Fashion Film Festival Milano
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Fashion Film Festival Milano is an international fashion film festival and cultural event that takes place annually during Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy in collaboration with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. Founded in 2014 by Constanza Cavalli Etro, Fashion Film Festival Milano presents fashion film as a cinematographic product[1] realized by the fashion industry as a communication and marketing tool. Since 2017, Fashion Film Festival Milano takes place as a hybrid event with digital screenings and in-person events that introduce fashion film to a global audience.
The festival is a platform for both established and emerging directors to present their films to an international audience in line with the festival's philosophy “The Big helps the Small”, that aims to provide fertile ground for new talents by showing their works alongside those of renowned authors.[2][3][4]
In recent editions, the festival screened an official selection of about 260 fashion films from more than 60 countries during a six-day event that features an international jury, an award ceremony celebrating winners and nominees of 15 award categories, feature film premieres, conversations with personalities from the creative industry, fashion organizations, activists, film directors, photographers, celebrities and special projects.[5]
In its conversations and feature films premieres, the festival has encouraged the discussion of social values and the awareness of issues such as women's empowerment, sustainability,[6] diversity and the support of young talent.[7][8]
There are no fees for the submission of films or the participation in screenings and special events.[9]
Established and Emerging Talents
Fashion Film Festival Milano's initiative "The Big helps the Small" means to provide the fashion films by emerging talents the same auditorium as the ones of renowned fashion houses and directors.[8][10][11]
In the past, the festival showcased fashion films created by Oscar-winning directors, among them: Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, Roman Polanski, Baz Luhrmann, Bruce Weber, Wim Wenders, Paolo Sorrentino, Matteo Garrone, Luca Guadagnino, Ridley Scott.[12][13][14] alongside renowned artists and photographers such as Bruno Aveillan, Tim Walker and Oliver Zahm,[15] Mark Borthwick, Gregg Araki, Miranda July[16][17] hand in hand with young, upcoming talents from around the world.
The festival provided recognition to the work of emergent directors and filmmakers who went on to become recognized talents,[18][14] among them: Virgilio Villoresi (Winner of "Best Italian Fashion Film" in 2015 and in 2022; "Winner of Live the Moment Tribute prize" by Grey Goose), Giulia Achenza (Winner of "Best New Italian Fashion Film" in 2014), Elena Petitti (Winner of "Best New Italian Fashion Film" in 2018), Jonas Linstroem (Winner of "Best Photography" in 2015), Femke Huurdeman (Winner of "Best New Designer/Brand" in 2015). Also emerging designers have propelled their notoriety with fashion films through the festival; one of them is Rie Yamagata, whose brand won three awards ("Best Director", "Best Art Direction" and "Best Fashion Film") in the festival's first edition, was then picked up by Nowness and thereafter invited to show during New York Fashion Week the next season.[19]
Luxury fashion brands including Hermès, Chloé, Prada, Versace, Gucci, Valentino, Armani, Cartier, Proenza Schouler, Dries Van Noten, Salvatore Ferragamo, Lanvin[20] and fashion and lifestyle magazines such as Vogue, I-D, Purple Magazine, Dazed, Marie Claire, Glamour annually submit their films.
Films presented included renowned actors Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler, Tilda Swinton, Michael Pitt, Chloë, Sevigny, Keira Knightley, among many others.[5]
Women's Empowerment
Since 2017, the initiative "FFFMilanoForWomen" organizes special projects to raise the voices of female authors and promote sensibility for their work.[21] Starting with the fourth edition, the festival organized three capsule screenings which showcased various films from past editions created by female directors. For two years consecutively and in collaboration with Vogue Italia, the festival presented "Through My Eyes Episode 2 - Women’s View": the screening of five fashion films directed by the five female directors:[22] Alexa Karolinski with “My boss told me to have a good day, so I went home”, Marta Di Francesco with “Ariadne’s Thread”, Leigh Johnson with “Whirlpool”, Chantal Anderson with “Lilies”, Marie Schuller with “Sundowners”.
The fifth edition featured a conversation between the curator Caroline Corbetta; the filmmaker and photographer Vicky Lawton; and the filmmaker Alina Marazzi, about their experiences at work. The documentary series “Elles”—organized in collaboration with the video content platform M2M: Made to Measure TV—followed female characters in the fashion industry, including Leandra Medine and Toni Garrn.
