Leila & Damien | French Connection AW11 Coming soon!

Following three hugely successful previous seasons featuring The Man and The Woman, Leila and Damien de Blinkk will be returning with new films for the French Connection Autumn/Winter 2011 campaign. Voila!

The Creative Circle Gold Honours 2011 go to Leila and Damien de Blinkk

Leila and Damien de Blinkk have been awarded Creative Circle Gold Honours 2011 for Best Campaign or Series (TV and Cinema) for the French Connection Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2010 campaigns. The award marks further industry recognition of the already highly-acclaimed campaigns.

French Connection AW10 - The Man


Blinkk: French Connection Autumn/Winter 2010 - The Man from onesix7 on Vimeo.


French Connection SS10 - The Woman


Blinkk: French Connection Spring/Summer 2010 - The Woman from onesix7 on Vimeo.

Credits

Entrant: Fallon
Client: French Connection
Product: Spring/Summer & Autumn/Winter 2010
Title: The Man and the Woman
Creatives: Selena MacKenzie & Toby Moore
Executive Creative Directors: Richard Flintham & Dirk van Dooren
Agency Producer: Gemma Knight
Production Company: onesix7
Director: Leila & Damien de Blinkk
Production Company Producer: Abi Hodson
Cinematography: Tariel Meliava (SS10) & Edu Grau (AW10)
Editor: Ben Campbell - Cut & Run
Post-Production: The Mill

Leila & Damien de Blinkk | French Connection presents ‘You are…?’ Spring Summer 2011

Are you ready for the challenge?

For Spring 2011, French Connection worked again with Leila and Damien de Blinkk continuing to question what it means to be a man or a woman. The ‘You Are Man?’ and ‘You Are Woman?’ campaign follows on from the two award-winning 2010 campaigns featuring The Man and The Woman. This season the scenarios confront the viewer with the questions ‘You are man?’ and ‘You are woman?’.


Blinkk: French Connection SS11 - You Are Man? Pole from OneSix7 on Vimeo.

For two weeks, the team set up ‘THE MAN CAMP’ on the Isle of Malta and ‘THE WOMAN CAMP’ on the Isle of Gozo and dared our ambassadors to discover what it meant to be a man or a woman in the twenty-first century. Exploring ideas of how gender and society dictate how we are meant to act, we asked them to perform a series of tasks (ride a horse in the sea, look spectacular atop an inflatable animal, dance on piano keys, wrestle a biker…the list goes on) – all of these were captured on film to help define whether ‘You are man?’ or ‘You are woman?’. 

Blinkk: French Connection SS11 - You Are Woman? Piano from OneSix7 on Vimeo.

Our Ambassadors of Manhood

Bertrand Le Pluard We found Bert on the streets of Paris. In his own words: “I’m an image-maker, illiterate diarist, suburban freak, 99 cents oracle, hippie whore, style remedy, digital crash, socialised hermit and ego sharman.”

Daniel Hills Dan was discovered lurking on the streets of London. He is a surfer, famed polymath and a musician in a band called Friendship.

Paul Hamy A French-American artist based in Paris. Paul was one of the founders of the French arts collective Pain-O-Chokolat and, when he finds time, models for Marc Jacobs and Yves Saint Laurent.

Leila & Damien de Blinkk: French Connection SS11 - You Are Man? Bucket Head from OneSix7 on Vimeo.

Our Ambassadors of Womanhood

Ludmilla Dom Perignon We found Ludmilla in Paris. She loves horse (which are sadly in short supply in the City of Light) and can also play the piano with her feet. Clever girl.

Simone Van Werkhoven Has an amazing name. Simone is achingly hip and hails from Holland but lives round the corner from Ludmilla in Paris.

Eden Clark Eden grew up on the glamorous Isle of Wight and occasionally appears on the cover of Vogue.

Polina Sova Loves to speak Norwegian mingled with Russian as she graffitis in East London. She learnt to roller-skate powered by fire extinguishers for our short films.

Blinkk: French Connection SS11 - You Are Woman? Fire Extinguishers from OneSix7 on Vimeo.

Tara Darby | Shifting Patterns

Photographer Tara Darby visited the Arctic, by helicopter and Russian icebreaker, to create this captivating and silently beautiful account of her experience of this landscape & environment.  Check out her blog here.

Tara says;

In August i went to the Arctic and travelled for two weeks on a Russian ice breaker.. the experiences, sights and sounds are hard to put into words so I made this short film to give a feeling of what we saw, heard and flew over...

A must see is Aware: Art Fashion Identity | 2 December 2010 – 30 January 2011

Showing at the Royal Academy until the end of January this exhibition examines how artists and designers use clothing as a mechanism to communicate and reveal elements of our identity.

we are looking at Jamie Morgan's Film/Motion....

Jamie Morgan began his career as a photographer. After a short-lived pop career in the 80s as Jamie J Morgan, he became the founder of London's creative collective Buffalo, a group who changed the nature of image-making through its pioneering work in The Face magazine for which he shot more covers than any other photographer. He also shot album covers for music stars such as Culture Club, Soul II Soul, Neneh Cherry (for whom he co-wrote Buffalo Stance) and many more. He also created campaigns for the likes of Levis and Comme de Garcons.Buffalo had a major retrospective exhibition at the V&A Museum in London to coincide with the release of the Buffalo Book.

Jamie progressed to music video direction working with Bush on their US number one hit 'Swallowed'. Since then he has shot many chart topping videos for groups such as Sugababes and Richard Ashcroft. He has recently completed a series of six fashion / art films for Givenchy designer Ozwald Boateng. These beautiful, emotive films are to feature as part of a major documentary for Sundance Channel on the designer.

He has also shot several short films, including a powerful portrait study of young Thai boxers.2007 has seen the culmination of Jamie's talent as a director with his debut feature film 'The Workshop', a provocative and personal documentary/drama, exploring sexuality and the human need for self-discovery. 

Museum of Everything | Sir Peter Blake | Exhibition #3

onesix7 loves the Museum of Everything, on a recent visit to see Peter Blake's  Exhibition #3 we were faced with a statement of cultural insider-ness - the entire display having been co-curated by, and predominantly drawn from the personal collection of, Sir Peter Blake.

Exhibition #3 reveals his incredible discoveries for the very first time, as the museum’s Primrose Hill space becomes a canvas for the largest most ambitious art installation ever created by this non-stop septuagenarian. 

Take a sneak peak and be sure to visit this extended show...