Watch out for Duke Brooks’ film documenting artist/designer Claire Barrow’s painting of two 15-metre canvases from which she cut couture garments for her AW16 collection.

Last week Barrow joined the drift away from the traditional fashion show format in favour of a “Retro-Spective” at London’s ICA, and Brooks – who is 13 years old – joined artist Liv Fontaine and photographer Alice Neale in contributing to a film triptych screened on a loop in a curtained-off area of the exhibition.

Barrow used the canvases stretched across the giant paint frames in the historic theatrical backdrop studio Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in St Giles. Brooks – who makes a Hitchcockian cameo right at the end – captured the process in this compelling short which is edited to Blixa Bargeld’s Soul Desert.

//The canvas couture in situ at M.Goldstein. Photos from @pippabrooks IG feed//

Here is Brooks’ film (also available to view along with Fontaine’s and Neale’s at Dazed Digital):

Barrow’s one-off canvas pieces are currently on display at east London’s art, antiques and attire emporium M.Goldstein, which will present Barrow’s first solo art show in April.

Check out M.Goldstein’s site here.

Tags: Alice Neale, Blixa Bargeld, Claire Barrow, Dazed Digital, Duke Brooks, Elms Lester Painting Rooms, ICA, Liv Fontaine, Soul Desert