Costume Designer Jacqueline Durran and Production Designer Sarah Greenwood have worked together on some of the most successful films of the modern era including the multi-award winning Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017) and the much acclaimed Barbie (2023). In discussion with Keith Lodwick, Jacqueline and Sarah will explore how they create the visual world of film through costume and production design.

Stephanie Wood, Co-Curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum's Mary Quant exhibition, and Julian Vogel, fashion insider and producer of the documentary Vidal Sassoon: The Movie, will join Fashion & Cinema's Joana Granero in a conversation about Mary Quant and other designers from the Swinging London scene as well as French designers like Courrèges and Paco Rabanne, their significance and their legacy.

The conversation will be followed by the screening of the film Two for the Road, where Audrey Hepburn’s wardrobe included clothing by Mary Quant, Ken Scott and Paco Rabanne.

Luca Guadagnino’s Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams is a documentary about the life, work and legacy of Salvatore Ferragamo.

The screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with journalist, author and UK Vogue’s European Sustainability Editor Dana Thomas, scriptwriter of the film, and hosted by journalist and writer Davina Catt.

Costume Designer Bina Daigeler and Make-Up Artist Morag Ross will discuss their work for the highly anticipated TÁR, which has already won Cate Blanchett the Best Leading Performance award from Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Todd Field the Best Director, in addition to several nominations.

Fashion Designer Paul Smith will be with us to introduce Godard’s classic Breathless and tell us about how influential this film was for him in his early youth in Nottingham.

Costume Designer Jenny Beavan will be joined by Keith Lodwick and Oriole Cullen to tell us about her work creating the costumes for Anthony Fabian’s film Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.

Style as rebellion. Considered the starting point of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène’s film BLACK GIRL will be followed by an on-stage conversation with Christine Checinska and Elisabeth Murray, Lead Curator and Project Curator of the Africa Fashion exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The discussion will be led by Producer, Curator and Author, Nadia Denton.