As part of ROMLife's Film Series, Think Pink! The Subversive World of Funny Face takes place at the Royal Ontario Museum on Thursday, May 11 between 7 pm - 9 pm.
As part of ROMLife's Film Series, Think Pink! The Subversive World of Funny Face takes place at the Royal Ontario Museum on Thursday, May 11 between 7 pm - 9 pm.
Funny Face (1957), starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson, and directed by Stanley Donen, is a Pygmalion story with a spicy political subtext.
In "Funny Face," the world of haute couture is juxtaposed with the intellectual left in New York and Paris. Based on the actual world of Harper's Bazaar, and thinly disguised real-life individuals such as Richard Avedon, Alexei Brodovitch, Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, Christian Dior and Jean Paul Sartre, the film subversively plays with a number of the issues of mid 1950s America - all set up through the brilliant song, Think Pink!
Presenter Linda Lewis is chair of Ryerson University's School of Fashion.
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