For the sixth edition, the top model and founder of the Desert Flower Foundation Waris Dirie was appointed ambassador for the #FFFMilanoForWomen thematic section. Dirie held a conversation with actress and human rights activist Kiera Chaplin; followed by a talk between Mary Rozzi, founder of The September Issues magazine and Daria Bernardoni, editor-in-chief of the online magazine Freeda on “Independent Female Publishing”. The panel discussion “No Country for Women: How #GenerationEquality is breaking the rules within society” between Giorgia Roversi, Nicola Paòmarini and Francesca Vecchioni was accompanied by the film screening of “Fertility Day” by Sara Scamarcia and Paolo D’Orsogna.[23][24]
The Italian premiere of Juan Solanas’ awarded documentary “Let it Be Law” about women's right to abortion in Argentina and a digital talk with the collective Girls in Film provided different perspectives on empowerment and visibility of women in the seventh edition.[25] The eighth edition continued the conversation on the careers of women working in the screen industries with the conversation “Women in Film” between Chiara Sbarigia, president of Cinecittà studios; the directors Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Alessandra Cardone; and the writer and journalist Marta Stella.
Sustainability
Fashion Film Festival Milano set up the “Best Green Fashion Film” category that annually awards films capable of expressing environmental consciousness and understanding.[6] In 2018, the festival launched the initiative "FFFMilanoForGreen", starting with a conversation between Orsola de Castro, founder of Fashion Revolution; Marina Spadafora, president of Fashion Revolution Italia; Hakan Karaosman, professor at Politecnico di Milano; and Matteo Ward, founder of the sustainable fashion brand WRÅD. As part of the initiative, there was a screening of the award-winning documentary “RiverBlue” (2017).
The sixth edition included UNESCO ambassador for peace and sustainability and president of Instituto-E Oskar Mesavaht as a juror.[23] Mesavaht lead a talk during the screening of the documentary "ASAP - As Sustainable As Possible, As Soon As Possible" about the origins of his brand Osklen.[24] In the same edition, the festival released a video manifesto, declaring the values that it is committed to promote: respect for the environment, socio-environmental activism, gender parity, and human rights.[26]
A conversation with Javier Goyenche, founder of Ecoalf and the screening of documentaries “Made In Bangladesh”(2019) by Rubaiyat Hossain and “I Am Greta” (2020) by Nathan Grossman set the tone of the seventh edition on environmental issues, spotlighting the social, ethical and environmental consequences of the fast fashion industry.[7]
The eighth edition awarded the film "New World Order” by Timur Celikdag not only in the “Best Green Fashion Film” but also as the winner of the “Best New Fashion Film” award, bringing evidence to the fact that “sustainability communication is evolving in terms of brands and projects recounts”.[8] The "FFFMilanoForGreen" initiative featured a talk between Fanny Moizant, founder of the vintage and designer clothing platform Vestiaire Collective; Sara Maino, Head of Vogue Talents; and sustainable fashion designer Matteo Ward about building a better industry and reducing fashion's environmental impact and waste.[27]
Inclusivity
The festival has been spotlighting important social themes such as inclusivity and diversity. During the 2019 award ceremony, transgender rights activist and top model Lea T praised the film "Nirvana" of British filmmaker and photographer Jess Kohl stating: “It’s so important that such a topic is gaining attention as I, myself, can recognize the struggles and identify with those women”.[6] The festival's international jury starred the non-binary American actress and LGTBQI+ activist Lachlan Watson in 2021 and designer of gender-fluid fashion Harris Reed in 2022.
The conversation “Black Creativity” that spotlighted the community of BIPOC designers in Italian fashion, was led by the festival's 2022 juror and fashion designer Stella Jean and involved the director Gessica Geneus and the co-founders of the collective We Are Made in Italy (WAMI) Michelle Ngonmo and Edward Buchanan.[27]
Education
Fashion Film Festival Milano collaborates with more than 22 universities and schools in Italy and abroad. The festival gave masterclasses on filmmaking to students graduating in fashion, cinema and communication and held lectures at fashion and design schools, including: Istituto Marangoni, Accademia Costume e Moda, IED: Istituto Europeo di Design, Domus Academy Milano, NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Professional Institute of International Fashion in Tokyo, among others.
In 2016, the festival held a masterclass in filmmaking at Filmmaking Academy Bologna and in 2019, the festival participated in a conversation realized for the 2019 Fashion Graduate Italia three-day conference at Base Milano. The sixth edition in 2019 also featured the workshop “The Gaze of the Future Fashion Film Contest” in collaboration with Istituto Marangoni and with the participation of Constanza Cavalli Etro, Anna dello Russo, Angelo Ruggeri and Andrea Pompilio as the jury, judging the 10 best videos produced by the students of Istituto Marangoni in Milan, Florence, London and Paris and awarding the film “In un mondo di etnie – chapter 2” by Fabio Princigallo.
On the occasion of the seventh edition, Fashion Film Festival Milano gave an online talk for Domus Academy about the concept, ideation and realization of the festival's edition (Domus Academy YouTube) and in July 2020, the festival held an online lecture for the students of Professional Institute of International Fashion, Japan, 2020.
