Fashion + Film, the 1960s Revisited (NY, 3/12/10-5/1/10)

Fashion + Film, the 1960s Revisited
Cuny - City University of New York
from Friday, March 12, through Saturday, May 1

"Focusing on the 1960s, this multimedia exhibition will explore the cross-cultural relations between a number of European countries’ cinematography and fashion and their reception in modern U.S. culture. The show will present for the first time archival materials, photographs, costume sketches, interviews with stars (Archivio San Biagio, Cesena and Giuseppe Palmas Archive) and Italian TV commercials from the RAI (the Italian state television company). It will include feature films by Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Avventura, Blow- up, Zabriskie Point), Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers), and [...] Elio Petri (The 10th Victim)—screened on an ongoing basis—as well as clothing in the style of the period. In addition, the documentary Hollywood on the Tiber, presented at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, will be shown. The juxtaposition of this rich and diverse material along with film screenings will allow viewers to critically revisit one of the most important and innovative decades of the 20th century.

On Friday, March 12, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., a symposium will be presented on conjunction with the exhibition. The symposium will feature internationally renowned scholars in the fields of film, art and fashion. Adriana Berselli, the costume designer who worked with Antonioni’s L’Avventura, will explore the multifaceted relationship between fashion and film and their impact on the construction and projection of personal and collective identities and style."