Gus Van Sant preps new project with Gucci designer Alessandro Michele.
Indie filmmaker Gus Van Sant — whose credits include the gritty “Drugstore Cowboy” and “My Own Private Idaho” — is going high fashion with a new project for Gucci
Van Sant and Gucci designer Alessandro Michele have collaborated to direct a seven-part series that was shot in Rome and stars actress/artist Silvia Calderoni — along with music stars Billie Eilish, Harry Styles and Florence Welch, playwright Jeremy O. Harris and others.
The series is a way for the fashion house to debut its new collection called — a bit like a line from “Zoolander” — “OUVERTURE of Something that Never Ended.” It’ll be screened during an online fashion and film festival called GucciFest, running from Nov. 16 to 22 on Gucci’s YouTube channel and other outlets. As part of it all, Gucci will also screen fashion films celebrating 15 young designers.
Apparently, celebrity fave Michele hinted at his planned series in a manifesto back in May called, “Notes From the Silence.” (But wouldn’t the pages just be blank then? Never mind.)
Van Sant will continue his fashion streak by next directing a Will Ferrell movie, “The Prince of Fashion,” based on a GQ article by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon — about his teen son’s fixation with couture and their trip together to Paris fashion week.