In 2021 and 2022, Constanza Cavalli Etro held a lecture on fashion film making to the students of the fashion school Accademia Costume & Moda, who realized their own fashion films that were promoted only by the festival as part of the initiative "FFFMilanoForEducation".
Editions
8th edition, 14–18 January 2022
The eighth edition of the Fashion Film Festival Milano took place as a hybrid event with a mainly digital format, an in-person film screening and exhibitions, concurrently with Men's Fashion Week in Milan and in collaboration with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana.[9] The jury was chaired by Valentino's creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli and included the fashion designers Stella Jean and Harris Reed, actress Alba Rohrwacher, Chiara Sbarigia, president of Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, photographer Nadia Lee Cohen, model and activist Lea T and Laura Brown, editor in chief of InStyle Magazine.[9] The program of the eighth edition was curated by 260 fashion films in competition, selected from more than 1.000 entries from 60 countries. It included three conversations: one with the fashion designers and founders of WAMI ("We Are Made in Italy") Stella Jean, Edward Buchanan and Michelle Ngonomo about the inclusivity of African culture in the Italian fashion Industry. There was also a conversation “Women In Film” between the president of Cinecittà Chiara Sbarigia, the writer and director Lisa Immordino Vreeland, director Alessandra Cardone and the journalist and writer Marta Stella. The nominated and winning films were presented in a digital awards ceremony and were announced on the occasion of two contemporary exhibitions open to the public at Triennale di Milano and MIAC – Museo dell’Audiovisivo e del Cinema of Cinecittà in Rome, Italy. The eighth edition closed with a screening of the documentary “Elio Fiorucci: Free Spirit” at Triennale di Milano.
7th edition, 13–17 January 2021
The seventh edition went online during five days of Men's Fashion Week and in collaboration with Camera della Moda Nazionale Italiana with a completely digital program.[28] 200 fashion films, selected from 1000 entries from sixty countries, were presented in streaming on the festival's page on the CNMI's the website and the festival's official homepage. The jury was chaired by art director and Oscar-nominated costume designer Tim Yip and included Lachlan Watson, Marcelo Burlon, Anna dello Russo, Milovan Farronato, Margherita Missoni, Paolo Roversi, Eliza von Guttman and Tamu McPherson. The #FFFMilanoForGreen and #FFFMilanoForWomen initiatives set the tone for a total of six conversations centered on sustainability and women's rights, including "The Future of Fashion: Anna dello Russo," a debate between with journalist and fashion influencer Anna dello Russo on the state of fashion; or the conversation "Girls in Filmmaking: Finding Your Visual Language," a discussion with the collective Girls in Film, while two directors’ talk introduced the streaming of the feature films "Halston" by Frederic Cheng and "Martin Margiela; in his own words" by Reiner Holzheimer. The conversation with Javier Goyeneche and the screening of the three feature films, "Made in Bangladesh", "Let it be Law" and "I am Greta" put the theme of sustainability at the center of the seventh edition. There was also a special screening of a student project with IED University introducing seven sustainable products designed for the Greenpeace Green Market. At the digital awards ceremony "FFFMILANO Digital Awards", the nominated and awarded films were announced in video messages by the jurors, alternating with the messages of the winning directors, who received a digital version of the Fornasetti trophy.
6th edition, 6–10 November 2019
The six edition inaugurated with the award ceremony Milan's Teatro dal Verme on November 6, 2019, and kicked off a five-day event from November 6–10. Inclusivity was the leading topic at this edition of the festival; several filmmakers explored the topic by questioning gender, race and disability.[29] The contest featured 200 fashion films as the selection of 1000 entries from 50 countries, including films from Nigeria, China, Mexico, Finland and Iceland.[30] The jury was presided by fashion designer Giorgio Armani[23] and included top model and human rights activist Waris Dirie, photographer Cass Bird and HangarBicocca artistic director Vicente Todolì, who bestowed the prize for best fashion film to Italian-Canadian director Floria Sigismondi with her “72 Hours in André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont With Kenneth Anger”.[29] The edition featured the European and Italian premieres of “Peter Lindbergh: Women's Stories”, with an introduction by Paolo Roversi, Carla Sozzani and Alessia Glaviano and “The Times of Bill Cunningham”, introduced by director Mark Bozek.[29] A masterclass in collaboration with Istituto Marangoni invited Anna dello Russo to introduce to the students “The Gaze of the Future Fashion Film Contest”.
