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Suggested Fashion Films and TV Suggested Fashion Films and TV: • 1800-1850 o Dinner at Eight (1933) o Beau Brumell: This Charming Man (2008) o Letty Lynton (1932) • 1850-1890 o Grand Hotel (1932) o Little Women (1994) o Baby Face (1933) o The Young Victoria (2009) o Atonement (2007, also 1940s) o Mrs. Brown (1997, Netflix) o The Women (1939) o Possession (2002) • 1940s o Gone with the Wind (1939) o Land Girls (Netflix) • 1890s o Home Fires o The Paradise (Netflix) o Mildred Pierce (1945) • 1900s o His Girl Friday (1940, Netflix) Double Indemnity (1944) o Mr. Selfridge o The Big Sleep (1946) o My Fair Lady (1964) o Ball of Fire (1941) o A Room with a View (1986, Netflix) o Key Largo (1948) o Wings of the Dove (1997, Netflx) o Casablanca (1942) o Daughters of the Dust (1991) o o The Philadelphia Story (1940) • 1910s o Now, Voyager (1942) o Downton Abbey (Netflix)-also 1920s o Zoot Suit Riots (documentary, 2002) o Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914, YouTube) o Malcolm X (1992, also 1950s, 1960s) o The House of Mirth (2000) • 1950s • 1920s o Velvet (Netflix) o Miss. Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Netflix) o Call the Midwife (Netflix) o Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky o How to Marry a Millionaire (1953, Netflix) o Cold Comfort Farm (1995) o An Affair to Remember (1957, Netflix) o The Great Gatsby (2013) o Roman Holiday (1953, Netflix) o The Cat’s Meow (2001) o All that Heaven Allows (1955) o Salome (1923, YouTube) o Far From Heaven (2002) o The House of Elliot o Imitation of Life (1959) o The Wild Party (1929) o Carol (2015) o It (1927) o Funny Face (1957) o Why Change Your Wife (1920, YouTube) o Sabrina (1954) o Our Dancing Daughters (1928) o The Wild One (1953) o Our Modern Maidens (1929) o Rebel Without a Cause (1955) • 1930s o Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Dancing on the Edge (Netflix) o o All about Eve (1950) o Mildred Pierce (HBO Miniseries, 2011) o Rear Window (1954) o The Divorcee (1930) o Carol (1952) o Madam Satan (1930) • 1960s o Christopher Strong (1933) o Mad Men (Netflix) o Holiday (1938) o The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) o Ninotchka (1939) o An Education (2009) o W.E. (2011) o Easy Rider (1969) o Morocco (1930) o That Touch of Mink (1962) o It Happened One Night (1934) o Qui etes vous Polly Magoo? (1966, o Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) YouTube) o Bringing up Baby (1938) o The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, o The Thin Man (1934) Netflix) o Zou-Zou (1934) o In the Mood for Love (2001) o Princess Tam-Tam (1935) o Medium Cool (1969) o Tonight or Never (1931) o Blowup (1966) o Shanghai Express (1932) o La Dolce Vita (1960) o Daughter of the Dragon (1931) o The Avengers (1961-1969) o Breakfast a Tiffany’s (1961) o Trainspotting (1996, Netflix) o Dr. No (1962) o Fight Club (1999) o Hard Day’s Night (1964) o Absolutely Fabulous (1992-2012) • 1970s o Kika (1993) o Velvet Goldmine (1998, Netflix) o House of Style (1989-1999, YouTube) o Beyond Biba (Documentary) o Friends (1994-2004) o Annie Hall (1977) • 2000s o Dog Day Afternoon (1975) o Sex and the City (1998-2004) o Saturday Night Fever (1977, Netflix) o Gossip Girl (2007-2012) o The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) o Zoolander (2001) o The Warriors (1979) o Dior and I (Documentary, Netflix) o Pinero (2001) o Iris (Documentary, Netflix) o Cleopatra Jones (1973) o The September Issue (2009, Documentary) o Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song o The True Cost (2015, Documentary, Netflix) (1971) o Ugly Betty (2006-2010) o Coffy (1973) o The Devil Wears Prada (2006) o Legally Blonde (2001) o Dolemite (1975) o Bill Cunningham New York (documentary, o Taxi Driver (1976) 2010) • 1980s o Wet Hot American Summer (2001, Netflix) o Pretty in Pink (1986) • Films that engage with LGBT fashion: o Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985, Netflix) o Flashdance (1983, Netflix) • Paris is Burning (Netflix, 1990) o Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) • A Single Man (2009) o Designing Women • Cruising (1980) o The Golden Girls • The Watermelon Woman (1996) o Wild Style (1983, Netflix) • Mädchen in Uniform (1931, YouTube) o Punky Brewster (YouTube) • Un Chant d'Amour (1950) o American Psycho (2000) • Orlando (1992) o The Last Days of Disco (1998) • Looking for Langston (1989) o Jem and the Holograms (Netflix) o Beat Street (1984) • Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) o Kruch Groove (1985) o Breakin’ (1984) • Visions of the Future or the Sci-Fi Past: o Rappin’ (1985) • The Star Wars Series (1977, 1980, 1983, o Do the Right Thing (1989) 1999, 2002, 2005, 2015, etc…) o Dynasty (1981-9) • Barbarella (1968, Netflix, some costumes by o Miami Vice (1984-9) Paco Rabanne) o Comrade Couture (documentary, 2009) • The Fifth Element (1997, costumes by Jean Paul o Fresh Dressed (documentary, 2015) Gaultier) • 1990s • Blade Runner (1982) o The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover • Dune (1984) (1989, Netflix, costumes by Gaultier) • Firefly (2002, Netflix) o A Different World (Netflix) • Zardoz (1974) Unzipped (1995, Documentary, Netflix) o • 2046 (2004) o Clueless (1995, Netflix) • THX 1138 (1971) o Reality Bites (1994) o Singles (1992) • The Jetsons (1962-3) o Pulp Fiction (1994, Netflix) • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) o Menace II Society (1993) • Star Trek (1966-9) o Juice (1992) • The Matrix (1999) o Fresh (1994, Netflix) • Black Panther (2018) o Crooklyn (1994) o A Bronx Tale (1993) .
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