HOUSE OF ORGANZA - MUSE - FILM

The brilliant new film by Daniel Sannwald as one of the final installments to the House of Organza 'Muse' project.


House of Organza/Muse from Marlon Rueberg on Vimeo.
Muse : ROY Inc
Curators : Kim Howells & Lyall Hakaraia
Director : Daniel Sannwald
Stylist : Kim Howells
Camera : Daniel Sannwald & Marlon Rueberg
Makeup : Ashley Ward at CLM using M.A.C Cosmetics
Photo Assistant : Colby Jones
Stylist Assistants : Daisy Newman & Saskia Wickins
Makeup Assistant : Lucy Pearson
Set Dressers : Johan Ahlkvist & Jacqui Power
Edit : Marlon Rueberg
All pieces from House of Organza by
Lyall Hakaraia
Piers Atkinson
Fred Butler
Dr Noki
Craig Lawrence
Patternity
Consultant : Alùn Davies
Produced by kimhowells.com
Thanks to Steve Savage at Old Cholmeley Boys Club

HOUSE OF ORGANZA - MUSE

Straight after Glastonbury we were down to the Red Bull Space in London Bridge, working alongside Kim Howells, and designing the 'Muse' exhibition for House of Organza. The environment was coated in a splash of Blue to house the already Blue mannequin bodies that had featured in the Ella Dror Press day and the 'Muse' Look book by Karina Twiss. Rosie Nicholas illustrated a wall mural of tribal blue drawings. We even had the amazing Daniel Sannwald who had created a mesmerizing series of animated GIF's and also a beutiful timeless film which captured all the essence of the fashion pieces by none other than, Piers Atkinson, Lyall Hakarai, Craig Lawrence, Fred Butler and Patternity.

















Wall mural by Rosie Nicolas





































Fred Butler






















Paternity tights






















Craig Lawrence






















Lyall Hakarai






















The House of Organza Blue Studio






















Tranny's on set it's Photo time






















Danni Daniels with Tron esque body paint and myself in a Blue Vintage patterned shirt

















Hey DJ Put a record on!

NEW WORK - METAL MAGAZINE

Metal Magazine March/April 2011

Photographer: Daniel Sannwald
Set Designer: Alun Davies
Stylist: Raquel Garcia
Hair: Hiroshi Matsushita
Make-up: Jose Bass
Nails: Sharka
Model: Gaby Kravencko at Premier London

NEW EDITORIAL NOW ONLINE!

Finally had a big update on my site and here are a few images from new Editorials now online at www.alun-davies.com please go and have a look. xxx

Photographic credits

1. Thomas Cooksey - Vision
2. Thomas Lohr - Under Current
3. Daniel Sannwald - SZ
4. Vincent Peters - GQ
5. Ben Tomms - Another
6. Jonathan Hallam - Dazed Japan
7 & 8. Jonathan Hallam - Sleek
9. Ellen Rodgers - Piers Atkinson Advatorial
10. Jonathan Hallam - Purple

REVIEW OF 2010 : Erik Nilsson-Gullstrand

My name is Erik "Tonrie" Nilsson-Gullstrand and graduated secondary school from a swedish gymnasium with a text communication profile last summer. At the moment I'm back in Sweden doing some personal projects however I have big plans returning to the UK and London quite soon.

My creative work isn't much but I enjoy working in a kind of scandinavian way, I do love my scandinavia. The woods, the mystique, the cold.

I worked with Alùn on a few projects in 2010, I came to London to assist Alùn on the SZ Magazin shoot with Daniel Sannwald. But when I was suppose to go home, my flight was cancelled so I stayed for another week and assisted on the Vincent Peters shoot for British GQ and helped out with Alùn's fantastic accessorising for the exibition at Machine-A. So you can easily say I had a great end of 2010. The Daniel Sannwald shoot I thought was great, the team who worked on the shoot, the atmosphere was great - listening to Fever Ray nonstop for two days, running around London looking for ivy and emptying that pool which took for ever, but no complains, I enjoyed my time there and I feel like this is not the end. 2011 is going to be a good and productive year.















This is one of the most recently projects I've been working on were I provided with the artistic parts and also created the west-dress. Photography by Amina Rose.

http://tonrie.tumblr.com/

REVIEW OF 2010

Hello,

2010 was an extremely busy year at AD AD, it was the first year to see so much of our set design work on the stage as well as in print, online and as live installations. Working across fashion and music, we have collaborated with some of my early inspirations (Peaches, Vincent Peters, Willy Vanderperre ) as well as some brilliant up and coming talent (Daniel Sannwald, Charlie Le Mindu, Bright Light Bright Light). It also seemed the perfect time to develop our costume props and accessories taking them to a new level, some touring the world (Lady Gaga) and gaining a whole new audience for our designs.

