Fashion Talk: Fashion & Crime In Film

From the seventies onwards Film, like fashion became a mass media

communication in the form of the blockbuster: (perfume too became part of this mass appeal and franchising). In this talk we will explore fashion and crime in iconic films moments, taking in how fashion is used to communicate particular themes and eras, the use of vintage fashion and couture. We will take a journey and will take in the sartorial style of gangsters from the mean streets of New York all the way back to Birmingham’ s Sparkhill.

Sally Chidlow is a Cultural and Fashion Historian based in Moseley, Birmingham and is engaged in research at Birmingham City University, currently in the department of Media and English. She studied Textiles and Fashion design at Winchester School of art and the London College of Fashion and Art History at Birmingham Polytechnic and Newport School of Media Art and Design. In a long career in the creative industries she worked first of all for the Japanese designer Issey Miyake and as an exhibitions coordinator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and then as a Senior Lecturer in Textiles Design and Fashion History.

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