The art that comes from the craft of clothing can be experienced in many ways. It is found in the act of touching a fabric, in the song that accompanies the passing of the models in a fashion show or in the emotion caused by seeing the final result of a well-made piece. Toni Miró (1947-2022) was clear about it and this is how he explains it in Toni Miró amb els cinc sentits, a new documentary made with archival interviews by the Catalan journalist Peté Soler, which will be presented at the Moritz Feed Dog Festival on 24 of March.
“She grew up among textiles, in a family from Sabadell that came from textiles. I was clear about ‘the business’, but at the same time I really enjoyed that creative part of fashion: the shows, the creation of pieces”, explains the journalist and director of this short film about the dressmaker, who on March 9 received the Gold Medal for Civic Merit in Barcelona. A posthumous recognition of a figure who wove Catalan fashion in the 1980s and 1990s –he designed the uniforms for the Olympic Games and for the Mossos d’Esquadra– at a time when fashion and culture were converging in a parade inspired by Dalí or in a small shop on the Rambla called Groc –the first of the dressmaker– that served as a meeting place for the gauche divine.
The film about Miró is the only one on the festival billboard that talks about Spanish fashion and is, unconsciously and beyond being a heartfelt tribute to his career, a critical reflection on the fashion consumption model that prevails today: viral phenomena, trends that come and go, where is the construction of a good capsule wardrobe, the taste for a well-made and timeless suit?
Understanding that in some way it is an industry that reflects life itself is the essence of this festival dedicated to fashion documentary films, which arrives in the Catalan capital on March 22 with titles about names as irreverent as Azzedine Alaïa or Vivienne Westwood. , the counterculture and the sense of identity.
An ‘outsider’ in Paris. He landed in Paris in 1956 and reinvented the silhouette to embrace the curves of the woman. Azzedine Alaïa: The couturier who shaped women follows in the footsteps of the irreverent dressmaker with an intimate gaze.
Masculine cut. In All Man: The International Male Story, filmmaker Jesse Finley Reed tells the surprising story of how a mail-order clothing catalog became a cult LGTBI underground publisher.
Backstage fashion. The lights and shadows of the industry are reflected in Fashion Babylon with three personal stories. Chaos in its purest form: anything goes to be part of the fashion circus.
Tribute to the queen of punk. The figure of Vivienne Westwood is key in this edition of the festival, starring in several documentaries. In Vivienne Westwood: do it yourself, Letmiya Sztalryd follows her for a year.
