Let There Be Lily
Showstudio's Let There Be Light project has culminated with a film homage to its star Lily Donaldson, called Lily's,
which showcases spring 2009 designs by Martin Margiela, Alexander
McQueen, and Balenciaga among others, and uses the model and the
clothes to explore the theme of light.
It's a brief but lush, quirky and beautiful film from renowned photographer Nick Knight and filmmaker Ruth Hogben, with a soundtrack by Philip Sheppard. I didn't quite get it at first, but then found myself watching it for a seventh time in a row and knew it had something over me. The scenes are like collage with paint strokes and peonies of all kinds adorning the frames throughout, and the screen captures I got from it make for some of the most beautiful images I've ever seen - Lily has that delicate, innocent quality, and in black and white she complements the washed-out creams and pastels of the flowers in a way that's truly breathtaking.
Will someone please send me some double peonies?
Of particular note with reference to the clothing, Lily wears Martin Margiela's plaster cast of the first jacket he ever produced, for S/S 1989. You can watch interviews and video of various looks from the shoot and film, including Nick Knight discussing the concept, Lily Donaldson musing about how her technique has changed (her legs are so long and her platforms so high that she resembles a newborn colt on the comparatively tiny wooden chair she's forced to sit on), as well as the Margiela plaster jacket and other pieces, which she wears in this scene:
It's a brief but lush, quirky and beautiful film from renowned photographer Nick Knight and filmmaker Ruth Hogben, with a soundtrack by Philip Sheppard. I didn't quite get it at first, but then found myself watching it for a seventh time in a row and knew it had something over me. The scenes are like collage with paint strokes and peonies of all kinds adorning the frames throughout, and the screen captures I got from it make for some of the most beautiful images I've ever seen - Lily has that delicate, innocent quality, and in black and white she complements the washed-out creams and pastels of the flowers in a way that's truly breathtaking.
Of particular note with reference to the clothing, Lily wears Martin Margiela's plaster cast of the first jacket he ever produced, for S/S 1989. You can watch interviews and video of various looks from the shoot and film, including Nick Knight discussing the concept, Lily Donaldson musing about how her technique has changed (her legs are so long and her platforms so high that she resembles a newborn colt on the comparatively tiny wooden chair she's forced to sit on), as well as the Margiela plaster jacket and other pieces, which she wears in this scene:
These are collages I put together using
photos from the shoot (I wouldn't want to tarnish the good reputation of
Showstudio by chancing that anyone thought they had made them):
these are quite beautiful. fantastic work! :)
Posted by: lustforlove | October 09, 2009 at 11:43 AM