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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Beyond Espionage : Fashion under Socialism

Fashion in Film presents a new programme at French Connection Friday Late at the V&A, in conjunction with Cold War Modern.
Curated by Renate Stauss and Marketa Uhlirova and presented in association with BFI Southbank.

Fashion under socialism was essentially an anti-fashion: anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist. As a "clothing culture" it was supposed to aid the “all-round development of the socialist personality”. Yet, the clothing produced within a centrally planned economy often didn't fit the desires. This selection of some of the most eloquent newsreels and documentaries from post-war East Germany and Czechoslovakia explores the rhetorics of "socialist fashion". From displays of restrained modernist taste to the majestic International Fashion Congresses, fashion espionage and the mockery of 'Western' extravagance, this programme reveals complex issues and tensions, showing fashion as a key player in the Cold War propaganda.

To view the programme, click here.

With thanks to Progress Film-Verleih GmbH and Kratky Film Praha.