THE SOHO HOTEL
4 Richmond Mews
London, W1D 3DH
As the Design Museum invites us to delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton through its major exhibition opening on the 25th of October, we take a close look at the artist and filmmaker’s long-time collaboration with costume designer Colleen Atwood in an on-stage conversation between Maria McLintock, curator of the Design Museum’s exhitibion The World of Tim Burton, and Fashion & Cinema’s Joana Granero.
The collaboration has brought to life a host of unique and fascinating misfits characters, defined by Burton’s distinctive aesthetic and penchant for the grotesque.
This includes Beetlejuice 2, his latest film, and Alice in Wonderland (2010), for which Atwood won one of her four Academy Awards for Best Costume Design.
The conversation will be followed by the screening of the iconic Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990), which marked the beginning of the decades-long collaboration between the filmmaker and Colleen Atwood.
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
dir: Tim Burton
with Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Diane Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Alan Arkin
USA | 1990 | 105 min
Edward is an incomplete humanoid with scissor blades instead of hands. His life of solitude as an outcast seems destined to change when he is taken in by a suburban family.
The story’s origins trace back to Burton’s own suburban childhood in Burbank, California. Edward’s grunge-gothic attire starkly contrasts with the perfectly manicured, colorful appearance of those around him, further emphasizing his profound isolation.
ABOUT MARIA McLINTOCK
Maria McLintock is a curator, lecturer and writer specialising in contemporary architecture and spatial practice. She is a curator of architecture and design at the Design Museum, London, where she is curating the exhibition The World of Tim Burton and editing the publication Tim Burton: Designing Worlds (Thames & Hudson). She has formerly held curatorial positions at The MoMA, NYC, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Maria teaches architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture (University of Limerick) and Central Saint Martins (UAL) and writes about architecture and politics for publications such as Architectural Review, e-flux architecture and Failed Architecture.
ABOUT JOANA GRANERO
Fascinated by the then underexplored relationship between fashion, cinema and costume design, Joana founded Fashion & Cinema in 2012.
Born in Tarragona, she graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona, obtaining later a Msc in Political and Social Theory from Birkbeck College. After working in publishing in London, Joana focused on the ideation and production of film and cultural events, creating in 2005 the London Spanish Film Festival. In 2008 the Ambassador of Spain in London awarded her with the civil merit medal (Orden de Isabel la Católica) in recognition of her work with Spanish cinema in London. With some twenty years of experience in the sector, she also works as an independent curator, producer and lecturer.