>> Stress, exhaustion, sleepless nights and of course excitement of doing something so big and so meaningful. I have less than a year, 342 days precisely to make it happen. To get in touch with the world famous fashion designers, journalists, artists and rock stars to convenience them to talk to me about their student years in Saint Martins. The list is endless John Galliano, Christopher Kane, Gilbert and George, Stella McCartney, Jarvis Cocker and that’s only few of them let’s see who I can get …
How can you give me a sallivating teaser trailer such as this one for a feature length documentary entitled I Hate My Collection about all the tales and lore that went on down at the old Saint Martins school building on Charing Cross Road (now moved to King's Cross) and then tell me it might not come to full fruition. This could be epic. Not in the way that people use the word now but I mean it by its proper usage... grand, magnificent and a fitting tribute to all that dizzyingly inspirational history of the famed fashion school. Budding director Oleg Mitrofanov has spent over a year and a half tirelessly contacting all the right luminaries for interviews and I believe he's only scratched the surface. The trailer has already gathered up the likes of Julie Verhoeven (more about my own little tete a tete with her later...), Antonio Berardi, Antony Price, Manolo Blahnik and Stephen Jones. There could be SO much more of course. This is therefore a plea and a rallying. Mitrofanov somehow needs to find funding to complete this project and make it into a proper feature length documentary. I gather he's currently a junior editor at Acne Paper and has taken this film project on totally as a personal and non-profit cause which is evidenced by his blog on the film, that documents every step along the way with every interview scored, a triumph for Mitrofanov and the film. It's equally engrossing if you're bothered to go through the pages.
This wee trailer already looks deliciously promising and with esteemed fashion historian Judith Watt onboard as co-producer and narrator, it would be a travesty if this wasn't completed. I'm not the best person to ask about shovelling for money but err... Swarovski, Nokia, Intel, Kanon Vodka... or any other brand who likes to muscle into the sphere of fashion - perhaps they could be of assistance? Or perhaps Conde Nast TV could take this on as an ickle side project for their new filming venture? I'll privately try to rally up support but hopefully someone in the know and in the money will spot this and give it a fighting chance...
P.S. Also love this bit of toilet graffiti Mitrofanov unearthed...there's a ton of that on his blog...
