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From cinema's silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular technological advancements on screen, stunning silhouettes and striking spaces still have the ability to dazzle to dramatic effect. This book is the first to consider the significant interplay between fashion and interiors and their combined contribution to cinematic style from early film to the digital age.
With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock's
North by Northwest, to Coco Chanel's costumes for Gloria Swanson and a
Great Gatsby film-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship,
Cinematic Style describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy.
Shedding light on consumer culture, social history and gender politics as well as on fashion, film and interior design theory,
Cinematic Style considers the leading roles domestic spaces, quaint cafes, little black dresses and sharp suits have played in 20th and 21st-century film.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cinematic Style-Fashion, Architecture and the Interior on Film
1. Bedrooms, Boudoirs and Bathrooms: Modern Women, Seductive Spaces and Spectacular Silhouettes
2. Evil Lairs and Bachelor Dandies: Modernist Architecture, Spies and the Suit
3. Luxurious Longings: Queer Heterotopias in Décor and Dress
4. Grand Entrances: Staircases, Stages and Fashion Parades
5. Windows and Screens: Cinema, Department Stores and Boutique Displays
6. Dream Spaces: Film Sets as Fashion Flagships and Experiential Retail Environments
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography Bibliography Index
About the author
Jess Berry is Senior Lecturer in Design History at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research is concerned with fashion and the interior, the fashion city and intersections between fashion, art and new media. She is widely published in peer-review design journals and edited books, and is editor of Fashion Capital: Style Economies, Sites and Cultures (2012).
Summary
From cinema’s silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular technological advancements on screen, stunning silhouettes and striking spaces still have the ability to dazzle to dramatic effect. This book is the first to consider the significant interplay between fashion and interiors and their combined contribution to cinematic style from early film to the digital age.
With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, to Coco Chanel’s costumes for Gloria Swanson and a Great Gatsby film-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship, Cinematic Style describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy.
Shedding light on consumer culture, social history and gender politics as well as on fashion, film and interior design theory, Cinematic Style considers the leading roles domestic spaces, quaint cafes, little black dresses and sharp suits have played in 20th and 21st-century film.
Foreword
With examples from influential films and fashion designers, this book is the first to study fashion and the interior as related to cinematic contexts, from silent film to the digital age.
Additional text
Berry brings themes from feminist theory, and to a lesser degree, Queer theory, to bear on this slice through film history to consider intersections between fashion, design and groupings of films (many canonical) from the 1920s and 1930s, the mid- and late 20th-century, and more recent examples. Anyone with an interest in masquerade, transformation, performativity, staging, interiority, gender, and sexuality, as well as camp, Queer nostalgia, and Queer heterotopias, fashion and luxury, will find much to intrigue them in here.
