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Fashion Film

Fashion Film: Maison Margiela S/S 21

published on 6 October 2020

'For Margiela, the co-ed is an artistic industrialisation of the artisanal. We would like to show how the artisanal could influence the ready to wear, how it can inspire us and the industrialisation of fashion’ John Galliano
‘The details of that mad tango all came back, the stabbing intensity of the movement, fabric chafing into flesh’
John Galliano's Maison Margiela S/S 21 co-ed collection is unveiled in S.W.A.L.K II, a film made by Nick Knight in collaboration with SHOWstudio. Intertwining with the distant memory of moonlit tango dancers in Buenos Aires and an impending marriage, documentary footage from inside the Margiela Atelier reveals the two lines of artisanal and ready-to-wear weaving together, renewed classics offer new iterations of genderless fashion. Transfixed in a continuous dance, whisperings of the past meet the present, sealed with a loving kiss.

'For Margiela, the co-ed is an artistic industrialisation of the artisanal. We would like to show how the artisanal could influence the ready to wear, how it can inspire us and the industrialisation of fashion’ John Galliano

Maison Margiela

Creative Direction and Concept::

John Galliano

Direction:

Nick Knight

Fashion:

Maison Margiela

Models:

Anton Engrbox at Marilyn, Jean Lemesre at Bananas Paris, Kyona Van Santen at Titanium, Lamich Kirabo at Select, Leon Dame at TIAD, Maartje Convens at Hakim, Madelyn Whitley at The Face, Malick Bodian at TIAD, Margo Whitley at The Face, Niki Geux at Premium, Theodoor Kooijman

Art Direction:

Alexis Roche

Movement Direction:

Pat Boguslawski

Tango Instruction:

Nathalie Clouet

Styling:

Olivier Rizzo

Hair:

Eugene Souleiman

Make-up:

Pat McGrath

Nails:

Jennie Nippard

Film Edit:

Raquel Couceiro, Myles Henrik Hall

Film Camera:

Nick Knight, Myles Henrik Hall

Set Design:

Andrew Tomlinson

Writer:

Kier-La Janisse

Content Edit:

Calum Knight

Sound Design:

Jeremy Healy at Defnfx

Sound Edit:

Cheekypaul

Music:

'The Sound of Couture‘ specially created and composed by Jeremy Healy and Tom Linden; 'Orchestration & The Sound of Couture' performed by Riccardo Mulhall, Juli Linden and Facundo Barreya; ‘Llorando’ by Rebekah Del Rio; 'Amour, Castagnettes Et Tango’ by Gloria Lasso; ‘Assassin’s Tango’ by Jeff Steinberg; ‘Libertango’ by Jeremy Healy and Tom Linden; ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’ by Garbage; ‘Tango’ by Gorang Bregović

Voice Over:

Nicolás Cifuentes

Motion Graphics Design:

Nick Merdasi, Zachary Mayne, Gabriel Carasso

Poster Illustration:

Bex Cassie

Casting:

Jess Hallett

DIT:

David Palmer

Phantom DIT:

Adam Shell