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Funny Face
Stanley Donen · 1957
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
Belle de Jour
Luis Buñuel · 1967
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
How to Steal a Million
William Wyler · 1966
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Dries
Reiner Holzemer · 2017
For the first time fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections, the rich fabrics, embroidery and prints exclusive to his designs. As well as the emblematic fashion shows that bring his collections to the world and have become cult “must sees” at Paris Fashion Week. This film offers an insight into the life, mind and creative heart of a master fashion designer who, for more than 25 years, has remained independent in a landscape of fashion consolidation and globalization.
Signé Chanel
Loïc Prigent · 2005
Film adaption of the documentary series with the same name. The documentary deals with haute couture under brilliant leader Karl Lagerfeld.
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Matt Tyrnauer · 2008
Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an era in global fashion. However, at the heart of the film is a love story - the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. Capturing intimate moments in the lives of two of Italy's richest and most famous men, the film lifts the curtain on the final act of a nearly 50-year reign at the top of the glamorous and fiercely competitive world of fashion. (Storyville)
Coco Before Chanel
Anne Fontaine · 2009
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
Advanced Style
Lina Plioplyte · 2014
Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen’s famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging, and Western’s culture’s increasing obsession with youth.
High & Low – John Galliano
Kevin Macdonald · 2024
Fashion designer John Galliano was widely recognized as one of the most successful names in 1990s and 2000s couture, until his career abruptly ended when he was caught on camera in 2011 hurling antisemitic and racist insults at bystanders in Paris.
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Aitor Arregi · 2024
Cristóbal Balenciaga makes his debut as a designer in Paris, but the designs that set a trend in Spain don't work well in the sophisticated empire of fashion where Chanel, Dior, and Givenchy set the trends. Guided by his obsession with control in all aspects of his life, Balenciaga will define his style and end up becoming the greatest of all.
Halston
Frédéric Tcheng · 2019
From Iowa to Studio 54, this investigation into the rags-to-riches story of America’s first superstar designer uncovers the cautionary tale of an artist who sold his name to Wall Street.
We Margiela
Menna Laura Meijer · 2017
We Margiela tells the untold and intimate story of the enigmatic and singular fashion house Maison Martin Margiela. For the first time co-founder Jenny Meirens and members of the creative team that formed the heart of the house speak about the creative processes and unique philosophy of Margiela. Their stories, told through detailed and intimate interviews, give unprecedented insight in the genesis of one of the most influential fashion houses of our time. The film investigates the legacy of Margiela and its relevance for fashion and authorship today.
Very Ralph
Susan Lacy · 2019
The first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, reveals the man behind the icon and the creation of one of the most successful brands in fashion history.
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann · 2013
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Clueless
Amy Heckerling · 1995
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
In the Mood for Love
王家衛 · 2000
In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses.
Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola · 2006
Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts wird die 14-jährige Marie Antoinette von ihrer Mutter, der österreichischen Kaiserin, mit dem französischen Thronerben Ludwig XVI. verheiratet. Ein großer Druck lastet auf dem jungen Paar, denn sie müssen nicht nur repräsentieren, sondern für einen Erben sorgen. Doch Ludwig verweigert sich allnächtlich, seinen ehelichen Pflichten nachzukommen. Marie langweilt das Leben zu Hofe und so beginnt sie jeden Tag zu einem Fest zu machen. Sie lebt ein pompöses und dekadentes Leben. Dann kommt eines Tages die Revolution über Frankreich und auch Versailles ist nicht mehr sicher.
The Devil Wears Prada
David Frankel · 2006
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
Prêt-à-Porter
Robert Altman · 1994
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
The Dressmaker
Jocelyn Moorhouse · 2015
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson · 2017
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
Unzipped
Douglas Keeve · 1995
Isaac Mizrahi, one of the most successful designers in high fashion, plans his fall 1994 collection.
Dior and I
Frédéric Tcheng · 2015
Behind-the-scenes documentary revealing what goes on inside the colourful, privileged, and sometimes stressful Christian Dior fashion house.
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
Reiner Holzemer · 2020
In 2008, after a show celebrating the 20th anniversary of his fashion house, Maison Margiela, visionary designer Martin Margiela left the fashion world for good. Throughout his career, the Belgian designer remained anonymous, refusing interviews and never being photographed, leading some to call him the fashion world’s answer to Banksy. Now, more than a decade after his departure, Margiela digs into his meticulous and idiosyncratic personal archives to reflect on his revolutionary career and legacy.
The First Monday in May
Andrew Rossi · 2016
Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
The September Issue
R. J. Cutler · 2009
Documental sobre Anna Wintour, editora jefe de Vogue durante los últimos veinte años, y todo un icono y una de las personales más influyentes del mundo de la moda y la comunicación de nuestro tiempo. Con su ya famoso look, siempre escondida tras su característica melena y sus célebres gafas de sol, hasta ahora, nunca antes, había permitido que nadie se adentrara en los entresijos de su redacción. R. J. Cutler ha sido el realizador que ha logrado este hito sin precedentes. Con las imágenes e información obtenidas, Cutler introduce al espectador y desvela los numerosos misterios de un mundo que todos creen conocer a la vez que acerca al espectador todo el proceso de elaboración del del número de septiembre de 2007, una edición muy especial y de números de auténtico récord.
The Gospel According to André
Kate Novack · 2018
From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display, in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Bethann Hardison, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland · 2012
Biografía de la mítica editora de "Harper's Bazaar" y de "Vogue". Diana Vreeland, una auténtica visionaria, fue la primera editor de moda en Harper's Bazaar en 1936, y muchos coinciden en que inventó el concepto de moda tal y como lo conocemos hoy.
Sabrina
Billy Wilder · 1954
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.
Charade
Stanley Donen · 1963
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards · 1961
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Gia
Michael Cristofer · 1998
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
Donyale Luna: Supermodel
Nailah Jefferson · 2023
Explores the remarkable life and career of Donyale Luna, one of the first Black supermodels who graced the covers of both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar in Europe.
Catwalk
Robert Leacock · 1995
A documentary following Christy Turlington and other models during spring fashion week in Milan, Paris and New York.
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
Loïc Prigent · 2007
From Japan to America, the LV sign dominates the fashion scene. And, one man alone designs the Louis Vuitton creations the exceptional Marc Jacobs. With unprecedented access to one of the world's hottest and busiest designers, Loïc Prigent offers an intimate and revealing portrait of the reclusive Marc Jacobs and the world of haute couture. Whether in the offices and workrooms of Paris and New York, the back of his car, or backstage at a fashion show, we see a genius at work. Jacobs endures unimaginable pressure to chart new paths in fashion as he straddles the demands of the Louis Vuitton conglomerate and his own Marc Jacobs label.
Arabesque
Stanley Donen · 1966
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
