After a year spent surrounded by the same four walls, the latest short film from Saint Laurent is a welcome taste of a different world. On December 30, Saint Laurent unveiled Summer of ’21, a short from Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noé and guided by brand creative director Anthony Vaccarello. It takes place in a grand estate featuring everything your 2020 was missing—high-fashion, gilded scenery, and glamorous Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling.

 

Saint Laurent Trades the Runway For The Desert

Summer of '21 features looks from Saint Laurent's Summer21 collection, which premiered on December 15 in the desert of North Africa. The collaboration between Vaccarello and Noé follows the director's 2019 Cannes Film Festival release Lux Aeterna. Its "red, hazy, velvety light" evokes the genre of Italian mystery thrillers known as giallo, according to a press release. Set to Donna Summer’s "I Feel Love" performed by SebastiAn, the film leans into the mystifying uncertainty everyone's been feeling as of late.

"A familiar and timeless feeling. Dreaminess and tension, decadence and danger. The unsettling strangeness of those girls gravitating around Charlotte Rampling, the mysterious and haunted priestess," the press release promises.

courtesy of Elle.com