FashionFirst LookWatch Daria Werbowy’s hypnotic transformationBjörk and Iris van Herpen collaborators Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones reveal their latest project – and talk the future of fashion filmShareLink copied ✔️April 23, 2015FashionFirst LookFilmWarren Du PreezFilmNick Thornton JonesTextEmma Hope Allwood Hot on the heels of their spellbinding short with Iris van Herpen for AnOther Magazine’s MOVEment project, filmmakers Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones are back with their next creation. Transforming Céline campaign girl Daria Werbowy into a primordial goddess rising from and returning to the earth, the CGI-powered film explores ideas of nature, birth and death. Conceived for Creative Review’s Annual Creative Awards where it was premiered this week, it’s the cinematic partner to the magazine’s Annual edition cover, shot with 100 cameras simultaneously to create a 3D scanning rig. Here, the visual alchemists – who have also worked with the likes of Björk and Alexander McQueen – talk us through the shoot. What were you trying to explore with the film? Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones: The concept was based on creating a visual metaphor for creativity and transformation loosely based around beauty, nature and the female form. Bringing to life ideas of growth and decay, birth and death. How many hours of work goes into something like this? Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones: The capture side of the project was a one day shoot in Holborn studios London with FBFX Digital scanning, Frank Benhamou styling, Rebecca Louise Law creating floral installations, Raphael Salley on hair direction, and Ninni Nummela on makeup. An original music composition by Salvador Breed and Stijn Van Beek took a couple of weeks, as did the editing by Steve Ackroyd at Final Cut London. Literally hundreds of hours were spent working in CGI with ANALOG STUDIO on animation, materialisation and compositing to create the final piece. What are the ups and downs of working with CGI? Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones: Anything is possible, realising things you only imagine, crafting something that feels like it has resonance and touches you, and bringing visual emotion to a binary code. But the biggest challenge is TIME – never enough time! It would be great to invent a CGI time machine. We love the freedom of CGI, we’re constantly looking at ways to visually create emotional journeys or experiences within our work, places you feel you’ve been in your dreams. The chaps we worked with at Analog on this piece share that vision, which is rare in our opinion. What do you think is the future of fashion film? Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones: To grow and evolve and be funded a bit more to embrace bigger ideas. Fashion film started off as a shaky medium in our opinion, but over the years it’s gone from strength to strength. A good example is the new MOVEment Project by Jefferson Hack, it’s about a great idea rendering a great result. Collisions and intelligent commissioning – that’s the future. Why was Daria the perfect muse for this project? Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones: The perfect collaborator and inspiration – Daria’s spirit and open-minded trust to a vision allowed us to explore dreams and visual metaphors for creativity. Watch Du Preez and Thornton Jones’ film for MOVEment here. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREIn pictures: The best street style from a historic Paris Fashion WeekVivienne Westwood’s final project rejuvenates her iconic tits t-shirtVanmoofWhat went down at Dazed and VanMoof’s joyride around BerlinIt’s official: Maria Grazia Chiuri is taking over FendiIn pictures: The wildest street style moments at London Fashion Week InstagramIntroducing Instagram’s 2025 Rings winnersJoshua Ewusie was the breakout star of London Fashion WeekTrashy Clothing’s SS26 collection is lifting fashion’s veil of glamourA cult Chicago painter inspired Kiko Kostadinov’s latest showCrack is back at McQueen! Plus everything you missed at Paris Fashion WeekZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney ‘We must find joy’: Pamela Anderson on her starring role at Valentino SS26