ANN DEMEULEMEESTER PRESENTS AUTUMN - WINTER 2026 CAMPAIGN DIRECTED BY STEFANO GALLICI
Two kids enjoying life on a sunny day by the sea, walking elegantly. Striding, actually; like antelopes.
There is something almost unnatural about the way they move through the town of Margate: two young figures against the brightness of the afternoon, passing fi shermen, old houses, empty streets and the endless blue of the sea. They seem to belong to the landscape, yet somehow exist outside of it.
Is it a dream?
Their faces give nothing away. Blank stares; distant, almost absent gazes, as if they are looking at something others cannot see. Perhaps they are remembering another life, a former love, a summer that has already happened somewhere else. Or they are imagining a love yet to come, in an unseen winter, a future summer yet to materialize.
Time seems to have stopped somewhere in between seasons.
They pass by the sea without looking at it, wind lifting the tails of a black velvet dress. A loose shirt opens slightly at the neck. A silk scarf, a ribbon, a distressed T-shirt: small fragments are caught between the body and the breeze.
They do not seem to be going anywhere. Perhaps they are going somewhere very far away. And so they stride through town - detached, almost dreamlike - as if they have just stepped out of a memory and have not yet decided whether to return.
Credits
Creative Director: Stefano Gallici
Styling: Elodie David
Campaign Photography: Nikolai von Bismarck
Casting: Ben Grimes
Models: Betsy Gaghan / Ezekiel Conteh
Hair: Kim Rance
Make-Up: Crystabel Efemena Riley
Production: Farago Projects
Director / Cinematographer: Jorge Higgins
Editor: Marlon Francis
Post House: OkayStudio
Post Producers: Athene Xenia /Aristocleous / Tia Duff
Grade: Dan Beddoe
Director's Assistant: Adam Fox
Music “Suns” Written and composed by Oli Burslem
