“Women are the expiatory sacrifices of men” says Marie, the main protagonist of the Catherine Breillat film “Romance” (1999). Her boyfriend Paul refuses to have sex with her and his sexual frigidity transpires in their designer, clinically white and minimalist apartment. Marie dressed in white and beige ventures outside, looking for sexual experiences in the streets, bars and other lover’s apartments. The film, considered to be part of the New French Extremity, presents a female subject whose desire and self-dissolution is accompanied by a back and forth with garments and interior design that perform a formal emptiness. The evening will consist of a screening and a short reading by Weronika Wojda on Breillat’s “Romance”, Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher” (2001) and the Prada A/W 1998 campaign that attempts to trace the link between self-inflicted violence and the categories of class and gender through the lense of fashion and design.