The Curve of Forgotten Things

Fashion films are the new lookbook- and this one for Rodarte is particularly lovely. The Curve of Forgotten Things is a dreamy introduction to design duo Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s spring collection, capturing a nostalgic and somewhat eerie atmosphere that may just make you want to grow your hair long and skip through dusty oilfields.

Featuring the utterly divine Elle Fanning, this short film by Todd Cole is inspired by 1970s California and childlike wonderment. With a soft, dusty focus and an evocative score provided by indie rockers Deerhunter, the film follows the young Somewhere actress in all her long-limbed, silky-haired loveliness as she wanders through dry grass and dirt roads, searching for something.

Then our wide-eyed ingénue reaches a large, abandoned house. As if in a daydream, she pirouettes through the empty rooms, as sweet and ethereal as the billowing white curtains.  Her outfits magically change as she slips from one room to the next, each strikingly romantic and palpably luxurious, with rich colours referencing Redwood forests and the gold rush, and tailoring inspired by Asian influences.

Quiet and thoughtful, The Curve of Forgotten Things takes you into a reverie seeped with soft gold and burnt red, stirring up a sense of nostalgia, of memories being unearthed. “It’s about this girl who exists in this strange place outside of time,” director and photographer Todd Cole says. “She’s digging up things from the land and the past, and she offers them to the sun.”