Fashion film festival

The British Film Institute is celebrating The Fashion in Film Festival. Far from frivolous, the festival crosses time and space to critically examine how the moving image has represented fashion as a concept, industry and cultural form.

Fashion in Film is a research project based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Its wide-reaching biennial festivals showcase films in which fashion and costume play vital roles.

The second London edition, If Looks Could Kill, explores the compelling links between cinema, fashion, crime and violence. Tackling themes such as disguise, the expression of desire, juvenile delinquency and the corruption of beauty, the festival features a string of underworld characters and their prosecutors whose highly effective costuming, styling and sartorial gestures helped define the iconography of detective pics, thrillers, gangster movies, films noirs and horror flicks.

Marketa Uhlirova introduces a programme where the style is the substance. The festival runs until 31st May.