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The Chronicles of Narnia star Tilda Swinton is set to feature in a “short futuristic film” on fashion. The 51-year-old actor will take part in the production created by Paris-based photographer and artist Katerina Jebb. Tilda will don a white laboratory coat complete with white gloves and high heels for the production titled The Future Will Last a Very Long Time,which will be screened on a loop each night of the Paris Fall Festival,a contemporary arts spectacle starting from September 29. In the short film,the actor will be seen looking through the historic archives of the Musée Galliera’s storerooms and discovering important garments such as a Madeleine Vionnet coat,which once belonged to US writer Natalie Clifford Barney. Legendary faces from the past such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Sarah Bernhardt,will be screened onto Tilda’s body and shown behind her. The Scottish actor is known for her eccentric sense of style and this is yet another plume in her zany cap. “I’m very fortunate to have friends who send me boxes with gowns.

It’s like the Cinderella complex. It is the friends that make the effort,not me,” Tilda was quoted saying to fashion magazine.