AlexanderPorter

Rag & Bone Runway

Pier 57 became the runway graphics.

Depth images and a three-dimensional scan of Pier 57 moved across a fourteen-foot LED wall during Rag & Bone’s Fall 2012 show.

Period
2012
Status
Complete / Archived
Form
Runway graphics / spatial imaging commission
A dramatic gold and red wireframe structure rises through a black field of fine geometric lines.diagram
Golden wireframe structure

The project

For Rag & Bone’s Fall 2012 show at Pier 57, depth images and a three-dimensional scan of the venue became runway visuals across a fourteen-foot LED wall. The moving backdrop broke the Rag & Bone logo into wireframe geometry while Thom Yorke’s music played in the room.

Production notes

For Rag & Bone's Fall 2012 runway show, James George, Adam Humphreys, and I used the industrial interior of Pier 57 as both source material and canvas. We combined RED footage, depth-sensor data, and a three-dimensional scan of the venue to build the visual world behind the collection. I worked as photographer and created the show's visuals and graphics. The captured warehouse became moving geometry across a fourteen-foot LED wall while Thom Yorke's music occupied the same space.

What others saw

“A filmic backdrop that offered an abstract digital dissection of the Rag & Bone logo.”— Tim Blanks, Vogue
Vogue RunwayRag & Bone Fall 2012 Menswear
Silhouetted figures appear within a dense white wireframe environment above fragmented lettering.
Figures in the mesh
A pale wireframe architectural landscape stretches across a black background.diagram
Spatial wireframe

My role

I worked as photographer and created the runway show’s visuals and graphics, using the depth-imaging system to turn photographed performers into the projected structure behind the collection.

Selected credits

Alexander Porter
Photographer / Visuals and Graphics
James George
Depth-Imaging Collaborator
Thom Yorke
Music / Composer

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