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FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL: IF LOOKS COULD KILL


The second Fashion in Film Festival takes a look at the lethal combination of style and crime in the movies.
La Perle (Henri d'Ursel, 1929)


Screening across five London arts venues between May 10 and 31, the festival will showcase fashion-focused films from the dawn of the silent era to the present day.
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)


From the rouged lips and slinky dresses of the femme fatale to the sharp suits of the gangster movie, fashion has long been used to glamourise crime on screen.
Ms .45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)


The selected films illustrate how fashion, costume and styling are employed in criminal narratives.
hronicle of a Love / Cronaca di un amore (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950)


A variety of crime-related genres will be covered, including comedy, detective, gangster, thriller, horror and film noir.
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)


Anne Smith, Dean of Fashion and Textiles at Central St Martins college and one of the festival's partners said: "The role of fashion, costume and styling in films spanning a hundred years reveals the special position that fashion holds in locating the drama of life, society and the human experience".
Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936)


Highlights include a gala screening of Frank Borzage's Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich as a thief...
Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936)


... Richard Fleischer's Follow me Quietly, a noir crime mystery in which a faceless dummy is used to identify a serial killer...
Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, 1949)


... Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage...
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)

Slideshow produced by Rebecca Davies