text: Gucci's New Collab With Harmony Korine was Filmed on Snapchat Spectacles
  The short film shows fashion and tech's latest intersection
  Now Gucci's enlisted their frequent collaborator Harmony Korine on a short film for Snapchat, and guess what? It stars a skateboarding hot dog. Shot entirely on Snapchat Spectacles (which are "smartglasses" that directly record whatever they're seeing), the mini-movie is a dream within a fever dream, blending Korine's penchant for Lisa Frank rainbow parties (last seen in Spring Breakers) with fuzzy bears, vintage luggage, and Miami Beach lifeguards. It is called Duck Duck and there are no ducks... though Bergdorf Goodman does have a Gucci mallard print blouse available now.
  "I don't think anyone's following me; I just mess around. I'm personally more interested in what [Snapchat] is doing with technology and their glasses, and how they're filming things in a totally new way. They came to me about six months ago. They showed me the Spectacle glasses and talked about what they could do, their capabilities, and I took them home and messed with them for a couple of weeks before getting back to them about possibilities."
  "Because it's its own kind of film form, really! With the circular ratio of the images, it's really trippy because it almost mimics your eye. And because they shoot wirelessly, you're not carrying equipment around and you're not shooting with your hands. Everything's free, which means as the director, you have a lot more mobility, and a lot of freedom to do really unique shots. Afterwards, you add these effects that are like half animation, part augmented reality, and then whatever amount of actual reality you want to see in your piece. It's wild."
  "It's not just changing film, it's changing everything. It changes the way people watch and how they entertain themselves. I mean, what is narrative anymore? What's a feature film, and why shouldn't it be 10 seconds instead of two hours?... It's fun, because it's such a new [technology] that I don't have to follow any rules. Not like I would anyway, necessarily, but it's cool to just try everything."
  "I have a great relationship with Gucci and Alessandro; I've worked with them before and I really love them. For this project, their contribution was the design of the glasses. Alessandro did a limited-edition design and hand-painted them, so from a design aspect, Gucci was intrigued. But they're also genuinely curious about these new forms of film, just like I am. It's all moving so fast. What's out there already? What has value? How does Gucci find what's beautiful in all that? How does anyone?"
  "It was actually pretty good! It's interesting you ask, because in this kind of setup, there's no camera. There's no sound guy. Most people who passed us on the street didn't even know what was going on, they just thought it was some kids in weird costumes."
  "I had a guidance counselor who told me I should be a bricklayer. I took this 3 hour test where they ask you all these supposedly psychological questions. That's what came out of it. The problem is, I didn't even know anything about bricks! So that was out, you know?"
  "I got a book of really cheesy poetry once. My uncle also gave me some moth balls in a sock, but he was in a mental institution, so it was more like a work of art coming from him."
  "Eh, probably not. I mean, can there even be a sequel? I feel like [all the characters] are dead! Sorry!"