For its iconic September Issue, VOGUE paired two designers — John Galliano and Tomo Koizumi — to reimagine one another’s dresses.
The process started with Galliano and Tomo choosing a piece from their archives, and sending it to the other. Each designer then assembled a team to deconstruct and reconstruct the dress, and add their own signature style to it, as film crews in Paris and Tokyo documented each step.
They unveiled the dresses in a final conversation, moderated by VOGUE editor Hamish Bowles.
The resulting film — in which I led the Tokyo portion — reveals a very digital, very modern type of collaboration… cross-language, cross-culture and cross-generation. But across barriers, the desire to create something new remains universal.
CREDITS
Tokyo Unit:
Director: Dan Buyanovsky
Director of Photography: Asumi Sako
Producer: Yuumi Aoyama
Camera Assistants: Mikael Senninge and Yuji Suzuki
Gaffer: Tsuguhira Takada
Best Boy: Takashi Watanabe
Lighting Assistants: Naoto Ogata and Renya Minato
Sound Recordist: Taro Nishigaki
Makeup: Haruka Tazaki
Production Assistant: Rosa Barbaran
Translator: Samantha Rhodes
Driver: Juna Takeuchi
Production: PUSH Media
Paris Unit:
Producer and director: Nikki Petersen
Producer: Amanda Messenger
Director of Photography: Etienne Baussan
2nd Camera: Nicolas Demousseau
Sound Engineer: Clara Lemiere
VOGUE Team:
Directed by Robert Semmer
Produced by Robert Semmer & Efrat Kashai
Interviews by Hamish Bowles
Edited by Chiao Chen
Color: Alex Salingaros @ Forager
Sound: Nick Cipriano and Alec Sutton @ BANG
Post Production Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi