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For Your Consideration
Look out, Hollywood: The Internet is turning designers into film producers. Karin Nelson meets the characters behind the year’s coolest fashion flicks.
February 2011
John Cameron Mitchell for Dior: “Lady Grey London.”
Beginning in 2009,
John Galliano commissioned directors Jonas Åkerlund, David Lynch, and
Olivier Dahan to create short films starring French actress Marion
Cotillard and the house’s legendary Lady Dior handbag. For the fourth
and final installment, which debuted in December on ladydior.com,
Galliano tapped John Cameron Mitchell, the director of Hedwig and the
Angry Inch and this year’s Oscar buzz–worthy Rabbit Hole. The
eight-minute film features Cotillard as a sequin-clad burlesque
performer who captures the imagination of both Sir Ian McKellen and The
History Boys’ Russell Tovey. “I envisioned Marion’s character as a
hybrid of Louise Brooks, Mary Poppins, and Jesus,” says Mitchell, adding
that he found the experience of making the film surprisingly rewarding.
“It was the opposite of everything I’ve ever heard about working on a
commercial—it was a completely fulfilling artistic experience and an
absolute pleasure.”
February 2011
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