Ford’s Tayane Leão features in the September 2010 issue of Dazed & Confused in an editorial called “The Outsiders” photographed by Sharif Hamza and styled by Robbie Spencer. The editorial of course borrows its name and some of its teenage angst from the 1967 novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton and the later motion picture adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983. Set to a darker, grittier M.A.T.H.E.S. remix of Let’s Wrestle‘s “We Are the Men You’ll Grow to Love Soon” Hamza’s component video adaptation of the magazine editorial turns the boredom and listlessness of the printed page into violence and wanton destruction. A baseball bat swings at a lamp. A television is tossed onto carpeted flooring. And cigarette after cigarette is lit for what looks like the first time by ever younger faces. In the midst of the demolition Tayane, in her Uniqlo socks, Converse trainers, and pale blue Benetton polo, looks the only source of calm.
Please visit Dazed & Confused online to watch “The Outsiders: Exclusive Dazed Fashion Film.”
Further credits include hair by Tomo Jidai at Streeters using Shue Uemura Art of Hair; makeup by Asami Taguchi at L’Atelier NYC using MAC Cosmetics; set design by Lou Asaro at 11th Street Workshop.