Bari, Italy · Available worldwide

Creative Director.

Selected work

Woman in white with a Great Dane in a wood-panelled room
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Films · 2026

Motion Concepts

A red room, a paper city, a collage that moves. Short films built by hand and finished with AI production.

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Menswear · 2026

Quiet Tailoring

Natural light, real skin, clothes that don’t perform. A menswear story told through posture and silence.

Two men in black and white on a city square
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Fashion film · 2026

27th

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Black and white · 2025–2026

Shoreline

Wind, sand, water. Film and photographs where the landscape becomes the set and the body stays quiet.

Man in a striped shirt on a rocky shore, black and white Swimmer diving from a sailing boat, black and white
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Capabilities

What I make.

From the first concept to the last retouched frame.
I define the aesthetic a brand should have, then build the image system that holds it together across campaigns, social and print.

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    Creative Direction

    Concepts, references and a clear point of view for every season.

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    Campaigns

    Launch and seasonal campaigns, from brief to final assets.

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    Brand Image

    The visual language a brand is recognised by, before the logo.

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    Social Media Direction

    Content systems and art direction for feeds that look like the brand, every week.

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    Casting

    Faces with character, scouted through my agency network.

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    Production

    Photography and film production, on set and on location.

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    AI Concepts

    Concepts, photographs and films created with AI, from the first idea to the finished campaign.

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The studio

An authorial image lab shaping ideas into campaigns, faces and worlds.
Fifteen years of fashion image‑making, now led as creative direction.

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About

Portrait of Gaetano Giordano
  • RoleCreative Director · Fashion & Luxury
  • BasedBari, Italy · Working worldwide
  • StudioEst. 2011
  • AgencyFounder, Peacock Models

From reading images
to building brands.

I trained as an art historian before I ever worked on a set. Studying Art History and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage taught me to read images slowly: composition, light, what a face gives away. That way of looking still drives every decision I make.

In 2011 I opened my studio in Bari, and for fifteen years I worked as a fashion photographer, art director and educator: campaigns, editorials, portraits, and workshops teaching others how to build an image. Over time the camera became one tool among many. Today I work as a Creative Director, defining the strategy and the visual language behind a brand, from the first concept to the final frame.

Alongside the studio I run Peacock Models, a scouting and management agency with around a hundred talents. Strategy, casting and image sit in the same room, and AI lets me create concepts, images and films that show a world before it exists.

Contact

Start a project.

Tell me about the brand, the season and the timing. I answer within two working days.

info@gaetanogiordano.com

I build brand worldspeople remember.