For its iconic September Issue, American VOGUE paired two designers — John Galliano and Tomo Koizumi — to reimagine one another’s dresses via upcycling; or using existing materials to make something new.
The process started with Tomo and Galliano each selecting a piece from their archives, and sending it to the other by international parcel. Each designer then assembled a team to deconstruct and reconstruct the dress, and add their own signature style to it, as film crews in Tokyo and Paris documented each step. Tomo and Galliano checked in with one another periodically through Zoom calls as they made progress, ahead of a final, dramatic unveiling moderated by VOGUE editor Hamish Bowles.
The resulting film reveals a very digital, very touching type of collaboration… cross-linguistic, cross-cultural and cross-generational. 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