David Keith Lynch who originally wanted to be an artist is an American filmmaker. When he was young, he was eager to become an artist, however, after five years of study, he decided to turn his attention to film.
Lynch’s films are known for nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulous sound design. Over a lengthy career, Lynch has employed a distinctive, unorthodox approach to narrative filmmaking that has become instantly recognizable to many audiences and critics worldwide. It is now known as Lynchian.
He produced a whole host of cult classics – Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Blue Velvet. Lynch is arguably most associated, however, with the nineties television series Twin Peaks. Set in small town America the highly stylized program revolved around a murder mystery plot and provided the world with such style icons as Shelley Johnson, Audrey Horne and Donna Hayward, not to mention inspiration for countless fashion spreads across the past two decades.
His film and television projects have met with mixed responses; however, we are intrigued by his recent fashion contributions. When it comes to all things surreal and strange, he rules supreme and in recent years he has introduced his signature brand of eerie style to the world of fashion.
In 2007, on an exhibition entitled ‘Fetish’, David Lynch teamed up with the famous shoe designer Christian Louboutin. When Lynch commissioned Louboutin to design some shoes for the exhibition that he was curating, the two met and soon became firm friends. And when Louboutin decided to produce some fetishistic versions of his shoes he asked Lynch to take pictures to showcase them.
David Lynch also directed an advert for Gucci’s eponymous perfume that featured supers Natasha Poly, Raquel Zimmerman and Freja Beha Erichsen dancing to Blondie’s Heart of Glass. This was the first time he has dabbled in advertising. And after that, he advertises for many brands, such as Yves Saint Laurent, Adidas and Giorgio Armani.
He is considered as the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking. So don’t hesitate and go to see his films. You won’t regret.