Can’t Ruin My Fun Music Video

“Can’t Ruin My Fun”by Jahan Lennon…alternate title “Aggressive hair combing and every single piece of clothing Daniel Palillo has ever made plus Underground shoes, strobes, fog and mirror effects”. Not that I’m complaining.

Free

I didn’t want to like Charlotte Free what with the whole dyed hair trend being really overplayed in fashion, but I guess I caught the fever. She’s great in this fashion film, which also has really cool sound design. Watch the film by Brian Kazez below.

Models Be Lookin Bitchy in Prada

Steven Meisel has yet again shot Prada‘s video campaign – this time for the 50′s-inspired Spring 2012 collection. Although Meisel follows his same (winning?) formula of weird music, slow-motion contrasted with rapid cutting, and lots of closeups on accessories, I’m not bored yet. This one is much more cinematic than his past campaigns, with a hint of a story this time around.  Shot in a gas station with lots of shiny vintage cars to match their shiny vintage-style sunglasses, models give each other bad vibes, fix their makeup, and pose by their cars intimidatingly. As we girls do.

Watch below;

Burning in Water

My friend Una got me the “Burning in Water” palette from the Wong Kar Wai x Shu Uemura collaboration…a surprise gift enjoyed over delicious Pho soup :) It’s so pretty I’m too scared to use it! Well, almost too scared, heh heh heh…

Carry On Closet

Here’s a short stop-motion fashion film I directed for designer Renée Lacroix, designed to show the multi-functional nature of her collection. This shoot was so much fun! And I was doing the slate so I got some cool pictures of my tattoos out of it, haha, thanks to Darwaysh the photographer.

Girl Panic!

Here is a very clever music video for Duran Duran’s Girl Panic! shot at the Savoy in London. It features top models as members of the band, including Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen.

Dragon Tattoo x H&M

I’ve seen the original Girl with a Dragon Tattoo film but I never expected it to have a fashion moment. The American remake’s star is on the cover of Vogue, and now H&M have unveiled a capsule collection from H&M Divided based on the film’s heroin.

Thoughts?

Model Wheel

I’m basing this opinion solely on the look of the set, (which includes a giant hamster wheel for models and a cage), but I can already tell that the Versace x H&M tv commercial is going to be amazing. Watch the behind the scenes below;

Freak

I am beyond excited about Illamasqua‘s first fragrance, “Freak” which launches at the end of the month. Frankly I don’t really care what it smells like, I just love the name, campaign, and of course, the adorable little silver snail on the bottle.

Are you a freak?

LFW Day Three with Lewis Taylor

Day three of London Fashion Week, brought to you by Lewis Taylor and 1883 Magazine! Video by me.

Dancing Chanel

Quentin Jones directed this delightful, Dada-esque mixed media fashion film for VogueTV, featuring ballet dancer Emma Chadwick in Chanel SS11. It’s very refreshing to see a cheerful fashion film that incorporates animation and collage video techniques and still shows off the clothes in a creative way. Watch “Dancing Chanel” below;

 

Unleash Your Sweet Tooth

I love this cute perfume advert for Prada “Candy” by Léa Seydoux…I am rarely tempted to try out new fragrances but now I’m curious about this one. Watch below;

Thoughts?

First Heartbreak

New Doc Martens campaign featuring Agyness Deyn;

Luxirare Video Preview

Here’s a preview from another video I shot, with Una as my model and her Luxirare vest. Can’t wait to post the finished product! I’m just waiting on the music at this point :)

Precious Pizza

Monica Menez directed this beautifully shot and styled fashion film entitled “Precious” for Willems Wonderglasses AW11. The makeup and nails are amazing, as are the clothes, the lighting, and the fact that the model kneads the pizza dough with her butt.

If this isn’t how you make pizza, you are doing it wrong;

via Trendland

An Army for Beauty

Another Magazine produced this beauty film for Viktor & Rolf AW11, directed by KT Auleta. The soundtrack is amazing and I love the idea of makeup being like armour or warrior paint. Featuring Lindsay Wixon’s unmistakable lips, the videos shows her and a bunch of models prepare for battle, a ‘Battle for the Sun” to go along with the AW11 collection of the same title.

Click below to be directed to the video;

“We were compelled to create an army…An army to battle for beauty. A crusade to communicate our passion for fashion”.

See the full article here at Another.

Mushrooms and Roses

Arizona Muse stars in Yves Saint Laurent‘s dreamy spring/summer campaign video. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin captured the sexy side of seventies style in a glamorous pool-side setting, and let’s just say Arizona knows how to work a palm tree. Watch below;

Thoughts? As much as I always complain about black and white, double-exposure and slow-motion in fashion films, I feel like this video works because its not trying to be edgy…it shows off the clothes beautifully, and feels summery and a little bit tipsy. And its high time for midday Long Island ice teas, in my opinion.

 

Jive! Jive! Jive!

Want to see Cole Mohr bust a move in creeper shoes with his gang of greaser lads? Of course you do. Watch “Jive! Jive! Jive!” by Bon Duke below;

Dreamer’s Holiday

If you are as bored as I am of all these moody, broody “edgy” fashion films, “The Suitcase” is a breath of fresh air. Greg Brunkalla directs this great narrative fashion short about playing dress up, in which model Noot Seear takes a little trip down memory lane and wears some adorable cat ears. Watch below;

Although the video is fun and cheerful, her breakfast certainly isn’t…who eats lemons for breakfast? No wonder models are so thin! Any thoughts?

via The Cut

The Powder Room

Fashion films with traditional narrative elements are hard to come by, as are female fashion filmmakers. The “Miu Miu Women’s Tales”, a project which commissions short films from woman filmmakers, delivers both. Zoe Cassavetes directs the first of the series with a short entitled ”The Powder Room”, which “…delves into the ultra-feminine environment where gestures between women are traded in their rituals of opulence and beauty…Cassavetes’ film uses the romantic codes of the powder room to mirror the beauty and luxury of the Miu Miu universe” (via Dazed Digital)

Thoughts? I think its both beautiful to look at and communicates a compelling story without looking like an advertisement. It is just as much about the women themselves as the clothes they wear. This is what I want to do with fashion film; To give clothing a narrative purpose through moving image.