Cinematic Fashionability and Images Politics

The marriage of cinema and fashion? When, where and how their interaction and origin is begun? There should be no glamor and red carpet when The Lumière brothers short films like Workers leaving the Lumière factory, The Gardener, Baby’s Breakfast on the birth of cinema in 1895. However, we notice that artificially costumes are tailor-made for A Trip to the Moon in Georges Méliès and D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance. Suddenly, it adds       the aesthetical and modernist elements into the blood of cinema beside the raw-realism of how the daily life of      the common people is represented on the silver screen. Some kinds of bourgeois ideology and middle class     value is enhanced. It is so unbelievable that some ordinary actress like Mary Pickford transforming into a movie   star after beautifully dressing up. Not only the audience feel the power of movie magic but also the fashion     magic. This paper explores the different perspective of movie and fashion in terms of fashion and film costumes, movie stars icon, fashion trends influenced by movies, and how fashion designers changes the look of cinema as well, etc.