The Fashion and Film Connection Celebrated in New TCM Series – WWD
, 2022-06-03 04:31:17,
Film and fashion are perennially entwined, and now Turner Classic Movies is fastening that bond with a new limited series “Follow the Thread.”
The run gets underway June 4 with weekly Saturday evening films through July that will focus on the link between fashion and film. Inspired by the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the new series takes a deep dive into the history and influence of film and fashion. Viewers will get a glimpse of the famed Fifth Avenue museum, too.
Film buffs will indulge in the 1942 “Woman of the Year,” the 1949 “The Fountainhead” and the 1954 version of “Sabrina.” But the series won’t just glance back at favorites from years gone by, it will also trace the influence of fashion in film as it relates to the present and future of our culture.
To give the series a contemporary spin, designers Jeremy Scott, Zac Posen, Bob Mackie, B Michael and Zaldy will offer their insights, as will Tim Gunn, costume designers Sandy Powell, Isis Mussenden and Mark Bridges. Authorities like Deborah Nadoolman Landis, the Costume Institute’s Wendy Yu, curator in charge Andrew Bolton, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Lawrence A. Fleischman and the museum’s curator of The American Wing, Sylvia Yount, will also weigh in.
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in the 1942 film “Woman of the Year.”
Jerry Tavin/Everett Collection
The series host Alicia Malone praised TCM’s programming department for culling the list of films and pairing them with designers, fashion historians and commentators. “For example, B Michael, who had a great collaboration with Cicely Tyson throughout her career, talked…
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