VMAN/Nick Knight/Simon Foxton
Partnering with VMAN and Ford Models, in Summer 2009 we offered our male viewers the chance to become the next face of men's fashion. The lucky winner Rico Nieves received a contract with Ford Models and was photographed by Nick Knight and styled by Simon Foxton for the cover of VMAN 16.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Menswear] [Magazine] [Model]
Yves Saint Laurent
To show his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, creative director Stefano Pilati broke the mould of the traditional catwalk show by presenting his collection via film. Originally displayed on a triptych of screens, the film plays across three frames of action and is here shown in its entirety. Romantic, ethereal and yet technologically complex, the film manages to evoke the twin dynamics of familiarity and formality and the tension of old and new constantly at play in Pilati’s offerings for men.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Menswear] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Stefano Pilati] [Autumn/Winter 08-09]
Nick Knight/Bernhard Willhelm
The latest designer electing to create a film to showcase his fashion collection, Bernhard Willhelm will be in the studio on Sunday 13th and Monday 14th January 2008 with Nick Knight, creating a movie to be previewed at the Menswear shows in Paris on the 20th of this month. Of course, we can't say too much about the collection, but Bernhard has supplied us with the working title "Men in Tights" so you can draw your own conclusions and tune in from 11:30 to get a load of the nylon and lycra action on set!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Menswear] [Bernhard Willhelm]
Featuring 651 exhibitors and 760 brands, the Pitti Immagine Uomo show has opened the trading calendar for mens contemporary fashion and textiles for 67 seasons. Writer Hywel Davies was in Florence to report on the exhibition’s highlights as well as to offer coverage on the mens international clothing and accessories collections.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Menswear] [Textiles] [Hywel Davies] [Florence] [Exhibition]
Simon Foxton
Thirty men in thirty days: Simon Foxton's fashionable month ran from April
1st, each day he styled a different model to pose in front of a live webcam and
take your calls.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Models] [Stylists] [Menswear]
H Project
Accompanied by ecstatic sound of The Master of Gospel and the Joy Georgia Mass Choir, the second of our H Projects films was dominated by nature as Thymaya Payne and Zara Rusadze took menswear to the forest.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Music] [Menswear]
Toyin/Nicola Formichetti
The Burberry Boys battled it out with the Kim Jones gang in this A/W '04 west side story. The Doi provided the soundtrack to Toyin's graceful study in teen angst and masculinity.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Menswear] [Toyin] [Kim Jones] [Burberry] [Nicola Formichetti]
Brad Pitt
During a recent shoot for Vanity Fair, Nick Knight created a number of
on-set scenarios for intriguing visual and aural actions for subject Brad
Pitt to perform, so as to engage the actor in 'pique' performance. 'Freedom
of Love' is a short film which captured Pitt in action during the shoot,
energetically painting onto a huge blow up of his own face, and adding
caption, and contemplatively reading surrealist poetry. Pitt reads from
André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love', a one stanza, sixty-line homage to his wife. The poem cites a beautiful litany of comparisons for her physical attributes, deftly playing with language that eludes any commonplace romantic imaging, instead presenting uncanny metaphors. Breton was the provocative, passionate leader of the avant-garde literary and artistic movement Surrealism, who believed in 'revolution of the mind', and in the 'marvellous' - dazzling combinations of words or visual images,
spontaneously created by automatic processes of the mind.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [Brad Pitt] [Poetry] [Alister Mackie]
H Project, Zaza Rusadze
An experimental film collaboration between German fashion collaborative H Project and the film director Zaza Rusadze. Featured menswear by designers including: Bless, Samuel De Goede, Frank Leder, Raf Simons and Bernhard Willhelm.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Menswear]
Patrik Söderstam
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Menswear] [London Fashion Week]
John Galliano
Exclusive preview of Galliano's first own-brand menswear range. The legendary designer took questions from the set of his Arena shoot.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [John Galliano]
Toyin/Kim Jones
As Kim Jones' garments slithered across the bare torso of the young male model in Toyin's film short, it became apparent that clothing may not have been the photographer's motivating obsession...
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [Models] [Menswear] [Kim Jones]
Patrik Söderstam
Swede Sucess: Having joined a substantial number of fashion houses during this particular season, young Swedish designer Söderstam launched his graduate collection via a film presentation.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Music] [Menswear] [Illustration]
Raf Simons
The visionary Belgian designer revealed the passions and graphic influences central to his Autumn/Winter 2003-04 menswear show.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Collections] [Picture Phone] [Menswear] [Raf Simons] [Jo-Ann Furniss]
SImon Foxton/Alasdair McLellan
For your pleasure. Fashioned from calling cards, nine working boys gave us their denim look. Who will you pick? Alasdair McLellan provided the photos, Simon Foxton the styling.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Simon Foxton] [Menswear] [Styling] [Sportswear] [Alasdair McLellan]