AW24: TILDA SWINTON LAUNCH SCREENING

To celebrate the launch of our collection with Tilda Swinton we hosted a special screening of the 1996 film Female Perversions at the Rio Cinema in Dalston.

The screening was an intimate event and our first-ever IRL HADES Film Club!

Poster for the film screening of Female Perversions at the RIO Cinema

We welcomed actors Honor Swinton-Byrne, Sharon Hogan, Millie Brady, Georgie Henley, India Mullen, Charlie Rowe and other friends of HADES including illustrator Harry Freegard, fashion editor Navaz Batliwalla and influencer Liullland to enjoy a Female Perversians martini with us.

Image showing guests at the HADES Tilda Swinton Launch Screening

The film's director Susan Streitfeld introduced the film, sharing her memories of creating the film and working with Tilda in a specially filmed introduction from Los Angeles.

The film is an undervalued, complex and unique feminist film – we recommend a watch. The film opens with words from psychologist Louise J Kaplan, whose eponymous book inspired the film.

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”