Fashion/Photo/Film: The Intertextual Discourse of Funny Face (1956)

In this paper I mobilize Funny Face (dir. Stanley Donen, 1956) to examine the intertextual nexus between fashion, fashion photography, and film. Set in New York City and Paris, with costume design by Hubert de Givenchy and Edith Head, the film is a latter day telling of the Pygmalion myth, such that...

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Main Author: Paul Jobling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change, Ryerson University 2018-06-01
Series:Fashion Studies
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Online Access:https://www.fashionstudies.ca/fashion/photo/film