Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas that work the best – certainly this is the case with our latest Future Tense film from designer Mary Ping’s Slow and Steady Wins the Race. This is a label that wittily references fashion’s stalwart staples (the pearl-necklace, the wedding dress, the white t-shirt) and... [more]
Future Tense is all about breaking new ground and House of Flora’s contribution is entirely in this pioneering spirit. Against a futuristic, cinematic landscape populated by her severe, geometric accessories and trademark moulded felt hair-hat hybrid ‘Hairts’, Dress No. 1 – naturally enough - documents Flora McLean’s first dress under... [more]
Inspired and inflamed by the Lumiere Brother’s extraordinary 1896 film of Loïe Fuller’s Serpentine Dance, Emilio De La Morena utilises his own voluminous garments from A/W 2008 as a basis for his Future Tense film, a spiraling, swirling exploration of cloth in seemingly perpetual motion. Saturated with rich, lush colour,... [more]
Marrying music, celebrity and fashion is a PPQ trademark: the advantage of owning your own music label whose performers fight to wear your clothes can’t be boasted by many a fashion house. In their film for Future Tense, therefore, it was only natural that the designers Amy Molyneux and Percy... [more]
In the midst of our Future Tense project celebrating new fashion talent, it seems apt to bid farewell (or rather bon voyage) to one of London's brightest stars of recent years. On Sunday night, our own Fashion DJs fave Richard Mortimer played host to Gareth Pugh's goodbye bash at... [more]
Jean-Pierre Braganza’s collection for A/W 2008, entitled ‘Chromacolyte’, was inspired by a cyborg handmaiden in a futuristic uniform - more than human, but at the same time not quite human. Accordingly, his video for Future Tense, created with filmmaker Malcolm Pate, shows us a monochromatic day in the life of... [more]
The 8th installment in a series titled Fringe Project, today’s Future Tense film is a collaborative effort between Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius. The ‘Fringe’ of the title emphasizes and exaggerates the body (and fashion) in movement - one of the primary aims of the Future Tense project – while... [more]
‘Tense’ is definitely the word for our latest film from Spanish label El Delgado Buil and director Xavier Carbonell. Suspending items of their collection in mid-air via taut string contraptions with more than a touch of the Heath Robinson about them, El Delgado Buil’s Future Tense film manages to marry... [more]
The very concept of Future Tense is to venture into fashion’s ‘Brave New World’ – coincidentally, the title of Basso and Brooke’s S/S 2008 collection. Inspired by a heady, contradictory mix of Aldous Huxley’s futuristic ‘anti-utopia’ and the playful kitsch of Ettore Sottass’ Memphis (witness Stephen Jones’ masterful millinery abstractions),... [more]
Mona von Bismarck remarked of Cristóbal Balenciaga that "the wit is on the head" - a maxim that Nasir Mazhar takes to heart, or rather, has let go to his own head. For Future Tense, we could ask nothing more than for Nasir to push his formidable feats of millinery... [more]
An empty birdcage, a beer-stein in the shape of an equestrian boot, a miniaturised Alpine forest, an oddly indeterminate piece of meat. These are hardly standard fodder for fashion film, but we never expected anything commonplace from Frank Leder’s contribution to Future Tense. Created with Gregor Hohenberg, Denk Ich An... [more]
Durable, sustainable and stable are (unfortunately) words seldom used to characterise young fashion design. However, the German term Haltbar can variably translate as all these – and is also the name of our final contributor to the first week of Future Tense. Accordingly, we may have expected a utilitarian examination... [more]
French label 0044 collaborate with video artist Elizabeth Creseveur to create the latest installment in our Future Tense project. With Creseveur’s work focusing on body, space and movement, the runway show is a natural starting-point – and perhaps the most traditional form of fashion in movement. In contrast to most... [more]
Shot with the gritty, grainy quality familiar to anyone with a video-streaming mobile phone, London label 6 7/8’s contribution to Future Tense is a resolutely lo-fi, homegrown affair. There is a hint of voyeurism to its focus on the image of one woman, the eponymous Anna of the films title,... [more]
Inspired by his A/W 2008 collection 'Les Parapluies' – comprised of capacious, protective silhouettes horizontally elongated to mimic the aforementioned - Lutz’s contribution to our Future Tense project is typically idiosyncratic. Collaborating with Diane Pernet and Sayoko Paris to create his film, Lutz’s 'Parapluies' take flight – but forget all... [more]
As a label that exclusively manufactures their line in France, the Paris-based designer Tillmann Lauterbach focuses his Future Tense film not on his design concepts, but on documenting the array of craftsmen who contribute to the construction of his collections. Scissors, Paper, Rock both documents and celebrates the exceptional skills... [more]
It's oft-bemoaned that fashion has no sense of humour - luckily, this accusation never be leveled at Peter Jensen. For Future Tense, he creates Peter Jensen’s Screen Tests – a casting featuring models in his S/S 2009 menswear answering questions, posed by Peter himself, that run the gamut from the... [more]
As her S/S 2009 collection was inspired by Youtube, we couldn't really conceive of the Future Tense fashion film project without the inclusion of Carri Mundane's Cassette Playa. T.I.M.E. is comprised of computer-generated images, and video footage from her installation 'I CAN HAZ YOUR NIGHTMARZ TURNZ TO DREAMZ,' presentation at... [more]
With its rather tongue-twisting title - She said: “Eh I know you, and you cannot sing;” He said: “That’s nothing, you should hear me play Piano” - taken from the Smiths song 'The Queen is Dead,' you might expect something equally dark and convoluted from Ioannis Dimitrousis' Future Tense film.... [more]
Vox Humana, our latest addition to Future Tense from the American design duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte and filmmaker Griffin, offers a Lynchian, dystopian vision of Los Angeles with a menacing twist. Rodarte's interpretation of modern women has taken a darker turn with their A/W 2008 collection, inspired... [more]
