This article examines the project ‘Women’s Tales’, an on-going series of short films that fashion designer Miuccia Prada commissioned from international female directors, among them Lucrecia Martel, Ava DuVernay and Agnès Varda. By situating this endeavour in relation to female agency, authorial expressivity, and consumerism, it is argued that the project conforms to postfeminist media culture for its celebration of feminine bonds, make-over strategies and the use of luxury as a tool for pleasure and empowerment. As a series of fashion films at the interstices of different systems: advertisement and art, film and online media, experimental and mainstream practices, ‘Women’s Tales’ occasionally contain some critical potential, but struggle t...
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Article about the film Personal Shopper (2016), dir. Olivier Assayas, France: CG Cinéma
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This article explores some of the key dynamics of the UK fashion sector as an example of a post-indu...
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My broad aim in this article is to explore the reception of Hollywood fashions in French mass circul...
Both Sofia Coppola and Mia Hansen-Løve’s first three films can be understood as trilogies of female ...
The aim of the paper is to analyze the contribution of celebrity culture to the re-shaping of the fa...
ModaCult is an academic research centre that has tried, since its creation in 1995 , to support dial...
This article shows the relevance of the concept of “mediatization” for understanding the contemporar...
This chapter is an updated and revised version of an article initially published in the journal Fash...
In neoliberal societies, our personal lives are increasingly subject to market logics. Feminism has ...
Online promotional fashion film has become a significant aspect of the symbolic production of fashio...
We Should All Be Feminists, the speech given in 2012 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, became a fashionab...
While the interest in fashion in cinema is now thriving, it had traditionally been overlooked within...
Article about the film Personal Shopper (2016), dir. Olivier Assayas, France: CG Cinéma
The concept of mediatization concerns the role and influence of the media in both society and the fi...
This article explores some of the key dynamics of the UK fashion sector as an example of a post-indu...
This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the glamorization of the court...
In the emerging ‘video-first world’ of the last decade, global fashion brands have made the moving i...
My broad aim in this article is to explore the reception of Hollywood fashions in French mass circul...
Both Sofia Coppola and Mia Hansen-Løve’s first three films can be understood as trilogies of female ...
The aim of the paper is to analyze the contribution of celebrity culture to the re-shaping of the fa...
ModaCult is an academic research centre that has tried, since its creation in 1995 , to support dial...
This article shows the relevance of the concept of “mediatization” for understanding the contemporar...
This chapter is an updated and revised version of an article initially published in the journal Fash...
In neoliberal societies, our personal lives are increasingly subject to market logics. Feminism has ...
Online promotional fashion film has become a significant aspect of the symbolic production of fashio...
We Should All Be Feminists, the speech given in 2012 by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, became a fashionab...
While the interest in fashion in cinema is now thriving, it had traditionally been overlooked within...
Article about the film Personal Shopper (2016), dir. Olivier Assayas, France: CG Cinéma
The concept of mediatization concerns the role and influence of the media in both society and the fi...