MAISON MARGIELA
NiGHTHAWK: MAISON MARGIELA ARTISANAL 2024
Creative direction BY JOHN GALLIANO
DIRECTED BY SASHA KASIUHA
NIGHTHAWK IS A CINEMATIC SÉANCE, A DISQUIETING PORTRAIT OF TRANSFORMATION TOLD THROUGH THE MAKING OF MAISON MARGIELA’S 2024 ARTISANAL HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION.
DIRECTED BY SASHA KASIUHA AND CONCEIVED BY JOHN GALLIANO, THE FILM FRACTURES GENRE AND TIME, FUSING HORROR, DOCUMENTARY, AND SILENT-ERA SURREALISM INTO A NARRATIVE THAT RESISTS RESOLUTION. IT CAPTURES NOT JUST GARMENTS IN MOTION, BUT THE INVISIBLE FORCES BEHIND THEM: MEMORY, RITUAL, IDENTITY, AND DECAY.
FEATURING KIM KARDASHIAN, GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE, MONICA BELLUCCI, AND LONGTIME MARGIELA MUSES FREDERIC BITTNER, LULU TENNEY, AND LEON DAME, NIGHTHAWK MOVES BETWEEN STUDIO, STREET, AND STAGE WITH THE INTIMACY OF A CONFESSION AND THE DETACHMENT OF A DREAM. EACH FRAME LINGERS, HAUNTED, TEXTURED, PRECISE.UNRELEASED SHOW FOOTAGE AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES MOMENTS ARE RECONTEXTUALIZED THROUGH A SPECTRAL LENS.
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE AND ATELIER GLIMPSES ARE DISMANTLED AND REASSEMBLED WITH SPECTRAL INTENT. THE RHYTHM OF THE EDIT RESISTS CONTINUITY, FAVORING RUPTURE OVER CLARITY, PAUSE OVER PROGRESS. GALLIANO’S HAND IS NOT DESCRIBED BUT ATMOSPHERICALLY TRACED—RITUALISTIC, OBSESSIVE, TRANSFORMATIVE.
PREMIERED AT CINEMA LE BALZAC IN PARIS ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2024.
NOW AVAILABLE ON MAISON MARGIELA’S OFFICIAL YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