5th edition, 20–25 September 2018
With six days, the fifth edition was the longest festival's manifestation. It took place at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema from September 20–24 and organized its program according to two initiatives: "FFFMilanoForWomen" to promote the female universe and "FFFMilanoForGreen" to foster the discussion about environmental pollution caused by the fashion industry and the integration of innovative solutions.[31] The official selection featured 200 films selected from a total of 800 films received from 50 countries. There was a conversation between the art curator Caroline Corbetta, film director Alina Marazzi and Vicky Lawton, and a talk between Orsola de Castro, Hakan Karaosman, Marina Spadafora and Matteo Ward which tackled the perspectives of sustainable fashion, while the screening of the award-winning film “Riverblue” shed a light on the devastating effects caused by the production of fashion items. A screening and talk with the special project for Vogue Italia “Through My Eyes Ep. III – Roots” showcased the films of three emergent film directors Andrea Pecora, Papa Omotayo and Eori Wakakuwa. There was a special screening of the film “We Margiela” and 500 VIP guests participated in the premiere of the documentary “McQueen”. The fifth edition closed with an award ceremony at Triennale di Milano. For the first time, the prize “Live the Moment Tribute” by Grey Goose was granted to director Virgilio Villoresi.
4th edition, 23–25 September 2017
The fourth edition took off with Milan's Fashion Week from September 23 to 25 and featured the screening of 160 fashion films in official selection chosen out of more than 800 submitted films from 50 countries. The fourth edition instaurated the initiative "FFFMilanoForWomen" to present a strong and successful female universe and inaugurated with the premiere of the documentary "Franca: Chaos and Creation". A conversation between Casey Legler, former Olympic swimmer and the first woman to have built a career as a men's clothes model and the president of the David di Donatello prize Piera Detassis. The collaboration with Vogue Italia renewned the project “Through my Eyes Ep. II – Women’s View” with a conversation moderated by Alessia Glaviano and Clara Del Nero that explored the experience of female directors in the film industry. The initiative gained momentum with a series of three screenings with films by female directors. The off-contest included a masterclass “From fashion to cinema and from cinema to fashion” with the costume designer Daniela Ciancio.The festival premiered Spike Jonze’s and Natasha Lyonne’s fashion films for Kenzo next to films by Spike Lee, Lola Schnabel, Martin Scorsesee and Lisa Immordino Vreeland. The model and actress Elisa Sednaoui presented her debut film “In conversation with Vogue Arabia” for Elie Saab.
The fourth edition was preceded by a screening of a restored version of Lo Straniero, a film directed by Luchino Visconti with costume design by Piero Tosi, at Cinema Massimo in Turin.
3rd edition, 24–26 September 2016
The third edition ran from September 24 to 26 at Milan’s Anteo Spazio Cinema with the inaugural screening and Italian premiere of the documentary film "Anna Piaggi: A Visionary In Fashion" directed by Alina Marazzi.[32] The edition attracted 750 submissions from 50 countries after a cut down to 180 films was made by the artistic committee.[33] Together with Vogue Italia the festival presented “Through My Eyes”, a special project showing short films made by emergent directors.[34] The off-contest saw four conversations: "Women in Cinema," a talk between director Alina Marazzi and writer and journalist Marta Stella; "Digital Insiders" a discussion with Simon Bekerman, Riccardo Conti, and Federico Sarica, founding editor of Rivista Studio; the conversation ”Fashion in Radio” between radio DJ La Pina and Nicoletta Morozzi; and a talk between founder of Purple Magazine, Olivier Zahm, and the curator Gloria Maria Cappelletti. In collaboration with L'Archivio Nazionale Cinema d'Impresa the festival organized “Body&Garment”, a screening of experimental Italian films from the 60s and 70s directed by artists such as Bruno Munari, Ugo Nespolo and Mario Schifano.[14] In collaboration with Discovery Channel the festival set up “FFFMilano Channel”, that ran from 10 September to 10 October 2016 as the first pop-up channel dedicated to fashion film.[14] The third edition closed with an award ceremony at Triennale di Milano.
