Johan Lindeberg's BLK DNM

Today’s digital premiere of Martin de Thurah's Film I spotlights Johan Lindeberg’s new BLK DNM line and takes cues from the designer's personal life. “I went through a recent break-up and wanted to use my own dynamic to inspire the film,” Lindeberg says. “I am fascinated by the way in which fashion both provokes and reflects the human narratives around it.” The Swedish fashion designer looked to De Thurah, whose surreal music videos for the likes of Fever Ray and James Blake he cites as an ongoing source of inspiration, to channel the brand’s downtown conceit: “I wanted the film to embody all of the qualities that I love about New York—its depth and nerve, its capacity to be a bit anarchistic, yet still human and inspiring.” Embracing a post-apocalyptic, spectral mood, the Danish director's short outfits actors Iva Gocheva, Bogdan Kwiatkowski and Kate Lyn Sheil in lambskin motorcycle leather jackets, merino wool cardigans and sulfur-dyed denim for a tale that swings from indie intellectualism to dark fantasy. NOWNESS talked to the fashion veteran who has helped to define such brands as Diesel and William Rast, as well as his own J. Lindeberg; to find out why he's breaking away from the runway, click here.

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