FASHION SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS
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- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsTravis BantonJoan BennettClaudette ColbertCompilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman (1935).
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsHumphrey Jennings shoots Hartnell catwalk.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsYves DemyGeorges RouquierThis is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsZandra RhodesA biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGiorgio ArmaniMartin ScorseseAs he prepares for a show, fashion designer Giorgio Armani discusses his principles of fashion, his family history and the city of Milan.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsVivienne WestwoodDocumentary film about Vivienne Westwood featuring her 1994 Paris show On Liberty
- DirectorGalen SummerStarsMartin GreenfieldA portrait of a holocaust survivor who learned the art of tailoring while imprisoned in a concentration camp. After being liberated and emigrating to America, Martin Greenfield rose from floor boy, to manager, to owner of a garment factory producing custom men's suits in Brooklyn, NY. Along the way he made suits for celebrities, power brokers, and heads of state, including presidents Bill Clinton and Dwight Eisenhower. His sense of style brought him success and allowed him to give back to the city that took him in as a young man. He now provides jobs for hundreds of working class people, most of them immigrants, and produces top quality clothing the old-fashioned way. This film tells his story, and offers a glimpse inside one of the few remaining hand-made suit factories in the world.
- DirectorDenise Nicole GreenThe interwoven stories of five men reveal how experimentation with dress and bodily modification at the Burning Man festival facilitates re-conceptualizations of masculinity and appearance in everyday life.
- DirectorDouglas J. SloanStarsAnnie Leibovitz"So There You Go" features an on camera interview with Ms. Leibovitz who offers viewers her own perspective on her life's work as well as insight into her family and friends. The film provides a comprehensive overview of 40 years of Ms. Leibovitz's photographs. Annie Leibovitz began her career as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970, while she was still a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her pictures have appeared regularly on magazine covers ever since, and her large and distinguished body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time.
- DirectorDaphne PinkersonStarsSuzanne Pred BassLeigh BeninDennis ClanceyOn March 25, 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. Trapped inside the upper floors of a 10-story building, 146 workers--mostly young immigrant women and teenage girls--were burned alive or forced to jump to their deaths to escape an inferno that consumed the factory in just 18 minutes. It was the worst disaster at a workplace in New York State until 9/11. The tragedy changed the course of history, paving the way for government to represent working people, not just business, for the first time, and helped an emerging American middle class to live the American Dream.
- DirectorTheo StanleyStarsYohji Yamamoto
- DirectorMeghna GuptaUnravel follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world that wants them, recycling them back into yarn. Reshma is a bright, inquisitive woman working in a textile recycling factory in small time India, who dreams of travelling the vast distances the clothes she handles have. While Reshma shows us how these garments get transformed, she and other women workers reflect on these clothes. Despite limited exposure to western culture, they construct a picture of how the West is, using both their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs.
- DirectorAnne AndreuÉmérance DubasStarsKarl LagerfeldIn this documentary, curators, historians, and fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld explore the legacy of the impressionist movement, and how it didn't simply capture the clothing style of the time, but can tell us something about art.
- DirectorSylvia Love JohnsonA short documentary film which focuses on environmental awareness with fashion as its core topic. Fashion is a part of our culture our society our identity. How does fashion respect our home, planet Earth?
- DirectorOscar BoysonNate DeYoungStarsKerry BishéKatharine HepburnJulie AndrewsFeaturing over 500 different film clips from the past and present, actress and style icon Katharine Hepburn guides us through the most memorable characters in cinema and their impact on generations to come.
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsJudy DavisMiuccia PradaAn imagined dinner conversation between two fashion legends, Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, created for the 2012 Met Ball and accompanying exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- DirectorMartin MargielaStarsMika'Ela FisherAnia MartchenkoSimona VenierThis film, showcasing Maison Martin Margiela's womenswear collection, is based on conversations with five women. From these discussions the themes of the main line collection were drawn...
- DirectorMalan BretonStarsMalan BretonKiera ChaplinAngel PaiMalan Breton takes us on a journey to Taiwan, to find inspiration, to revisit his childhood, to honor his grandmother, and to create the most pivotal collection of fashion he has ever shown at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week.