Comrade’s couture
Marco Wilms, former model with the GDR’s state fashion institute, takes us back to his formative years in the ’80s on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall in Comrade Couture, screening as part of this year’s QueerDoc film festival.
Behind the Iron Curtain and its signature utilitarian clothing style, a collective of artists and imaginative kooks collect whatever refuse of communist industry they can find — shower curtains, hospital waste bags, agricultural and industrial fabrics — to create outrageous and incredible fashions.
info: Comrade Couture screens Tuesday, September 14 at 7pm at Dendy Newtown. Tickets: www.queerdoc.com.au
Win a QueerDoc season pass: page 17
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