The tearaway, music-obsessed ‘ton-up boys’ of the 1950s took to the alleys and main drags of Britain on custom built motorbikes, and congregated at roadside hangouts including the infamous and still-standing Ace Café in northwest London. “We didn't realize the extent to which the riders were a vital cog in the development of youth attitude and spirit in Britain as we know it,” say Frederick Scott and Nicolas Jack Davies, the Grammy-winning director duo—AKA Fred & Nick—behind today’s brooding film with The Kooples, whose new collection is inspired by the danger of the rocker subculture. “When the jukebox was invented, the café became the place where teenagers would meet up and listen to music, and a biking culture emerged at the same time.” Starring photographer-turned-actor James D. Kelly and his real-life model partner Martine Lervik, the leather-donned protagonist risks all on a ‘record race,’ when a tune was put on the jukebox and bikers set off to finish before the track had ended. The high-voltage ride would prove their bike was capable of hitting the elusive ‘ton’ or 100mph. “The riders were all about testing limits,” say the filmmakers behind films for Coldplay, PJ Harvey and Morrissey. “Their chief motivation was all about breaking frontiers, realigning boundaries on a daily basis. There's a definite allure in such a reckless philosophy of life. A total freedom and carefree outlook.”

Today, Tonight is the first release from The Kooples’ new creative division, TK Foundry, set up to create original music, film, technology and art with a global network of cutting-edge creators, tastemakers and artisans.