Björk: The Gate

For the first release from her forthcoming new album, co-produced by Arca, Björk has teamed up with a super-troupe of contributors to create a hallucinogenic new video. Director Andrew Thomas Huang lends his tech-savvy hand to envision a kaleidoscopic world inhabited by the singer-songwriter, who is clad in an iridescent otherworldly garment designed by Gucci’s Alessandro Michele.

https://www.nowness.com/story/bjork-the-gate-alessandro-michele-andrew-thomas-huang-james-merry

Rick Owens Spring 2014 Womenswear

Dance in definitely in the air as another designer, in this case Rick Owens has used performance to present his Spring 2014 Womenswear.

Rick Owens

 

Maison Martin Margiela w/ H&M - The Silent Manifesto

In November 2012, hundreds of people hit the streets of San Francisco in anticipation of Maison Martin Margiela’s collaboration with H&M stores around the world, some of you may have witnessed hundreds of black-clad fashion soldiers donning white aprons marching through your neighborhood. From Hong Kong to Singapore and Paristo Düsseldorf, eight countries around the globe hosted similar marches in anticipation of the collection’s global launch.
Maison Martin Margiela 

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Botanical Layers is the creative brainchild of Masha Reva and Syndicate. The collection juxtapositions immersion in the rapid pace of contemporary life, gadgets and social networks with a yearning for our natural environment, explored as a metaphorical botanical garden of Photoshop layers and loading bars. Check out their websites for more – Mesha Reva and Syndicate. 

The Wanderer - A Film for Dior Homme

Dior Homme are promoting their AW 11 collection with a short film by Willy Vanderperre called The Wanderer. If you're interested in styling or promotion, this is well worth a look.

Walter Van Beirendonck, Nick Knight and stylist Simon Foxton

Celebrating the larger-than-life talent of fashion maverick Walter Van Beirendonck and his retrospective at the Antwerp Fashion Museum, in May 2011 Nick Knight and stylist Simon Foxton immortalised the finest pieces from his archive in photography and fashion film, showcased as part of the exhibition Dream The World Awake at the Antwerp Fashion Museum and also included as a retrospective editorial in Autumn/Winter 2011 GQ Style.

Sep 13 2011 Dream the World Awake

Jun Nakao

Brazilian designer Jum Nakao has mastered the art of paper fashion. This dress collection made its debut in 2004 at Sao Paulo’s Fashion Week, in a paper themed runway performance titled Sewing the Invisible. At the end of the show, the models were told to tear up their dresses “as a reminder that fashion is a medium and not an end in itself”. (Quote sourced from Perfect Paper)

''Zombie boy'' face of MUGLER

Rick Genest, the Canadian born Zombie boy as he is most commonly known, is the new face of MUGLER's premier men's collection and the Muse of creative director Nicola Formichetti. Chris Roome from London based creative company Happy Finish has retouched these black and white images by top fashion photographer Mariano Vivanco, which are running as part of a larger campaign that include an online video launch featuring an exclusive new track fromLady Gaga’s new Album ‘Born this Way’. The new MUGLER campaign images are the brainchild of Nicola Formichettiwho is also the stylist of Lady Gaga.

Ivana Helsinki

Ivana Helsinki

Finnish IVANAhelsinki is an independent art and fashion brand.

Behind the brand is the artist Paola Ivana Suhonen whose work includes prints, graphics, short movies, art direction - everything that is involved with the visuals. Paola runs the family-owned company with older sister Pirjo.

New Power Studio

New Power Studio

Established menswear stylist Thom Murphy and womenswear designer Ebru Ercon have joined fashion forces to become New Power Studio a unisex clothing brand. The brand focuses on casual relaxed clothing promoting their work through instillation and fashion video to produce a humorous, youthful and highly conceptual aesthetic.

Thom Murphy talks about why he thinks fashion videos are going to destroy fashion shoots >