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Nick Knight continues his collaboration with Matthew Williams' label Alyx for S/S 17. Knight’s fashion film New Happiness · Love Chaos, in collaboration with SSENSE, references the freedom and clarity one finds when driving alone. Reflective 3M material is utilised throughout, covering motorbikes, backgrounds and a nude Demi Scott - a nod to Man Ray’s Solarisation technique.
Motorbikes - a motif prevalent within Alyx's DNA - are filmed from drones overhead, capturing the freeing solidarity of a night time drive. Flashes of cityscapes, snapshots of model Ysaunny Brito and the clashings of a custom soundtrack by Jeppe Laursen, express a chaos the driver is escaping from.
In the Alyx S/S 17 catalogue imagery, Knight shoots renowned rapper Travis Scott and model Demi Scott in an unadulterated selection of photographs. The images feel at once otherworldly and visceral, capturing motion, intimacy and the limits of the collection. Consisting of new imagery and Knight’s archive motorbike stills, the catalogue covers a chronology of escapism. Designed by Paul Hetherington, the catalogue displays the limits of imagery and layout Knight and Hetherington are known to pursue in their collaborations.
Credits / Contributors
Film Credits
- Photography: Nick Knight
- Creative Direction: Matthew Williams
- Executive Production: Juliette Larthe at Prettybird
- Production: Hannah May at Prettybird
- Models: Demi Scott and Ysaunny Brito
- Motorbike Rider: Hattie Claxton
- Fashion: All clothing by Alyx, Motorcycle clothing by Spidi
- Music: Motocykel Produced by Jeppe Laursen featuring Sarah Chernoff
- Styling: Stella Greenspan
- Make-up: Inge Grognard
- Hair: Martin Cullen
- Nails: Marian Newman
- Set Design: Andy Tomlinson
- Photographic Assistance: Britt Lloyd, Rob Rusling, James Stopforth and Tom Alexander
- Production Assistance: Ella Knight and Charlie Jones
- Styling Assistance: Tom Grimsdell
- Hair Assistance: Natsumi Ebiko
- Set Design Assistance: James Robotham and Tobias Blackmore
- 1st AD: Clara Paris
- DOP: Joe Colley
- Runner/Driver: Modu Sesay and Louisa Cohen
- Grip: Johnny Donne
- Drone Pilot: Ibrahim Serra-Mohammed
- Drone Camera Op: Tom McMahon
- UAV Technician: Mark Fry
- Medic: Drew McRae
- Bickers Driver/Tech: Karl Jones
- Motorbike Rider: Hattie Claxton
- Editing: Dustin Robertson
- Colour Grading: Raquel Couceiro
Special Thanks to Jennifer Williams, Morgan Griffin and Laura Fregnan at Alyx Studio, Elisa Schwalm at SSENSE, Luca Benini, Martijn Vogelaers at Uber & Kosher, DIRECT Photographic, Ascension Films, Bickers, Limo Bikes and Spidi
Image Credits
- Photography: Nick Knight
- Creative Direction: Matt Williams
- Talent: Ysaunny Brito, Travis Scott and Demi Hannah Scott
- Styling: Jayson Hindley
- Set Design: Andrew Tomlinson
- Catalogue Design: Paul Heatherington
