A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day's Night to Breakfast at Tiffany's, from the works of Ingmar Bergman to Blake Edwards, the groundbreaking cinema of the 1960s often used fashion as the ultimate expression for urbanity, youth, and political (un)awareness. Crumbling hierarchies brought together previously separate cultural domains, and these blurred boundaries could be seen in unisex fashions and roles played out on the silver screen. As this volume amply demonstrates, fashion in films from Italy, France, England, Sweden, India, and the United States helped portray the rapidly changing faces of this cultural avant-gardism. This blending of fashion and film ultimately created a new aesthetic that continues to influence the fashion and media of today.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction / Eugenia Paulicelli and Louise WallenbergPart 1: 1960s: Youth Culture and Sexual Liberation1. Sanitizing the Beatles for Revolution: Music, Film, and Fashion in 1960s A Hard Day's Night / Ronald Gregg2. The Art of Undressing: Automation and Exposure at the Margins of Cinema / Amy Herzog3. Pasolini's Teorema: the Eroticism of the Visitor's Discarded Clothes / Stella Bruzzi4. Rite of Passage: the Hat that Wouldn't Disappear in the 1960s / Drake StutesmanPart 2: Cities, Nations and Fashion5. Fashion Apart: Godard and Fageol in the 1960s Paris / Astrid Söderbergh Widding6. Fashion, Film, Rome / Eugenia Paulicelli7. Contexts, Contradictions, Couture, and Clothing: Fashion in An American in Paris, Breakfast at Tiffany's and A Touch of Mink / Pat Kirkham and Marilyn CohenPart 3: Gender: Modernity/Tradition8. The Fashioning of Julie Christie and the Mythologizing of "Swinging London": Changing Images in Sixties Britain / Pamela Church Gibson9. Women in White: Femininity and Female Desire in 1960s Bombay Cinema / Anupama Kapse10. Mago's Magic: Fashioning Sexual Indifference in Ingmar Bergman's 1960s Cinema / Louise Wallenberg11. Single Men: Sixties Aesthetics and Vintage Style in Contemporary Cinema / Nick Rees-RobertsPart 4: Epilogue12. Adriana Berselli: Costume for Cinema and Theater / Eugenia Paulicelli13. Souvenir of a Costume Designer / Adriana BerselliIndex