The Best Fashion Films of Spring 2024

The Best Fashion Films of the Spring 2024 Season

As fashion design is essentially about clothing in motion, and digital technology and platforms like smart phones and social media apps means moving images are more accessible than ever, film in fashion continues to reign supreme. While a runway show might give a more natural and full picture of the clothing itself, film is the most effective platform for communicating the image and idea of a body of design work. Brands are wise to use this medium to its fullest potential, and this season there was no shortage of excellent approaches to it.

Last year saw the continued trend of video and other digital formats usurping traditional photography campaigns as the main mode of fashion communication, and this pattern continued to develop during the first part of 2024. Nonetheless, many of the year’s strongest films focused on narrative, big production, and references to the legacy of cinema as opposed to the kind of snappy, lo-fi approaches that we’ve seen brands shift to in order to thrive on TikTok. This shift back shows luxury brands are continuing to be flexible and think about what it means to communicate heritage and luxury while still being digitally relatable and accessible to a younger generation.

Avellano referenced the original X-Men trilogy with its telekinetically powered campaign starring Noah Cyrus. Dsquared2 looked back even further with a cleverly fourth-wall-breaking campaign that channeled Hollywood’s golden age of adult film production, while Chanel went back still further to reference a gem of 60s French cinema in its understated short starring Brad Pitt and Penelope Cruz. Loewe explored eras of style with its hilarious, decades-traversing spelling bee film, and Dior crafted something like a visual Jane Austen novel.

Prada, meanwhile, eschewed the trends of story and setting and shared a visually minimal campaign film that put a simple yet dramatic emphasis on the brilliantly crafted details of the collection.

Finally, Skims deserves a special nod for its campaign film that debuted during the Super Bowl and once again positioned Kim Kardashian as a marketing master, playing up her cultish status while using clever sci-fi visuals to emphasize the exacting production process behind her brand.

Here are The Impression’s picks for the best fashion films of the Spring 2024 season as selected by our editorial team.

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