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The Video For Shao-Yen Chen's Stalker Collection Uses Old Tech With New Aesthetics

The London-based designer created a conceptual, surrealist video for his newest collection.

Although the word “technology” immediately conjures thoughts up of our generation—of iPhones and iPads and iAnythings or of laptops that have essentially embedded themselves as extensions of our fingertips, tech has been used as an artistic tool for decades.

In the early 1960s, the surrealist films of Dalí, Cocteau, and Buñuel used some of the cutting edge technologies of their time. Inspired by these films, contemporary fashion designer Shao Yen Chen and photographer Penny Tu created Stalker, a video production featuring Chen’s newest collection by the same name. The film was produced for the BFC Fash/On Film initiative, which “aims to develop relationships between fashion designers and film makers and recognises the ongoing development of fashion film as an important medium in the industry.”

Borrowing aesthetics from films such as Un Chien Andalou and incorporating some more recent symbols of technology such as screen glitches, the film presents a disjointed visual aesthetic that matches the vision behind the designs, which use neutral colors alongside punches of pink or animal print, and a variety of textures and layers.

[via Fashion Installation]

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