Academy Award-winning costume designer Catherine Martin (whose credits include Moulin Rouge....she also did the fashion in Australia) said "fashion and film run in a circular motion. Film can influence the runway and the runway can influence film €“ there is this constant exchange." As a movie junkie and fashion writer, I find something fashionable in every single film I watch. Whether it is the throwback dapper charm of Ocean's 11 (the original one, not the one with George and Brad) or a ruthless look at the fashion magazine industry (with a vicious Meryl Streep) in The Devil Wears Prada, I have a long list of favorite fashion films €“ and some of them have nothing to do with fashion. Before Sarah Jessica Parker was strutting in Manolos in Sex and the City: The Movie, she and Helen Hunt were the epitome of '80s style in Girls Just Want to Have Fun. And then there are those documentaries that take us behind the runway like Loic Prigent's Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton and David Teboul's insightful Yves Saint Laurent doc. Movies like Mahogany (where Diana Ross plays an aspiring fashion designer) or Factory Girl (about Andy Warhol's boho-chic "it" girl Edie Sedgwick) are always a staple for the cinematic fashionista and how could we forget Duckie in Pretty in Pink? Check out all these fashionable movies €“ and believe me, this is just the tip of the stiletto when it comes to my favorites.
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xi_ix says
it would be so great to have a section in the blog devoted to fashion in film. And not just on films that are so blatantly about the clothes like Sex and the City. An article every couple of weeks on a chosen new release or some of the oldies.
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