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Fashion in Film Festival's Birds of Paradise programme will be touring to Bristol and Glasgow in March 2012. Find out more here.
- - - Fashion in Film's Kinoscopes to depart on tour. Find out more about their London-wide installation.
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Focusing on European and American newsreels, instruction and documentary films made in the Second World War (1939-1945), the first part of this programme looks at the rhetorical shift that occurred in fashion during this time of widespread hostile conflict. Confronted with the War, fashion responded by entering into a dialogue with politics. Suspending its autonomy, it rearticulated not only its own logic and purpose but also spoke of the society and the world around. (Programmed in collaboration with Imperial War Museum, London) + Lady with a Hat (En Dame med hatt) War newsreels will be followed by the Norwegian film director Elsa Kvamme presenting her 1999 documentary Lady with a Hat. The film is a staggering journey through the life and career of the Jewish hat maker May Aubert, with a special focus on the Second World War period. During this time the resourceful Aubert applied her millinery skills to the subversive use of smuggling 100, 000 Norwegian crowners from Sweden to Canada. NEWSREELS FEATURED: Fashion for Shelter (Mode pour abris)
Fashion Inspired by the War (La mode inspirée de la guerre)
Berlin Fashion School Tin Hats for All
Germ Masks for the Crowds Safety Styles Stockings
Day-to-Day Frock
Evening and Day Frock How To Make Do and Mend Rationing in Britain Clothes distribution to children in Athens, Greece Shoes distribution to Greek refugees in the Middle East Clothes and the Man Fashion show of recycled garments Clothing for War and Peace Fashion show for WAAF women
Stockholm: a fashion show in miniature
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