"The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones", Antony stated in his famous speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Centuries may have gone since Shakespeare wrote the speech, but Antony’s words still prove true: I’ve often realised that, nowadays, after you do something (especially when you do something good…), you are swiftly forgotten.
While I do hate resting on one's laurels and most of the things I collaborated to in the last years represent for me a distant past, I sometimes think that as an independent scholar it's simply useless to keep on doing researches linked with fashion as you're too often destined to succumb to two very different menaces, academics in search of new audiences or of more chances to see their works published and the next high-profile blogger with more clothes/accessories or more glamorous contacts than you.
Yet a few days ago Cathy Horyn put a smile on my face by mentioning Irenebrination on her New York Times "Runway" blog in connection with the Fashion in Film Festival, currently on in New York.
Britain-based film fans enjoyed the edition of the FFF entitled “If Looks Could Kill” in 2008.
In that occasion I had picked one of the films featured in the programme, Elio Petri’s La decima vittima and somehow Horyn spotted a post that tied in The 10th victim and a fashion shoot on Italian girlie magazine Playmen and mentioned it in a post about the FFF. I don’t know Cathy Horyn in person, but I must send her this virtual "thank you" note for reading my post and quoting it as well.
You can read Horyn's post about the FFF here, or you can read my essay about La decima vittima in the festival catalogue and, if you happen to be in New York, enjoy “If Looks Could Kill” (4th-13th May) at the Museum of the Moving Image.
You can check out the entire programme here (La decima vittima is on next Sunday, while Mildred Pierce closes the festival on 13th May).
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