Everything started with desire and crossovers. The idea behind the project is close to what I felt when doing my personal project Paris versus New York, a tally of two cities: being playful and falling deep for positivity, working hard until keeping the essential shape and color, try giving a new sense of hope for the future by looking at good memories from the past: Speedy cars, sunshine and sunsets, hobbies like golf, swimming or even surfing, all light and fun. In a way, Italian Riviera meets California.

Prada has one extraordinary DNA, and there's something you feel: creative freedom. This allowed me to express my own point of view and vision on this collection. I've learned over the past years as a graphic artist to let my mind go to create surprising outturns, even when it's a commissioned project like this one. In the end it's all about how you tell a story. You deconstruct the well-known and you think about new ways to rebuild something outstanding.

I've looked at this collection of accessories, how the ladies and the gentlemen would feel wearing them, where they would go with them, day-dreaming. It's a very simple feeling: Endless roads and landscapes, seeing new possibilities. A very post-WWII feeling… a bit like today perhaps. A perfected vision of holidays, a place mixing sexy and harmony, where everyone would like to escape.

After getting the principal informations, sketches and words on paper are the first step I guess. Then when I feel the composition is right, I work the definitive image on my Mac.

Even if at first they were considered only as still graphic art, I really enjoyed having those drawings animated. It's definitely something I consider doing in the future. If the project justifies the creative process and is fun enough. Yes, summer's here, let's have fun until the next series.

You can see the animated gifs at our Tumblr.