The Femme Fatale subverts expectations – about story, and most of all about femininity. How might this connect to the way they’re dressed in their films?
Film writer Abbey Bender suggests a theory about the wardrobe of femmes fatales in erotic thrillers, with stills from Basic Instinct (1992), The Last Seduction (1994), Fatal Attraction (1987), Body Heat (1981), Body of Evidence (1993) and Femme Fatale (2002):
Others have since responded with more stills from films and TV shows which lend intriguing credence to the theory:
I couldn’t help but jump in:
Further Viewing
“Nothing is random. Everything in the frame is designed to tell one story“: