Gabrielle Union and Freida Pinto are teaming up to develop a series on the moving memoir, “Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion.”
Written by author and culture critic Tanisha C. Ford, the adaptation will come in under Union’s first-look production deal at Sony Pictures Television via her company I’ll Have Another, in partnership with Pinto’s Freebird Films Entertainment. Their respective partners, Holly Shakoor Fleischer and Emily Verellen Strom, will also oversee.
“Dressed in Dreams” was released in 2019 by St. Martin’s Press to critical acclaim, landing on numerous notable lists and garnering praise from nonfiction and feminist spaces.
In her book, Ford uses fashion as a through-line for time and identity — afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the ’60s, hip hop’s baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. These symbolic garments also represent her own life,...
Written by author and culture critic Tanisha C. Ford, the adaptation will come in under Union’s first-look production deal at Sony Pictures Television via her company I’ll Have Another, in partnership with Pinto’s Freebird Films Entertainment. Their respective partners, Holly Shakoor Fleischer and Emily Verellen Strom, will also oversee.
“Dressed in Dreams” was released in 2019 by St. Martin’s Press to critical acclaim, landing on numerous notable lists and garnering praise from nonfiction and feminist spaces.
In her book, Ford uses fashion as a through-line for time and identity — afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the ’60s, hip hop’s baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today. These symbolic garments also represent her own life,...
- 6/30/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
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