{"id":7485,"date":"2010-07-28T02:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:04:29","slug":"missoni-by-kenneth-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/28\/missoni-by-kenneth-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Missoni by Kenneth Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P0_ChZ2FIK0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/missoni1.jpg\" alt=\"missoni1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did have another Ludwig post planned for today but that&#8217;s been set aside for a different kind of fabulosity following the news that Kenneth Anger has made a new film. Italian fashion house Missoni commissioned Anger to make a short promo for their Fall\/Winter collection and you can see the delirious results in high-resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P0_ChZ2FIK0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. The film features Missoni family members peering out from among the layered moons and stars, with titles by <em>Arthur<\/em> magazine\u2019s Psychedelic Healing Visions Correspondent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/author\/aliapenner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alia Penner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P0_ChZ2FIK0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/missoni2.jpg\" alt=\"missoni2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated by Kenneth Anger&#8217;s use of colour and his ability to transform a film into a three-dimensional texture, a fabric of images in movement,&#8221; explained Angela Missoni.\u00a0 This is how she introduced her decision to entrust the Missoni F\/W 2011 campaign to one of America&#8217;s most famous authors and directors of avant-garde cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Anger\u2014a hyperactive octogenarian who loves working in the wee hours of the night and at dawn using sophisticated instruments such as the RED digital camera that has the characteristics of a classic 35 mm camera\u2014flew in from Los Angeles to film the campaign in Sumirago that involved all the members of the great Missoni family. They are the stars of this campaign that was conceived as a series of superimposed and overlapping portraits. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.it\/en\/magazine\/daily-news\/2010\/07\/missoni-adv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/18\/anger-in-london\/\">Anger in London<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/11\/arabesque-for-kenneth-anger-by-marie-menken\/\">Arabesque for Kenneth Anger by Marie Menken<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/20\/edmund-teske\/\">Edmund Teske<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/12\/kenneth-anger-on-dvd-again\/\">Kenneth Anger on DVD again<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/03\/08\/mouse-heaven-by-kenneth-anger\/\">Mouse Heaven by Kenneth Anger<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/12\/the-man-we-want-to-hang-by-kenneth-anger\/\">The Man We Want to Hang by Kenneth Anger<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/04\/relighting-the-magick-lantern\/\">Relighting the Magick Lantern<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/03\/kenneth-anger-on-dvdfinally\/\">Kenneth Anger on DVD\u2026finally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did have another Ludwig post planned for today but that&#8217;s been set aside for a different kind of fabulosity following the news that Kenneth Anger has made a new film. Italian fashion house Missoni commissioned Anger to make a short promo for their Fall\/Winter collection and you can see the delirious results in high-resolution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/07\/28\/missoni-by-kenneth-anger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Missoni by Kenneth Anger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,7,16],"tags":[1945,1164,819,401,928,1577],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-film","category-occult","tag-alia-penner","tag-arthur-magazine","tag-edmund-teske","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-marie-menken","tag-missoni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1WJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}