With musicians in the new Burberry Olympia bag, esoteric shorts celebrate this and Ricardo Tisci’s shared love of mastery. Burberry has long been a home that has been inspired by many inspirations – from Kate Moss to Naomi Campbell, Bella Hadid to Kendall Jenner, and many others. But, as we enter a new decade under Ricardo Tisci, several new faces have joined us – subversive British musicians FKA twigs and Shygirl.
With branches regularly appearing in the Italian designer’s IG stories, it’s also Instagram where she coyly grabs attention for the first time. No wonder many of us probably thought the same when we first met the star; he was impressed at first sight.
“I fell in love right away,” he told the slime singer in March. Shortly after that, the musician received top billing at Tisci’s AW21 presentation as Mother Nature before returning to Burberry Crease as one of last month’s Olympic handbag campaign stars.
To further celebrate the debut of a new classic, Burberry, Dazed, and Shygirl have now teamed up to create a short film that is releasing today. Directed by longtime collaborator Shy Yasser Abubeker – who you may know as the creative behind Tasty’s graphics – “Perfect Form” downplays the musicians and fits into the significant iteration of Olympia.
Space touches on Shy’s divine femininity and serves to demonstrate his propensity for constant rebirth and evolution that underlies the meticulous, creative process – a direct reflection of the process that led to the creation of Olympia.
“Space means the place where Shygirl develops her ideas, her desire to develop, rise and grow, and is a statement of how she dictates the space she occupies as an artist through her poetry and voice,” explains Abubecker. “90s music videos are a great place to start – the size of the video, the feeling of being transported into another world. I spent a lot of time watching the music videos of Janet Jackson and Hype Williams working on treatments.
Demonstrating the control he has over his creative accomplishments, Shay works his way through the limited space in the bag, using his voice to sculpt and sculpt the walls like a cocoon according to his vision. He stopped to caress the tactile surface and ended up reclining in the chair between the two towering speakers. She was also head to toe by astonished family member Nell Kalonji in a sexy Burberry bodice dress and a classic bright camel trench coat with a clean back, a future Olympic classic in hand.