Love Letters
Project Creation for Saint Laurent
An intimate reflection on connection, longing, and the unspoken emotions carried within words meant for just one other person. Love letters by famous and infamous writers such as Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy and Sid Vicious are curated into a Saint Laurent Editions book – and read by Rosé, Cooper Koch and Zoë Kravitz.
Director: Mitch Ryan
Creative Director: Anthony Vaccarello
Studio Team: Daniël Sumarna, Stefan Folio, Christian Corvalan Iturria
Love Letters
Content Creation for Saint Laurent
An intimate reflection on connection, longing, and the unspoken emotions carried within words meant for just one other person. Love letters by famous and infamous writers such as Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy and Sid Vicious are curated into a Saint Laurent Editions book – and read by Rosé, Cooper Koch and Zoë Kravitz.
Photographer: Marie Deteneuille
Creative Director: Anthony Vaccarello
Studio Team: Daniël Sumarna, Christian Corvalan Iturria
As Time Goes By
Project Creation for Saint Laurent
Inspired by the favorite book of Monsieur Saint Laurent, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The six films are a meandering journey through the mind of Proust, which chime with the evocative nature of the holiday season.
Director: Nadia Lee Cohen
Creative Director: Anthony Vaccarello
Studio Team: Daniël Sumarna, Emmanuel O’Brien, Stefan Folio, Christian Corvalan Iturria
As Time Goes By
Content Creation for Saint Laurent
Photographer: Maxime Poiblanc
Creative Director: Anthony Vaccarello
Studio Team: Daniël Sumarna, Christian Corvalan Iturria
Visited By
Project Creation for Port Tanger
An ongoing initiative, inviting individuals from different disciplines to visit Port Tanger – a place to exchange concepts through eyewear and new experiments.
Collaborator: Vanessa Reid
Photographer: Viviane Sassen
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Visited By
Project Creation for Port Tanger
An ongoing initiative, inviting individuals from different disciplines to visit Port Tanger – a place to exchange concepts through eyewear and new experiments.
Collaborator: Michael Bargo
Photographer: Bibi Borthwick
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
People of Paris
Campaign for GOAT and PSG
Photographer: Thibaut Grevet
Stylist: Tamara Rothstein
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Design Team: Adrian Zorzano, Sibylle Hornung
People of Paris
Zine for GOAT and PSG
Photographer: Thibaut Grevet
Stylist: Tamara Rothstein
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Design Team: Akaar Amin, Christian Corvalan Iturria
Introducing Milano
Campaign for Valextra
Images from other eras attest to eternal relevance – of a city’s beauty, its peoples’ spirit, and a Valextra bag in its namesake setting. A retrospective in real time, the past and the present converge.
Photographer: Fumiko Imano
Stylist: Giovanni Dario Laudicina
Archival Imagery: Mondadori Portfolio
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Studio Team: Christian Corvalan Iturria
Imagined in Milan
Project Creation for Valextra
The artisans of Valextra’s leather goods atelier in Milan, challenged by imagination. Inviting children between the age of two and six to draw characters free from connotation and limitation – a new proposal for product design.
Photographer: Florent Tanet
Partnership: Puntino Colorato Kindergarten
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Studio Team: Marc Vermeeren
The Nature of Icons
Campaign for DoDo
Photographer: Bibi Borthwick
Stylist: Giovanni Dario Laudicina
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Studio Team: Juul van der Zandt
Follow the Bag
Campaign for Valextra
Valextra’s leather goods bears a unique code. Embossed in foil as its artisan’s seal, these signifiers serve as a throughline from the atelier to the daily life they are carried into. Glimpsed in motion, trajectories of an always-evolving journey.
Photographer: Ilaria Orsini
Stylist: Lune Kuipers
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Studio Team: Marc Vermeeren
Observed in Milan
Campaign for Valextra
Over time, patterns reveal themselves to the attentive. Gestures, habits, ways of wearing. From the same street corner, morning, afternoon and night, we portray the collective mannerisms of passers-by throughout the cadences of a day.
Photographer: Peter Funch
Stylist: Vittoria Cerciello
Casting: Barbara Nicoli
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Clipse
Cover for GREATEST
Photographer: Karl Felix
Stylist: Marcus Paul
Team: Daniël Sumarna, Kasper-Florio
Mowalola
Cover for GREATEST
Photographer: Aidan Zamiri
Stylist: Nick Royal
Team: Daniël Sumarna, Kasper-Florio
Brent Faiyaz
Cover for GREATEST
Photographer: Ibrahem Hasan
Stylist: Yashua Simmons
Team: Daniël Sumarna, Kasper-Florio
The Sum of its Parts
Project Creation for Valextra
Each part in an ongoing conversation with the next. A mode of invention that approaches craft from all angles. A concept in holism: disparate elements, working together, engineering beauty.
Scans: Katerina Jebb
Creative Director: Daniël Sumarna
Studio Team: Marc Vermeeren
Daniël Sumarna
Studio for Creativity and Design
Studio Address
Gerard Doustraat 20, Amsterdam, NL
studio@danielsumarna.com
Studio Management
Represented by MA+Group
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