Dimensions is a movie impressed by 100 completely different clothes by 100 completely different designers to kick off a runway present that includes trend’s latest ingenues — high abilities from the 2023 graduating class of the Savannah Faculty of Artwork and Design’s prestigious Faculty of Vogue.
The movie, which premiered at SCAD FASHION 2023, opened a dwell runway showcase occasion with high trend {industry} figures in attendance and encapsulates the artistic spirit of each distinctive garment, shoe, and accent about to hit the runway.
SCAD FASHION 2023 and Dimensions streamed dwell to a world viewers on Friday, Could nineteenth and is out there for viewing at scad.edu/fashion2023.
In response to Scholar Director, Chris Finn, “conceptualizing and designing this movie round such a various assortment of clothes, immense creativity, and craftsmanship was a uncommon alternative and fulfilling problem as a director.”
With so many proficient views from greater than 100 SCAD pupil designers to showcase, Finn needed to provide you with an idea adaptable sufficient to evolve because the designs did in response to critiques and mentorship by industry-leading designers, stylists, and consultants. Thus the multi-dimensional journey into the thoughts of the creator was invented.
Shot with a music video-style approach, the movie is an art work of natural efficiency — from the choreography sequenced on set, a thoughts meld between Finn and the proficient dancers, to the fluid actions of cinematographer Josh Saideman and digicam operator Richard Volsky, who used a Steadicam method to bop together with them.
SCAD’s modern LED quantity stage on the college’s SCAD Savannah Movie Studios was utilized to undertaking 20 customized animated worlds from ground to ceiling, creating an immersive set design and a canvas to interaction with a dynamic lighting setup — all of which got here collectively in a five-minute movie created to work together with the slick and specular buildings of SCAD Atlanta’s city campus the place Dimensions and SCAD FASHION was introduced.
The movie options 5 heroes, dancers adorned within the present’s clothes, transporting the designs into a brand new dimension of motion, a tease and prelude to the present about to start out. Dimensions is a common journey that each one artists can relate to, from the “wormhole” of diving into the primary flickerings of inspiration via the artistic forge of exploring collections, and into the “void” of ripping every thing up and rebuilding anew.
Clothes and equipment have been expertly curated into visible landscapes by Finn and management from the SCAD Faculty of Vogue, SCAD Visible Media, and stylist Sarah Schussheim — a collaborative effort alongside hair, make-up, and equipment to current editorial-inspired worlds. The movie ends with a triumphant creator and a remaining portal into the dwell, experiential present, whose orchestration and design take direct cues from the movie’s opening act.
Concerning the Movie
Premiering at SCAD FASHION 2023, Dimensions journeys via the multiverse of artistic expression, as 5 heroes from distant worlds traverse interstellar realms. Directed by SCAD alum Chris Finn of the award-winning artistic manufacturing studio Scholar, the movie delves into the multi-dimensional landscapes of the design imaginary, revealing the boundless prospects and empowerment of trend.
Combining Finn’s distinctively rhythmic aesthetic with atmospheric visuals filmed on SCAD’s modern LED quantity stage, the deeply metaphorical saga explores the cosmos of inspiration, as otherworldly clothes drape futuristic landscapes in surreal colours, opulent textures, dramatic silhouettes, and hybrid varieties.
Concerning the Director
Chris Finn (SCAD B.F.A., movement media design, 2015) is a talented visible storyteller celebrated for his design-driven multidisciplinary method. Finn deploys an enormous repertoire of methods in highly effective narratives ranging throughout genres and mediums, embracing physicality and motion to imbue his works with an innate humanity. As an artist, Finn is continually trying to find new artistic retailers and expertise to be taught. This curiosity has expanded his directing work into an array of mediums, types, and rising applied sciences. As a part of Scholar’s artistic staff, he challenges himself, shoppers, and types to create work that has authenticity and emotion and to seek out new methods of telling tales.
About Scholar
With greater than a decade of expertise, Scholar develops content material with a deal with idea, creation, and rising applied sciences. We’re a artistic manufacturing firm pushed by curiosity and an eagerness to interact viewers on an emotional degree. Mixing artistry with rising methods, we forge braver, smarter content material. All the time transferring ahead. All the time reimagining the norm. We’re a full-service studio with places of work in Los Angeles and New York, surrounded by a broad assortment of award-winning creators whose work has been showcased throughout the globe, together with LACMA, MOMA, the MTV Video Music Awards, and the Guggenheim in addition to successful a number of Cannes Gold and Silver Lions, AICP awards alongside One Present and ADC Golds to not point out over 100 million views on YouTube.
About SCAD: The College for Inventive Careers
SCAD is a personal, nonprofit, accredited college providing greater than 100 graduate and undergraduate diploma packages throughout areas in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia; Lacoste, France; and on-line by way of SCADnow. SCAD enrolls greater than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate college students from greater than 120 nations.
The long run-minded SCAD curriculum engages professional-level know-how and myriad superior studying sources, affording college students alternatives for internships, skilled certifications, and real-world assignments with company companions via SCADpro, the college’s famend analysis lab and prototype generator.
SCAD is No. 1 within the U.S., based on Artwork & Object’s 2023 Finest Artwork Faculties rating, with further high rankings for diploma packages in inside design, structure, movie, trend, digital media, and extra. Profession success is woven into each fiber of the college, leading to a superior alumni employment price.
For the previous 5 years, 99% of SCAD graduates have been employed, pursuing additional schooling, or each inside 10 months of commencement. SCAD offers college students and alumni with ongoing profession assist via private teaching, alumni packages, knowledgeable presentation studio, and extra.
