SUNDAY RECOMMENDATION: Fashion Short Films
As a celebration of Copenhagen Fashion Film Festival 2019’s overall theme, this Sunday Recommendation is dedicated to fashion short films! Here we have selected three examples from SHOWStudio’s list “Fashion Films Submissions”, which illustrate some of the interesting aspects of fashion short film as a media. To follow up on film programs, talks, exhibitions and…
HOTEL MAGASIN DU NORD by CECILIE MAI SOMMER
This year’s winner of The Magasin Prize Cecilie Mai Sommer has finished her fantastic film - HOTEL MAGASIN DU NORD! We love it and look forward to following Cecilies work in the future. We asked her a few questions about fashion film and her work as a director. All the answers below. Check out the film HOTEL…
Copenhagen Fashion Film jury 2019 // Else Skjold
COPENHAGEN FASHION FILM JURY 2019 // ELSE SKJOLD Else Skjold is Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Design Management and Sustainability at Design School Denmark. She is trained in culture and communication (MA 2003, Copenhagen University), and has since worked as a freelance fashion writer for various Danish magazines (2003-7), and as a researcher at Design School Kolding…
Copenhagen Fashion Film 2019 // Raquel Couceiro
COPENHAGEN FASHION FILM JURY 2019 // RAQUEL COUCEIRO As SHOWstudio Head of Fashion Film, Raquel Couceiro works directly with Nick Knight to create, edit and commission fashion films and interviews for the site. Couceiro is also responsible for SHOWstudio’s presence at international fashion film festivals. As the main point of communication for all fashion film…
Copenhagen Fashion Film Jury 2019 // Mads Nørgaard
COPENHAGEN FASHION FILM JURY 2019 // MADS NØRGAARD Danish designer Mads Nørgaard states: We are deeply in love with fashion and with the changing of the times. However we also find that the western world is moving a little too fast at times.
To help slow everything down a bit, we are also in love with…
Copenhagen Fashion Film Jury 2019 // Marketa Uhlirova
COPENHAGEN FASHION FILM JURY 2019 // MARKETA UHLIROVA Marketa Uhlirova is an art historian with an interest in the display, representation and mediation of fashion and dress, especially in the moving image. She is co-founder and director of the Fashion in Film Festival, and a Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the…
SUNDAY RECOMMENDATION - BELLE DU JOUR
Belle du Jour (1967), directed by surrealist Luis Buñuel, was one of the first mainstream films that explored the sexuality of women. The film stars Catherine Deneuve in her perhaps most iconic role, and designer Yves Saint Laurent was enlisted to create the subtly subversive costumes the actress wears. Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine, a bourgeois housewife unable to commit sexually…
SUNDAY RECOMMENDATION: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Adapted from Abraham Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula (1897), Francis Ford Coppola (b. 1939) intended two things with his film: to be more faithful to the book than previous film adaptions and letting the costumes be the central focus of the movie, investing a great amount of money in the costume design. And the result,…
3 FILM RECOMMENDATIONS - AUTUMN
The leaves have turned yellow and the weather is getting colder, it’s time to put on your turtleneck and snug together inside with a cup of tea. Autumn has arrived, and that means time to watch films. Copenhagen Fashion Films recommends these three films about love and loss. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE The story…
