This week Mortiz Feeds Dog begin the 2023 Edition of their Barcelona Fashion Documentary Film Festival. Presenting films in Aribau cinemas across the city from 22-26th March, this year also sees the festival collaborate with Caixa Forum + for the first time who will be streaming this year’s selection in April.
The seventh edition of the festival will be screening several major documentaries featuring our favourite designers including Gianni Versace & Azzedine Alaïa, as well as a special double bill honouring the late Vivienne Westwood. As well as tributing legends, the festival will also be tracing the Punk movement (Tramps!), recounting the history of International Male magazine (All Man) and following some of our favourite, most fabulous fashionistas (Fashion Babylon).
One such icon is our beloved Casey Spooner, musician, artiste, provocateur. Loverboy spoke with Casey about his relationship with Fashion & Barcelona and also his memories of filming (and executive producing!) Fashion Babylon, which follows Michelle Elie, Violet Chachki & himself living it up at Paris Fashion Week.
Casey, I’ve been waiting to see Fashion Babylon for so long. I’m so excited it is finally coming to Barcelona. How did you become involved in the project?
I met Gianluca Matarrese, the director of the film, on the street in Paris. We were neighbours. I was having a fashion peak, living in Paris preparing to release an album. So I was pumping it hard for the press everyday in a look. Gianluca saw me being extra on the street. We went to La Perle for a coffee and discussed working together. Violet Chachki and I were tearing it up at the time and it really felt like it needed to be documented. We were a new kind of Ab Fab. A younger cooler queerer intergenerational kind. And we started shooting that Friday in July in Paris for Haute Couture.
What was your favourite moment of recording this documentary?
I think the most important and tender part is with the gay Kurdish refugee that I met in the bathhouse. It was a very intense and emotional time. Also very sweet and profound. The good news is he survived after living in camps in Germany through the pandemic. He is safe and happy. We stay in touch.
What has been your most extra fashion moment in Barcelona?
My look was pretty fierce when I performed at DJ Hell’s party at Lolita during Sonar in the summer of 2000? I wore a big red satin cape. Jake Shears was there that night….he says that night inspired him to start the Scissor Sisters! But mostly I like the beach in BCN…..so I prefer Speedos and all the hot Spanish men. Less fashion more sweaty love.
When you think of Spain and Fashion, which designers, muses, models come to mind
Palomo Spain PERIOD! I love Palomo Spain so much. Really the chicest looks for the hottest queens. One of my fashion peaks was when Palomo Spain dressed me in a white lace dress. I wore to the show in Madrid and then wore it directly to perform at MyPleasure! Also MyPleasure is the best party in the world. PERIOD! I love Madrid Pride too. Best Pride in the world. Madrid and I have some kind of love affair. I’ve had some of my most magical moments in my life in Madrid. The song ‘Stranger Strange’ off the last Fischerspooner album was about an affair I had in Madrid with the most wonderful man. Spain has always been so supportive. Our audiences have always been amazing and it feels like one of my homes. One day I’ll live in Spain
Barcelona Fashion Documentary Film Festival 2023
22-26 March 2023
https://moritz.feeddog.org/
