Tensegrity

ABOVE: ALLA KOSTROMICHOVA IN TENSEGRITY. STYLING BY EMMA THORSTRAND, HAIR BY MIKE LUNDGREN, MAKEUP BY KATARINA HAKANSSON. There is a deliberate urgency to Axel Lindahl’s film, Tensegrity, as a high-fashion spread—models clad in Acne, McQueen, Prada, YSL and other designer prints and patterns—collides with jarring sound bites. Lindahl, a self-taught filmmaker whose past projects have included short films for Prada, Louis Vuitton, and H&M, presents an unusual combination of fashion, physics and philosophy...