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.
