Fashion
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“Pull the Threads until it Unravels”: Advice from TFI’s Fashion in Film Event
Director and cinematographer Christina Voros nicely summed up the difference between the fashion industry and the film industry at the Tribeca Film Institute’s Fashion in Film event Friday: “Fashion is sort of antithetical to film. The fashion industry is all about making sure the seams don’t show, that every thread is in place. Documentary is about pulling on the threads until it unravels.” She was speaking of the process of filming her second documentary feature The Director, about Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini, but the sentiment was reflected in films and discussions throughout the two-day event. At first blush the […]
by Randy Astle on Sep 24, 2013 -
FASHION FILMS BENEFIT THE BELCOURT THEATER
The nD Festival, which brings together film, fashion and music, held its fashion show this week at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville. (Here’s a report from photographer Heidi Jewell.) The fest benefits the theater, and at the show short films by James Clauer, Kristin Barlowe and David McClister were shown. Each featured the work of one designer, and all three can be seen here. Embedded below is Clauer’s, a psychodramatic trip to the carnival outfitted by Steven Alan. Some of you will remember Clauer’s striking short, Aluminum Fowl, and his work on Big River Man. Reportedly, Clauer’s debut feature, When […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 9, 2011 -
MARTIN DE THURAH GOES INTO THE WOODS
Via Nowness comes Film 1, a short by Martin de Thurah for designer Johan Lindeberg. De Thurah is best known for his Fever Ray and James Blake music videos, and his latest stars Iva Gocheva, Bogdan Kwiatkowski and Kate Lyn Sheil. It’s shot by Kaspar Tuxen, one of Filmmaker‘s 2010 “25 New Faces.” From the site: Today’s digital premiere of Martin de Thurah’s Film I spotlights Johan Lindeberg’s new BLK DNM line and takes cues from the designer’s personal life. “I went through a recent break-up and wanted to use my own dynamic to inspire the film,” Lindeberg says. “I […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 16, 2011 -
KATE MOSS: BEHIND THE SCENES, AND WITH SNAKE
The fashion and culture site Nowness has been generating some cool design-oriented videos lately, including this one — “Everglade,” the first of a four-parter based around surveillance camera footage of Kate Moss shot during a recent photo shoot. From a single side angle, Moss is captured while modeling the 2011 Balmain campaign by filmmakers Inex Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. They brought in artist and animator Jo Ratcliffe to work with the footage and set it all to music by Antony and the Johnsons. Said Van Lamsweerde, “Surrealism is always there in our work, whether it’s in camera or through […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 6, 2011 -
Matt Tyrnauer, Valentino: The Last Emperor
ICONIC FASHION DESIGNER VALENTINO GARAVANI (CENTER) IN DIRECTOR MATT TYRNAUER’S VALENTINO: THE LAST EMPEROR. COURTESY ACOLYTE FILMS. Having demonstrated significant talent as a print journalist, Matt Tyrnauer has shifted his focus and brought his great observational skills to bear on the big screen. Born in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, Tyrnauer grew up with entertainment all around him. His father was a TV writer on shows like The Virginian, Columbo and Murder, She Wrote (which he also produced), Tyrnauer was a regular visitor to LA’s favorite rep houses such as the Nuart and the New Beverley, and he was […]
by Nick Dawson on Mar 18, 2009
