Festivals

Explore our thematic festival seasons celebrating the intricate interplay between fashion, textiles and cinema. We curate diverse programmes spanning documentaries, artist cinema and contemporary fashion screen cultures alongside classics and hidden gems from European, American, and global archives. Placing fashion and costume design at the forefront of interest, we craft vibrant programmes that invite audiences on captivating journeys.

Grounded: Fashion's Entanglements with Nature 

LONDON  |  NEW YORK May-July 2025

In response to the ongoing climate and ecological crisis, Fashion in Film Festival’s latest edition takes cinema as a lens through which to consider the entanglements between fashion, the human body and nature - both real and imagined.

Layering: Fashion, Art, Cinema

8–10 March 2019  MIAMI

A three-day festival of film screenings, talks and panels exploring the links between fashion, cinema and art. Presented in association with Miami International Film Festival and Miami Design District.

Between Stigma and Enigma

2006–2007  LONDON | PRAGUE | NEW YORK  | ARNHEM

Fashion in Film Festival’s inaugural edition is a retrospective showcase exploring cinema’s ambiguous attitudes towards fashion.

If Looks Could Kill 

10–31 May 2008  LONDON | UK | NEW YORK

From stolen pearls to the postmodern gangster silhouette, the season explores the compelling links between cinema, fashion, crime and violence.

Birds of Paradise

1–12 December 2010  LONDON | NEW YORK | COPENHAGEN

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Marcel L’Herbier: Fabricating Dreams

10–19 May 2013  LONDON

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Frame By Frame: Dissecting The Fashion Moving Image Now

17–24 March 2015  LONDON

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Wearing Time

28–31 January 2016  MIAMI

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Wearing Time

28–31 January 2016  MIAMI

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Birds of Paradise

 5–18 March 2012 BRISTOL | GLASGOW

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If Looks Could Kill 

28–30 November 2008 BRISTOL

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If Looks Could Kill 

10–31 May 2008  LONDON | UK | NEW YORK

From stolen pearls to the postmodern gangster silhouette, the season explores the compelling links between cinema, fashion, crime and violence.

Fashion in Film Festival & Happy in Arnhem

15–17 June 2007  ARNHEM

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Between Stigma and Enigma

17–25 March 2007 NEW YORK

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Between Stigma and Enigma

2006–2007  LONDON | PRAGUE | NEW YORK  | ARNHEM

Fashion in Film Festival’s inaugural edition is a retrospective showcase exploring cinema’s ambiguous attitudes towards fashion.

Between Stigma and Enigma

27–28 September 2006  PRAGUE

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Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream

6–22 April 2018 NEW YORK

Probing into different (though often overlapping) conceptions of time, the festival asks what concrete manifestations of time fashion and clothing enable.

Frame By Frame: Dissecting The Fashion Moving Image Now

17–24 March 2015  LONDON

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Birds of Paradise

15 April–2 May 2011  NEW YORK

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Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream

11–26 March 2017 LONDON

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Marcel L’Herbier: Fabricating Dreams

10–19 May 2013  LONDON

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Birds of Paradise

1–12 December 2010  LONDON | NEW YORK | COPENHAGEN

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