fashionoffice.org publisher Karin Sawetz's
movie-tip in July 2008

"For this month I choose "Gettaca" for its overall retro-future late 30s vintage-SciFi aesthetic with yellowed pictures and costumes that bring your mind back to former times. The "Gattaca" world with clean architecture, "standardised" humans looks like coated with patina.

Additional to the language of the pictures, I love the story which shows that no system can determine your future - even not through genetic tests; this is a great message: everybody has the chance to realise dreams."

Video: Trailer "Gattaca" (1997), directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Gore Vidal, ...

Costume designer Colleen Atwood
... (born 1950, US) created the modern, vintage inspired costumes. She made the costumes for such great films like "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), "Philadelphia" (1993), "Mars Attacks!" (1996), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) ... You will find on her filmography for costume design (begins at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041181/ in 1984) movies with authentic outfits for screen adaptions of dramatic stories that play in our times as well as fantastic, crazy outfits for Sci-Fi blockbuster like "Mars Attacks!".

Colleen Atwood's work for "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005) has won the Oscar, the BAFTA Film Award, and the Costume Designers Guild Award for Best Costume Design in 2006. In 2003 she has got her first Oscar for "Chicago" (2002).

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fig.: Dr. Karin Sawetz, founder and publisher of fashionoffice.org (since 1996), is journalist, media researcher and fashion scientist.

Karin Sawetz has a diploma from a higher-level secondary college for the fashion and clothing industry. She was awarded with the first prize for her design of the male work trousers for the OMV filling stations (OMV is Central Europe's leading oil and gas group) - the design has been realised. Before and while studying for the diploma she was designer for her own label, which she has presented international.

Beneath her studies at the University of Vienna she worked as costume designer for theatre and film, was civil servant at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics (Department Fashion & Textile Industry), ...

After she has finished her studies at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Sciences, the Institute for Film-, Theatre- and Media-Sciences, the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna, and the Institute for Artistic Sciences, Art Education and Communication, Department for Cultural and Intellectual History, at the University of Applied Arts, she was lecturer at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, published scientific studies, ...

In the last years she focused her work on fashionoffice.org as an international magazine and organization for intercultural approaches in fashion and art.

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