Alice Hawkins
photographer

Dressing the Screen

The British Council is delighted to announce Dressing the Screen, an exhibition in China of close to 100 films that will bring together work by some of the worlds most famous and innovative fashion designers and film-makers from the last 50 years.

Organised in collaboration with the Chinese lifestyle magazine Modern Weekly International, and Swarovski Elements, Dressing the Screen will open in Beijing on 26th October 2012 and run for two weeks.

Featured designers and filmmakers will include SHOWstudio’s Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben, Alexander McQueen, Tim Walker, Rifat Ozbek, Vivienne Westwood, Ossie Clark, Hussein Chalayan, Gareth Pugh, Henry Holland and Burberry. The exhibition will highlight pivotal moments in fashion, film and technology – from pre-internet experiments such as the early films of Ossie Clark, Rifat Ozbek, Bodymap and Bella Freud, to pioneering technological advancements such as POST magazine, Burberry’s holographic catwalk show and Cassette Playa’s .  […]

Dressing the Screen provides a comprehensive look at British and Chinese fashion film divided into nine sections, starting with an exploration of early experiments in fashion film from the British Film Institute (BFI) archives, including work by Ossie Clark, Vivienne Westwood and Mary Quant. The exhibition then moves on to look at theatre, spectacle and the fashion performance featuring displays by Bodymap, the 1980s fashion label whose revolutionary catwalks were more performance art than runway, fashion performances by Leigh Bowery, one of British fashion’s seminal muses in an experimental video by John Maybury, and the early catwalk of Hussein Chalayan.

 A chronology of SHOWstudio, the pioneering fashion film website founded by Nick Knight in 2000, displays films collaborations with Alexander McQueen, Michael Clark, Maison Martin Margiela and Walter Van Beirendonck.

The main section of the UK contribution is dedicated to work created in the last five years from 2008-2012. Titled “Digital Revolution”, it features four wall-sized screens which form the centre piece of the show, featuring the groundbreaking work of film directors Ruth Hogben, Barnaby Roper, Inez Van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin and Marie Schuller, Quentin Jones, Justin Anderson, Elisha Smith-Leverock, and Sarah Chatfield for fashion designers such as Holly Fulton, Fred Butler and Henry Holland; and the work of visual artists and photographers such as Julie Verhoeven, Alice Hawkins and Sarah Piantadosi.

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