Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)

Incredibly self-reflective film… Wenders feeds present and past footage back into the screen through progressively smaller and more modern monitors positioned in-frame. Brutally lo-fi picture-in-picture. To be honest, it's a film about fashion whose director cares far more about film than fashion. At one point, Wenders observes that as someone who (up to the start of filming) knew very little about fashion, he could only ask the most basic questions of Johji—Where do your ideas come from? Is your style a prison or a liberation? What part of your process must be kept secret until it's finished? Johji answers for himself and his art, and we're left to turn the questions back on ourselves and our own arts.