Portraits of Places is a fashion film that explores the connection between identity and architecture within the multicultural context of London. Through the portraits of five young individuals and their homes, the film creates a visual dialogue between people and the spaces they inhabit, showing how a home can become an extension of the body, an additional layer of our identity, like a garment that represents us.
Five buildings, chosen for their different architectural styles, from the Victorian house, to the rationalism of Highpoint I, to the brutalism of Whittington Estate, serve as the backdrop to five unique stories. In each, the cultural blends that define London and its inhabitants are reflected.
To inhabit a place means to engage with it, to allow it to transform us, and at the same time, to transform it. Each home reflects the personality and journey of its inhabitant, just as the styling is designed to amplify the dialogue between the individual and the space. Between architecture, body, and clothing, a visual and symbolic connection is formed, where aesthetics and identity intertwine and transform one another.
Portraits of Places is a film-portrait that celebrates identity and architecture as living, ever- changing expressions, mirroring the diversity and urban complexity of a city like London.
