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The lights go down and there is a momentary hush as we wait in anticipation for the flickering of the projector and the drum roll of the opening credits. For 120 years the motion picture has worked its magic on audiences around the world; from laughter to tears, romance to fear, no other medium has quite the same power to move and excite. It envelopes us in sound and vision and, for a couple of hours, we are transported to another place, even another time, where we get to experience the lives of others.

DOWNLOAD Take a picture of any page in Welcome to Schön!’s 19th issue, which celebrates cinema in all its diverse forms. Our cover star Isabeli Fontana smoulders as a femme “KOOABA SHORTCUT” this issue and instantly fatale in Last Words. She is joined on our pages by top models Ashley Smith in American Beauty and Codie Young in Secretary. We follow the epic adventures of Eugen Bauder in Great Journey to Eternity, FOR get connected to ENJOY while River Viiperi and Constanza Saravia live the high life in Casino IPHONE more digital content Royale, showcasing the latest collections from Hugo Boss. Mischa Barton tells us why she loves horror movies in A Kind of ANDROID ON YOUR MOBILE Homecoming, Carmen Electra celebrates the iconic actresses of the 1960s in And God Created Woman, singer Karin Park takes us on a WINDOWS 7 sci-fi odyssey and we learn The Importance of Being Rossy de Palma from the iconic Spanish screen siren.

19 15 Behind the scenes, we speak to some of the most talented professionals in the industry, from BAFTA winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Atonement, Anna Karenina) to talented young director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown). From set designers, to special effects to stunt men, we salute them all.

So, turn off your telephone, tuck into your popcorn and join us for a cinematic feast. Whether you have a penchant for the paranormal,

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Supreme Rocket Productions presents kooaba.com/en/products/shortcut Isabeli Fontana by Gustavo Zylbersztajn Isabeli wears / RAOUL KEIL Coat / Missoni Body / Wolford editor -IN-CHIEF Gloves / A VERY INTELLECTUAL FASHION Schön! speaks to Valerie Steele, the woman making it fashionable to be clever.

she is always observing the ‘subtle range of cycles and influences’, and so ‘Fashion’s brainiest woman’, ‘Fashion Professor’ the gothic show came up because at the time she had observed that it had and ‘High heeled historian’ are just some of been about 10 years since there had been a big gothic moment in fashion. “I started to feel like this is time for this to come back around.” she says. the titles bestowed upon Valerie Steele, the “People had done shows on gothic themes in art but nobody had ever really done it on fashion. So I worked on it for two-and-a-half years and curator and director at the Fashion Institute of when the show opened there was a renewal of interest in gothic themes, not just in fashion but in movies and there were vampires all over the Technology museum in New York. Schön! delves place!” into the inquisitive mind that has earned Steele a To have that kind of influence is surely why Steele has entered the realm spot on the New York Daily’s list of ‘Fashion’s 50 of fashion’s most powerful, and her next exhibition, Queer Style: From the Closet to the Catwalk will no doubt cement this position. It is with most powerful’. great surprise that Steele tells us that there has been no exhibition on queer style, and only one book on gay men’s fashion. It is this very gap that is driving Steele, and it becomes very clear how important this particular Mention her inclusion in the list of fashion’s most powerful and Steele is show is to her. “We are hoping to draw attention to the fact that if you love quick to dismiss it as journalistic trivia. But then surely there is always a fashion you ought to recognise that gay people have had an enormous soupçon of truth behind the media hype? Thinking about her own impact impact, even in periods when most gay people had to be in the closet she says, “I was one of the first people who started what you might call the and face tremendous homophobia,” she explains. “It’s very important modern scholarly study of fashion as a legitimate field.” to remind people how this community has been so creative and fashion forward.” Merging academia and fashion has no doubt been a struggle, but Steele’s dedication has reduced the gap and lessened the parochial resistance. Drawing upon both the idealising aesthetic and the disruptive nature Referring to herself as ‘intellectually adventurous’, she has endlessly of queer style the exhibition will be testament to fashion as a medium battled to put fashion on the academic radar. “There was a lot of fear through which one can challenge and inspire. Steele is hoping to include for a long time that if you studied fashion seriously it was a drag, you some pieces from the Lee Bowery estate, a person she says was “very were destroying the magic around it,” she says, “but I think that’s a totally transgressive but who had an amazing influence...Look at the latest unwarranted fear. It’s like people have studied sex but they continue to be Comme des Garçon collection, and also McQueen and Gaga and so many ever interested in sex. In fact I think the more you know about something other people who have been inspired by Lee Bowery.” Also featured in the more interesting it is.” Queer Style will be pieces from the archive of Marlene Dietrich, a woman hugely influential in helping and bisexual women wear trousers Getting an insight into the working of Steele’s mind is an opportunity to openly, shocking look in the 1930s. learn about the relevance of fashion and the fact that it is a very clever subject. Her front row perspective is a far cry from the average editor The rise of the fashion exhibition, partly at the hands of Steele and her tweeting the latest trends. Her fashion radar works something more like work at the FIT, has no doubt brought a whole new audience to embrace “what is this designer’s place and impact in the history of fashion?” the historic importance of fashion. The enormous popularity of her magazine Fashion Theory has allowed people across the world to openly In the past 10 years Steele has curated more than 20 shows, each one theorise and express their views on fashion from any angle. showcasing the increasing demand for the fashion exhibition. She has written a number of books and has been the editor-in-chief of a three- “For most people fashion is more of a visual phenomenon, in particular volume encyclopaedia of clothing and fashion. When you think of the exhibition of actual objects. Whether it’s on living models walking Steele working on a project it’s easy to assume that much of her study down the runway or on mannequins in a museum, it’s more accessible is immersed in the past. However, she is quick to assure that this is not to most people than writing about it,” explains Steele. “I really try hard the case: “I wouldn’t say I was immersed in the past. What I’m trying to to write in a way that will be accessible to people who love fashion and do all of the time is trace connections between themes in the past and the I try not to sound too scholarly, but at the same time I try to be saying present. At the museum we certainly collect historic fashion, we buy from something that could be interesting to people at a variety of different auction houses and dealers but we spend a lot more of our limited budget levels of knowledge.” buying contemporary fashion.” There is little doubt that Steele has made the study of fashion hugely When asked about fashion design right now and whether she thinks glamorous. Her power has been and continues to be in making the study designers simply revamp past trends, Steele’s views are refreshing. “I of fashion appealing to all. It’s hard to believe that Steele didn’t have a don’t think designers are too much inspired by the past,” she says. “There normal academic background: in fact she dropped out of school at 15. is plenty of room for new fashion. Fashion is like a music form; you can’t She tells us that recently someone asked a friend of hers “Do you know create new music without an awareness of the music that has gone before.” whatever happened to that girl Valerie?” When she replied saying “She got a PHD at Yale”, the girl laughed in response and said “No seriously, One of Steele’s most popular shows, Gothic: Dark Glamour, which do you know what happened to her?” Well, we think Valerie should be the opened in 2008, was hugely influential and marked a poignant resurfacing one laughing now. of gothic trends in and outside of the fashion industry. Steele explains that Words / Kate White Valerie Steele photographed by Aaron Cobbett Kris Van Assche Meredith Wendell Tom Binns BRANDs krisvanassche.com meredithwendell.com robertocavalli.com tombinnsdesign.com

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