55DSL presents Studio55

STUDIO55 X 55DSL – SWISS LIPS COMPETITION!

admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:42:52 +0000

Studio 55 & 55DSL present a Swiss Lips Competition! We’ve been busy with pop sorcerers Swiss Lips to create some seriously limited edition tees and we want to give them away to you! Check it out, here’s one of Swiss Lips wearing one…

Not only that but you can also get your hands on tickets to see Swiss Lips’s last residency gig at The Union this Saturday! It’s going to be a good one for sure.

All you need to do get your hands on either of these amazing goodies is leave us a comment on our Facebook wall saying either “I want tickets to see Swiss Lips!” or “I want a limited edition 55DSL & Swiss Lips t shirt!” easy.

55DSL X LWLIES – NOW AVAILABLE AT ASOS

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:58:56 +0000

A celebration of artistry and creativity, the LWLies x 55DSL collection is now available exclusively online at Asos.

If you’re in London make sure to pop by our flagship 55DSL store at Boxpark where LWLies six-week interactive experience at Studio55, 55DSL’s creative hub, is still going strong…

55DSL X LWLIES – OPENING PARTY PIX

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:05:16 +0000

55DSL X LWLIES – FUELLING CREATIVITY

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:55:26 +0000

A celebration of artistry and creativity inspired by new 55DSL, CANADA-directed film ‘Beyond Mountains, More Mountains’, the LWLies x 55DSL collection is available now at the 55DSL Boxpark store, and exclusively online at asos.com from today. Check out the creative process behind LWLies artistic director Paul Willoughby’s designs for 55DSL in the pictures below…

As part of the Boxpark launch, LWLies will also curate a six-week interactive experience at Studio55, 55DSL’s creative hub, following a launch on Thursday 25 October supported by our friends at Oranjeboom. And we want you to be there…

55DSL x LITTLE WHITE LIES

admin — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:50:38 +0000

55DSL are super excited to unveil our creative collaboration with our favourite film magazine Little White Lies, and award-winning directors CANADA – whom 55DSL commissioned to produce their first short film, the epic Italian road trip ‘Beyond Mountains, More Mountains’.

“We like to see foreigners interpreting what Italy means to them,” explains Andrea Rosso, creative director of 55DSL. “We are always ready to explore collaboration. It’s what keeps us inspired.”

‘Beyond Mountains, More Mountains’ premiered at Little White Lies HQ in Shoreditch (check the pix here), inspiring art director Paul Willoughby to respond to the film’s stylistic motifs with six t-shirt designs realised in a variety of mediums – from woodcut to pen and ink.

A celebration of artistry and creativity, the LWLies x 55DSL collection is available now at the 55DSL Boxpark store, and exclusively online at asos.com from 25 October 2012.

55DSL X RUDIMENTAL

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:14:25 +0000

Fresh from topping the UK charts, hip-hop crossover act Rudimental were recently in our flagship 55DSL store at Boxpark getting togged up in the latest 55 gear, as you can see in the snap above.

We love nothing better than fueling creativity at 55DSL and these boys have got it nailed so we were especially pleased to see Amir wearing one of our tees on BBC Radio 1′s Annie Mac show.

The Hackney-bred quartet recently appeared on Jools Holland (check the vid below) and are about to embark on a tour of Australia – big things await, for sure…

MEET BEYOND MOUNTAINS, MORE MOUNTAINS DIRECTOR

admin — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:08:38 +0000

Earlier this year, award-winning Spanish directors CANADA spent 12 days driving around Italy with a small film crew and two models shooting the new 55DSL film Beyond Mountains, More Mountains. The result is a dreamy and playful road movie centred around the hunt for a missing boot that looks like it was made in the 1960s by J. Godard.

Your film is a love letter to Italy. Where did the inspiration come from?
From Italy itself and what we know about it, which is not too much. All three of us were brought up surrounded by hints of Italian culture, from ancient Rome to Italo-disco. When thinking about what to write, we thought about the Italian artists, the poets, writers, painters and filmmakers that we love, and how we know Italy through them. In the search for ‘that Italy’ we came up with the idea: this Italy we are talking about may not exist anymore. So we found it more realistic to portray our own experience confronting that idea of Italy that we have, historically, and the existing post-Berlusconi Italy we were to find, the contradiction itself. That’s why the film starts with Victoria losing her boot: she is trying to find her boot, just like us.

You avoid filming Italian clichés like pizza, the Trevi Fountain, gondolas and gelato – was that on purpose?
We knew if we filmed certain monuments we would have seen nothing but tourists. We actually wanted to shoot the tourists holding the Tower of Pisa when making their pictures. It was going to be a travelling shot of the tower straight, with the camera tilted and the tourists leaning.

Where was your favourite place you visited?

Stromboli, by far. We wanted to shoot the volcano, which is always active, but when we went up with all the equipment, the volcano was covered with a cloud. It started raining heavily so we left with nothing good. It was a real shame. We managed to shoot something in the island, though. The last scene is filmed on the beach in Stromboli.

What are the songs used in the film?
They are all by Riz Ortolani, an amazing Italian composer who has made more than 200 film scores.

Did the trip go according to plan?
Everything changed every day, and we were almost never able to shoot according to plan. But we actually knew that was going to happen, and we planned in the knowledge that everything was liable to change. We had to be ready for new challenges.

Did anything go disastrously wrong?
Stromboli, yes. And many more things. We went to an area where Michelangelo got the marble for his statues. The film crew went ahead with me from Milan and the actors were supposed to come an hour later. The actors got lost and we were at the quarry the whole day waiting for the actors. They finally got there, but we could just shoot a couple of really quick shots before the sun went down. We lost an entire day when we were supposed to shoot a lot. That was the second day of shooting. We soon learned that was going to happen all the time.

Does Victoria ever find her boot?
No.

BEYOND MOUNTAINS, MORE MOUNTAINS – THE FILM!

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:01:53 +0000

BEYOND MOUNTAINS, MORE MOUNTAINS – LONDON FILM SCREENING

admin — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:25:42 +0000

‘Beyond Mountains, More Mountains’ is CANADA’s first short film. Created for 55DSL this epic Italian road-trip, shot over two weeks, travels from
the mountains of Northern Italy, down to the Sicilian Island of Stromboli in the far south of the country.

55DSL partnered with our friends at the UK’s best film magazine, Little White Lies, to give the film it’s debut UK screening. Watch the trailer below…

SUMMER OF 55

admin — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:16:27 +0000

55DSL spent this summer having stupid amounts of fun, being hyper-creative and generally letting it all hang out at festivals
across Europe – throwing a mammoth beach party never to be forgotten at the sun-kissed Calvi on the Rocks in Corsica and
embracing the crazy eccentricity and mad-fer-it mudbath that was Secret Garden Party. In short, our summer rocked! And our
latest Studio55 show, at our 55DSL Boxpark, celebrates our summer festival adventures…

Check out Studio55′s photos from our trip’s to this year’s Calvi on the Rocks and Secret Garden Party

55DSL presents Studio55 ‘Calvi on the Rocks’ from 55DSL presents Studio55 on Vimeo.

BEYOND MOUNTAINS, MORE MOUNTAINS

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:27:13 +0000

BEYOND MOUNTAINS, MORE MOUNTAINS

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:25:48 +0000