Some of the highlights I have listed below but the stand-out event for me was the amazing opportunity to travel and work with Peaches in Berlin. I spent almost 2 months working with avant garde recording artist as the production and stage designer for her shocking and brilliant musical opera 'Peaches Does Herself' at the prestigious Hebbel Am Uffer, creating dynamic sets such as a vaginal lipped bed giving birth to the contemporary dancers dressed in fetus style outfits, to oversized set pieces such as an operating table, the Peaches trademark 'Shocker' hand and dancing cardboard trees. The show was a back to back musical of Peaches songs and the imagery followed with props including a specially commisioned exploding dildo by 'Babes-n-Horny', hair arm costume props and many more. The show was sold out for the whole weeks run in Berlin, and was such a success it shall return again in May 2011.

COSTUME PROPS

Another on-stage sucess were the scintillating and mirror ball encrusted dancers costumes for the Lady Gaga Monsterball World Tour, commissioned by Anna Trevelyan for super stylist Nicola Formichetti. Gaga wears dress by Armarni Prive.

EDITORIAL \ CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL STORIES

In print and online AD AD created editorial art direction, prop design and costume props with stylists and photographers such as Kim Howells for Contributing Editor, Raquel Garcia for Metal Magazine, Yasuhiro Takehisa for Dazed and Confused Korea and Vision Magazine. Markn for Harpers Bazarre, Vincent Peters for Vanity Fair, GQ and InStyle, Daniel Sannwald for Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and Thomas Lohr for Under Current Magazine.

COMMERCIAL

Commercial shoots and campaigns included Net a Porter, Office, House of Fraser, Lu Flux (Esthetica at LFW) and Waddler Clothing with photographers, Holly Falconer, Jonathan Hallam, Markn and Sophia Spring .

LFW AND BEYOND

Staying in the wonderful realms of fashion we collaborated with milliner Piers Atkinson for his London fashion week installations, creating body contorted mannequins in gloss black, speared with neon tubing for his A/W 2010/11 stand at Somerset House, and golden lacquered bodies with glitter pink Hollywood Hills for his S/S 2011 installation. More recently creating futuristic erotica inspired costume props for his Christmas window display at it-boutique Machine-A, where we had incidentally previously brought to life a themed ‘graveyard for vaginal worship’; a live performance Installation for Machine-A and Charlie Le Mindu, a cardboard graveyard and astro turf lawns graced the Machine-A basement, a body and fountain of hair was suspended as performers writhered in worship on the floor.

MUSIC & MOVING IMAGE

Ongoing artistic direction for Grazia.com’s LFW soundtrack recording artist Bright Light Bright Light, with brilliant projects that included his first music video for single 'Love Part 2', an abstract space was created where two anonymous dancers play guardian to BLBL as cascading shards of glitter and glass attempt to invade his environment. Aswell as lighting and stage design for live performances at Koko London, styling consultant for their show at The Hammersmith Apollo and all current press photography. Continuing In the world of pop, the music video for La Roux's 'Bulletproof ' began a global debut in 2010 and made it into the top ten around many countries in the world including top 5 in US, after brilliant success in the UK in 2009. The video has now been played over 15 million times on YouTube alone! A 'Tron' inspired geometric set design was created by AD AD with post production by Mathematic Studios Paris.FILM & INSTALLATION

The end of year rounded off very chicly with a subtle installation for photographer and video director Jez Tozer for his 'Alchemy Series' launch event. Freshly charcoaled wood was suspended in a lattice across the entrance creating an aromatic, ambient, live trailer to the film screening later to be shown online at SHOWstudio.com, (themes of fire, smoke and fashion), with designer fashion garments by Craig Lawrence and Noki hung in the show space.

2011 is already looking busy with discussions with LA film studios, the release of the feature film 'Wreckers' in early spring and a continuing presence at LFW. I will endeavor to keep you posted!

Happy New Year !!

Alun

Special thanks to all my assistant and collaborators over the past year, Lloyd Rossborough, Kim Morley, Kirri Barker, Erik Nilsson-Gullstrand, Emilia Zieba, Rosie Knowles, Christa Holka, Lynne Morris and everyone else who has been involved with ADAD projects.