CRUBA’s designer Mira von der Osten has created a dress for Donata Wenders, the renowned photographer and wife of filmmaker Wim Wenders, for the OSCAR Awards. Hand-knitted from video tapes, it will be presented for the first time on the red carpet at the 96th Academy Awards.
“PERFECT DAYS”, directed by Wim Wenders and shot in Tokyo, is nominated for Best International Feature Film. Donata Wenders created the movie’s dream sequences. She said at the fitting: “A dress knitted from three VHS film tapes, that’s brilliant! The fact that it is now the VCR tapes of “PARIS, TEXAS”, “HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN” and “TOKYO-GA” which are my favorite films, tops the whole thing of course, and is completely sustainable!
Going to the Oscars in a magnetic ribbon dress with the Oscar nominee’s films… This is where past, future and present come together! That needs to be shown on THE red carpet!”.
Music cassettes play an important role in the nominated film “PERFECT DAYS”. VCR tapes are the same material, only wider than the pure music tape. Stay up to date on the newest in the world of Fashion, Arts, Beauty and Lifestyle; Follow FAB on Instagram.
Wim Wenders was thrilled at first sight: “The dress is awesome! At last something beautiful is being made from these old VCR tapes! I was always ashamed of the lousy audiovisual quality of video tapes.”Mira von der Osten adds: “The material plays so wonderfully with the
light. It was a pleasure to wrap Donata Wenders in film and promote sustainability on the red carpet.”
