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A visual dialogue between creative director John Galliano and photographer Nick Knight, the work draws on the philosophies established at the house of Margiela through recent collections; defining a new era of modern decadence, invoking new illustrative and illusionary codes.

Employing the techniques developed by Galliano in his Artisanal collections for the house and featuring Duckie Thot, the film is released in both a standard version and 360-degree vision, allowing the viewer to move freely through the image with just a click of a mouse. Transforming science fiction into science reality, crafting a real – yet unreal – physicality for the viewer.

SHOWstudio and Maison Margiela present Reality Inverse, an innovative, short fashion film showcased at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

Nick Knight is joined by SHOWstudio's Head of Fashion Film, Raquel Couceiro, and Junior Film Editor, Myles Hall to unpick the technical details of 360 fashion film Reality Inverse. In SHOWtech, Knight, Couceiro and Hall discuss the trials and tribulations of shooting a film both in negative and in 360-degree format. They reflect on Duckie Thot's role in the project, and ponder the film's soundtrack by Jeremy Healy which is both surreal and familiar, sampling Roy Orbison's Put Your Head On My Shoulder. The 360 films showed at Knight's favourite London gallery, the Serpentine, where it could be viewed with VR headsets provided by Oculus.

Credits:

Direction: Nick Knight
Fashion: Maison Margiela
Model: Duckie Thot
Creative Direction: John Galliano
Styling: Alexis Roche
Hair: Sam McKnight
Make-up: Val Garland
Nails: Marian Newman Film: Nick Knight, Raquel Couceiro
Film Edit: Raquel Couceiro Assistant Editor: Myles Henrik Hall
Set Design: Andrew Tomlinson
Sound Design: Jeremy Healy
Music: 'In Dreams' by Roy Orbison. Additional music composed, arranged and produced by Jeremy Healy and Tom Linden
Executive Production: Charlotte Knight
Production: Liberte Productions
1st Assistant Direction: James Dyer
Camera Assistance: Philip Martin
Photographic Assistance: Rob Rusling, Thomas Alexander, Josie Hall, George Read
Styling Assistance: Antoine Paoli
Production Assistance: Naomi Martin, Bella Hollamby