What could be more intimate than the clothes on your back, no script, no set, just raw vulnerability?

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Anthony Vaccarello zealously strips Saint Laurent down to its bones with Velvet Heat, a raw and candescent pre-collection short film and campaign starring the legendary Kate Moss. The two minutes follow Moss in Los Angeles, capturing the stillness of heat as she and the clothes, hugging and draping across her frame, move fluidly through it. 

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She wears the collection her way: a flowing silk skirt, a structured leather blouson, and a men’s tailored jacket against bare sun-kissed skin. Sunglasses cut the glare. The flashy side of LA and stardom meet grit. 

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The campaign, shot by Mert Alas and art directed by Vaccarello himself, invites the viewer into unscripted moments. It takes shape as a candid expression of the potent intersection of realism and fashion. Chloë Sevigny and Frankie Rayder drifts in and out of frame, poolside, a quiet sunlit drive. The energy is unforced, intimate, and alive somewhere between now and 1960s LA. 

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What remains is Moss and the magnetic and untouchable cool aura she emits while embodying the Saint Laurent woman not through posing, but through unfiltered presence.