Hosted outside at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the show featured 64 looks inspired by Little Nemo in Slumberland, a famous weekly comic strip that ran in the New York Herald. Creative director Bruno Sialelli resonated with the protagonist Nemo, a boy who would wake up at the end of each strip after experiencing miraculous dreams. Sialelli also drew inspiration from the elegance of earlier eras, specifically the 50s and 60s.
This editorial for Chilean-based TEMET, a brand deeply woven into the underground music and nightlife scene, captures that noctural alchemy. Creative directed by New York’s own Kiernan Francis, the shoot draws inspiration from the afters’ electric liminality. Francis sought to celebrate the paradox of private and public life — where our truest selves might emerge within nightlife and fade into the versions of ourselves we show the world by daylight.
The cast was a mix of DJs, artists, and street-scouted creatives — some known to Francis from the scene, others discovered through social media. The styling leaned into shapewear as an experience, framed by a backdrop that evokes the afters: crowded couches, messy rooms, and the chaos of a night extending into morning. The result? A series that feels like SKIMS meeting Skins UK.
Watch the video below.
