Wenders and Yamamoto
KIC, Zagreb, organized the 2nd ARTERIA – Film Week about Artists, February 15-19, 2017, which featured Wim Wenders' film: A Notebook on Cities and Clothes, which is a documented film a record of a series of Wenders' conversations with Yamamato about fashion and cities (Paris, Tokyo). The film is conceived in the form of a kind of visual diary - an essay on the creative work of fashion - clothing creator Yohji Yamamoto, but also on the major issues of the fashion system today.
After the screening, fashion theorist Tonči Vladislavić (CIMO - Center for research of fashion and clothing) gave a lecture on Wenders and Yamamoto - a film dialogue on fashion, where two great authors deal with two fashion cities. historically and spiritually opposing identities.
The film is a real challenge for fashion theorists because through Paris, the world center of haute couture and western fashion thinking, and on the other side of Tokyo, a place of strong heritage and opposite spiritual capital, therefore more important city for Yamamoto, we discover an exceptional human and artistic encounter. ways of thinking. What Yamamoto brought with him and offered to Paris represents a deconstructive contribution to the 1980s fashion years of Paris and the West in general, and excellent indicators of cultural roots for this can be found in the conversation and film section of the Tokyo screening.
This film is a great contribution for theorists at a time when fashion has become questionable, so the film is a kind of signpost to new values that in coexistence represent a fashion and cultural challenge for an ethical, more humane approach to fashion and clothing.
Film director: Wim Wenders, West Germany / France, 1989
Duration: 81 min.
Lecturer: Tonči Vladislavić
Project author: Emil Matešić, KIC
Film selection and program production: Dina Pokrajac
https://www.kic.hr/program/kino/2-arteria/
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