2nd Edition, 20–22 September 2015
The second edition opened Milan's Fashion Week with a three-day event from September 20 to 22 in 2015 at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema. The number of films submitted doubled to 600 entries from 45 countries,[35] from which the festival's curator Gloria Maria Cappelletti and the festival's artistic committee selected 180 films for the competition.[36] The jury included Vogue Editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani, British photographer and founder of Hunger Magazine Rankin, French director Bruno Aveillan and U.S. writer and director Lisa Immordino Vreeland, to name a few.[37] Films were screened across four different theatre rooms inside of Cinema Anteo, showcasing exclusive unreleased content, 15-second short films, films in official selections.[38] The fourth room was reserved for three conversation: A conversation between Modesta Dziautaite, Patrizia Morosa and Lisa Immordino Vreeland; Alessia Glaviano, head of Global PhotoVogue interviewed Bruno Aveillan and the photographer Rankin. It also included a special screening on the occasion of Milano Film Festival that were held open-air at Parco Sempione and Triennale di Milano. Starting with the second edition, the festival set up an online voting system that reported 3000 viewers who voted for the first time the winner of the “People’s Choice Award”.[38] For its second edition, the festival signed a sponsorship with Mercedes-Benz and won Paramount Pictures and MTV Italia as its media partner.[1] Following the event, the festival was included in the exhibition “A-Z. Il nuovo vocabolario della moda italiana” at Triennale di Milano.[39]
1st Edition, 14–15 September 2014
The first edition was launched in collaboration with the Italian Fashion Council, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, and anticipated the Fashion Week in Milan with a two-day event from September 14–15, 2014.[40] The jury was presided by Vogue Italia Editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani and included Oscar-winning film director Luca Guadagnino, Claudia Donaldson, Editor-in-chief of the video channel NOWNESS and fashion journalist Tim Blanks. In its first year, the festival awarded 14 categories to emerging and well-known filmmakers: Standouts were Wes Andersons’ fashion film “Castello Cavalcanti” for Prada and Paolo Sorrentino’s short movies series “Frames of Life” conceived for Armani.[40] The emerging designer Rie Yamagata won three categories.[41] The first edition presented 80 fashion films selected from 350 films submitted from 34 countries. It saw the participation of more than 4000 spectators.
Awards
For every edition, Italian artist Fornasetti exclusively designs the trophies for Fashion Film Festival Milano. The festival organizes the competition in two categories “New Talents” and “Established Talents”, following the main principle to mutually support renowned and upcoming talents.
The current award categories are:
- Best Fashion Film
- Best Director
- Best Italian Fashion Film
- Best Experimental Fashion Film
- Best Documentary
- Best Styling
- Best Editing
- Best Music
- Best Photography
- Best Green Fashion Film
- Best New Fashion Film
- Best New Director
- Best New Italian Fashion Film
- Best New Designer/Brand
- People's Choice Award
International Jury
Members to Fashion Film Festival Milano's international jury have included Oscar-winning film directors, renowned fashion designers, photographers and personalities from cultural industries spanning fashion, cinema, art and culture:
2022
- Pierpaolo Piccioli (President of FFM 2022 jury), Creative Director Maison Valentino
- Alba Rohrwacher, actress
- Laura Brown, Editor-in-chief Instyle Magazine
- Harris Reed, fashion designer
- Vincent Peters, photographer
- Chiara Sbarigia, President of Cinecittà
- Piero Piazzi, President of Women Management
- Nadia Lee Cohen, photographer and director
- Esteban Diacono, digital artist
- Lea T, top model and activist
- Stella Jean, fashion designer
- Arturo Galansino, Director Palazzo Strozzi
- Fanny Moizant, Founder of Vestiaire Collective
- Kerry Bannigan, Director Fashion Impact Fund
2021
- Tim Yip (President of FFFM 2021 jury), art director and Oscar-winning costume designer
- Lachlan Watson, actress
- Marcelo Burlon, Creative director
- Anna Dello Russo, journalist and influencer
- Milovan Farronato, curator
- Javier Goyeneche, Founder Ecoalf
- Margherita Missoni, fashion designer
- Paolo Roversi, photographer
- Elizabeth Von Guttman, Founder System Magazine
- Tamu McPherson, influencer
2019
- Giorgio Armani (President of FFFM 2019 jury), fashion designer
- Waris Dirie, top model and activist
- Ezra Petronio, Founder Selfservice Magazine
- Oskar Metsavaht, Founder and designer of Osklen
- Vicente Todolì, Artistic Director Hangar Bicocca
- Cristina Capotondi, actress
- Sissy Vian, stylist
- Cass Bird, photographer
- Angelo Flaccavento, fashion journalist
2018
- Anna Lily Amirpour, director
- Max Vadukul, photographer
- Caroline Corbetta, contemporary art curator
- Orsola de Castro, Founder Fashion Revolution
- Umit Benan, fashion designer
- Piera Detassis, journalist, essayist and film critic
- Nicoletta Santoro, stylist and creative director
- Pablo Arroyo, photographer and creative director
- Taz Vega, actress
- Bianca Balti, top model
2017
- Ilaria Bonacossa, Director MAAD, art historian and curator
- Carlo Capasa, President Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
- Eva Riccobono, model and actress
- Jim Nelson, journalist, former editor-in-chief GQ
- Federico Pepe, artist, graphic designer, publisher
- Sølve Sundsbø, fashion photographer and filmmaker
- Maria Luisa Frisa, art critic, fashion curator and Director of the degree course in Fashion Design and Multimedia Arts at Università Iuav di Venezia
2016
- Franca Sozzani (President of FFM 2016 jury), former Editor-in-chief Vogue Italia
- Claudia Llosa, director, winner of Golden Bear and Oscar nominee
- Michelangelo Di Battista, photographer and director
- Andrea Lissoni, Artistic director Haus der Kunst and curator
- Olivier Zaham, Founder Purple Magazine, photographer and director
- Miroslava Duma, digital entrepreneur
- Enrico Dorizza, entrepreneur
- Emanuela Martini, film critic
2015
- Franca Sozzani (President of FFM 2015 jury), former Editor-in-chief Vogue Italia
- Bruno Aveillan, filmmaker, photographer and contemporary artist.
