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subscribe to style file blog via RSSComing Soon To A Theater Near You?
September 3, 2009 6:01 pm
Listen up, stylists. It’s all well and good to do the usual fashion industry hustle, working with designers for trade and doing test shoots and so on. But if you’re tired of those disco moves, you might take a cue from Tracy Cox, and make up your own dance. Cox, who spun a gig working with Pat Field into a job as Sarah Jessica Parker’s personal stylist, has lately turned his attention to editorial work. And in order to prove his bona fides, he’s staged his own blockbuster production, BEWARE. Working with up-and-coming pop singer Sophie Green, Cox created a short film that he describes as “a trailer for a movie coming soon, only in this case, there’s no movie.” Looks from the likes of Thierry Mugler, Chanel, Prada, and Courrèges feature in BEWARE, which will be screened at two boutiques—Frock Vintage on the Lower East Side and Diana Broussard in the West Village—on Fashion’s Night Out. (Clothes and accessories from Frock and Broussard are also shown in the short.) “The story came after we filmed everything,” explains Cox. “There was no script—we shot very loose, just looking for Brooklyn locations with a lot of texture and drew on Sophie’s background as a ballet dancer and actor.” The noirish images that resulted have also been made into 30″ x 44″ stills that Cox is installing alongside the film at Frock and Broussard. If all that sounds ambitious, Cox insists that his aims were humble. “I’m introducing Sophie as an artist, and I’m reintroducing myself as a stylist, this time in another context,” he says. “Basically, I didn’t feel like doing test shoots.”
tags: Pat Field, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sophie Green, Tracy Cox
