It looks like that from the 10th-31st May, I won't be using the 'I'm washing my hair' stay-in excuse because I am actually going to be preoccupying myself with much of this year's 'Fashion in Film Festival'.  I saw a lot of the last one all the way back in early-Style Bubble years in 2006 but will attempt to catch all of the film programme this time round especially with such an alluring theme...

"If Looks Could Kill: Cinema's Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence"

The clever people FFF have honestly faced up to the fact that films about fashion are rather shite but the number of films utilising fashion in some way or another are numerous and of a far better quality and so using this theme have picked up on the white gloves left at crimescenes, a slick of red lippie, a sharp suit and other modes of disguise and given us a stonking selection of films that are hard to find on la DVD with a lot of early silent films that are rarely shown.

The FFF will use four London venues; BFI Southbank, Ciné lumière, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tate Modern and The Horse Hospital and they have also roped in talks and introductions from designers, critics and historians including the likes of Bella Freud and Dylan Jones (GQ editor).  All in all, I hope to come armed with reviews, tidbits and nuggets of information that probably I alone will find fascinating, to bore you all with (or if of course you're into this sort of thing and you aren't a Londoner, then you probably won't fall off your chair asleep.)  The programme is even more packed than last time so bye bye Great British Menu and hello pre-cinema quickie dinners...