented and showcased the clothes, the models and the day. 

Friday, 26 February 2010

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Chanel Silent Film By Karl Lagerfeld

THE LADY NOIR AFFAIR / BY LADY DIOR / CHAPTER ONE / DIRECTED BY OLIVIER DAHAN FEAT. MARION COTILLARD

AN ALEXANDER MCQUEEN FILM DIRECTED BY DAVID SIMS SPRING/SUMMER 2010

Yves Saint Laurent Homme Hiver 2009-2010

YVES SAINT LAURENT SPRING/SUMMER 2010 MEN/HOMME / DIRECTED BY SAMUEL BENCHETRIT


YSL creative director Stefano Pilati again presented his men's collection with a short film, this one shot by French actor/writer/director Samuel Benchetrit and starring Benchetrit's 11-year-old son, Jules.

Prada : "First Spring" : Yang Fudong


Prada presents 'First Spring', a short movie directed by Chinese artist Yang Fudong for the Prada Mens Spring/Summer 2010 advertising campaign.

Fashion Versus Style


French Connection advert. Director's cut. Fashion versus Style

David La Chapelle - Romeo and Juliet (H&M advertisement)

Levi's 501 commercial with Nick Kamen (Laundrette) (1985)

Saturday, 20 February 2010

Viral Film - 'Sin and Tonic'. Director, Miika Lommi

Pattern Film by Anemone Skoljdager



Part of A Shaded View On Fashion Film in competition in the 2009 Hyères Fashion Festival.

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA ARTISANAL 09

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?) Directed by William Klein

After years of photographing the world of high fashion at Vogue, Klein created one of the most biting satires of the industry and the then-emerging genre of confessional television. Polly Maggoo is a neophyte Brooklynite model in Paris, the subject of a TV exposé called Qui êtes-vous?, who is slavishly pursued by all manner of men. The film took the European press by storm with its outrageous design and tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the 1960s pop explosion.

1966, 35mm, in French with English subtitles, 105 minutes.




faceCULTURE's New Remit

Recognising that film is becoming an increasingly important part of fashion, faceCULTURE has taken the title of this blog from the chapter of the same title by Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson.

The labels applied to each film are titled to indicate the area of context, so far there is:
Dolls and Automotons
Dressing as the Other Sex
Transformations
Born Bad (or just Misunderstood)

Various titles will at times apply to the same film, but this will encourage the cross fertilization of ideas as new areas of debate open up.


Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson,‘Fashion is the Fifth Character: Fashion, costume and character in Sex and the City’ , in Reading Sex and the City (eds. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, I B Tauris, 2004)

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