FASHION IN FILMS

Our fashion editor, Immy, explores the 7 films with the best fashion moments.

7BLOW UP (1996)

Set and made in the 60s this - quite slow starting - film takes place in London and is centred around an in-demand fashion photographer. The film has appearances from Jane Birkin and Veruschka and although the film veers away from fashion and towards other themes there is always a constant nod to the wardrobe of the ‘swinging sixties’ in London.

DIOR AND I (2014)

Different to the others, Dior and I is a documentary about the fashion house Dior, and Raf Simons’ first collection for the couture powerhouse. It gives everyone an insight into the goings on of a creative director and how the industry is changing to keep up with the 6 fast pace of fashion.

5CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC (2009)

The film revolves around Becky, a shopaholic who ends up being hired to write for a financial magazine. Although she isn’t the best financial advisor, she manages to thrive writing an anonymous column about keeping your money safe, and shoots to fame whilst changing her spending ways.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) 4

Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has several chic moments, intense subject matter aside. For vintage fashion fanatics, Margot Robbie’s wardrobe for Sharon Tate is as covetable as ever, even in 2020, with costume designer Arianne Philips doing major justice for the late actress’s famous style. Philips also helps to capture the whole setting of Hollywood and the differences between famous groups through wardrobe.

3Fred Astaire famously stars as

FUNNY FACE (1957)

photographer Dick Avery - a character based on Richard Avedon - while Audrey Hepburn takes a turn as a reluctant model plucked from her life in Greenwich Village and sent to Paris for the collections. Hubert Givenchy designed every single one of Hepburn’s costumes - all modelled against the backdrop of Parisian landmarks, from the Louvre to the Jardin des Tuileries.

2THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006)

With a costume budget of 1 million dollars, it is understandable whyDevil Wears Prada has some of the best fashion in film. Considering the film is about a fashion magazine ‘Runway’ and its Editor-In-Chief, Miranda Priestly (based on Vogue and Anna Wintour), the wardrobe had to be up to scratch. Although an original budget for costume was set at $100k, this was clearly broken to deck Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and even Gisele Bündchen in head-to-toe designer outfits. 1 Baz Luhrmann’s stylised adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

ROMEO AND JULIET (1996)

has such mesmerising shots created by the wardrobe of the Montagues’ beat up converse, neon hair and iconic Hawaiian shirts contrasting with slick black leather and velvet looks of the Capulets’. Romeo and Juliet themselves have a closet consisting of entirely clean Prada silhouettes. Although half of the wardrobe isn’t exactly ‘high fashion’, this film is set apart by the symbolism of the casual - and significantly tacky in some cases – wardrobes.

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