Fashion in Film

Clothing is never just clothing. It’s a language of its own. 

From hand-crafted textiles captured across six continents to couture made from the world’s discarded clothes, this season explores the deep intersections between dress, identity, technology and ecology. Across four screenings guided by leading artists, curators and academics, fashion becomes a lens for questioning how we live, create and connect.

Jodie Mack’s The Grand Bizarre transforms 85,000 frames of global textile patterns into a pulsating journey through cultural memory and communication systems. Fashion curator Isabella Coraça introduces Take 2: Nature’s Resources, a free, family-friendly programme of animated shorts celebrating human and nonhuman creativity. Margarita Louca, Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, presents We Are All Chimeras, a provocative set of digital works that collapse the boundary between the organic and the synthetic. Finally, the first UK screening of Dust to Dust follows designer Yuima Nakazato from the world's largest hub for discarded clothes to the haute couture runway, asking how fashion can respond to the ecological cost of its own industry.

Spanning animation, documentary, and digital media, these works challenge us to see fashion not as surface but as substance, woven into the environmental, cultural and technological fabric of our time.

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