Film is also one of the less respected art forms in the high culture society, and the artform that is probably closest related to fashion. Not only do clothes play an important part in the storytelling by telling you who a character is and how they are developping but the movies also have a huge impact on fashion. Recently movies that can be named are for example Marie Antoinette by always fashionable Sofia Coppola. The movie can be held responsible for bringing 19th century details back into fashion, very fitting in a time when haute couture is in vogue. It is not at all unusual to use a fashion designer to make the costumes for a movie, which can both help the movie and make the designer more famous.Another classical example is Annie Hall, Woody Allens breakthrough as a serious film-maker, which had Ruth Morley and Ralph Lauren design Diane Keatons wardrobe. The duo created a whole new androgynous fashion style.
The perhaps most influential movie in fashion is Breakfast at Tiffany's. The movie, made in 1961, had Edith Head and Hubert de Givenchy as costume designers and made a fashion icon out of Audrey Hepburn and the Little Black Dress. Both of them are still as stylish and essential today as they were over 40 years ago!
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