Week 2 Flashcards
Motion in Film
- Film has a strong presence, we can watch it whenever we please
- Motion is linked to modernity, obsession with depicting movement and speed = progress in tech
Early Photography
- Depicting the dressed body, how it operates
- Eadward Muybridge
- Jacques Henri Latigue, b 1893
- Martin Munkacsi, 1896
Early Film: George Melies
- Master of using film in magical ways
- Trip to the moon, 1902
- Projected fashion films onto the paris streets
Early Photographers: George Hoynigen
Photographer that experimented with film, lost documentary on french vogue
Jeanne Beker
Fashion Television, Canada 1985- 2012
Rifat Ozbeck
- London Fashion Week 1989
- Bypassed the fashion show by presenting fashion shows (Paul Poiret also showed film instead of fashion show to bypass customs/costs)
Anna-Nicole Ziesche
Relationship between fashion and art, emotional connection
Hussein Chalayan
- Artist and designer
- Uses film to expand on his ideas, exists in parallel to his designs
Early 2000s designers
- Begin to use video projections in their shows
- McQueen art directed his own films (Irene, In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Plato’s Atlantis, Kate Moss hologram)
- Vitkor and Rolf projections onto the garments
- Hamish Morrow
Showstudio
- Launched by Peter Seville and Nick Knight in 2000
- Pioneered fashion website, using web as a platform to show fashion and film
- At the time, fashion houses were interested in large budget films rather than low brow cinema, thought it was too pedestrian/commercial
Early Documentaries
- Documentaries gave us opportunity to see bts
- Promotional and intimate, gave idealized image of bts
- Consumer but high end
- Post war fashion connection to film
- Fashion- fantasy connection occurs throughout cinema history
- Fashion fantasy richard grey 1946
- Norman hartnell’s 1938 spring collection making fahsion
Early Film: Warner’s corset ad
Connection between ready to wear and film
Early Film: Newsreels
1920s; newsreels become popular format for promoting latest fashions, promoted film and fashion at the same time (mostly males attending cinema, encouraged women to join)
Early Fashion Photography: Erwin Blumenfeld
- Pitched film ideas through his photography
- Moved his photo concepts, such as kaleidoscope, overlap, into film
Early Fashion Photography: Guy Bordin
Experimented with film during his photoshoots
Ex Sayoko Yamaguchi vogue