Dept. of culture

The Director Shoots Prada

January 22, 2009  10:37 am

Mike Figgis, budding fashionphile? Not exactly. The English director/photographer may be a newly minted Prada habitué, but really, he was just doing his job. Figgis, known for films like Leaving Las Vegas, those racy Agent Provocateur ads, and of course the charming short film honoring Style.com’s Candy Pratts Price for her CFDA Eugenia Sheppard Award, just completed a three-week stint shooting New Yorkers in and around the area south of Houston Street. Of course, the project, entitled SoHo Composites #2 (London came first), will use a little Rem Koolhaas-designed store on the corner of Broadway and Prince as a sometime backdrop. The cavernous Prada Epicenter proved itself a force to be reckoned with. “It’s a very strong character and it’s quite large, so it’s impossible for it not to be present,” Figgis explains. “But for me it was very good base around which to shoot.” While a book documenting the creative process is slated for release, Figgis debuts his New York photographs tonight at Milk Gallery, where some of his subjects, like Aaron Young, Cecilia Dean, and Mark Ronson, can have a look at this portrait of a pocket of downtown. Other Big Apple denizens can hit up the free show through February 7, and the exhibit will also be available for online viewing at www.photonet.org.uk.

tags: Mike Figgis, Prada Epicenter, SoHo Composites

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1. Hi~~~~~~I love my style

   By dayea1991 on 01/23/09 at 3:33 am

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