Quick Film (Poster) and Fashion (Advert) Comparison: Orphée Vs Gaultier |

The Cannes Film Festival closes tonight, so, while we wait for the winners to be revealed, Irenebrination pays homage to it and to one of its jury members, fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, with a quick comparison between a film poster and an advertising campaign.

The poster shows Jean Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée starring Jean Marais as the main character. The film was the second installment in the Orphic Trilogy (including also The Blood of a Poet and Testament of Orpheus).

The advert – different from the more usual Gaultier campaigns with their Querelle de Brest-inspired maritime iconography – refers to Gaultier's Spring/Summer 1988 collection and has a bit of a cinematic quality about it.

Some of Gaultier's collections were inspired by specific films, the designers often displayed in interviews an in-depth cinematic knowledge (apparently, Jacques Becker's 1945 movie Falbalas, and its main star, actress Micheline Presle, prompted him to become a fashion designer…) and in his career he also created costumes for films.

The ad has got a dreamy quality about it and its mood and atmosphere makes me think about Orpheus obsessed with Eurydice in the Greek myth and in Cocteau's film, while the male model's attire vaguely calls to mind the look of the henchmen riding motorcycles in Cocteau's film.