HAPPY thoughts with Fashion in Film Festival

In 2007 Arnhem Mode Biennale asked Fashion in Film curators and founders Christel Tsilibaris and Marketa Uhlirova about HAPPINESS:

What makes you happy?
Christel: I’m happiest when I’m having a seaside lunch with my friends on a beautiful summer’s day.
Marketa: Tools with peculiar functions, hysterical laughter, little kittens that jump sideways, bad jokes with a bad punch line.

1. Which piece of clothing makes you the happiest?
   Christel: Jeans, bags and shoes (I simply can’t choose).
   Marketa: The woollen socks that my grandma gives me every year.

2. Things you can’t live without:
   Christel: Eating!!! ... and my sunglasses.
   Marketa: Dance scenes in the TV series The Mighty Boosh, cards with cats from the 1920s, fiction and photography books. And music, but is that a thing? My Lole y Manuel CD.

3. Can fashion make the world a better place?
   Christel: Only people can make the world a better place.
   Marketa: Only if we know how to appreciate quality, plus the idea behind an item of clothing.

4. What’s the status of fashion today?
   Christel: If only I knew!
   Marketa: Hmmm. What fashion and by who?

5. What’s your happiest moment so far?
   Marketa: I don’t know. I think that moments of being happy only are happy at that very instant. Then they end up being forgotten or frozen.

6. What’s the colour of happiness?
   Christel: Blue and white.
   Marketa: Blue like midnight, the best colour ever.