Koché Presents Short Film With Militant Undertones

GIRLS ON FILM: Christelle Kocher is expanding her brand into an artists’ collective. The French designer, whose Koché label blends streetwear influences and references to contemporary art, on Thursday evening held a screening of “Dream Baby Dream,” a short film directed by Helena Klotz featuring items from her spring 2017 collection. Kocher gave carte blanche to Klotz, who was art director on Jacques Audiard’s feature film “Dheepan,” which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Shot in two parts, her movie eschews dialogue to focus on random characters, including a lesbian couple in the throes of a passionate affair. Kocher said there was a militant dimension to the film, screened in an art-house cinema in a scruffy neighborhood of Paris just three days before the second round of the presidential election pitting center-left candidate Emmanuel Macron against far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Introducing the film, she reported that Delphine Rafferty — a longtime muse of the brand who plays one of the characters — had been violently assaulted in a bar only days earlier in a homophobic attack. “I wanted to show a certain form of freedom and openness that reflects what Paris represents for me and the values I want

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