Franco Moschino
Phillip Wong Productions
Photography/Editorial
Franco Moschino
ID Magazine’s Iain Webb contacted me from London when they were planning on doing a profile on Italian fashion designer Franco Moschino. ID was one of a series of influential British publications that rose through “street style” to showcase the irreverent designers that would put a huge stamp on fashion through the first 20 years of the 21st century.
Iain sent me a number of questions he wanted me to touch on in an interview I was conducting, but my discussion expanded into Franco Moschino’s views on designing, the growing direction of fashion into name branding, the diminishing of designers as labels ascended, and the pricing and commercialism of fashion.
Franco Moschino was the son of an Italian ironworker, and he approached designing from the perspective of craftwork, but he was overseeing 27 labels when we spoke.His expression to described how he approached his fame.
A New Covenant
Phillip Wong Productions
Photography
A New Covenant
A New Covenant was a gospel group that I encouraged to sing, to perform, to live who they were. They arranged themselves in their performance groups, and I created new stages for them to interact with.
In still photography, most images are clustered groups of people arranged from tallest/most to shortest/least back to front. In film production, the idea of motion, interaction, foreground/background and principal relationships are part of the story.
Classic photography is based on portrait painting of the previous 400 years. Modern cameras have the ability to move and tell much different stories.
