1. Cinema and Fashion Universe (red carpets, celebrity culture, …)
Fashion and Film
Fashion in Films
Films in Fashion
Cinema and Fashion Universe (red carpets, celebrity culture, …)
Fashion Films

2. Fashion and Cinema In common: Collective/équipe work
Art/Industry nature (unlike traditional arts): creative industries
Non-material ideas turning into concrete objects
Innovation and Technology
Both represent “zeitgeist” and sign of the times
Centrality of the Body
Other suggestions:
Maison/Companies (like Chanel/MGM: marks and brands)
Designer/Director (how to impose his own style inside a concept of industrial production)
Difficulty in being accepted as high culture

3. 1) Fashion in Films Presence of fashion a) within the plot
b) within the credits

4. Fashion in Films 1A: movies set in the fashion world
Examples:
Cover Girl (C. Vidor, 1944)
Funny Face (S. Donen, 1957)
Blow-Up (M. Antonioni, 1966)
Zoolander (B. Stiller, 2001)
The Devil Wears Prada (D. Frankel, 2006)
…and documentaries about fashion

5. Fashion in Films 1B: films with important contribution of designers or fashion houses
Examples:
Stagefright (Hitchcock/Dior, 1950)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Hepburn/Givenchy, 1961)
Annie Hall (Diane Keaton/Ralph Lauren/70’s trends, 1977)
American Gigolo (Richard Gere/Giorgio Armani, 1980)

6. Post scriptum: the designer (or fashion photographer) becomes director
Examples:
Who Are You Polly Magoo? (William Klein, 1966)
A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2011)

7. Films in Fashion How movies influence fashion. Examples:
Surrealism and Avant-Garde films in the 20’s on Elsa Schiaparelli (film still: “L’Inhumaine”, L’Herbier)

8. Examples:
exploring-an-inspiration/
The case of Rodarte
Depression-era glamour girl in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) spawned a raft of slinky midi-skirts, twin sets and jaunty berets like those that lent her character a strong appeal:
Films recreating past eras and renewing vintage trends (for example, 70s launched again by American Hustle, 2014): fashion.html