Eli Russell Linnetz is a Venice Beach-based filmmaker, photographer, and fashion designer working with Prettybird. He directed Kanye West’s Fade and Famous music videos, Shawn Mendes’s Nervous, and the short Afterglow. Brand and fashion-film credits include Burberry Autumn & Winter 20, Alexander Wang x Adidas (2018), and a Comme des Garçons fragrance film (Andy Warhol’s You’re In) with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, staging figures in yellow zentai suits to a John Giorno poem. He has shot campaign and branding imagery for Yeezy and SKIMS, with photography in GQ, Interview, and Vogue. Parallel live work includes floating stage and merch design for Kanye’s Saint Pablo tour and set design for Lady Gaga’s Enigma Las Vegas residency. As founder of ERL—built from thrifted Venice Americana and high-school archetype nostalgia—he won the 2022 LVMH Karl Lagerfeld Prize, guested on Dior menswear with Kim Jones, and appeared at Pitti Uomo. Evidenced commercial work sits in fashion-lifestyle and music-driven image-making with celebrity craft, not broad category advertising.