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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Vertigo
dir. Alfred Hitchcock. USA 1958, 35mm, 128 mins.

Thursday 18 May 19:00 Ciné Lumière

Many Hitchcock films focus on transgressive female characters – strong but troubled figures who are ultimately punished for their deviance. Alongside elements of suspense and romance, the films often unfold as investigations into these women, and, by implication, into femininity itself. Appearance becomes crucial here, with costume and styling used to construct an image which is alluring, powerful and also, implicitly, dangerous. Film historian Adrian Garvey presents a lecture illustrated with film excerpts from Hitchcock films including Rebecca (1940), Rear Window (1954) and Marnie (1964), considering how different ideas of fashion and femininity are represented. Followed by the screening of Vertigo.

Vertigo, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958