Fashion Design: Videos / Images

"Passion for fashion 3-Documentary films Disc set. Unzipped (73 min.); The September issue (90 min.); Ready to wear (133 min.).

This program illustrates the cycles of women's couture through the '50s, '60s, and '70s -- and the portrayal of women in the media as they progressed through the postwar decade, the civil rights movement, Beatlemania, the Vietnam War, and the era of women's lib. Contains nudity

While researching period clothing for a school play, class project, and costume party, three teens magically find themselves in ancient civilization. Viewers travel along as they experience what people wore in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and all the decades in the 1900s

Various experts discuss the origins of clothing, symbolism associated with clothing, sexism in fashion, fashion icons, body piercing and tattooing

"Called Britain's most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric, and controversial designer, Vivienne Westwood is also an esteemed professor of fashion at Berlin's Academy of Arts. This program profiles Westwood while capturing the student experience under her rigorous tutelage"--Container

Examines the ways in which the textile industry is reducing, reusing, and recycling clothing and other textiles. Features designers discussing the design and make process, considers the future of the recycled textile design industry, and visits a textile reprocessing plant. Includes examples of shoes made from old tires and seatbelts, bags made from recycled airline seats, and high fashion tailoring created from secondhand shop finds. Also shows jute sacks being reprocessed for the construction industry