The launch of new work by Wolfgang Tillmans is met with considerable anticipation. So it was fun to watch art and fashion types wandering the narrow paths around Bethnal Green tube station with map in hand last night, searching for the tiny street in London's East end where Maureen Paley's... [more]
Between launching our first batch of 1/1 Favourites and the competition's closing deadline a surge of new recruits have graced the 1/1 Gallery. Our very own creative pundit, Nick Knight has since analysed the talent and the resulting new favourites have been posted.
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As a self-confessed Dietrich groupie, the highlight of the fashion in festival for me was always going to be the 1936 comedy 'Desire', especially when set within the Deco confines of the Ciné Lumière in Kensington. Décor aside, the legendary, lovely Marlene never fails to please. 'Desire' was the first... [more]
I have been teaching a module called 'Style in Context' for the past few years at Westminster University. The module is for 2nd year BA fashion/music and interactive students with the emphasis on looking at new ways of exploring fashion. I change the brief every year with this years brief... [more]
Last night Central St Martins hosted an 'in conversation' between designer Marc Jacobs and writer Sarah Mower, who was appointed Professor at St. Martins last year. It was quite a coup, even for the esteemed college, and the industry turn-out was interstellar: Venetia Scott, Katie Grand, Giles Deacon, Jonathan Saunders,... [more]
I was treated to a Lily Cole double bill this week. Well, that's to say I took up two of the flame-haired lovely's recommendations from the Fashion In Film festival's programme: on Tuesday night, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger and yesterday Plein Soleil (pictured). I quickly learnt that a silent, feature-length... [more]
With a specially-commissioned film season such as Political Fashion, the reality is that the deadline for our day-to-day schedule can only be pushed so far. While our daily film season is now on a short hiatus, pending contributions from a whole host of fashion luminaries will be showcased later this... [more]
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In the build-up to the final deadline of our 1/1: Art Of Football competition on Sunday 18 May, you can now view a gallery of our favourites, selected from the entries received thusfar. Showing just how wide the brief could potentially be pushed, photography, collage, crafty needlework and even good... [more]
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Arguably the most visible face of Political Fashion, in recent months, the Christian Dior-clad First Lady of France Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is inspiration to Sam McKnight for his decidedly tongue-in-cheek film 'Pussycat'
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This 'pitch-perfect' scene of pastoral idyll is Paul Bruty's pick from the current entries to our 1/1: Art Of Football competition, in partnership with NIKE. With the deadline looming large, you have until this Sunday to submit your artwork inspired by the beautiful game. To check out the competition (or... [more]
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Our latest contribution to Political Fashion, from hair stylist Eamonn Hughes, showcases vintage Yamamoto, an androgynous model and his own inimitable hair skills against the iconic backdrops of London's own seat of political power, Westminster.
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Taking us away from both the gloss of fashion and the polish of politics, the ideas addressed (or perhaps attacked) by Black Metal band Gorgoroth in Joachim Norvik and Sølve Sundsbø’s film nevertheless serve to underline the constant themes of our Political Fashion debate.
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It's probably old news to you, but forgive me: I wasn't even aware Cindy Sherman had made a feature film. So it was on the hottest weekend of the year that I found myself in Tate Modern on Sunday, watching her 1997 psycho-horror film Office Killer as part of... [more]
Thomas Fuller declared “Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked” – and indeed sometimes Political Fashion doesn’t need any clothes at all to make its point. Ruth Hogben's film illustrates this perfectly, as her star Agyness dons nothing more than free-floating balloons and... [more]
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Viktor & Rolf’s Autumn/Winter ’08-09 collection was emblazoned with it, their soundtrack intoned it and now there’s only one word on their models’ lips: “NO”. But the question remains: what exactly are they saying “No” to? In this contribution to Political Fashion, the really interesting thing... [more]
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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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