- Lisa Immordino Vreeland, writer and director
- Rankin, photographer and director
- Mario Codognato, curator of contemporary art
- Sara Maino, Head of Special Projects Vogue Italia
2014
- Franca Sozzani (President of FFM 2014 jury), former Editor-in-chief Vogue Italia
- Luca Guadagnino, film director, producer, screenwriter.
- Jane Reeve, former CEO Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
- Claudia Donaldson, former Editor-in-chief NOWNESS
- Tim Blanks, Editor-at-large Business of Fashion
Winning Films
2022
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Night at the Museum | Byron Rosero | Moncler, NSS | Best Fashion Film, Best Music |
| The Magic of Suits | Virgilio Villoresi | Brunello Cucinelli | Best Italian Fashion Film |
| Iara | Florian Joahn | Vogue UK | Best Director |
| The Three Building Blocks | Miguel Thomé Oliari, Fernanda Pompermayer | Rocha | Best Editing |
| Ostal 24 | Marine Serre, Sacha Barbin, Ryan Doubiago | Marine Serre | Best Photography |
| Evolver | Nin Bose, Nathan Collins, David Vigh | Bose Collins | Best Experimental Fashion Film |
| The Last Dance of Life | Claire Farin | DIDU | Best Styling |
| Back in the Island | Amanda Valle | Best Documentary | |
| New World Order | Timur Celikdag | The Travel Almanac Magazine | Best Green Fashion Film, Best New Fashion Film |
| La Tassinara | Gregorio Franchett, Ilva Sapeha | Comio | Best New Italian Fashion Film |
| Soldaderas | Camila Arroyo | Sabrina OI | Best New Director |
| 001 THE WALL COLLECTION 2021 | Joyce NG | 022397BLUFF | Best New Italian Designer/Brand |
| The Dreamers Room | Stefania Rocca | futuroRemoto | People's Choice Award |
2021
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Mythe Dior | Matteo Garrone | Christian Dior Couture | Best Fashion Film, Best Music |
| The Life and Times of Mannequeen Town | Vincenzo Schioppa | Aspesi | Best Italian Fashion Film |
| Drag Syndrome | Jess Kohl | Vogue UK | Best Director |
| Silent Madness | Jordan Hemingway | Mowalola | Best Editing |
| Comfort Zone | Jordan Blady | Best Photography | |
| Stories from a Twelfth-Floor Hotel Room | Zheqiang Zhang | Pseudonym | Best Experimental Fashion Film |
| WATA | Ronan Mckenzie, Joy Yamusangie | Gucci x GARAGE Magazine | Best Music, Best New Fashion Film, Best New Director |
| Gucci x Ssense | Matt Lambert | Gucci | Best Styling |
| Pelo Lacio | Diane Russo | Love Want Magazine | Best Documentary |
| Preservation Of Hezhen Fish Skin Tradition Through Fashion Higher Education | Zhongjin Zhang | Fishskinlab | Best Green Fashion Film |
| Embodiment | Ced Pakusevskiy | Barbara Bologna | Best New Italian Fashion Film, Best New Italian Designer/Brand |
| Brainwash | Paolo Forchetti | M1992 | Best New Designer/Brand |
| Fur | Masha Butorina | People's Choice Award |
2019
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72 hours in André Balazs’ Chateau Marmont with Kenneth Anger | Floria Sigismondi | System Magazine & Gucci | Best Fashion Film, Best Editing |
| Japan | Mario Sorrenti | Jil Sander | Best Italian Fashion Film |
| Nirvana | Jess Kohl | Nowness | Best Director, Best Documentary |
| The Twist | Lope Serrano AKA Canada | Miu Miu | Best Production |
| The Rite | Adam Csoka Keller | Nowness & The Royal Opera House | Best Photography |
| The Unseen | William Farr, Jon Emmony | Nowness | Best Experimental Fashion Film, Best Green Fashion Film |
| Captured Motion | Thibaut Grevet | Nike for Nowness | Best Music, Best New Fashion Film, Best New Director |
| JWA TV | Michael McCool | JW Anderson | Best Styling |
| Fashion in the Dark I | Emily Ford-Halliday | Best New Fashion Film | |
| Where is Sunnei? | Van Khokhlov | Sunnei | Best New Italian Fashion Film |
| Udara | Daniel Obasi | Vlisco & Co | Best New Director |
| Untitled | Laurent Amiel | Marine Serre | Best New Designer/Brand |
| Body.Confy.Dance | Enea Colombi | Best New Italian Designer/Brand |
2018
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paused By | Wim Wenders | Jil Sander | Best Fashion Film, Best Director, Best Production, Best Photography |
| Prada Nylon Farm | Di-Al | Prada | Best Italian Fashion Film |
| Why Can’t We Get Along | Benjamin Millepied, Aaron Duffy, Bob Partington | Rag & Bone | Best Editing, Best Experimental Fashion Film |
| Yo! My Saint | Ana Lily Amirpour | Kenzo | Best Music |
