"Fashion. I'll have nothing of it."

Tonight at 18:15 the BFI Southbank will be showing a screening of German director and playwright Wim Wenders' 1989 documentary film,
Notebook on Cities and Clothes.


"Fashion. I'll have nothing of it.” At least this was Wenders’ initial reaction when the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris asked him to make a short film in the context of fashion.

In retrospect, he confesses: "Maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example? Maybe fashion and cinema had something in common."


Through a dialogue between the director and his subject, Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, the film offers a fresh insight on the meaning of fashion in the context of the art world, as well as in contemporary life.

Caroline Legrand