Cyborg Ophelia<\/em>. It pretty much fulfils the promise of its title, riffing on John Everett Millais\u2019 iconic painting of Prince Hamlet\u2019s suicidal would-be-wife floating in a river strewn with flowers \u2013 but with a cyborg rather than a Danish aristocrat (oh, and with dancing: lots of dancing).<\/p>\nSo if Shakespeare and Victorian art aren\u2019t your specialities (more fool you) then you needn\u2019t worry. It\u2019s much more\u00a0Blade Runner<\/i>\u00a0than Hamlet\u00a0<\/em>with its thumping electro soundtrack, post-apocalyptic, post-industrial backdrop, and its clothes which fragment into innumerable shards. As for the designs themselves? They\u2019re heavily embellished, at times even resembling armour, and cut with the kind of bravery and power that befits a designer who would produce this kind of video. In Manuel\u2019s own words, by the end of the film, \u201c[Cyborg Opheliea] plunges back in her sarcophagus of water, as this dance, and the life that for an instant got back through her veins, was just a dream…\u201d<\/p>\nDidn\u2019t expect that on a Tuesday morning, did you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The rising-star designer, with his unique brand of Gothic severity, has released a wonderfully unusual campaign video for AW15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9418,9420],"tags":[5678,3346,7738],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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