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Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
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NOTEBOOK ON CITIES AND CLOTHES

Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Städten

Directed by Wim Wenders
France, West Germany, 1989
Documentary

Synopsis

Commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou to make a film about the relationship between fashion and cinema, Wenders chose the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto as his subject. The film is an inquiry into Wenders’s mutable language of cinema and Yamamoto’s mutable language of fashion.

Synopsis

Commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou to make a film about the relationship between fashion and cinema, Wenders chose the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto as his subject. The film is an inquiry into Wenders’s mutable language of cinema and Yamamoto’s mutable language of fashion.

Our take

Navigating multiple intersections at once—cinema and fashion design, Paris and Tokyo, digital and analog—this impressionistic and thought-provoking diary film sheds light on the creative process of two luminous minds: haute couture icon Yohji Yamamoto and the very man behind the camera, Wim Wenders.