{"id":2629,"date":"2018-02-15T02:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2018-02-15T02:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T10:07:26","slug":"women-urged-to-ditch-low-cut-gowns-and-heels-at-film-festival-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Women urged to ditch low-cut gowns and heels at film festival&#8221; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\" data-link-name=\"byline\" data-component=\"meta-byline\">Kate Connolly in Berlin, London,\u00a0<time class=\"content__dateline-wpd js-wpd\" datetime=\"2018-02-15T00:00:06-0500\" data-timestamp=\"1518670806000\">Thu 15 Feb 2018<\/time><\/p>\n<p>German actor Anna Br\u00fcggemann launches #NobodysDoll in push for equality on Berlin red carpet<\/p>\n<p>Female actors attending this year\u2019s Berlin film festival are being encouraged to ditch high heels and tight gowns in favour of comfortable clothes in a campaign to bring equal rights to the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Twitter hashtag #NobodysDoll, German actor Anna Br\u00fcggemann has said she wishes to challenge the \u201cpatriarchal gaze\u201d women habitually face at film festivals and award ceremonies, and to inspire actors to wear what they want instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe red carpet is like a throwback to the 1950s,\u201d she told the Guardian ahead of the film festival, which <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/en\/HomePage.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">begins on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen are expected to squeeze into tight-fitting, low-cut dresses and totter on impossible heels in order to serve the gaze of those who\u2019ll judge whether they are marketable or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time we had different images to look up to, of headstrong, unconventional women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Br\u00fcggemann, 36, a prominent German TV and film actor, said she looked forward to stepping out with a group of other actors \u2013 including film stars Lavinia Wilson, Franziska Weisz, and Palina Rojinski, all of whom are household names in <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/germany\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Germany<\/a> \u2013 who had signed up to her cause.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboy boots, leather jackets, T-shirts and trainers \u2013 anything is allowed, she said. \u201cLow-cut gowns as well, if that\u2019s your thing. The main thing is that the actress feels comfortable in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Br\u00fcggemann said the response to her campaign from the German film world had been overwhelming, but she had also received lots of messages from those nervous to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome said they were wary of being labelled as awkward by directors and producers, while others resented the idea I was trying to say they are like dolls just because they enjoy dressing up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director of the Berlinale, Dieter Kosslick, said that unlike Cannes, which has <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/may\/19\/cannes-backlash-high-heels-emily-blunt-flat-shoes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">enforced a high-heels rule in previous years<\/a>, Berlin has never imposed any restrictions. He said actors should feel free to wear what they like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can advise every woman who is coming to the Berlinale to wear exactly what she wants. We will certainly not be turning back either women who wear flat shoes, or men in high heels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Br\u00fcggemann said his was an inadequate response to the inequalities she and her colleagues had experienced on the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear this so often, but I think it\u2019s naive, because the point is there are no written rules \u2013 instead, me and my colleagues would habitually Google images of the Berlinale and say: \u2018OK, I guess that is how I have to look\u2019 and dress accordingly. And that\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Br\u00fcggemann said her campaign was a direct response to the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/31\/me-too-we-demand-more-jessica-valenti\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">#MeToo<\/a> debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy campaign is about asking when does a woman become that object that men feel they have the right to take for themselves, to decide everything from how she looks, to how low-cut her outfit is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen #MeToo happened, and all these beautiful Hollywood actresses said \u2018it\u2019s time for more equal rights and we should all be feminists\u2019, I thought, well, equality begins when we women really stop thinking about our bodies as something we have to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said while she greatly respected the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jan\/01\/times-up-hollywood-women-launch-campaign-to-fight-sexual-harassment\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Time\u2019s Up campaign<\/a>, which saw Hollywood stars at the recent Golden Globes donning black in protest at abuse scandals, she believes the stunt did nothing to address the issue of body image on the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p>About 70 prominent film actors and directors have signed <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobodysdoll.de\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Br\u00fcggemann\u2019s petition<\/a>, in which she has <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Nobodysdoll\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">called for female actors to be treated like \u201cartists not dolls\u201d<\/a>. She hopes the campaign will spread to other festivals, such as the Oscars in March or Cannes in May.<\/p>\n<p>Among the actors expected to attend this year\u2019s Berlin festival are Greta Gerwig, Isabelle Huppert, Emily Mortimer, Rosamund Pike, Tilda Swinton and Emily Watson. There was no indication yet as to whether they planned to join the #NobodysDoll campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Br\u00fcggemann said she is likely wear \u201ca skirt, sneakers and a turtleneck sweater\u201d to this year\u2019s Berlinale. Previous years had seen her wear heels and dresses \u201cbecause I thought \u2018everyone wears them and I think I should too, in order to be recognised as an elegant woman\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cAn actress friend of mine recently said she was fed up changing into at least four different outfits for the opening parties. She pointed out it was in that time the men were doing all the important business deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/feb\/15\/women-urged-to-ditch-low-cut-gowns-and-heels-at-film-festival\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Connolly in Berlin, London,\u00a0Thu 15 Feb 2018 German actor Anna Br\u00fcggemann launches #NobodysDoll in push for equality on Berlin red carpet Female actors attending this year\u2019s Berlin film festival are being encouraged to ditch high heels and tight gowns in favour of comfortable clothes in a campaign to bring equal rights to the red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}