“Dior and I” will be kicking off this year’s Moritz Feed Dog, the first documentary film festival about fashion in Spain. The film, directed by Frederic Tcheng, will be premiering at the festival on Thursday 14th May and at the moment you can’t see it anywhere else.
In 2012 Raf Simons became the new artistic director of Dior and had only eight weeks to release his first haute couture runway collection in time for fashion week. Eight weeks to prepare for those rows of scrutinising onlookers and the blinding flashes at the end of the runway. Tcheng masterfully manages to portray the down-to-earth story – amidst the chaos and glamour – of Raf Simons’ venture with the instrumental help of his seamstresses and right-hand man in one of fashion’s biggest triumphs.
Not only this, the first edition of Moritz Feed Dog will feature ten fashion documentaries over the four days including Christian Louboutin: Top of the heels, a conversation with the man behind the red sole; “A notebook on cities and clothes”, following Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto; Call it a balance in the unbalance, the stardom and downfall of Miguel Adrover; and “Iris”, about fashion’s greatest darling, Iris Apfel. The festival will also be showcasing some of London’s fashion history with Twiggy, an insight into how a working class teenager became the face of Swinging London, and Mods, rockers and the bank holiday mayhem about the best dressed battle that inspired films like Quadrophenia. Other documentaries will show the relationship between fashion and hip-hop in Fresh Dressed, the evolution of sustainable fashion in The next black, or the tragic and horrifying stories that are so often hidden behind clothes production in Traceable.
Moritz Feed Dog will be running at Aribau Club 2, Barcelona from 14th-17th May.