Parsons Hosts Free NYC Fashion Movie Series: Sabrina

When:Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Time:7:30 pm- 8:30 pm
Where:The New School’s Historic Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street,
between 5th and 6th avenues
212-229-5667
Cost:Free

From the site:

The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons is pleased to announce its first ever “Fashion in Film” festival, celebrating the launch of our new MA Fashion Studies program commencing in fall 2010.

From the cosmopolitan comedies and screwball musicals of the 1930s, to the “designing women” melodramas of the 1950s, to the dirty glamour and “Dunaway chic” of the 1970s, to the bourgeois bohemia and working girl fantasia of the 1980s – this year’s festival will spotlight films in which New York City can be seen through fashion and vice versa, films that captured and defined an attitude, an era, a style, and films in which New York City style exists as an idea in relation to other cities and locales.

For the inaugural festival, writers, critics, and fashion personalities in New York have been invited to select one of their favorite New York City films and to come and introduce it, allowing us to see fashion, film, and NYC in new ways

April 20-Sabrina
Directed byBilly Wilder, 1954
Introduced by Amy Fine Collins
Audrey Hepburn, Hubert de Givenchy, and Edith Head create magic in Billy Wilder’s bewitching comedy-romance. Introduced by Amy Fine Collins, special correspondent for Vanity Fair covering art, cinema, design, fashion, and society; author of The God of Driving; and a fashion icon in her own right.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served