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VOGUE: Inventing the Runway

Lightroom, London

2024

Placing you front row on the runway

Inventing the Runway explores the history of the fashion runway show, from the intimate couture salons of the early 20th century, right up to the significant, mass media events we see today. Using Vogue’s remarkable archive and contributor network, we’re creating an experience that brings together the industry’s leading voices from the past, present, and future.

We once again brought our video design and narrative development to Lightroom, collaborating on the script-writing process.

VOGUE: Inventing the Runway transports an audience to the front row of fashion shows and behind the scenes, through locations and eras. Using Lightroom’s 360-degree canvas, we wanted designers’ visions to be seen and interacted with up close and at scale.

Through a cycle of thematic chapters, the production uses original animation and immersive sound design accompanied by an original score that fuses classical and pop music to evoke the worlds that these iconic shows inhabited as they shifted the cultural landscape.

Opened 13th November 2024

Lightroom, London

Projected onto the venue’s 39-foot-high walls, a mixture of backstage and runway footage transports viewers into the epicenter of fashion history.
Get ready to lift the curtain on fashion's iconic catwalk as you experience pivotal designers' era-defining visions and unforgettable runway moments in large-scale.
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Be prepared to be blown away.
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An unmissable trip down the catwalk for fashion enthusiasts.

 

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Dazzles.
Visually stunning.

Credits

Designed by
59, a Journey studio

Created by
Vogue and Lightroom

Directed and Written by
Mark Grimmer

Co-Writer
Olivia Jasmine Singer

Video Designer & Art Director
Nick Corrigan

Narrated by
Cate Blanchett

Executive Producer 
David Sabel

Producer 
Allison Brown

59 Producer 
Teya Lanzon

Assistant Producer 
Hope Delicata

Curatorial Consultant
Shonagh Marshall

Archive Producers
Fourth Drawer – Zosia Alchimowicz, Sam Dwye

Sound Design & Additional Composition
Coda To Coda

Music Supervisors
Sarah Bridge
Lucy Bright
Ayla Owen

Music Coordinators
Beth Marshall
Adriana Nicholls

Music Services
45 RP

59 Team

Associate Video Designer
Lorna Pittaway

Technical Artist
Raphael Pimlott

Assistant Video Designer
Rhia Mitsuhashi

Producing Assistant
Emma Gannon

Animators
Luca Brenna
Paul Burt
Dale Croft
David Curtis
Stuart Fortune
Emil Howells
Rhia Mtsuhashi
Tom Monday
Raphael Pimlott
Lorna Pittaway
Jarek Radecki
Adam Smith
Ed Stockton

Editors
Nick Corrigan
Issak Johansson
Jamie Isbell
Lorna Pittaway
Jessie Rodgers
Ed Saunders

Programmers
Salvador Bettencourt Avila
David Callanan
Liam Daly
Luigi Sardi