It’s nigh-on-impossible to conceive of a Political Fashion project without thinking immediately of Vivienne Westwood. Unorthodox, outspoken and always questioning, her film ‘Aldermaston’ is characteristic of a designer whose entire career has been marked out by didactic, politicised dress in which the medium is always all... [more]
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As our own Political Fashion season draws to a close, another examination of fashion through the moving image is just about to begin (there must be something in the air). The second Fashion in Film festival kicks off this Saturday, and therefore the time seemed right to speak with programme... [more]
Whether twisting gender, addressing climate change or advocating safer sex, Walter Van Beirendonck's design philosophy has always had a politicised bent – naturally, or perhaps unnaturally, his film for Political Fashion, in collaboration with Bart Hess, is no exception.
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The White Wedding serial comes to an incendiary climax; with the popes and the bridesmaids melting into insignificance, a ferocious Kate rocks out with a fistful of cake.
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The only thing we could expect with Peaches' take on Political Fashion was the unexpected. Her contribution takes the idea of the big-hair pap-happy 'glamour girl,' pushes this stereotype to the extreme, only to break it down.
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The penultimate campaign image features no trace of the bride's original wedding garb as the finally takes control of her destiny...and the popes. Kate smoulders in the accompanying movie, as the series takes a Lynchian, erotic direction.
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Trekking between shows, press-days and shoots, it’s perhaps hackneyed (not to mention a little complacent) to complain that fashion is murder. However, under the bannerhead If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence, this year's Fashion in Film festival explores this idea in a rather darker vein.... [more]
Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" is an inevitable point of comparison for the face-to-face Political Fashion film from new British label Original Sins.
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Rip it up and start again: shattered dreams are manifest in a tattered wedding dress. As Kate brandishes the scissors and the gown becomes increasingly withered, so the movie screen fractures to a shuddering, industrial soundtrack.
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Consumption, consumer, consuming... Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton-Jones explore all of the above in their contribution to Political Fashion – questioning what we ultimately gain as a society steeped in voracious acquisition.
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Enter stage left and right - the screaming popes! Jake and Dinos step up to their Bacon-esque roles as the clerics appointed to conduct the service. An extraordinary film sequence marking the arrival of some bad news and the bride's change or heart is projected onto ice, sparking a... [more]
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A more pastoral scene is explored in tonight's Agent Provocateur campaign image and film, with our bride considering her vows before a pastoral, watercolour scene buzzing with wildlife and local colour. The film leads into a more adult, nocturnal passage with Kate's multilayered foundation garments seemingly emitting... [more]
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From Joe Corré's screenplay directions that the heroine bride -Kate Moss- should appear "romantic, pink and full of hope" on the eve of her 'White Wedding', Nick Knight's first campaign image of six addresses all the classic elements of a kitsch boudoir scene: the powder-puff palette; the love heart vignette;... [more]
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The Brit Insurance Designs of the year show has just finished at the Design Museum and we have received the Replenishing Body equipment back. Over the course of the 2 month show the grid has been pressed over 41,000 times and has saved 2092 moving portraits of visitors.... [more]
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The first words – “Tell me about politics and fashion” – open up a veritable Pandora’s Box as Craig McDean’s camera gives us an insider’s view, reportage-style, of the industry’s own answers (or arguments) as to what is Political Fashion. Face –to-face, straight up, and distinctly... [more]
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For May, our first Political Fashion film comes courtesy of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, examining, dissembling and ultimately deconstructing the familiar forms and conventions of fashion - and specifically the fashion show.
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To our news of the forthcoming, six-part Agent Provocateur film series launching this Friday, we can now share details of the stellar cast. From Friday night, the demure Kate Moss will star as the virgin bride and on Sunday, the holy Jake and Dinos Chapman will be introduced into the... [more]
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Centred around childlike - even doll-like - imagery and innocence suffused with colour, Camille Vivier's Political Fashion film is indeed a feast for the eyes. But with its title referencing the practice of carving dead cuttlefish into angels and devils, 'Jenny Haniver' hints at something darker... [more]
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Any male GP will tell you it's good bedside manner to train one's eyes on uncontroversial things when an young lady exposes her breasts. A knowing Freja Beha Erichsen helps us out in her contribution to Political Fashion by offering us something to read instead.... [more]
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Do you always cry at weddings? Then let us give you something to truly weep about! This Friday, we will be unveiling the first of six, audacious new film shorts made in collaboration with Agent Provocateur that, together, tell the story of "the meltdown of marriage as an ideal". Scripted... [more]
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