This month I watched one of those films that's so strange and beautiful at the same time, it makes everything else seem as dull as door nobs. My friend Jessie Brinton gave it to me as part of mental prep for the fashion story we were doing for the second issue of The Estethica Review, a mag we do each season for the BFC about sustainable fashion. In amongst all the complications and paper-worky-email-y-ness of planning and executing the magazine, I spent 2 1/2 hours in Wong Kar-Wai's strange world - 2046.

The film doesn't really have a narrative, or not one you could map out in a neatly labelled diagram - instead Kar-Wai uses gin soaked images of '60's Hong Kong and and the ethereal future of 2046 to explore how a memory, love, loss and reality don't always line in the way they should. The film is in a mixture of Cantonese, Japanese & Mandarin and watching it in subtitles makes the visuals all the more powerful.

A film that's well worth the time it borrows from reality.

And the costumes are ICONIC! In the 1960's scenes, all are form-fitting primary colours and when the move into the future happens, everything becomes translucent, iridescent and somewhat magical: watch out for the light-up shoes !!!

February presents 4 weeks of hardcore shows, so many new silhouettes and a million new trends - if you feel like cutting the whole thing into a slightly more manageable chunk, check out the film and get dressed with Kar-Wai's world in mind.

Watch the trailer here. And how's this for an outtake?