ThreeAsFour film heads to New York as label plots runway return
A 12-year documentary is about to get its American outing. ThreeAsFour: Full Circle will make its U.S. debut in New York on Nov. 13, as the design trio behind it plans a return to the runway.
ThreeAsFour is a New York label founded in 1998 and reborn in 2005 from AsFour, its four-person predecessor. It is led by Gaby Asfour, Adi Gil and Angela Donhauser. The group works with sacred geometry, the repeating shapes found in nature and architecture, biomimicry, design copied from living systems, and cutting-edge technology, according to WWD.
The film is the directorial debut of Sean Ono Lennon, co-directed by Brian C. Gonzalez. Lennon started filming the trio in 2011 or 2012. He shot on and off for about five years. Completion took about 12 years in total.
It had its world premiere as a Spotlight Documentary, a showcase section, at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, the New York film festival. The November date is its first U.S. screening outside the festival circuit.
The timing links to a comeback. ThreeAsFour will rejoin the New York Fashion Week calendar, the twice-yearly series of runway shows and presentations, for Spring 2027. The label has produced collections continuously since 1998. Most were shown on the runway. Others were released through photo shoots and videos.
Off the runway, the trio has shifted base. It accepted an artist residency, a hosted period for making work, and moved its design studio to Mana Contemporary, a large-scale multidisciplinary arts and community space in New Jersey. The team also designed costumes for Henry IV: A Trilogy in Two Parts, a production by the Public Theater, the New York theatre company.
A new product is part of the plan. ThreeAsFour has spent the last two years working on a more approachable line. The first result is a limited-edition denim capsule, a small, short-run collection, made to be more accessible in price and wear.
That builds on a long habit of reuse. The group has collected textiles from vintage denim, retro scarves, shuttlecocks, re-used canvas paintings and dead-stocked kimono fabrics from Osaka, the unsold cloth held over from earlier production.
What makes this stand out is the loop. A film that took a dozen years to finish now introduces the next phase: a new studio, a return to the calendar, and clothes cut for a wider audience.
