WOMEN DRESSING WOMEN: FROM RUNWAY TO SCREEN

 

Beginning December 8 Metrograph In Theater

 

Five Film Program Featuring the Fabulous Fashions of Gabrielle Chanel, Pauline Trigère, Mary Quant, Vivienne Westwood, and Miuccia Prada

A film series celebrating The Costume Institute exhibition Women Dressing Women at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Metrograph presents Women Dressing Women: From Runway to Screen, curated with The Met alongside their upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, beginning December 8 at Metrograph In Theater.

 

Inspired by The Costume Institute’s Women Dressing Women exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metrograph presents a series of films featuring costumes by women fashion designers, for women on screen. The designers—Gabrielle Chanel (The Rules of the Game), Pauline Trigère (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Mary Quant (The Haunting), Vivienne Westwood (Leaving Las Vegas), and Miuccia Prada (The Great Gatsby)—are brought on to provide costuming for their recognizable aesthetic, often for female roles, resulting in a synergy between the designer’s sensibility and the fictional characters they dress.

 

Women Dressing Women (December 7, 2023–March 3, 2024) explores the creativity and artistic legacy of women fashion designers from The Costume Institute’s permanent collection. The show traces a lineage of women makers from the turn of the 20th century to the present day by highlighting celebrated designers, new voices, and forgotten histories alike.

 

Women Dressing Women: From Runway to Screen runs from December 8 to December 17, with select encore screenings to follow. 

 

A film series celebrating The Costume Institute exhibition Women Dressing Women at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

 

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S 티파니에서 아침을/ 폴린 드리게르

dir. Blake Edwards, 1961, 115 min, 35mm

 

Audrey Hepburn charms in her signature role as Holly Golightly, the happily single heroine of Truman Capote’s novella, who exerts a tractor-beam pull on smitten writer George Peppard, the kept man of Patricia Neal, dressed to the height of Manhattanite sophistication by Pauline Trigère. Edwards made elaborate party scenes his trademark, and here gets in one of his best, abetted by a fantastic Henry Mancini soundtrack, including “Moon River,” given an unforgettable treatment by Hepburn.

 

GEORGY GIRL/ 조지 걸, 메리 퀀트

dir. Silvio Narizzano, 1961, 99 min, 35mm 

 

Lynn Redgrave vaulted to stardom in her Oscar-nominated role as Georgina “Georgy” Parkin, a virginal 22-year-old wholly out-of-step with the changing mores of Swinging London who finds herself in a dilly of a pickle when she’s pursued by both the young lover of pregnant flatmate Charlotte Rampling—dressed by Mary Quant—and her father’s well-to-do employer (James Mason, putting on a Scottish accent). “Determinedly kinky” fun, per The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael, featuring an absolute earworm of a title song by Tom Springfield and Jim Dale.

 

THE GREAT GATSBY/ 미우치 프라다 

dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2013, 143 min, 35mm

 

Luhrmann’s lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel of Jazz Age excess is as over-the-top as West Egg party boy Jay Gatsby—played by a goldenly glowing Leonardo DiCaprio—himself. Acting as both one of the film’s producers and its costume designer, Catherine Martin, working alongside Miuccia Prada, dug into the fashion archives of both Prada and Miu Miu, transforming actresses Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, and Elizabeth Debicki into fabulously louche vintage fashion plates. A bottle-popping blast with a deep underlying melancholy, encapsulated in the Lana Del Ray original “Young and Beautiful.”

 

THE HAUNTING/ 메리 퀀트

dir. Robert Wise, 1963, 114 min, 35mm

 

The “Old Dark House” setting, a staple of Gothic fiction, was given a new lease on life in this harrowing cinematic dark ride by former Val Lewton director Wise, adapting Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House. An ingenious work of devilish, leering camera trickery in which an ensemble cast including Julie Harris, Russ Tamblyn, and Claire Bloom (whose bohemian wardrobe was designed by mod icon Mary Quant) assemble for a stay at a mansion which appears to house a very unquiet poltergeist.

 

 

LEAVING LAS VEGAS 라스베가스를 떠나며/ 로라 골드스미스 

dir. Mike Figgis, 1995, 112 min, 35mm

 

In Las Vegas on a mission to drink himself into the afterlife, recently unemployed alcoholic screenwriter Nicolas Cage finds a measure of succor in his relationship with sympathetic sex worker Elisabeth Shue—styled by Vivienne Westwood—in Figgis’s down-and-dirty character study. The world occupied by Cage and Shue’s characters is anything but glitzy, but as costumed by Laura Goldsmith, both have a glum, slightly trashy beauty that’s entirely appropriate to a film about finding grace in the gutter.  

 

 

THE RULES OF THE GAME 게임의 규칙/ 가브리엘 샤넬 

dir. Jean Renoir, 1939, 110 min, DCP

 

A weekend retreat at a marquis’ country château sets the stage for romantic intrigues and, eventually, murder, in this exacting autopsy of the French bourgeoisie and their servants—the former elegantly costumed by Chanel founder Gabrielle Chanel—produced under the gathering clouds of coming war. Considered one of the greatest of all films by universal decree, The Rules of the Game is the very apex of the delicate, humane art of Renoir, who also features in the ensemble cast, observing: “The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.”

 

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