One of the most in demand directors right now is Daniel Askill. With his already extensive and impressive CV, which included collaborations with Dior and Alexander McQueen, as well as musical notaries Phoenix, UNKLE, Placebo and German dance music duo Digitalism, Askill caused the fashion pack to sit up and take notice when he paired up with Paris based designer Michelle Jank for her Australian Fashion Week Show in April with short film, ‘Suspending Disbelief’.
But despite all these successful adventures of these early collaborations it was Askill’s personal and most innovative project to date, a short film titled ‘ We Have Decided Not To Die ‘ that has made the biggest impact on Askill’s career. Winning The Public Jury Prize at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Festival in France.
He also worked alongside designer Hedi Slimane with some of Dior’s hottest projects where he was teamed with Jude Law to create the Dior Homme fragrance commercial which was shot from the outside of a helicopter! and directed Air Fance’s TV commercial.
He is said to be quiet about his current agendas but it is said that Askill is to be joining forces with his two brothers, Jordy and Lorin, to produce their first feature film…..
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July 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Good evening,
For your information, your article is partly inaccurate.
Daniel Askill did not caught at all Hedi Slimane’s eye.
He was the brother of hedi’s ex-assistant and helped on hedi’s movie, nothing like the endorsement you describe, quite the contrary.
We would appreciate a correction
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