The film provides fascinating insights into the pressures facing non-western people as they confront the global economy. Follow two women from Ladakh, or Little Tibet, on a reality tour of London to see what life in the West is really like. The women are exposed to aspects of modern urban life homelessness, old-age homes, massive garbage dumps that contrast sharply with the idealized media and advertising images impressed upon people's minds in the...

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies,...

Starting in 1964 with Seven UP, The UP series has explored this Jesuit maxim. The original concept was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, renowned director Michael Apted, a researcher for Seven UP, has been back to talk to them, examining the progression of their lives. From cab driver Tony to schoolmates Jackie, Lynn and Susan and...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we’re back across the Pond, and featuring even more innovative British style! A friend’s over-the-top birthday soiree in Morocco inspires Julien Macdonald’s extravagant, provocative Spring 2014 catwalk. The women of North Africa—specifically, the Berber tribe—inspire design duo KTZ’s nomad-chic spring collection. We hit the Videofashion Vault for a look back at one of Marios Schwab’s earliest...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we arrive in the UK for London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014! Simone Rocha looks to the lush landscape of her native Emerald Isle to inspire her prim yet innovative Spring 2014 collection. Take a look back at the illustrious career of quintessentially British designer, Alice Temperley, then get whisked away to the Mediterranean by way of her spring collection for Temperley London. Plus, the UK’s latest...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, it’s more greatest hits from London Fashion Week! Optimism is on-tap at Paul Smith, where the iconic British designer looks into his own archives, updating and remixing his signature blend of tomboy-chic & rock-chick cool. Affluent meets athletic on Antonio Berardi’s spring 2014 runway, where “urban glamour” is as sporty as it is sophisticated. Plus, Emilia Wickstead turns up the volume on rhythm...

Art from late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance is revealed in this film in all of its splendour and variety. This is the age of the Hundred Years' War, the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudors. Under kings from Henry IV to Henry VIII, artists in England produced dazzling illuminated manuscripts, exquisite jewels and moving devotional images and sculptures. Featuring many of the exhibits in the landmark V&A exhibition, Gothic:...

Videofashion collections presented by Videofashion Daily is a front row seat to the creative genius of New York, London, Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks that set the fashion trends for Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. Videofashion collections delivers comprehensive and rapid coverage of each major fashion show, complete with extensive and unparalleled VIP access to, and interviews with: designers, fashion editors, makeup artists, models, fashion luminaries,...

"The world's greatest city laid bare!", roars the tagline to London in the raw (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging city. Exploitation maven Arnold Miller combines documentary footage with staged sequences of leering intimacy, showing the skin of belly dancers and strip-teasers once the sun sets, disappearing along with any inhibitions. As the voice-over says, "Eat a little, dance a...

The artist Mona Hatoum came to London from Lebanon in 1975. Working initially with performance and video, and in the 1990s with sculpture and installations, she has exhibited widely around the world. In the summer of 2000 Mona Hatoum presented three major new works which marked the inauguration of Tate Britain, London. These works, exhibited under the title The entire world as a foreign land, developed Hatoum's interest in the relationship between...