The Fashion in Film Festival (often abbreviated as FFF) is a biennial festival organised by Fashion in Film. The festival is currently in its fourth edition. It has previously been held at venues including

BFI Southbank BFI Southbank (from 1951 to 2007, known as the National Film Theatre) is the leading repertory cinema in the UK, specialising in seasons of classic, independent and non-English language films. It is operated by the British Film Institute. His ...

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is ...

, the

Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhi ...

, the

Horse Hospital The Horse Hospital is a Grade II listed not for profit, independent arts venue at Colonnade, Bloomsbury, central London. It has a curatorial focus on counter-cultural histories, sub-cultures and outsider as well as emerging artists. It delivers ...

and the Ciné lumière in London and the

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in New York.

History

The first Fashion in Film Festival was titled ''Between Stigma and Enigma'' and premiered in London in May 2006 at the Ciné lumière, the Horse Hospital and the

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA c ...

. The programme subsequently toured to Kino Světozor in Prague and the

in New York. The poster for the festival's visit to Prague was designed by Petr Babak; its bold colours and black hats suggest early films and later developments. The second Fashion in Film Festival was titled ''If Looks Could Kill'' and was held in London in May 2008 at BFI Southbank, Tate Modern, the Ciné lumière, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Horse Hospital. The third Fashion in Film Festival, ''Birds of Paradise'' was held in London in December 2010 at BFI Southbank,

, the Barbican Centre, and the Horse Hospital, touring to the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in April 2011.

Parent organisation ''Fashion in Film''

Fashion in Film is based at

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

in London. It was founded by Marketa Uhlirova, Roger Burton and Christel Tsilibaris in 2005 as a way of encouraging critical response to the use of fashion, clothing, jewellery, make-up and accessories in film, and addressing current practices in the context of film's long history. ''Fashion in Film'' commissions new public projects, bringing together artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers, performers and musicians. ''Fashion in Film'' present a mix of popular culture, art and the underground which shows how the moving image has represented and interpreted fashion as a concept, an industry and a cultural form. As well as curating the festival, Fashion in Film collaborates on smaller projects including special screenings, conferences and exhibitions.

Fashion in Film festivals

* April - May 2011: ''Birds of Paradise'' tour to

. * December 2010: ''Birds of Paradise'' in London. * November 2008: ''If Looks Could Kill'' tour to the Arnolfini in

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...

. * May 2008: ''If Looks Could Kill'' in London. * March 2007: ''Between Stigma and Enigma'' tour to the

, New York. * September 2006: ''Between Stigma and Enigma'' tour to Kino Svetozor, Prague. * May 2006: ''Between Stigma and Enigma''.

Other projects

* November 2011: conference: ''Secrets of the Orient'' at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. * October 2011: film programme at Holon Fashion Week at Design Museum, Holon. * June 2011: ''Fashion-Colour-Cinema-Inventory for Arnhem Mode Biennale. * May 2011: collaboration with Fokus Video Festival in Copenhagen. * November - December 2010: installed '' Parlour'', based on Edison's

kinetoscope The Kinetoscope is an precursors of film, early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic ...

at 12 locations in London showing archive film. Locations included

Somerset House Somerset House is a large Neoclassical complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The Georgian era quadrangle was built on the site of a Tudor palace ("O ...

, the V&A,

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in Upton Park and Lewisham Library. * September 2009: presented a programme of films at an international symposium at

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...

in Rotterdam. * October 2008 - March 2009: screenings at the V&A with Cold War Modern exhibition. * October 2007: presented a two-day event focusing on sweatshops at the

. * June 2007: collaborated with

Arnhem Mode Biënnale Arnhem ( or ; german: Arnheim; South Guelderish: ''Èrnem'') is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands about 55 km south east of Utrecht. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both banks of ...

HAPPY THOUGHTS WITH FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL
Arnhemmodebiennale * November 2006: ''The Death of Taste: unpicking the fashion cycle'' film programme at

References

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External links

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