VERSUS VERSACE X ANTHONY VACCARELLO - DAZED

ASSISTANT SET DESIGNER

Set Designer - CIARAN BEALE

Director - MARIE SCHULLER

Styling - EMMA WYMAN

Hair - CYNDIA HARVEY

Make-up - LAURA DOMINIQUE

Production Company - DAZED DIGITAL

Tell me about the treatment for your film. How did its concept come about and what were you keen to express?

Marie Schuller: This film is very loosely driven by an abstract narrative of a guy leaving a voicemail for a girl. That's pretty much all we know; I didn't want to dictate a storyline or follow a sequence of events. This film is more a celebration of mood and energy. For me, the woman is always more of an idea than an actual woman. It is an interpretation of Anthony's designs, a visual take on what they stand for, rather than a documentation of them. For me, his Versus collection is all about energy, strength, power. We mixed this with surreal and abstract elements and created a visual feast that is almost too fast to take in; you can hardly make out the models amongst the black-and-white shapes that run across the screen. We worked with set design that enhances these ideas of optical illusions and confusion, and lit the film partly with projections that create very drastic lighting changes.