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2010 March 30

DvF On the Big Screen

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(NEW YORK) The Daily recently wondered what could be next for Diane von Furstenberg after her recent foray into the music world, but it seems the designer/mogul had her sights equally set on film. The upcoming Gen Art Film Festival (which runs from April 7-13) will debut a movie called Tanner Hall, co-directed and written by von Furstenberg’s daughter Tatiana—and DvF has designed the costumes. A coming-of-age story of four teenage girls in an all-girls boarding school in New England, the film features everything from an affair with a married man to the dramas of “the new girl,” but don’t expect an Education-esque period piece. Tatiana and her co-director/writer, Francesca Gregorini, left the film without a specific era, picking music, costumes, furniture, hairstyles, and cars purposefully taken from different decades to create a sense of timelessness.

Might we see boarding school-chic for DvF’s Spring 2011? We’ll have to wait and see. But between this and Rodarte’s costumes for the upcoming Black Swan, consider the gap between fashion and film just a little bit smaller.
EMILY GYBEN