The Performers

‘The Performers’: is a video and photo series produced by the GQ global video team for Gucci. Five directors following five artists, in five symbolic locations around the world. Each artist is filmed during a creative pilgrimage of their own, all dressed in Gucci’s Spring-Summer 2017 menswear collection.

Creative Direction: Gucci, Ben Barbier.
Art Direction: Ben Barbier.

Part 1

Bobby Gillespie on his creative hero Jean Genet in Tangier.
Direction: Stella Scott in Tangier. With kind permission from the Estate of Jean Genet Paris c/o Rosica Colin Limited, London.

Part 2

Chef Massimo Bottura on his creative inspiration: Jazz.
Direction: Emile Rafael, in Milan and Modena.

Part 3

Actor Charlie Heaton relives his first Manhattan adventure.
Direction: Albert Moya @theCollectiveShift, in NYC.

Part 4

Architect Junya Ishigami explores the Mexican underwater caves.
Direction: Matthew Donaldson, in the jungles of Yucatán.

Part 5

Artist Zhang Huan finds inspiration in the californian desert.
Direction: Chelsea McMullan, in the Death Valley.