For Fall/Winter 2015, Opening Ceremony celebrates photography. This season, OC co-founder Humberto Leon pays tribute to his longtime friend, Spike Jonze. Emerging from personal conversations between Leon and Jonze, the collection focuses on Jonze’s earlier and lesser-known body of work: his prolific photography, much of which has never been viewed by the public. As seen through the OC lens, Jonze’s photography features the birth of the skateboard and BMX subcultures, when a young Jonze documented the rise of street skating for magazines and videos, and leads up to his capture of early Sonic Youth tours and his breakthrough video for Beastie Boys, "Sabotage."
This season, the OC man inhabits this realm, marching to the beat of this influential period before Jonze became the renowned music video and film director of today. With access to his photography archive, Opening Ceremony translated sequenced shots into textile art, combining multiple exposures of one movement into a recurring double silhouette and double-layer detail. This effect appears in the collection through seam lines, double sleeves and double plackets, in separates like shirting, jackets, and knitwear.
In stark contrast to today’s instant yet ephemeral smartphone images, Opening Ceremony highlights the medium of 35-millimeter photographic film through the collection’s prints, created in varying proportions through motion blur techniques and an interplay of collage formats and contact sheets. These prints are expressed not only through digital printing techniques, but also in jacquard fabrications where the art is woven into the fabric, as seen in the black-and-white enveloping overcoat and knit sweaters.
As its story began with archival film, the collection also honors the storied technology brand, Kodak with a select capsule. Kodak’s classic logo is translated as bold, primary-color graphics on T-shirts, while jersey and fleece separates breathe new life to film’s heritage. Silhouettes are updated with looser proportions and feel, as represented in the lightweight, nylon twill bomber jacket that seems to float away from the body. The color palette ranges from neutral tones, including warm browns, cool khakis, atmospheric greys, and midnight navy, to stark black with contrasting touches from Kodak’s classic color wheel.
Footwear includes a rubber-wrapped “dress” shoe with a wide-strap closure in off-white and black leather or suede. Also featured is a high-top sneaker boot with a bold sawtooth sole. Accompanying footwear are New Era caps, beanies, and scarves in OC’s Fall/Winter 2015 prints.
The collection hits stores and online soon; meanwhile, shop all current Opening Ceremony here![]()
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This season, the OC man inhabits this realm, marching to the beat of this influential period before Jonze became the renowned music video and film director of today. With access to his photography archive, Opening Ceremony translated sequenced shots into textile art, combining multiple exposures of one movement into a recurring double silhouette and double-layer detail. This effect appears in the collection through seam lines, double sleeves and double plackets, in separates like shirting, jackets, and knitwear.
In stark contrast to today’s instant yet ephemeral smartphone images, Opening Ceremony highlights the medium of 35-millimeter photographic film through the collection’s prints, created in varying proportions through motion blur techniques and an interplay of collage formats and contact sheets. These prints are expressed not only through digital printing techniques, but also in jacquard fabrications where the art is woven into the fabric, as seen in the black-and-white enveloping overcoat and knit sweaters.
As its story began with archival film, the collection also honors the storied technology brand, Kodak with a select capsule. Kodak’s classic logo is translated as bold, primary-color graphics on T-shirts, while jersey and fleece separates breathe new life to film’s heritage. Silhouettes are updated with looser proportions and feel, as represented in the lightweight, nylon twill bomber jacket that seems to float away from the body. The color palette ranges from neutral tones, including warm browns, cool khakis, atmospheric greys, and midnight navy, to stark black with contrasting touches from Kodak’s classic color wheel.
Footwear includes a rubber-wrapped “dress” shoe with a wide-strap closure in off-white and black leather or suede. Also featured is a high-top sneaker boot with a bold sawtooth sole. Accompanying footwear are New Era caps, beanies, and scarves in OC’s Fall/Winter 2015 prints.
The collection hits stores and online soon; meanwhile, shop all current Opening Ceremony here
Images courtesy of Opening Ceremony