| Runaway Baby | Lola Bessis | Chloé | Best Styling, Best New Fashion Film, Best New Director |
| Muxes | Ivan Olita | Nowness | Documentary |
| Who Made My Clothes | Mj Delaney | Fashion Revolution | Best Green Fashion Film |
| Allegory of Water | Elena Petitti Di Roreto | Vogue Italia | Best New Italian Fashion Film |
| Kilon Shele Gan Gan | Dafe Oboro | Mowalola Studio | Best New Designer/Brand |
| Identity through Ferré | Federico Cianferoni | Fondazione Gianfranco Ferré | People's Choice Award |
2017
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Mutant Brain | Spike Jonze | Kenzo | Best Fashion Film, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Production,
Best Photography, Best Music |
| Film Infinite Path | Francesco Torricella, Arice | Etro | Best Italian Fashion Film |
| Days of Being Mild | Robbie Hillyer Barnett | Ray-Ban | Best Experimental Fashion Film |
| Women in Uniform | Barbara Anastacio | Nowness | Documentary |
| Asymptote | Adam Csoka Keller, Evelyn Bencicova | Uniform | Best New Director, Best New Fashion Film |
| MONO – Y | Enrico Poli | Antonio Labroca | Best New Italian Fashion Film |
| Ethetics Episode 2: Mdingi Coutts | Amber Moelter | Lukhanyo Mding, Nicholas Coutts | Best New Designer/ Brand |
| Dilemma | Bonasia & Narcisi | People's Choice Award |
2016
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowbird | Sean Baker | Kenzo | Best Fashion Film |
| Fragments d'un discours amoreux | Brigitte Niedermair | Best Italian Fashion Film | |
| Albert The Dog | Pensacola | Ray-Ban | Best Director |
| Couples | Marcus Linner, Daniel de Viciola | Converse | Best Editing |
| Take Flight | Daniel Askill | The New York Times | Best Production |
| The Coded Body | Luke Clayton Thompson | Best Experimental Fashion Film | |
| Migratory | Chantal Anderson | Objects Without Meaning | Best Photography |
| Three Women Arrive | Marie Schuller | Vogue Italia | Best Music, Best Styling |
| Ebonics | Luke Clayton Thompson | Grace Wales Bonner | Best New Designer/Brand |
| Omi Water | Papa Omotayo | Maki Oh | Best New Director |
| Valentino Fantastic Animals | Chris Edser | Valentino | Best Animation |
| Blue And You | Emma Westenberg | Best New Fashion Film | |
| Becco di Rame | Melany | Best New Italian Fashion Film | |
| In and Out of Control | Emir Eralp | Nowness | People's Choice Award |
2015
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legs are not doors | Harley Weir | Proenza Schouler | Best Fashion Film |
| Celia Birtwell | Virgilio Villoresi | Valentino | Best Italian Fashion Film |
| Jumper | Justin Anderson | Jonathan Saunders | Best Established Director |
| X | Rankin, Vicky Lauton, David Allain, Bronwen Parker-Rhodes, Trisha Ward, Jo Hunt | Coco de Mer | Best Editing |
| The Driver | Michael Pitt | Rag & Bone | Best Production |
| Blowing Riccardo | Marie Vic | Riccardo Tisci | Best Statement Fashion Film |
| Memory Imagination Reason | Jonas Lindstroem | Kostas Murkudis | Best Photography, Best Music |
| High Tide | Albert Moya | Dries Van Noten | Best Styling |
| Pippin and the Pursuits of Life | Femke Huuderman | Maaike Fransen | Best New Designer/Brand, Best New Director, Best New Fashion Film |
| Workout | Priscilla Santinelli | Best New Italian Fashion Film | |
| Immaculate High | Wiissa | Stoned Immaculate Vintage | People's Choice Award |
2014
| Title | Director(s) | Brand | Award(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Purgatory of Monotony | Ace Norton | Rhié | Best Fashion Film, Best Art Direction, Best New Talent Director |
| Leakage | Giulia Achenza | Best Italian Fashion Film | |
| The Wall | Dominick Sheldon | several/many | Best Young and Established Director |
| Escandalo | Dean Alexander | Karla Colletto Swimwear | Best Editing |
| Noir | Marie Schuller | Best Styling | |
| Play to Win, a Pingpong Battle | Roberto Delvoi | Andrea Pompilio | Best Music |
| Agi & Sam | Edward Housden | Agi & Sam | Best Emerging Designer |
Feature Films
Since its third edition in 2016, the festival's official program features the premieres of feature films dedicated to honor important figures in the fashion industry and promote awareness of societal topics such as sustainability ("FFFMilanoForGreen"), women empowerment ("FFFMilanoForWomen") and young talents ("FFFMilanoForYoung"). Past editions have screened the Milanese, Italian or European premiere of documentaries.
