Ahead of his much-anticipated SS15 season, TELFAR-the eponymous unisex line of Liberian-American fashion prodigy Telfar Clemens-releases its A/W 2014 video look-book "TCTV" for W Magazine.
Clemens' second collaboration with director Babak Radboy of the notorious meta-brand Shanzhai Biennial takes a key premise - that TELFAR is not an underground label but a global mega-brand - to new heights of unreasonableness.
What results is almost literally a million-dollar production. "TCTV" engaged global leaders in the commercial imaging industry in a six-month game of telephone in which they worked independently of each other and with little information about what they were producing.
The video was edited without backgrounds, the 3D built without the video, and the sound designed without a final edit. The visual effects team NTROPIC (Christina Aguilera, Gucci, Overstock.com) were only given the instruction that there should be "a lot of post production." Likewise, the New York-based sound designers at c5 studios, the go-to facility for Martin Scorsese, were given 109 tracks composed by artists Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, and instructed to "make it sound like there is a lot of sound design."
Less directed than outsourced, resulting video looks something like rushes from an Old Navy commercial directed by David Lynch: bizarre, compelling, funny, and new. At once commercial and avant-garde, "TCTV" epitomizes the TELFAR motto: Extremely Normal™.
www.telfar.net
DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY:
BABAK RADBOY
VISUAL DIRECTION AND EDITING:
RODRIGO TROMBINI PIREZ
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
BRENDAN STUMPF
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
JEFFREY HAGERMAN
STYLING:
AVENA GALLAGHER
POST PRODUCTION AND VISUAL EFFECTS
NTROPIC
MUSIC:
RYAN TRECARTIN & LIZZIE FITCH
SOUND DIRECTOR:
PAUL HSU
SOUND DESIGNER:
JAMES KELLY
FOLEY:
LESLIE BLOOM
3D ENVIRONMENTS:
STUDIO NO-TRIANGLE
3D SCANNING:
DIRECT DIMENSIONS
3D OPTIMIZATION:
AUGUSTUS WENDELL
3D PRINTING:
SHAPEWAYS
HAIR:
LUKE BAKER
MAKEUP:
DEANA MELUSSO
BARBER:
FRAN FREEMAN
POST-PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE:
PSYOP
COMPOSITOR: DANICA PARRY
COMPOSITOR: DAVE CHEN,
EX. PRODUCER: LYDIA HOLNESS
PRODUCER: ANU NAGARAJ
COORDINATING PRODUCER:
DYAMI ALLEN
SET DESIGN:
DAVID DAVIS
STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY:
ASGER CARLSEN
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS:
PAUL DAUNAIS
PATRIC DICAPRIO
JHAI NORRIS
RUFAT AGAYEV
SET ASSISTANT:
DENNIS BERNARD
FURNISHED BY VITRA
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
EMMA REEVES,
THE GOOD BREAK,
FELIX BURRICHTER
KELELA
SOLOMON CHASE
DAVID TORO
MARIANA SALEM
SARAH TEPPER
DENIS NAZAROV
DENNIS BERNARD
KATHARINA WEISFLOG
LAUREN CORNELL
MICHAEL RAPHAEL
MICHAEL MAGNAN
JOSH KLINE
DUANN SCOTT
RED MODEL MANAGEMENT
BOSS MODELS
IDENTITIES INC
AMY HENRY
KEVIN MCGARRY
MARIANA SALEM
CONVERSE
KMART
AMERICAN APPAREL
24 авг 2014
