Premiered a few days ago at the Crosby Hotel, we now can give you a look at the short film by Kate Jones, the designer behind Ursa Major by William Yan and the crew of We Are Not Pilgrims. Enjoy!
In the second installment of its “Women’s Tales” series, Miu Miu collaborated with director Lucrecia Martel on a film noir titled Muta. Great product placement shots, clever imagery hinting to female transformation, presented as something robotic and otherworldly that puzzles as much as it attracts. The film even features a black woman with a ‘fro(!) Noteworthy because as much as we’ve admired Miuccia ’s creativity since the inception of her brands, diversity in ads and presentation has been very rare. Not that it is common among her contemporaries, however, as a pioneer of out-of-the-box style and individualism, more diversity we believe would increase the already hot factor of the Prada and Miu Miu brands tenfolds, especially that now investors are watching.
Enjoy a look a the phenomenal Bijules’ latest project, Amasia as told to Vogue Italia–visually stunning in every way:
“I want to upset the quietness of the gold industry’s ’sacredness,’” explains the designer, introducing her film Amasia – Possible Future Supercontinent After Actual Earth directed by Robert Hamada with art director Guido Callarelli.
“With Amasia I wish to combine the force, at times brutal, of nature, to the purity of jewels. This market segment must reinvent itself all the time to live on and I want to be part of such transformation,” adds Jules Kim, while she explains that to get in the gold industry she has to carve out her space, breaking traditional barriers, beyond all expectations.
“I had the need to tell a story without limitations. For those who create jewelry it’s easier to portray a model wearing the collection,” she says smiling before the unstoppable flow of her film’s images.
The true leading lady of the video is nature, with all its power, uncontaminated and sublime. “Shooting the video in Iceland has been something unforgettable. I had never seen so much beauty,” says the jewelry designer that, despite New York’s schizophrenic rhythms, reveals a deep fascination for that remote island. “I chose to go beyond people’s expectations, I wished to stimulate their perception with something unexpected so that they will ask themselves who they are and what they will become …”
Documentary filmmaker Brennan Stasiewicz infiltrates the cosseted world of Daphne Guinness in Daphne’s Window. Featuring intimate footage of the icon at her Fifth Avenue apartment, the short follows the eccentric fashion patron and socialite as she prepares for her recent installation in the windows of Barneys New York. The storefront showcased her collection of pieces by designer Lee Alexander McQueen and a selection from the archive of fashion editor Isabella Blow, which Guinness purchased in its entirety last year. The display culminated in a performance art piece in which Guinness dressed for the Met ball in one of the flagship’s windows, modeling a lilac feathered gown designed by McQueen’s Sarah Burton. “She appears to me as someone always in a window,” says Stasiewicz. “Someone you can approach and see, but you remain on the other side.” This year brings a multitude of projects for the heiress: her sculptural armored glove collaboration with jeweler Shaun Leane (pictured in today’s film) will be exhibited by Jay Jopling in a private viewing in London later this month; and in September a retrospective at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology will pay homage to her style. “Daphne is someone to take pleasure in, and in many ways, someone who incites moments of wonder,” says Stasiewicz.
