Funny Face + Q&a

Join us for the first day of the Fashion Revolution Weekend!
 
An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
Starring fashion icon par excellence Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face embodies the mythology of fashion's central role in femininity and it transformative power. However, like many popular treatments of fashion, it also contains a critique of the fashion industry and of dominant ideals of white western femininity. The power of fashion media to manipulate female consumers is made explicit and to some extent parodied, yet in the end we are expected to recognise the pleasure and 'naturalness' of fashion's grip on female hope and desire. This film begs the question of how fashion ideology is circulated now, and to what extent and how we might resist its logics, despite our need to go beyond them for the sake of the planet.

For the Q&A after the film, we will be joined by Dr Vanessa Brown and Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd.