It looks like that from the 10th-31st May, I won’t be using the ‘I’m washing my hair’ stay-in excuse because I am actually going to be preoccupying myself with much of this year’s ‘Fashion in Film Festival’. I saw a lot of the last one all the way back in early-Style Bubble years in 2006 but will attempt to catch all of the film programme this time round especially with such an alluring theme…
"If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence"
The clever people FFF have honestly faced up to the fact that films about fashion are rather shite but the number of films utilising fashion in some way or another are numerous and of a far better quality and so using this theme have picked up on the white gloves left at crimescenes, a slick of red lippie, a sharp suit and other modes of disguise and given us a stonking selection of films that are hard to find on la DVD with a lot of early silent films that are rarely shown.
The FFF will use four London venues; BFI Southbank, Cin√© lumi√®re, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tate Modern and The Horse Hospital and they have also roped in talks and introductions from designers, critics and historians including the likes of Bella Freud and Dylan Jones (GQ editor). All in all, I hope to come armed with reviews, tidbits and nuggets of information that probably I alone will find fascinating, to bore you all with (or if of course you’re into this sort of thing and you aren’t a Londoner, then you probably won’t fall off your chair asleep.) The programme is even more packed than last time so bye bye Great British Menu and hello pre-cinema quickie dinners…
Am actually going to be in London for 3 days in May (could I possibly beg for some shopping recommendations tending towards the vintage if at all possible???). Will definitely try and check some of these out. Am feeling quite nerdily excited about this now.
I love the look of that poster.
I love films that utilise fashion in a great way, I think the best were still the old film noir movies, french new wave and old English movies, its really weird how they always have an influence on people as well, cos I remember seeing jean seberg in √Ä bout de souffle and getting my mum to sew me the stripped sailor kind of dress she wore also the way Rita Hayworth used to smoke cigarettes while wearing those really long dresses made me think smoking looked so cool (which I now know its not) also the dresses josephine baker wore in princess tamtam…love it. I’m really looking forward to your reviews
Oh yeah, no I havent been able to get Preen Magazine, I’ve been looking around for months now, I dont think its available in the UK which is a wee bit annoying.
Ohh this looks wonderful. its such a shame i don’t live in london.
This is fantastic. I wish I could go, instead I will just have to watch these myself sometime!
That sounds amazing, have a great time! I’m starting a fashion blog of my own, do you mind if I put you in my links?
http://getdressed-erin.blogspot.com/
Hi Susie, I just wanted to say thank you so much for adding my blog to your links list! Your site is my #1 referrer! I really appreciate it, it’s been somewhat daunting getting involved in fashion blogging just because there are so many established bloggers out there so that was really awesome of you.
Still love your blog, I’m a daily reader!
Allyson
It’s positively inexpressible how shit I feel about my not going to be there. *sigh*
/DCB.
bollocks!!! Bugger soaring petrol prices Imelda’s going to fire-up the Gulfstream and head to the Mother Country! You have all the fun 🙁
This looks like a total dream to me, will have to come up as a post exam treat..
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I’m unfortunately missing this this year due to exams, but I went to the last one two years ago and it was great. The theme this year is really upsetting me because it sounds incredible.
OKAY. What the fuck is up with the pseudo Arabic calligraphy being associated with words like ‘Crime and violence’ ? Frankly, I’m really shocked but this isn’t the first time that Arab culture is being misused and that people completely ignore it.
Nanker… you are extremely observant…. did NOT pick that one up at all…. and I’m a little shocked to be honest…. actually, I think I may even write an email to enquire about this…
Good to see Debate is alive and well. Firstly there is no association between the poster and Islam in any way, form or content. Nanker what‚Äôs up with you language? Bad language is not acceptable in Islam, period. Islam is a wonderful religion and doesn‚Äôt need this kind of unhelpful observation. Your seriously unobservant and culturally literate hence your amazing discovery of Arabic Calligraphy. Your point is noted but a bit thick to be frank. It‚Äôs the sort of comment that‚Äôs starts wars then at the end no one has any idea what they are fighting about. The Calligraphy you are referring to says, “If looks could kill‚Äù. Clearly you have chosen to associate the secondary line with the typography of the title. One can always mix politics with art or just see if for what it is.
Interesting debate. The designer of the type works all over the world
Including the Middle East and has influences of all cultures in his work. He embraces cultural designs, mixes them up and reuses them in a different way. There is no way if you look at the poster it says Islam. We live in a multicultural society in London. I think you’re a bit blinkered but having said that there should be awareness about the amount of crime against women in the Islamic world for the way they look. Muslims are killing Arabic women and men daily for the way they look. This is a fact. So you have infact raised an issue that needs to be addressed. So instead of looking at your amazing observation in a typical negative way, see it as raising awareness for real issues that unfortunately are ignored by Islamic and western cultures. To ignore this is to be ignorant of current cultural issues in the Middle East especially Iraq.. Anyway Nanker how do you know the designer is not himself Arabic and is just doing things his way.
But to answer you question there is no direct link between the type, which is supposed to look sharp, knives and axes with dripping blood.
I can see the visual link a bit between Arabic type and so what? If a Chinese style take away type had been used, would we be saying the china is portrayed in a bad light again…because there so great of course on human rights…maybe instead of condemning the type you should do something constructive about current cultural issues…do some good rather that talking crap. So does this mean the moderate Islamic world will now condemn the designer for some unspeakable crime against Islam. Maybe the typography is just a reflection of the time we live in? Nanker, you should think before you write next time and try and give some deeper thought to your response and the reality of the world you live in. It‚Äôs a mess and very complicated. Personally I love Islam and Islamic culture. Having grown up and also worked in the Middle East I see no connection what so ever the FFF poster and some negative overtone of Islam.
I don’t think you should be shocked, you should be ashamed for writing what you did and suggesting that Arabic culture is being mis used again. What on earth are you talking about? Do you read any books? Do you walk the streets of London? Do you go to the Mosque? Do you actually know anything about Islam?
Do you actually know what is going on in the world and about world politics?
In fact Nanker what do you do?