Fashion movies for generations of fashion victims
Fashion Movies – Milan Fashion Week’s over, what did these five days leave us with? There is no doubt fashion designers are trying to combine innovation and elegance while keeping up with the latest tendencies. The fashion industry is one of the most intriguing, even though not much is known nor taken into consideration by the fashion lovers who tend to focus their attention on the final result of the long creative chain: the piece of clothing avaible for purchase to be proudly worn as a statement. How did this item come into existence? Who designed it and how? Who sewn it for a model to wear it on a runway – and who organized the runway, the entire show where this fashionable item will be dispalyed for the first time? The cinema industry tried time and time again to tell the story of what happens behind the curtain of big fashion houses, be they Italian (Dolce&Gabbana, Versace, Prada or Fendi) or from any other country. We selected the movies that best describe what happens behind the scenes of this huge business. Discover them clicking the below button >
1. Il Diavolo Veste Prada (2006) di David Frankel
Based on the best-selleing novel by Lauren Weisberg, this comedy is absolutely brillant thanks to Meryl Streep (monumental as usual) and a young Anne Hathaway starring as the main characters. The story revolves around Hathaways’s character, Andy, an aspiring reporter that gets a job as Miranda Priestly’s (Streep) secretary – Mrs Priestly is the editor-in-chief of Runway, a fictionalized version of every fashionista’s bible: Vogue. The Devil wears Prada explores the numerous mechanisms and rules of the fashion world: what’s new, what’s basic knowledge, what to do, how a moment of hesistation or a mistake can cause your fall from the Olympus of fashion. Continue reading clicking the below button >
2. Coco Avant Chanel (2008) di Anne Fontaine
This is a biopic that brings the legenday Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel back to life through Audrey Tautou’s interpretation. The story of the woman known as Coco Chanel is a story of emancipation, natural talent and determination told in an elegant way. Chanel’s many weaknesses are shown too, her troubled childhood spent in an orphanage and her first working experiences. It’s a coming-of-age movie about the woman who will become the symbol of XX century European fashion as well as a worldwide icon. Continue reading clicking the below button >
3. Valentino – The Last Emperor (2008) di Matt Tyrnauer
Matt Tyrnauer was a Vanify Fair special correspondent when he shot this docu-film following two years of Valentino Garavani’s professional and private life. Taking these two years as a starting point, Tyrnauer also explores 50 years of one of the most famous fashion houses and its founder – a career so long and so iconic, the director nicknames Valentino “the Emperor”. Thanks to this movie we get to know what’s behind the cold fashion designer and his many collaborators: some of these working partnerships lasted for ages (like in the case of his manager Giancarlo Giammetti), others just a bunch of months, but what emerges is Valentino’s fairness in recognizing the importance of these people without whom his empire wouldn’t have been possible. Tyrnauer brings his viewer inside Mr Garavani’s world, following the artist intent at creating work of arts made of flowing fabrics, highliting both Valentino’s methods and brilliant intuitions as well as his many personal flaws, his sudden changes of heart and mood and his often cold-blooded attitude. This movie is one elegant portrait of theemperor of fashion. Continue reading clicking the below button >
4. Dior and I (2014) di Frederic Tcheng
In 2012 Raf Simons became the creative director at Dior and he was tasked with the impossible: to create a brand new haute couture collection in only 8 weeks. This is the story of how Simons dealt with his numerous colleagues and their ideas, how he convinced them to follow his vision until the moment of thruth crowned his talent: Simons’ first fashion show was a never-heard-before success. Dior and I is probably the best movie when it comes to describing the numerous phases necessary to the creation of a new collection and explaining that there’s a lot of hard work and passion behind the final show.
Victor Venturelli
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