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Video: Catwalk to Creation: a docu-series

Catwalk to Creation is the journey or two sustainable garments, in reverse. Source: Global Sustainability Film Awards, Youtube

Culture

Vogue to premier Met Ball film: The First Monday in May

London - American Vogue is to release a new documentary about its annual Met Ball gala, dubbed the Super Bowl equivalent for the social fashion calendar. Following the days leading up to the annual Met Ball, (the gala that marks the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring exhibition), director Andrew Rossi traces the steps of Anna...

Fashion

Miu Miu premieres film at Venice Film Festival

Miu Miu has presented its latest film short at the Venice Film Festival this week. In collaboration with filmmaker Agnès Varda, widely recognised as the “grandmother of Nouvelle Vague”, the new film's title is 'Les 3 Boutons.' The plot follows a young girl, played by emerging actress Jasmine Thiré, who receives a Disney-like ball gown in the...

Fashion

Kristen Stewart to take on role of Coco Chanel

Karl Lagerfeld has directed a new film about Coco Chanel, to be shown at the Chanel Métiers d'Arts show on December 1. Lagerfeld casted American actress Kristen Stewart to play the iconic founder, as part of a fictional biopic. The film was conceived entirely by the Chanel creative director, and shot at Luc Besson's studio in Paris in July....

Culture

Tom Ford to direct new Hollywood film

Designer Tom Ford is to follow up his directorial debut with a second Hollywood motion picture. Following his Oscar-nominated 2009 debut film A Single Man, the former Gucci creative director designer revealed he is in the "early stages" of casting a new thriller, which he has personally adapted from a novel. The name of the book has not yet been...

Apparel

Saint Laurent film not supported by Fondation YSL

This week another biopic of designer Yves Saint Laurent will debut at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, however, was met with stern criticism and did not have the support of Saint Laurent's partner Pierre Bergé, who is also the founder of the Fondation Saint Laurent. This meant the film did not have access to the 6000 vintage outfits that are...