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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
At his past six men’s wear presentations, Yves Saint
Laurent Creative Director Stefano Pilati has shown short films created
by director Samuel Benchetrit and photographers Bruce Weber and Inez van
Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, among others. The inspiration for
Pilati’s latest came to him last spring while getting an eagle feather
tattooed on his neck. He commissioned Marcopoulos, a photographer and
filmmaker, to capture the man who did it, celebrity tattoo artist Mark
Mahoney. “He wanted to get away from shooting clothes and models,” says
Marcopoulos, who met Pilati years earlier when he used music from the
director’s documentary about street drummer Larry Wright for his women’s
fall 2007 runway show. The resulting eight-minute film follows Mahoney,
a Boston-born artist with Fifties gangster style, from his house in
suburban California to his Hollywood shop, where he prepares to give Sex
Pistols guitarist Steve Jones a tattoo of a 12th-century king. “That was
lucky,” Marcopolous says. “I had no idea he was going to be there that
day.”
February 2011
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