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Robert De Niro and Al Pacino may have three Academy Awards between them, but it’s not the Hollywood accolades that bind the iconic actors.
De Niro, 82, and Pacino, 85, celebrate over 50 years of friendship in Moncler’s winter campaign, Warmer Together. The black-and-white shoot, released Oct. 15, features the pair wearing Moncler’s signature outerwear, while poeticizing the key facets of “human connection and togetherness,” according to a press release.
The images include Pacino and De Niro sharing smiles as they sit side by side at a table in the luxury brand’s jackets. The campaign was shot in New York by photographer Platon and also includes short films that touch on themes of friendship and respect, as well as connection, truth and warmth.
For the spot, DeNiro wears Moncler’s Maya 70 down-quilted jacket ($2,530). The campaign also highlights the new Fall/Winter 2025 Bretagne jacket ($2,750), which is a short, hooded puffer “designed to provide warmth without weight in a cocooning silhouette,” the press release states.
“Warmth was never about the outside. It was always about what was happening on the inside,” De Niro says in a clip from the campaign. “Warmth,” the men highlight, “comes from the walks and the talks” and “sharing conversations.”
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Friendship — like De Niro and Pacino’s — “is the greatest thing you can have. Friends, people whom you share the same world with. There is just an innate trust. And the understanding of life,” the latter says.
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“Through their story of friendship, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro embody everything Moncler truly stands for: affection, warmth and the belief that we are all better and warmer together,” Chairman and CEO of Moncler Remo Ruffini says of the collaboration.
The campaign is also accompanied by a new rendition of Bill Withers’ song “Lean on Me,” recorded by Tob Nwigwe and his wife Fat.
The setting is meant to evoke the site of the pair’s first meeting: the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. In one of the accompanying films, Pacino and DeNiro walk across a dimly lit stage scattered with chairs to sit across from each other, hugging and even holding hands at points.
DeNiro and Pacino’s friendship, in fact, long predates their first film together, The Godfather Part II.
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In a 2019 interview to promote their fourth shared onscreen project, The Irishman, Pacino told GQ of their lasting bond, “We get together. And there’s a trust there. There just is. We understand this thing together a little bit better. And you go there sometimes just to get some feedback. We talk about things.”
Pacino even recounted his early impressions of De Niro to GQ: “Unbelievably, I saw this guy, I thought, ‘Wow, he’s got such charisma.’ He wasn’t doing anything. He was just walking. Remember? You know, he was Bob. But you felt something from him.”
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In the Moncler campaign, Pacino calls De Niro his “very good friend” as he reminds viewers they’ve been “doing this for a long time.”
“We try to bring out characters and bring out a story so that you can understand it and relate to it,” he says of their craft. “You tell a story.”
