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First debuted on Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, Ada + Nik just launched their new Autumn Winter 2014 fashion film, The Dark Wolf.

Directed and produced by Oz Thakkar and creatively produced by Nik Thakkar and Ada Zanditon comes the premiere of Ada + Nik ‘The Dark Wolf’ – a film created for the unveiling of the brand’s AW14/15 collection at London Collections: Men this week.

Focussing on Ada + Nik themes of brotherhood, timelessness and rebellion the film shows Diego, trapped in an alternate reality in an infinity of sand for what could be minutes, hours, days, years or eons, taking up the last of his energy to summon his brother, SMITH. Coughing up the last of his energy into his hand and forming a liquid symbol to awaken the warrior within SMITH – he knew that this could be his only salvation.

In a Philips technologically enhanced world, SMITH is awakened by a loud banging, he opens a door to find a box of sand, he opens the box to be stunned by the visuals and location of his long lost brother. SMITH begins a heroic journey, overcoming The Dark Wolf and various obstacles guided by an ethereal Snow Queen (Nikita Andrianova) and her timeless beauty.

Meanwhile, Diego transcends realities through intense meditation growing gaunt as his energy depletes through his efforts to summon his brother.

Following a physical battle with The Dark Wolf, SMITH glitches into the reality of the infinity of sand where his brother is trapped. Diego subsequently awakens and the two heroes are reunited.

Wire beanie featured on SMITH LDN is YashkaThor for Ada + Nik. The film also features Snow Queen Vodka (sponsor), Philips BR1X and Headphones and Samsung GEAR Watches.

Director and producer: Oz Thakkar
Creative producers: Nik Thakkar and Ada Zanditon
Fashion by Ada + Nik AW14/15 The Dark Wolf
Visualized by Ljubba
Music by SMITH LDN – Anthem For The Lost
Make up and grooming by AOFM PRO (Amritha Dhanjal)

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Set in the heavens of the Greek Gods, three self involved narcissistic soldiers (wearing Ada + Nik swimwear) gaze at their own reflection in a pool of water listening to music (by Zebra Katz) on their Philips Fidelio M1s. The Snow Queen played by actress, model and presenter Zara Martin enters – practically floating on the clouds as she approaches the throne she summons a gift of Snow Queen Vodka from earth. She hands the bottle to The Snake King played by the inimitable Aiden Shaw and the snake “Cornflake”. Zara hisses, the boys then appear as if by magic in front of the throne – fully clothed in Ada + Nik. They then begin to gift their clothes to the King and Queen and fight each other for the clothes until one of the boys is left naked and alone. Credits under the cut.

The collection itself features ten unique pieces bringing to life my love adoration for a monochrome and minimalist luxe aesthetic, nodding to Ada’s previous collections.

The collection includes sheer and eel skin t-shirts, kilts, two pairs of leather detailed shorts, a leather detailed kilt, a statement biker jacket “Caesar”, open back structured dress shirts and calf leather cape; with accompanying swimwear and tank tops – all ethically sourced and produced.

Creative and art direction: Nik Thakkar

Director: Thomas Knights

Fashion: Ada + Nik SS14 by Ada Zanditon and Nik Thakkar

Starring: Supermodel and icon Aiden Shaw (Success Models) and model, actress and presenter Zara Martin (Storm) alongside Carter Farley, Andreas Eriksen and Tyler Maher from PRM

Music: LST CTRL by Zebra Katz (DRKLNG EP)

Special thanks: Snow Queen Vodka and Philips

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With that in mind, you all have taste if you are reading this, so without further ado, here is the teaser for the campaign we shot for the luxury menswear collection that I have designed with Ada Zanditon. We’re showing at London Collections: Men on Sunday and it is something I am beyond proud of. The collection itself is incredible and a lot, if not all, of you will like it.

This fashion film was shot in collaboration with Rankin Studios and The Hunger Magazine with myself as creative director (story, art direction), my agency Nephew London on production and Thomas Knights as director. For music we collaborated with Zebra Katz and used his track LST CTRL (THANK YOU SO MUCH ZEBRA KATZ FOR PARTNERING WITH US ON THIS) and playing our lead roles are Aiden Shaw (icon, legend and muse) and Zara Martin (who puts Beyonce to shame with her acting role in this piece). The boys are beautiful – Tyler, Andreas and Carter from PRM Models and everyone else who is credited with involvement in the film can be seen at Hunger TV where Ada and I interviewed each other about the collection.

Another piece of key press is from Fashion Monitor (it went live today), which is a massive feature on how this collaboration came about (i.e. me pestering Ada). ANYWAY, enjoy the teaser. The full clip and full campaign drops tomorrow.

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We’re also shooting the campaign and fashion film in collaboration with Rankin Studios / The Hunger Magazine next week (directed by Thomas Knights) and will be unveiling the collection and premiering the campaign on the first day of LCM on 16 June at the prestigious St Martins Lane London. I literally cannot wait for you to see who we have cast.

Our brand partners are Snow Queen Vodka (who have been an absolute god send and pleasure to work with creatively) – they’ll be featured in the campaign film itself and have a strong presence at the showcase with an ice sculpture and vodka shots, Philips – You Need To Hear This where we’ll be featuring the luxury Fidelio M1 headsets in both the film and at the showcase, and our luxury shoe partner – the eponymous Austrian designer Ludwig Reiter.

AOFM is our beauty partner and Diet Coke will be providing refreshments at the showcase – keeping in line our monochrome aesthetic through every detail.

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We’ve teamed up to launch Ada + Nik – which will debut with a ‘Greco-Roman Punk’ inspired capsule collection in June.

Ada + Nik features ten unique pieces bringing to life my adoration for a monochrome and minimalist luxe aesthetic, nodding to Ada’s previous collections.

We are using sheer and eel skin t-shirts, kilts, two pairs of leather detailed shorts, a statement biker jacket, open back structured dress shirts and a human hair, bamboo and calf leather jersey with accompanying swimwear, luxury gym towel and tank tops – all ethically sourced and produced. The brand itself will be art and visual content driven; and we are creating fashion films in collaboration with leading industry directors and filmmakers and creative campaigns featuring big gun male models and fashion muses.

I have been a huge fan of Ada’s work and sustainable approach to fashion for years now – and loved her bespoke menswear pieces for Patrick Wolf. Her unique structuring and use of silhouettes made the decision to partner with Ada an easy choice to bring a vision that I have had in mind for this brand to life.

A huge thank you to the prestigious WWD for helping us announce today, and to Matthew James Arthur Payne for photographing the press shots and my long-time collaborator Achraf Amiri for the launch illustrations – check them out below.

More details on the collection, the campaign and film we’re creating with Thomas Knights and talent we are signing for the campaign to be announced soon.

You can follow Ada + Nik on Twitter and Like the brand page on Facebook where the latest information will be posted!

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Below is a short interview I did with Handpicked Media’s YouTube channel on street style and a couple of images of me by the brilliant Jonathan Daniel Pryce (of 100 Beards – 100 Days fame).

Fashion credits: skirt by Rick Owens t-shirt by Acne, leather jacket by Asher Levine, shoes by Converse, chain by Tom Binns, backpack by Mulberry.

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The pieces are available from to buy on the site now, where you can also read an in depth interview with each of the designers. Photography below by Jacob Sutton with styling by Dan May.

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