Timeshift Fashion Versus the BBC (Season 8, Episode 7)
TV Episode | Documentary

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Timeshift

Fashion Versus the BBC (Season 8, Episode 7)

TV Episode | Documentary

Documentary which takes a provocative and entertaining journey through the BBC's own fashion collection. For 50 years the BBC has often treated fashion as a frivolous, decadent diversion from the serious matters of life, but now a 'style ...See moreDocumentary which takes a provocative and entertaining journey through the BBC's own fashion collection. For 50 years the BBC has often treated fashion as a frivolous, decadent diversion from the serious matters of life, but now a 'style council' of fashion writers and commentators including Peter York, Colin McDowell, Ted Polhemus and Hilary Alexander turns the tables and lets British fashion take on the BBC. In the 1950s we find programmes debating whether men should decide what women wear. In the 1960s we see Alan Whicker unleashed upon the 'silly, superficial world' of French couture, while the big story of Mary Quant is almost ignored back home. In the 1970s comes the revulsion against punk style, and it is not until the 1980s that TV treats fashion with any kind of appreciation with The Clothes Show, generally held as the BBC's finest hour in the world of dressing up. The programme concludes that British fashion is unique in that it is driven more by youth culture than by fashion houses. Through the stories of the models, the designers, the photographers and the clothes themselves, it shows how the establishment has come to terms with the transformation of post-war Britain. Written by Anonymous See less

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Name	Known for
Hilary Alexander Self Self See fewer	A Savage Life in Fashion (2004)
Colin McDowell Self Self See fewer	Futurestates (2010)
Ted Polhemus Self Self See fewer	Riverside (1982)
Mary Quant Self Self See fewer	The Haunting (1963)
Alan Whicker Self Self See fewer	Whicker; Down Mexico Way (1963)
Peter York Self Self See fewer	Timeshift (2002)

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