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Nick Knight.

Amazing.

The last image is from Bjork's clip for Pagan Poetry(one of my favourites) which Nick Knight directed, and is one of the most beautiful film clips for a song that I have ever seen. In it, Bjork wears the most beautiful McQueen dress that is suspended by a skin coloured mesh neck brace, and adorned with strings of diamonds and pearls. Bjork's arms and body are also decorated with strings of pearls that have been sewn into her skin, and the last shot of the clip shows a corset-style piercing arrangement laced up with a string of diamonds and pearls. Heaven.

What I love about Nick Knight is the precision. Everything is so perfect that it hurts. In his Lily's video, Lily is the most perfect being, almost unhuman. That is the feeling with most of his work, almost a Stelarc, technologically advanced way of creation, without being sterile and devoid of emotion.

Knight's photography is amazing, how he captures movement is absoloutely spectacular, and in his films he does this even better, with the help of many hairdryers and treadmills! His films are so perfect, that they are almost animated, and the ones that are animated, such as Sweet DV, are a look into the future of fashion.
His film for Maison Martin Margiela is Barbarella-esque, with the famous hair cape swishing around, and lots of nudity, and even then it is still so precise and futuristic.
Anyway, I must go and perve on his YSL 24 collection films...

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