Books
Discover our books and festival catalogues featuring essays by renowned scholars in the fields of fashion, cinema, costume design, art, theatre, dance, queer studies and more. With a focus on rarely screened archival films and contemporary works, our publications explore the profound impact of fashion on storytelling, aesthetics, and cinematic history.
Birds of Paradise: Costume as Cinematic Spectacle, 2013
If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence, 2008
Between Stigma and Enigma: Fashion in Film Festival Catalogue, 2006
Marcel L'Herbier: Dossier, 2014
Texts
Since 2006 we have written and commissioned dozens of essays on various aspects of fashion and costume in cinema. We have also interviewed artists, fashion and film curators about their practice.
The Enigma of the Fashion Object
Marketa Uhlirova
Qui Êtes-Vous, Polly Maggoo?
Pamela Church Gibson
Loving the Alien
Roger K. Burton
Hitchcock’s Woman of Fashion
Adrian Garvey
The Extinct Globe and the Found Glove
Petra Dominková and Václav Kofroň
Richter’s Films and the Role of the Radical Artist 1927-1941
Marion von Hofacker
Conversation with Mariann Lewinsky
Caroline Evans et al.
Vera Chytilová’s Ceiling
Peter Hames
Shoes, Eroticism and Fetish
Christel Tsilibaris
Erwin Wurm’s 59 Positions
Renate Stauss
Dressing and Undressing
Alistair O’Neill
