31.5.11

Royal de Luxe



An extraordinary European street theatre company, founded in 1979 by Jean Luc Courcoult. They have performed all over the world ever since.

The Arctic Light



This was filmed between 29th April and 10th May 2011 in the Arctic, on the archipelago Lofoten in Norway.

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3 in 1


The concept of triplette chair is simple, one chair when multiple seats are not necessary.





Paul Menand
6 rue sainte catherine
67000 Strasbourg France
contact: p.menand@yahoo.fr

30.5.11

God Save The Scarf



Alexander McQueen Scarf Boutique

Jean Touitou



The past decade has seen A.P.C. grow from a cult French label to a brand recognized the world over for clothes that deftly mix contemporary style with classic looks—all the while helmed by founder Jean Touitou since 1988. Curious about what has kept the line going strong throughout its gradual expansion, for this video we sat down with Touitou to find out.

29.5.11

Yohji Yamamoto



Notoriously private Japanese fashion design icon Yohji Yamamoto lets his guard down in an exclusive, intimate short documentary film about life and the creative process, from Tokyo to New York.

28.5.11

Is Tropical - The Greeks



The brilliant French trio release their debut album, Native To, on June 13th.
vídeo directed by MEGAFORCE

27.5.11

Loom



Loom tells the story of a successful catch.

Year: 2010
Length: 5'20"
Directors: Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Csaba Letay
Technical director: Fabian Pross
Production company: Filmakademie BW
Producer: Regina Welker
Sound: Joel Corelitz / waveplant
Artists:Felix Mertikat, Jin-Ho Jeon, Roman Kälin, Tom Weber, Christian Hertwig, Silke Finger, Jacob Frey, Leszek Plichta, Georg Schneider, Anja Wacker, Andreas 'Felix' Gebhardt, Falko Paeper, Sarah Eim
5.1 Mix: David Axelbaum / Airstream Audio

Voices for Freedom



Ad Agency: Leo Burnett Iberia

Sign a petition in support of Dhondup or donate your voicemail here

26.5.11

Oki-Ni Styled by Elgar Johnson










Elgar is the Menswear Fashion Editor of i-D with a client list including Stone Island, Moschino and Nike.

Born in Peterborough, he initially left school to work for his dad's heavy haulage company. After falling into modelling Elgar was “adopted” by Simon Foxton and welcomed into his new family, which included Jonathan Kaye and Jason Evans.

25.5.11

The Last Word



Don’t let your last words be a text on the road

Agency Ronin Advertising Group

22.5.11

Content is Queen



“Content is Queen” is a video art series of generative portraits that reflects on the foundations of democracy against the resilient nature of structures of power. At the same time, is a paradoxical dialogue and strange marriage between the banal and the utterly majestic: to create the series, the most popular (in a truly democratic sense) internet videos of a given moment are used as the input of a generative process that “paints” with action the portrait of the Queen.

On a technical level, this piece is a result of my research in breaking the limitations of the static image in a contemporary revision of the tradition of painting. The portraits are created using a generative technique that I have developed called “generative video painting”. It differs of previous attempts of video collage (like the techniques developed by David Hockney, mixing simultaneous points of view of an action) or video mosaic (where still images are represented by whole videos acting as pixels when properly reduced in size). My technique uses regions of video content to effectively represent or “paint” heterogeneous regions of the image. Both the partial content of the videos and the whole image are fully visible at the same time, widening the possibilities to deliver meaning in a contemporary aesthetic language.

21.5.11

oki-ni presents THE GAME



Bringing together the creative talents of director Antony Crook, Ridley Scott's RSA/Black Dog production company and the pioneering work of wireWAX, this moving editorial is fully shoppable - meaning that you can click on any outfit, while the video is playing, to shop the look.

The video is styled by Glenn Kitson, a regular oki-ni collaborator, and represents a big step forward in the functionality of online video.

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Passport and reality


how different they can look in real life and his own passport.

20.5.11

weekend à Paris

Holographic Fashion Show

The question was how to communicate the philosophy behind the new collection of German "Haute Couture" fashion designer Stefan Eckert in a better way. The answer was the world's first complete 3D holographic fashion show. I teamed up with director Florian Sigl to create the visual concept for the show and how to express the collection within this special medium as best as possible. After shooting with a high speed camera I did all stages of post production, from 3D to motion graphics to compositing.
The result was one of the biggest holographic projections ever which creates a complete optical illusion and breaks the rules of time and space on stage.


Dust Sequence


Bird Sequence


Black Leather Sequence

Agency: Bakery
Director: Florian Sigl
DOP: Moritz Anton
Producer: Sunna Pilz
Sound Design: Yessian
Visual Artist: Tim Jockel

18.5.11

The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn




directed by Steven Spielberg
with Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook

17.5.11

rag & bone Fall 2011





The Tale of a Fairy





The new Chanel film is directed by Karl Lagerfeld starring Anna Mouglalis, Amanda Harlech, Kristen McMenamy, Freja Beha Erichsen, Bianca Balti, Baptiste Giabiconi, Brad Koening, Jake Davies, Mark Vanderloo, Oriol Elcacho, Sébastien Jondeau, Seth Kuhlmann

“It is a movie about an ill-advised use of money which begins with violence and ends with feeling.” - Karl Lagerfeld

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16.5.11

Spa on water






the urban spa concept reworked by Sid Lee Architecture, a floating Scandinavian spa built on a former 1950's era ferry in Montreal.



14.5.11

Sumo Lake





Sumo Lake is a rapid, animated re-telling of the story of the ballet "Swan Lake" using sumo wrestlers and a giant lizard in a leotard.

13.5.11

L’Amour Fou



The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was an extravagant spectacle, as a design prodigy and then the grand coutourier of a fashion empire, he influenced fifty years of style and was an icon to millions -- but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In Pierre Thoretton's L'AMOUR FOU, Pierre Berge, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life, reflects on the equally extravagant history of their personal relationship. Framed around the 2009 auction of the priceless, elaborate art collection amassed by Yves and Pierre personally over several decades, this extraordinary documentary provides an unprecedented look at the life of a mythic personality, whose personal life matched his public for elegance, decadence and passion. Winner of the International Critics Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival and an official selection of the TriBeCa and San Francisco Film Festivals, L'AMOUR FOU is riveting film event perfect for fans of documentary and fashion die-hards alike.

Himan - Novalaise



From the EP "Initial" out now on Folistar Records