Second Fashion in Film Festival: If Looks Could Kill

The 2nd Fashion in Film Festival: “If Looks Could Kill” was the first research project to explore in depth the multifaceted links between cinema, fashion, crime and violence. Tackling themes such as disguise and identification, the expression of desire, juvenile delinquency and the corruption of beauty, the festival featured a wide range of films that showcased how the medium of cinema has since its emergence drawn on style (costume, sartorial gestures and styling) in its imaginings of crime, and how these have helped define key cinematic genres from detective to thriller, gangster, film noir and horror.

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