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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
Bob Talbot for Adam Kimmel’s spring 2011 collection: “Dressed for Dinner.”
Last year magician David Blaine chartered a boat off the coast
of Guadalupe Island with men’s wear designer Adam Kimmel and marine
photographer–filmmaker Bob Talbot. The purpose: for Blaine to swim with
great white sharks while dressed in Kimmel’s clothes. The three-minute
nail-biter, which premiered last November before an illustrious few at
the designer’s TriBeCa loft, is just the latest cinematographic project
for Kimmel; he has also commissioned Warhol Factory filmmaker Gerard
Malanga, artist Meredith Danluck, and director Ari Marcopoulos (see “No
Way Back”) to create digital shorts. In this one, shot entirely
underwater, Blaine touches a passing fin, eats a banana, and feigns
exhaling cigar smoke by blowing milk out of his mouth. The trickiest
part? Remaining buoyant in a tuxedo and cape. “You don’t want to go
sinking into the abyss,” says Blaine.
February 2011
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