The collegiate concerns of Proenza Schouler’s Fall Winter 2010 collection have been granted a new perspective by cult US film maker Harmony Korine, who shot the range in a short film in Nashville, Tennessee.

In collaboration with the Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez, Korine took the collection from its polished New York runway to a more rough and ready strip – shooting Act Da Fool, a series of 8mm vignettes featuring rebellious teen girls in their local neighbourhood. Taking inspiration from a single photograph by Christopher Wool, the film is a look at urban youth and their search for friendship and fulfillment, through the heady confusion of adolescence and its many pressures.

Harmony Korine on Act Da Fool:

“It’s about girls who sleep in abandoned cars and set things on fire. It’s about the great things in life. The stars in the sky and lots of malt liquor.”

Jack McCullough on the film:

“He [Harmony] was perfect. We gave him all these influences and he came back with this Nashville film. We were like, “Awesome!” We were thinking more of New York kids, school kids. It opened our eyes to a new angle of the collection that we’d not really thought about.”

Exclusive stills from the film (released in September) via Nowness.com