VOGUE
COVID-era documentary about Tomo Koizumi and John Galliano.

As COVID shut down communication and collaboration across borders, VOGUE paired two designers — John Galliano and Tomo Koizumi — to reimagine one another’s dresses for its iconic September Issue. 

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 exchange… cross-language, cross-culture and cross-generation. But across barriers, the desire to create something new is universal.