Club Chrissie & Coney Island

The evolution of the "lookbook":
To showcase Sophomore's S/S2010 collection, designer Chrissie Miller has stepped into a whole different world of media and has created this ten-minute film, shot by LA-based photographer and frequent collaborator, Cass Bird. THE END RESULT IS LIKE NO OTHER.

Miller is a native New Yorker and appropriately, the film is set in New York's legendary hang-out Coney Island. It's there, in the summer dens of the New York kids who didn't have the money for the Hamptons, that a cast of Miller's friends, shot documentary style, tell stories about their lives past and present. They flirt, flick cigarettes and muse about their first kisses and first arrests, on the inevitably romantic boardwalk.

Inspired by a 90s documentary about the tough broads of Wildwood New Jersey (long before the days of Snooki and JWow, but with a similar kindred energy), the film captures the nostalgia and the insatiable mythologizing of fleeting teenage moments. "It reminds us what it's like to be that age and how that period of life shapes who you are," says Chrissie, who herself makes a brief appearance on film during a smooch session with boyfriend Leo Fitzpatrick.

"Sophomore as a brand is really about being comfortable and being honest. And being OK with who you are, living on the edge," said Cass after the showing. "And Coney Island is on the chipping block right now and you can see the expiration on sight. That's what youth is really all about. It ends really quickly."

{sophomore nyc, interview mag}