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FashFilmFete, the premiere film festival with a mission of providing a platform for historically underrepresented voices in film and television, will host the 2nd Annual FashFilmFete in Phoenix.
The event takes place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 at Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Ave., and will honor the works of distinguished costume designers Ruth E. Carter (Black Panther) and Patricia Field (Sex and The City). The day-long festival will celebrate fashion storytelling and feature presentations and films where fashion plays a pivotal role in the film’s narrative.
“Our goal is always to bring together a global community of fashion and film aficionados to explore style in cinema and its influence on pop culture, fashion design, contemporary art and beauty standards,” founder Mignon Gould shared in a news release. “This year it is particularly special because we will be honoring two icons with the inaugural Costume Design Career Achievement Award.”
The 2023 honorees Carter and Field are receiving the 2023 Costume Design Career Achievement Award in Film and Television, respectively.
Carter, an Oscar award-winning costume designer, has collaborated with Hollywood glitterati running the gamut from directors Spike Lee, Ryan Coogler and Ava Duvernay to actors such as Angela Bassett, Whitney Houston and Chadwick Boseman.
She costumed more than 40 films including critically acclaimed and award-winning movies such as “Malcom X” and “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” and period films with narratives woven in the fabric of American history such as “Amistad” and “Selma.” She also made history twice with the “Black Panther” franchise when in 2018 she became the first Black person to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design, and in 2023 at the 95th Academy Awards she became the only Black woman to win two Oscars, with her second win for the “Black Panther” sequel.
FashFilmFete is also honoring Field for her outstanding contributions to the industry. Her career began in the 1980s and her boundary-pushing style quickly became synonymous with crowds in New York City. Her 30-plus-year costuming TV shows not only included HBO’s "Sex and the City," but TV Land’s “Younger” and Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” as well.
Other films being screened and in consideration for FashFilmFete awards include: “American Made” directed by Dana Nies; “CityCenterDC – ‘Celebrating You’” directed by Dean Alexander; “Finissage” directed by Pabli Stein and Sebastian Muro; “Franciacorta - A Golden Feeling” directed by Enea Colombi; “House Of Mystic Magic“ directed by Alexander Miguel; “How to Deal With Fame” directed by Tiffany Ike; “The Missing Piece” directed by Hitaali Dharamshi; and “The Power is Yours” directed by Urivaldo Lopes.
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