Second collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image - now bigger and better than ever!
launching in New York on 15 April 2011. Our partners are MoMI's Chief Curator David Schwartz, Ron Gregg at Yale University and Eugenia Paulicelli at The Graduate Center, CUNY. We are very excited.

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Fashion in Film has been invited to create a new installation for the 2011 edition of Arnhem Mode Biannale under the Creative Direction of Joff Moolhuizen. Watch this space!

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

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Legendary London fashion designer Pam Hogg is as cutting-edge as ever. She gives us her picks of last year’s festival.

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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 from The Horse Hospital and SU Arts, 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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credits, sponsors and partners

We have done it again.
The 3rd Fashion in Film Festival launches across leading London venues in early December 2010.

Birds of Paradise, an intoxicating exploration of costume as a form of cinematic spectacle throughout European and American cinema, promises exclusive screenings of rare and unseen films, plus two special commissions as part of the season: an installation for Somerset House by the award-winning Jason Bruges Studio and a London-wide Kinoscope Parlour, an installation of six peephole machines designed by Mark Garside after Thomas A. Edison’s kinetoscopes.

“Fashion in Film Festival’s third edition ‘Rare Birds of Paradise’ is showing so many great and rare films this December and there just isn’t enough time to fit them all in!” – Pam Hogg

Legendary London fashion designer Pam Hogg is as cutting-edge as ever. Here she gives us her picks of this year’s festival:

Salomé, USA 1923. Dir Charles Bryant.
Moulin Rouge, Great Britain 1928. Dir E.A. Dupont.
Puce Moment, USA 1949. Dir Kenneth Anger.
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Flash Projects presents original vintage photographs and films by Jean Clemmer, exploring fantasy, sensuality and haute couture in 1960s Paris. Staged to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Canned Candies, first published in Paris in 1969 as Nues, this is the UK premiere of the stunningly original collaboration of Salvador Dalí’s personal photographer Clemmer and the visionary of French fashion, Paco Rabanne. The exhibition captures the utopian dreams of an era, exploring the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Capturing 1960s’ sexual freedom, the erotic photographs feature Rabanne's famed futuristic rhodoid and aluminium chain-mail jewellery.

MA Fashion and Film
London College of Fashion

This is a unique course in its combination of the study of fashion and film.  It allows students to learn about the theoretical aspects of fashion and film while at the same time gaining an understanding of the practical nature of costume design. Designed to bridge the gap between undergraduate provision and research in this area, it will provide academic progression for students from a wide range of fashion, cultural studies and film courses.
For more information visit www.fashion.arts.ac.uk or email enquiries@fashion.arts.ac.uk

Fashion, Film & Consumption

The first issue of the peer-reviewed journalFashion, Film & Consumption launches early in 2011. It is designed to provide an arena for the discussion of research, methods and practice within the fields of film, fashion, design, history, art history and heritage. London College of Fashion’s Pamela Church Gibson is the Editor.

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
25 September 2010 - 9 January 2011
Victoria and Albert Museum

Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes represent a unique collaborative moment in dance, art and performance history. Extraordinary Orientalist and modernist costumes and sets, designed by Léon Bakst and others, were brought to life through the visionary choreography and dance of Vaslav Nijinsky, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina and Anna Pavlova. This major exhibition at the V&A documents the company in all its glory from 1909-1929 and makes great use of contextual film.

Vestoj

Vestoj, edited by Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, is an exciting new journal that wants to open up a dialogue between theory and practice. Combining critical thinking ‘and a bit of good old-fashioned glamour’, Vestoj aims to cultivate an even greater understanding for the discipline. Published annually, Vestoj exists outside of seasonally-based trends and news-focused articles. Current second issue out now is on Fashion and Magic, and has an interview with Kenneth Anger by Aaron Rose.