28 November – 3 December 2026
Fashion in Film Festival returns to the ICA for its 20th anniversary, celebrating the collaborators and guests who have brought it to life over the past two decades. Titled The Party and the Guests, the programme is dedicated to the late costume designer, stylist and festival co-founder Roger K. Burton. Bringing together rare screenings, live music, new sound commissions and discussions across London, the programme features Jarvis Cocker, John Maybury, Inga Fraser, Laura McLean-Ferris and others. It honours the art of conversation and the creative exchanges that have shaped the festival’s approach to fashion and cinema.
Fashion in Film Festival returns to the ICA for its 20th anniversary, celebrating the collaborators and guests who have brought it to life over the past two decades. Titled The Party and the Guests, the programme is dedicated to the late costume designer, stylist and festival co-founder Roger K. Burton. Bringing together rare screenings, live music, new sound commissions and discussions across London, the programme features Jarvis Cocker, John Maybury, Inga Fraser, Laura McLean-Ferris and others. It honours the art of conversation and the creative exchanges that have shaped the festival’s approach to fashion and cinema.
Programme
Saturday 28 November, 8pm
Resistance, Connection, Enclosure: John Maybury in the 1980s
John Maybury’s exuberant films frequently revolve around style and self-fashioning as means of expression and resistance. Combining Super 8 and video, original and found images, and reliant on intricate editing and layering, they are testimonies of 1980s post-punk queer defiance.
Thursday 3 December, 8.40pm
Come Into My (Dressing) Room: A Post-Punk Trio
Step into three very different sites of cinematic dressing, in which rooms are worn like clothes. In the 20th century, homes and their furnishings were increasingly marketed according to the logic of fashion, each successive style promising to capture our singular personalities. In the post-punk era, as cracks appeared in the supposed ideals of the nuclear family, home ownership and consumer economics, a new attitude emerged that embraced bricolage, decay and the communal.
Saturday 28 November, 8pm
Resistance, Connection, Enclosure: John Maybury in the 1980s
John Maybury’s exuberant films frequently revolve around style and self-fashioning as means of expression and resistance. Combining Super 8 and video, original and found images, and reliant on intricate editing and layering, they are testimonies of 1980s post-punk queer defiance.
Thursday 3 December, 8.40pm
Come Into My (Dressing) Room: A Post-Punk Trio
Step into three very different sites of cinematic dressing, in which rooms are worn like clothes. In the 20th century, homes and their furnishings were increasingly marketed according to the logic of fashion, each successive style promising to capture our singular personalities. In the post-punk era, as cracks appeared in the supposed ideals of the nuclear family, home ownership and consumer economics, a new attitude emerged that embraced bricolage, decay and the communal.
