Design Quote
“Less is more.”
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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Another 7 amazing design documentaries focusing this time only on Fashion. For sure, you`ve heard of iconic figures such as Lagerfeld, Valentino, Anna Wintour, Yves Saint Laurent or Luis Vuitton. Following documentary movies are unveiling the truth about their work, approach to life, philosophy and discussions with different people around them. You might see this people in totally new light.
Check also Design Documentary I: DESIGN & GRAPHICs, Design Documentary V: DESIGN & GRAPHIC, Design Documentary IV: ARCHITECTURE and Design Documentary III: PHOTOGRAPHY.
Enigmatic Karl Lagerfeld. Flamboyant star. Have anyone seen him without his iconic dark sunglasses, white ponytail and high starched collars. No? Probably because Karl doesn’t “want to be a reality in people’s life, he wants to be like an apparition!” Fascinating fashion gangster allows us to see only what HE wants: created eccentric world, good sense of humor, no slowing down in his seventies, fabulous parties, designing the next Chanel collection, presenting this in the glare of the catwalk, celebrity visits, his work as a photographer and painter, visiting private places, glimpses of personal history, but without any nostalgia: “If it was really better in the old days, you might as well kill yourself right now.” In his own words both the man and the industry are “ephemeral, dangerous, and unfair.” So is this documentary.
Vanity Fair magazine correspondent Matt Tyrnauer, produced and directed a portrait of an extraordinary partnership between Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti. This is a story of friendship, look at true haute couture fashion, retrospective of Valentino’s 45-year career, follow him in a creation from sketch to runway, tells the story of his extraordinary life, and explores the larger themes affecting the fashion business today. As you observe him in his workshop supervising helpers who hand-stitch every sequin on every dress (there’s not a sewing machine in sight), you begin to appreciate his single-minded perfectionism in the service of a fantasy. And then you realize: “In Italy, there’s the Pope, and then there’s Valentino.”
September is the January in Fashion and the year’s annual Fall Fashion issue is published. Vogue`s magazine legendary editor-in-chief Anna “Nuclear” Wintour allowed R.J.Cutler to capture complicated process of how the biggest edition was being prepared in 2007. 88-minute film will take you inside the world of the most powerful and polarizing figure in fashion, visits the annual Fashion Week shows, accepts or dismisses the latest creations of the biggest names, works with the models, photographers, and writers and labors with her staff to determine what the world’s fashionistas will be wearing for the next 12 months.
One of the older documentaries, but still has its power. Directed by Douglas Keeve shows behind the scene of internationally renowned fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi and chronicles the evolution of his 1994 collection from early moments of inspiration until the show on the runaway in New York’s Bryant Park. Supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss appear, as well as many others. You can also check online his talk from 2008 about fashion and creativity here ISAAC MIZRAHI ON FASHION & CREATIVITY.
Filmmaker Loïc Prigent focus on Marc Jacobs, called the most influential designer of his generation. Behind the scenes of the fashion world with unrehearsed glimpses portraiting Jacobs caught up in the throes of creative invention. From Paris to New York he promotes his own label, but at the same time is running fashion conglomerate Louis Vuitton. Interviewees include: Catherine Deneuve, Uma Thurman, Naomi Campbell, Sophia Coppola and many others.
Two related documentaries directed by David Teboul : 1. Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times and 2. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris (2002) will show a complex man who was a genius and a revolutionary. Maybe it will appear a little slow going, but this man will leave a lasting impression.
His Life and Times is a 77 minutes biography and personal history, with some great interviews with him, at various ages, his longtime companion, Pierre Bergé, his “muse,” Loulou de la Falaise, and others.
5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris is 85 minutes coverage of YSL and his staff preparing over a period of several months what turned out to be his last annual collection, dress by dress, in a film which exclusively focuses on design process. If you’re into French couturier design, it`s for you.
Are you curious, how fashion designers deal with excitement, anxiety and stress 36 hours before the fashion show begins? Than “The Day Before” is for you! It captures the preparations, the tension, rituals, workshops, and fittings, finalizing the looks, sewing the final pieces and the final sprint from atelier to the runway venue. Each house has its own unique energy, mood, character and rhythm – and its colorful moments of panic, last minute inspiration and ego-unleashing. Shot by Loïc Prigent, have already two seasons. Season 1 consists of a four-part look at the Fall / Winter 2009 – 2010 shows by four prestigious houses: Fendi by Karl Lagerfeld in Milan in March, Proenza Schouler in New York in February, Jean-Paul Gaultier’s haute couture show in Paris in July and Sonia Rykiel’s 40th anniversary celebration in Paris in October and have been released in a DVD box set. Season 2 premiered recently between Sep. 8 – 13, 2010 on the Sundance Channel, so we have to wait sometime for the DVDs. This time are followed six designers: Diane von Furstenberg, Donatella Versace, Alexander Wang, Narciso Rodriguez, Nina Ricci`s Peter Copping, and Jeremy Scott.
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