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26 - Hollywood and Beyond

Fashion and the Fiction Film

from Part IV - Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

By
Stella Bruzzi
Edited by
Christopher Breward ,
Beverly Lemire  and
Giorgio Riello
Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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Summary

The significant and enduring interrelationship between fashion and film is ‘a force as old as film itself’; it remains an enduring truism that cinema reflects the fashions of its age but also that it has dictated and inspired fashion. The story of this relationship invariably starts with and centres on Hollywood, a globally dominant force since cinema’s earliest days, and although this chapter will look beyond Hollywood (especially when it comes to more recent decades), it will follow suit for, as surrealist fashion (and occasional costume) designer Elsa Schiaparelli once declared: ‘what Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow’. From early examinations of clothes in film (such as Elizabeth Leese’s Costume Design in the Movies from 1976, a fabulous anecdotal compilation of random facts about costume and fashion in film) the rich but fragmented and at times elusive story of fashion and the fiction film has overwhelmingly prioritized Hollywood productions.

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 , pp. 934 - 968
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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