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The Fashioning of Hollywood
Designer Tom Ford makes a fashionalble debut into film with A Single Man
It seems wherever you look; fashion and film go hand in hand. From the birth of the modern film industry, high fashion has featured as inspiration, subject and runway platform. Today the bonds of fashion and cinema have reached new creative heights, with a wave of fashion related movie projects including designer Tom Ford’s recent directorial debut.
The marriage of fashion and film has predominately been coupled by the modern PR empire. Hollywood is a place of glitz, glamour, artistry… and money.
The publicity of brands, products and films have become unabashedly interwoven. But that is not to say that this hybrid western culture does not provide new platforms for creative collaboration!
Fashion Makes the Boxoffice
The fashion industry has always been one of supreme interest to filmmakers. The intriguing stylish world of high fashion has become a subject for documentaries, designer bios and blockbusters alike. In recent years we have seen a cinematic surge in fashion-related features, from Valentino to Coco Avant Chanel.
Audrey Tatou stars as designer icon Coco Chanel in the 2009 film Current Chanel head designer Karl Langerfeld was
the eccentric subject of the 2007 documentary
This amusing 2008 documentary explored the retirement
of exuberent Valentino Garavani from his fashion empire
One fashion icon that has recently inspired Hollywood, is Editor in Chief of American Vogue Anna Wintour. The candid documentary The September Issue released in 2009, offered a rare insight into the ice queen of the international fashion world, and proved a box office sensation. The blockbuster The Devil Wears Prada starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, was indisputably based on Anna Wintour, with the film based on the book by Wintour’s ex-assistant!
Meryl Streep channels the ruthless fashion icon Anna Wintour Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintur as the subject
of acclaimed documentary 'The September Issue'
The Film Star as Fashion Muse
Since the golden era of 1950s Hollywood, fashion designers have been enthralled by the beauty and ethereal status of acting stars. The classic example is of course Audrey Hepburn’s enduring collaboration with Herbert Givenchy. Hepburn wore Givenchy’s show-stopping designs for many of her iconic film roles, including the memorable Little Black Dress (giving way to the cult of the LBD) in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Hepburn with Designer Herbert Givenchy Breakfast at Tiffany's spawned fashion Givenchy dress in 1954 film Sabrina
cult classic The 'LBD' Little BLack Dress
Today, celebrity film personalities have become an integral part of the fashion world as muse for designers, marketing gurus, and style icons. These actresses and actors grace the covers of high fashion magazines, appear at the latest catwalk shows, promote labels in top advertising campaigns, and even dabble in designing!
Modern Muses...
Scarlett Johansson models for Mango Sienna Miller shows off a design Kate Bosworth with Chanel's Karl Langerfeld
from her label Twenty8Twelve
Oscar winner Cate Blanchett models for US Vogue British actress Emma Watson scores top fashion
honours as the current face of Burberry
Actresses take front row at Calvin Klein S/S10 (from left);
Eva Mendes, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne and Thandie Newton
Red Carpet Mania
The hype surrounding the slew of film award ceremonies is always eclipsed by the red carpet fashions. Who is wearing what… Who is their designer… Who is best dressed?? Asked who won the best actress academy awards over the years, the couture they wore for the ceremony seems as important as the statuette they held.
The 2001 Best Actress Oscar was won for the first time by an African American woman. Halle Berry took the award for her performance in Monster’s Ball, yet it seemed the achievement was put alongside designer Ellie Saab’s own triumph in the dress she wore. Saab’s fashion career was catapulted into new heights of success from the publicity Berry offered.
The red carpet trends continue with the lead up to the Academy Awards in March, the latest fashion media frenzy has popped up from the BAFTA ceremony.
Red Carpet Fashion at the BAFTAs... Audrey Tatou, Carey Mulligan and Kate Winslet strut their stuff in London
Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man emerged at the Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim, with star power including Julianne Moore and Colin Firth who is nominated for an Oscar for his role, the designer has merged fashion with film creativity.
Oscar-nominee Colin Firth works 1960s dapper style in A Single Man Designer Tom Ford with his
film's actress Julianne Moore
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