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elio Fiorucci-Free Spirit | 2017 | Andrea Servi, Swan Bergman | Italy |
| A Folk Horror Tale | 2021 | Oliver Dahan | France |
| Step into Paradise | 2021 | Amanda Blue | Australia |
| Now | 2020 | Jim Rakete | Germany |
| Martin Margiela In His Own Words | 2019 | Reiner Holzemer | Germany, Belgium |
| Halston | 2019 | Frédéric Tcheng | United States |
| I am Greta | 2020 | Nathan Grossman | Sweden |
| Made in Bangladesh | 2019 | Rubaiyat Hossain | Bangladesh, France, Denmark, Portugal |
| Let It Be Law | 2019 | Juan Solanas | Francia, Argentina, Uruguay |
| The Times of Bill Cunnigham | 2018 | Mark Bozek | United States |
| Peter Lindbergh: Women’s Stories | 2019 | Jean-Michel Vecchiet | Germany |
| McQueen | 2018 | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui | United Kingdom |
| RiverBlue | 2017 | Roger Williams, David McIlvride | Canada |
| Franca – Chaos and Creation | 2016 | Francesco Carrozzini | United States, Italy |
| Anna Piaggi: una visionaria nella moda | 2016 | Alina Marazzi | Italy, Switzerland, Germany |
Visual Artwork
The festival's partner Macs Iotti, creative director and founder of MACSIOTTI studio, creates a visual identity for each edition. Since the fifth edition in 2018, Macs Iotti has commissioned the conception of an artwork to an emerging artist:
- Mark Vomit for 8th Edition in 2022
- Karol Sudolski for 7th Edition in 2021
- Ezra Miller for 6th Edition in 2019
- Gilda & Bodha for 5th Edition in 2018
The creative production company Collateral Films has been collaborating with the Festival since the first edition to create, among other things, a "video manifesto" which presents the festival's values.[42]
For the two digital editions in 2021 and 2021, Collatoral Films created the “FFFMilano Digital Awards”, a video format curated by Ced Pakusevskiy as a digital award ceremony.[43]
Structure
The festival is directed by Constanza Cavalli Etro. She is married to the Italian fashion designer Kean Etro, whom she followed to live in Milan, Italy, where she founded Fashion Film Festival Milano in 20014.[17][44] Born in Argentina, she started her professional career in Mexico, where she founded the production and public relations agency CavalliCommunicacion and co-founded Mexico's Fashion Week.[21]
Cavalli Etro was among the organizers of the first film festival in Argentina ("Festival Argentino de Cine)[45] and in 2022 she co-founded "LAFA", the first Fashion Awards in Latin America.[11] In 2017, she launched EYESOPHY, a creative hub and a consulting company specialized in fashion and lifestyle filmmaking. She received the MCFW Fashion Award - Culture 2018 for her contribution to the Fashion World and her support to young talents, given by the Monaco Fashion Chamber and Monaco's Prime Minister. She has been jury member of Le Book's Connection fair for the creative community for five times. In 2022, she became a jury member of Condé Nast global creative network PhotoVogue.
Constanza Cavalli Etro appeared in Sheikha Intisar AlSabah's book "Circle of Love" (2019) as one of the women who are changing the international fashion and cultural scene. Forbes Italy named her as one of the 100 Successful Women of 2020 in Italy.[46]
The festival is curated by Gloria Maria Cappelletti, former editor-in-chief of i-D Italy Magazine.
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