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Carter Peabody
Given Carter Peabody’s lineage, there was never really any doubt he would pursue a creative career. His childhood home in Washington, D.C., was equipped with a darkroom, and his mother, Pamela, was a portrait photographer and documentary filmmaker whose subjects included Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Gehry. “She had a huge influence on my artistic upbringing,” says Peabody. After studying sculpture at Skidmore and film at U.C.L.A., Peabody spent a number of years working in film and TV, and in 2000 he founded Peabody & Co., a boutique production company specializing in digital marketing and viral video content for luxury brands. “It was really the combination of studying sculpture and then film that lead me to the conclusion that fashion and luxury should be shown in a three-dimensional medium to fully convey the dimensions of the product and D.N.A. of the brand,” says Peabody, whose most recent accounts include Jimmy Choo, Piaget, Max Mara and John Hardy.
Carter Peabody by Zuhal Danyildiz, Milk Studios, 2011
More From Carter
February 2, 2011
Carter Peabody: The Duel
Olympic Fencing Medalist Jason Rogers and Mihail Etropolski Face Off
More From Carter
February 2, 2011
Carter Peabody: The Duel
Olympic Fencing Medalist Jason Rogers and Mihail Etropolski Face Off
With his athletic bona fides and movie-star looks, Texas-born Jason Rogers is poised to be the Nacho Figueras of fencing. Enter filmmaker Carter Peabody, who shines a spotlight on the Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medalist in The Duel, which we premiere today. The short captures Rogers, a master of the sabre discipline, performing his graceful épée step alongside nationally ranked American fencer Mihail Etropolski. As a director of fashion films for the likes of Jimmy Choo, MaxMara and Moët Hennessy, Peabody was inspired by the compatibility he saw between fencing and the luxury realm. “I realized that it made perfect sense for that world,” he says. “It’s a sport that is hundreds of years old—harkening back to a time when things were elegant, honorable and beautiful—but it also appeals to the modern appreciation of technique.” Outfitted in Ralph Lauren, Rogers and Etropolski charge and retreat with a precision mirrored by an Audemars Piguet watch; the choreography is underscored by French composer Henri Scars Struck's original track "Mr. John Barry", named in tribute to the iconic composer.
