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Lingerie de vendredi: Lafayette

LAFAYETTE // Les dessous féminins // directed by JACK.

New York La La La

Hollywood Skaters Prowl the Set in an Aaron Rose and André Saraiva Film for L'Officiel Hommes.

“Paramount Studios is fantastical by nature,” says artist and filmmaker Aaron Rose of the faux New York City streets and sun-baked Los Angeles location of today’s cinematic fashion short. Sweeping through the vacant lot, Rose and his co-director, L'Officiel Hommes editor André Saraiva shot a dreamlike portrait of professional skateboarders Jerry Hsu, Austyn Gillette, and Josh Harmony, besuited in Dior Homme, Saint Laurent, and Prada. Set to the epic pop of Duran Duran’s “The Chauffeur,” the slow-motion skaters are confronted by a trio of models in lace lingerie led by Belgian beauty Anouck Lepere, in a touch that echoes the band's 1980s videos. “It is his bicoastal perspective which started the idea for the film,” explains Saraiva of Rose’s past as founder of downtown New York institution Alleged Gallery, that is juxtaposed with his recent experience as a West Coast-dwelling artist. “We share a similar evolutionary process as creators, so it was natural to work together,” says Rose of his multidisciplinary Paris-based collaborator. “We were shooting two elements simultaneously, this film and a photo editorial. André would be shooting photos, then all of a sudden, he would hand me the stills camera. It was a wonderfully creative ping-pong volley.”

(Via Nowness.com)

Melody's Echo Chamber

In 2012, Kevin Parker,  best known as the leader of the band Tame Impala, 
teamed up with French singer Melody Prochet for her dream pop project, Melody's Echo Chamber.
The two met after Prochet gave Parker a CD with songs from her other band, My Bee's Garden.
This led to a support slot for My Bee's Garden, opening for Tame Impala. 
Their collaborative self-titled album was released on October 2, 2012. 
Allmusic's Tim Sendra called it "a rather stunning debut". 
Parker played guitar, featuring his distinctive spacey, phased guitar sound 
with Prochet's dreamy vocals, and also produced the album.

   

The Capsule

Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock.
A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance.
A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood — infinitely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE CAPSULE (2012) / directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari / official trailer from HAOS

FILM.

Balenciaga Resort 2013

 

The loveliest.

Best fashion film ever

Matthew Frost has directed a satirical new short for fashion brand Viva Vena, that borrows from the clichéd subject matter of every single generic fashion film ever made. Miss Caplan delivers a great performance as the overly self-aware fashion heroine, and the short covers all the other requisite fashion film themes, including:

Retro technology:

Predictable cultural references:

Communion with nature:

And spontaneous performances with obscure musical instruments:

Here you can enjoy the best fashion film ever:

Viva Vena, "Fashion Film" from Somesuch & Co. on Vimeo.

Little Poland by Nick Sweeney

 

Oyster Magazine has commissioned “Little Poland” of photographer and director Nick Sweeney.

VALENTINA!

 

 

Dans un bouquet de senteurs raffinées, les ingrédients de la femme Valentino, sa singularité, sa féminité, ont inspiré un nouveau parfum: VALENTINA. Conçu comme un style de couture, un élément de distinction, voici une fragrance qui exprime magistralement un idéal féminin. 

Valentina est belle, radieuse, ajoutant à ses grâces le charme singulier de l’héritière moderne. Séduisante et sophistiquée, loin des conventions et charismatique, elle incarne son propre style. Elle a élu domicile dans un palais classique, elle aime par-dessus tout sentir battre le cœur de Rome. 

Héroïne unique d’une histoire hypnotique ponctuée de références et d’allusions aux figures légendaires de la mode et du cinéma italiens, Valentina apparaît dans les rues noires et secrètes d’une Rome nocturne superbement vide, dans un spot mis-en-scène par Johan Renck, et une campagne photographiée par David Sims.

Source: Valentino Parfums

5:46 am. Paris flooded

Film by Olivier Campagne & Vivien Balzi
Music by Brice Tillet

Yoko Ono & Opening Ceremony

Yoko Ono for Opening Ceremony

Lady S.

La madeleine de Proust

Tastes and smells have the power to awaken images and memories. This year, Nespresso has asked to a young director Ben Briand, to give his sensorial memories vision.

The most beautiful video ever...

* Les saveurs et les parfums ont le pouvoir de réveiller en nous des images et des souvenirs. Cette année, pour vous en parler, Nespresso a demandé à un jeune réalisateur, Ben Briand, de nous livrer sa vision de la mémoire sensorielle. Découvrez le film sans plus tarder...

DUST: Bambi for MANIAMANIA

DUST is the second collection from MANIAMANIA and visits the iconography of ancient Egypt and the aesthetic, mood and music of pop deity David Bowie.

Part I has derived inspiration from a 1969 image of a young Bowie dressed as a Sphinx by photographer Brian Ward, and imagery from backstage footage of Ziggy Stardust....

Music by The Black Ryder

Part II is an ode to the psychedelic light shows of the 1960s, The Man Who Fell to Earth and the universe....

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