Notebooks on Cities and Clothes

"Fashion? I don't relate to that!" This was Wim Wenders' first reaction when the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris asked him to make a film about the world of fashion. Wenders readily admitted that he was initially not interested in that world. But when he had thought it over once more, he found that he was not very consistent: he was interested in the world but not in fashion, whereas this is part of that world. Wenders felt that he had judged too quickly and withdrew his words. He resolved to look unprejudiced at the world of fashion and even appeared to be able to show an interest in . Wenders examined the fashion world in the same way as he would have done with another industry, like the film industry. He discovered some striking parallels between fashion and film. Besides, making this documentary enabled him to travel to Tokyo; he wanted to visit and film the man who had aroused his curiosity: Yohi Yamamoto, the famous fashion artist.
The film also gave Wenders the opportunity to consider filming as a way of life. It became part of his life again, like reading the paper or eating a sandwich. The day-to-day life pleased him very much, his only motive was his curiosity. The result is a notebook of celluloid, scribbled full with impressions of cities and their fashion.