Daphne Guinness, the couture loving beer heiress and film producer debuted a new short-film, The Phenomenology of Body, on the The New York Times Style magazine website last week. The film explores the politics of fashion through time- from Eve to Joan of Arc to a 50’s housewife on different models all standing on a rotating platform juxtaposed against a black background. Set to the LCD Soundsystem tune “Great Release”, the film is best at full volume and the images are beautiful, if not exactly ground-breaking.

To further explore fashion throughout history, illustrated books such as An Illustrated History of Fashion and The Complete History of Costume & Fashion are great resources.

Photo Cred: Fashionation

Posted on June 29th, 2008 by zuri