Lauren ChanThis afternoon, Western graduate turned fashion photographer and director, Justin Wu, released another of his famed high-profile-models-lip-synching-to-popular-songs videos. [Jump around in excitement]. While Wu had formerly collaborated with Tommy Ton’s Jak & Jil blog and Models.com, he has moved on to work with Jay-Z and his Life + Times magazine.
In his latest video, Wu films top models like Karlie Kloss (NEXT), Jourdan Dunn (Women), Selita Ebanks (Women), Constance Jablonski (Marilyn) and Daphne Groeneveld (Supreme) lip-synching to Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” throughout New York City. The film serves as the perfect ending note to a successful and inspirational Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. As New York Fashion Week can be an insanely hectic time for designers, models and media alike, Wu brings us light-hearted reminder to appreciate the youth and beauty of the fashion industry.
“Empire State of Mind” follows Life + Times‘ backstage coverage of the Y-3 and Rodarte shows at New York Fashion Week, as well as an entry about Fashion’s Night Out—it looks like Jay-Z is making strides to become more involved in the fashion industry. Now, he’s giving Kanye West some competition in notorious love for high fashion models. Perhaps ‘Ye and Spike Jonze will shoot a short film for Paris Fashion Week…We can dream, right?
