Fashion in Film Festival's Birds of Paradise programme will be touring to Bristol and Glasgow in March 2012. Find out more here.

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Fashion in Film's Kinoscopes to depart on tour. Find out more about their London-wide installation.

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Limited edition catalogue
The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival If Looks Could Kill limited edition catalogue is selling out fast. Available online, and in store at Tate Modern book shop, BFI Southbank Film Store and Cinéphilia.

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Texts now published online
All texts from our first catalogue (now sold out) are now available here.

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Chop Suey
USA 2001. Dir Bruce Weber. 98 min.
Friday 19 May 18:15, The ICA, cinema 1

Model
USA 1980. Dir Frederick Wiseman. 130 min.
Monday 22 May 18:15, The ICA, cinema 1

Photographer Edward Barber presents the first instalment of a two-part programme which explores the fashion world through the documentary mode. Chop Suey (2001) takes us on an intense personal odyssey - an obsessive journey, seen through the eyes of one of the world's most famous fashion image-makers. Weber’s look at fashion and photography is unpredictable, startling and exciting. Part self-portrait, part documentary, the film is based on his discovery of a young male model. As a whole, it offers an autobiographical and self-reflexive mix covering Weber's key themes: photography, filmmaking and collecting.

Frederick Wiseman's Model (1980) forms the second instalment of a programme which takes a close look at fashion through the documentary mode. Unlike Bruce Weber’s subjective collage approach in Chop Suey, Weiseman applies a cool, understated view of the documentary observer. In Model he examines the intersection of fashion, business, advertising, photography, television and fantasy, navigating through the working lives of models at a New York agency.

Model, Dir. Frederick Wiseman, 1980. Courtesy BFI

Chop Suey, Dir. Bruce Weber. 2001