Oliver Peoples‘ new video campaign featuring Elijah Wood and Shirley Manson. Directed by Autumn de Wilde and edited by Miky Wolf.
Music “Just You And Me” by Zee Avi from her debut album with Brushfire Records Inc.

Easily recognized for his roles in Lord of the Rings, Sin City, Everything is Illuminated and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Elijah’s debonair personal style was an ideal fit for the campaign. Despite such success in his acting career, Elijah is also dedicated to photography and music, including the creation of his own record label called Simian Records in 2005.

Stunning, scarlet-haired Shirley is best known as the lead vocalist of the Grammy-nominated alternative band, Garbage. In the last year, she assumed a role in the television series Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles. Her edgy and dramatic sense of style lent a modern, mischievous air to the otherwise serious scenes of sunnies and spectacles.

Orchestrating the imagery is internationally renowned photographer and director Autumn De Wilde. Her work has been featured on the pages of Vanity Fair, W, Elle, Rolling Stone, and V Magazine, and her most recent subjects include artists such as Beck, The White Stripes and celebrated fashion designers, Rodarte.

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Also in the same 60s retro vein see Tom Ford’s trailer for A Single Man (below), Lone Scherfig’s An Education (2009), Mad Men, and Steven Klein’s shoot “Domestic Bliss” for W Magazine (2005).

Older references include North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock (1959), Pierrot le Fou (video below) by Jean-Luc Godard (1965), Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni (1966), and the original Alfie by Lewis Gilbert (1966).