Karl Lagerfeld - Signature Bag

Karl Lagerfeld - Signature Bag

Product Film/Social & Retail

Product Film/Social & Retail

We created a 15-second Gen-AI product film for Karl Lagerfeld’s new signature handbag, in line with the “Sketches” campaign. The challenge was to work only from fewer than a handful of reference photos. Using the latest AI tools, we reconstructed the bag in full volume enabling total control over form, texture, and lighting. The film opens with an AI-animated three-dimensional KL signature badge. We then juxtapose dynamic motion with slow-motion, photographic extreme close-ups, layering in scribble-inspired motion graphics drawn from Karl’s archival sketches - merging legacy and innovation into a bold, contemporary visual statement.

We created a 15-second Gen-AI product film for Karl Lagerfeld’s new signature handbag, in line with the “Sketches” campaign. The challenge was to work only from fewer than a handful of reference photos. Using the latest AI tools, we reconstructed the bag in full volume enabling total control over form, texture, and lighting. The film opens with an AI-animated three-dimensional KL signature badge. We then juxtapose dynamic motion with slow-motion, photographic extreme close-ups, layering in scribble-inspired motion graphics drawn from Karl’s archival sketches - merging legacy and innovation into a bold, contemporary visual statement.

Credits

Client: Karl Lagerfeld

Art Director: Emma Hazen

Producer: Marielle Budwilowitz


RTES  

Production: Tony Stearns

Direction, Edit, Color: Laen Sanches  

Motion Design: Laen Sanches & Julien Maingois

Flame: Lise Prud’homme

Audio: Laen Sanches

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