S/D: Films about fashion (designers/models/industry/etc.)

Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter/Ready to Wear is fucking amazing, and Unzipped (Mizrahi doc) and Catwalk (Claudia doc) are on my to-do list. What else should I dig up?

Maybe Eyes of Laura Mars

Zoolander!

Lagerfeld Confidential's quite interesting. The September Issue has its moments.

The House Of Chanel documentary series was great.

I just watched Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? yesterday and Unzipped today; both were amazing. I wish I could find Catwalk and Peter Lindbergh's Models: The Film somewhere. Anyone have any more recs?

Also holy shit at how whiny and childish Linda Evangelista is!! It's sad to see how much she acts like a spoiled 4-year-old bcz it sort of ruins this sophisticated adult impression I had of her.

Funny Face w/ A Hepburn & Astaire (and Kay Thompson's "Think Pink")

I think my favorite is Win Wender's documentary about Yohji Yamamoto, Notebook On Cities And Clothes, but I'm a fan of both people involved.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreview/Petra/title.jpg

Not a film I'd give a general recommendation to, but ppl with an interest in fashion might like Valentino: The Last Emperor.

xp to morbs I actually checked that out of the lib w/ Polly Maggoo!! I think I'm going to watch it this afternoon.

How was "We'll take Manhattan" you guys?

I just watched Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? yesterday

One of the best opening 10 mins for a film I've seen in a while. Klein seems quite an interesting guy, like to see more of his stuff...

But I only saw the clip - do any of these overcome the difficulty of portraying fashion as somehting that only the 'vacuous' of mind do. I guess many people industry are like that, but that tends to limit the options of what you can say about it..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlH2mLf6l4

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant!

Save The Tiger

Wdn't say Bitter Tears... was about fashion.

I was reading about a film recently, a French film from maybe the 50's or maybe earlier?, that's supposed to be a satire of the fashion industry and is NOT Polly Maggoo. Any ideas?

Le Couturier de Ces Dames (Fernandel the Dressmaker) Jean Boyer, 1956

A modest tailor (the irresistible comic star Fernandel) unexpectedly inherits a nearly bankrupt fashion house from one of his former mistresses. He accepts the bequest and fantasizes about transforming the company into the most exclusive establishment in Paris. Fearing the questions of his jealous wife, Adrienne (cheeky actress and singer Suzy Delair), he decides to keep the news from her. Of course, Adrienne soon finds out and starts making trouble for her unfaithful husband. This entertaining if peredictable movie showcases the marvelous on-screen chemistry between two of France’s greatest comic performers.

?

http://www.francetoday.com/articles/2010/03/16/top_5_movies_about_fashion.html

jed beat me to it... I found it on this list (haven't seen any of these)

http://www.francetoday.com/articles/2010/03/16/top_5_movies_about_fashion.html

oh duh, so did he

yeah, I found that one too actually but I don't think that's it, but maybe it is?? I just wish I could remember where I heard about it.

Frederick Wiseman: "Model"

the Diana Vreeland doc was enjoyable to watch but really not a great movie, very superficial, spent lots of time telling us that she was great but not really explaining why or giving any meaningful context, and lacked any sort of depth/complexity/criticism. Still fun to watch for the footage tho.

The September Issue was p great, tho

Just watched Bright Lights, Big City for, I don't know, the fourth or fifth time last week--one of my favourite "I can't rationally explain this, but..." movies. Michael J. Fox causes a big coked-out commotion at an Oscar de la Renta show; Phoebe Cates, his soon-to-be ex-wife, doesn't so much as glance at him from up on the runway.

The fact that The Devil Wears Prada has not been mentioned yet may be taken as an indication of how memorable it was.

I actually like The Devil Wears Prada!

I liked both The September Issue and The Devil Wears Prada--with someone other than Anne Hathaway, probably not.

tbh it feels more like a perils-of-corporate-america film or a boss-from-hell film than it does a fashion film tho

ok wow well this looks fucking incredible, apparently there's an entire website of streaming video of all sorts of films abt fashion:

https://m2m.tv/

Dior & I is a good process documentary, following Raf Simons putting together a show over a few weeks, from concept to runway.

(xpost) Fantastic--they've got whole films up there, including the Diana Vreeland and Model (which I hope I can download using Real Player and watch on TV).

Vreeland is also on Amazon Prime but Model, yeah, that's not easy to come by.

Isn't the upcoming/in progress PTA film rumored to be about the fashion industry?

yes, London fashion industry in the '50s. Currently filming

I just watched Dior & I and WHAT THE FUCK HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS???? So exquisite and breathtaking, I legit cried during the finale, I couldn't believe how great the soundtrack was, and I'm actually rly angry it has an 80% on Rotten Tomatoes when the Vreeland doc has like a 94%.

XP http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-pta-film-shooting-under-working.html?m=1

There's also Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent from a few years back. Mixed reviews iirc

I really liked Saint Laurent. I really like Bonello.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNK2mKT8n9o

About the programme
The dramatic story of Alexander McQueen's rise to fashion stardom, his relationship with his eccentric, aristocratic muse and patron Isabella Blow, and of both their tragic suicides

I saw one of the two Saint Laurent films that came out within a few months of each other, but I don't remember which, and they both got pretty middling reviews. It was p forgettable

I think they had fairly different approaches though...

I don't think the Bonello one was 'forgettable'...

Have either of you seen them both? What were the differences between them? The one I saw had a lot of like bad behavior and debauchery but tbh I don't think I'd remember which one I saw even if I watched the trailers.

ok I saw the shorter, authorized Yves Saint Laurent and have not seen the longer, more dishy Saint Laurent

Saw Franca: Chaos and Creation, about the Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani. I want to understand.

Was it terrible?

There's also L'Amour Fou, a 2010 doc on YSL (haven't seen it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hUaJf0LIxQ

Also would recommend Oprah's 40 mins with Tom Ford:
https://vimeo.com/34182744

(xpost) No, it was pretty good--the by-play between her and her son is funny. I mean that every time I see a fashion-related documentary, I want to understand what I'm not getting about fashion--how clothes that often look hideous to me and a world that's a million miles from my own have such an influential place in the culture. I wish I had a few copies of the Italian Vogue's "black issue," though, which supposedly sells for a couple of thousand dollars on eBay.