Wearable art or just embarrassing memories?

Go on admit it. Somewhere there's a photo of you with shoulder pads made for gridiron or a tie no wider than your shoelace. Film takes you on a journey to your best and worst sartorial memories.
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Big hair, sequins, shoulder pads and leg warmers? Cut-off shirts and jeans, piercings, chunky heeled shoes and bare midriffs? Velour tracksuits, jeggings and furry Ugg boots? Mirror, mirror on the wall, was the eighties, the nineties or the noughties the most haute couture of them all?

As Melbourne Spring Fashion Week kicks off, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image will once again feature a collection of fashion films curated by ACMI’s film programmer James Nolen. In its 4th annual edition Deep In Vogue: Fashion on Film is a companion to Fashion Week’s runway shows exploring the fashion of recent decades on on the big screen.

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Leo Ribeiro
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Leo Ribeiro is an ArtsHub writer.