KENSINGTON PALACE

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT / LARGESCALE ANIMATED FILMS / MOTION GRAPHICS / CGI / PROJECTION SHOW / MOTION TYPOGRAPHY / SOUND COMPOSITION / SOUNDSCAPING / AUDIO LICENSING ADVICE / CAPACITIVE-TOUCH / CODING DEVELOPMENT / UNITY / SCRIPTING / VOICE-OVERS / LOCATION RECORDING / FILM EDITS / INSTALLATION

CROWN TO COUTURE

Crown to Couture, Kensington Palace’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date opened to the public on 5 April 2023 with AY-PE’s audio and visual designs featuring throughout the galleries.

The exhibition recreates a vibrant Georgian-era party across the State Apartments of the Palace, featuring over 200 iconic outfits and objects from world-famous celebrities, designers and historic collections, the Met Gala, Grammys and the Oscars. It draws fascinating parallels between the world of the red carpet and the world of the Royal Court in the eighteenth century and has featured in all UK national press, New York Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Tatler, NBC’s The Today show and many more.

AY-PE was appointed to design and deliver 17 different audio-visual and interactive experiences: marrying the beauty and emotional connection of AV creations, with celebrity, couture and catwalk design.

Client: Historic Royal Palaces - Kensington Palace

Exhibition Design: Land Design Studio

Hardware: Blue Elephant

ARRIVAL SPECTACLE

Designing a Georgian street scene meets the Met Gala in a playful, stop motion style animated film, projected largescale in the Palace's Stone Hall. We created a layered, colourful 2D world and combined it with the bespoke illustrations of Gladys Perint Palmer, world famous fashion illustrator. Through a well-paced motion of figures, vehicles, press and paparazzi flashes, the arrival scene and setworks in front are brought to life.

SOUND DESIGN

Unique sound design and audio installations - evocatively bringing the experience to life. From fanfares and orchestral string arrangements, to dance beats and garage. With compositions and soundscapes spanning the State Apartments, AY-PE collaborated with WMP Studio to deliver bespoke pieces with purpose and cohesion, across the Palace.

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CELEB INTERACTIVE

One of the questions posed to visitors is what does celebrity mean to them and on that question, AY-PE designed a contemporary styled touchscreen interactive. Working from a visual idea of sleek fashion publications, AY-PE designed the UI and UX for this interactive to be easy and intuitive to operate and stylistically fitting for the exhibition.

INTERVIEWS & EDITS

AY-PE were also trusted and fortunate enough to design edits using prestigious Vogue films of Kendall Jenner and Billy Porter – setting the scene for the intensity and excitement of getting ready for the Met Gala.

Edits of exclusive interview footage with world leading designers and stylists Ozwald Boateng, Giles Deacon, Judith Leiber and Rose Forde were also crafted to intrigue viewers in the future of fashion.