Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 3: THE NEXT BLACK
David Dworsky and Victor Köhler’s look at the future of fashion made its debut last month on various online platforms. FilmBuff expands its reach, offering the doc on iTunes, Playstation, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Vudu, and Hulu, among other VOD platforms.
Dworsky and Köhler’s mid-length takes a brief but often intriguing survey of potentially radical changes to the way clothes may be made, and to how consumers may relate to their fashion choices. Despite the playfulness of the doc’s title, these aren’t simple aesthetic choices to be switched out after the season, but rather seismic shifts in everything from materials, processes, functions, and the actions of individual purchasers. Among the subjects explored (introduced and bridged via a narrator who would grow increasingly tiresome if this was a longer project) are the creation of digital and biological couture – applying technology such as 3D printing or organic cultivation to create new types of materials or fabric, the development of smart clothing that can monitor biometrics, and the encouragement of environmentally sustainable practices, such as dry dyeing to eliminate water waste and pollution or a return to “slow fashion,” which encourages consumers to buy less, and to repair or recycle garments rather than dispose of them.
