Bari, Italy · Available worldwide

Creative Director.

Selected work

Woman in white with a Great Dane in a wood-panelled room
01

Films · 2026

Motion Concepts

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

02

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
03

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.

  1. 01

    Creative Direction

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

  2. 02

    Campaigns

    Launch and seasonal campaigns, from brief to final assets.

  3. 03

    Brand Image

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

  4. 04

    Social Media Direction

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

  5. 05

    Casting

    Faces with character, scouted through my agency network.

  6. 06

    Production

    Photography and film production, on set and on location.

  7. 07

    AI Concepts

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

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.