2.49 €
Director: Jean Lauritano
Studios: Arte France, Slow Production, Anele
Release Date: 2015
Duration: 0h53
From the dolce vita of the 1950s to the globalization of the 2000s, a history of Italy told through its fashion. With the voice of Marisa Berenson.
Always synonymous with elegance and quality, made in Italy has propelled Italian fashion into pop culture and revolutionized global fashion, inventing bling, supermodels and luxury as an art of living. Yet Italian fashion is a recent creation, born in the early 1950s from the will of a few industrialists encouraged by buyers in American stores, too dependent on Parisian fashion houses. Just out of the Second World War, the weakened country will use fashion to establish a mythical mixture of elegance, sophistication and good-natured vulgarity that will delight buyers around the world.
“Dura vita”
Exploring the intersecting stories of various designers including the Fontana sisters, Valentino, Nino Cerruti, Miuccia Prada (etc.), director Jean Lauritano paints a colorful portrait of post-war Italy. Rich in drama and scandal, the epic mixes Renaissance influences and pop culture against a backdrop of lightning rises and exacerbated competition, such as the mythical rivalry between Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace. Between archival footage and exclusive interviews with fashion greats, a moving evocation of a world in perpetual reinvention.
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A story about an exuberant and striking Italian fashion, shown through a passionate love for beauty and impeccable lines — a love shared by international celebrities and great Italian fashion houses… This documentary also sheds light on the relationship between luxury and cinema like rarely before!
Director: Fabien Constant
Studios: Black Dynamite Films, Tarkovspop
Release Date: 2013
Duration: 1h28
Carine Roitfeld is the most famous fashion editor in the world with her American Vogue sidekick Anna Wintour. The most inaccessible too. After 10 years at the helm of Vogue Paris, crowned with success and scandals of all kinds, she quit last year and left for what she calls freedom. Her biggest challenge: to create a new magazine. The ultimate fashion magazine, the most chic, the most surprising, the most glamorous, the most innovative, which naturally bears her name: CR. Fashion, power, models, all gather around the most iconic fashion editor in the world, the most Parisian, the Eiffel Tower on 12-inch heels: the irreverent Mademoiselle C.
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Icon-Icon Opinion: An exciting dive into the 36 hours preceding the fashion show for Sonia Rykiel’s 40th career anniversary — in the presence of the great Sonia Rykiel before her death. This documentary is an essential account of the unparalleled work of a woman who launched female ready-to-wear.
Director: Loïc Prigent
Studios: Story Box Press, Arte GEIE
Release Date: 2009
Duration: 0h52
As Sonia Rykiel has been designing for woman for 40 years, to celebrate this anniversary, her daughter Nathalie Rykiel has organized the greatest fashion show of her career. The ultimate parisian female designer, Sonia Rykiel has no idea of the surprise awaiting her. In secret, the greatest fashion designers of the wold have created an outfit, thier vision of the Rykiel woman. Sonia Rykiel is busy preparing her anniversary show, the workshops are buzzing with last minutes alterations and Nathalie tries to rehearse her fabulous scenography. The fashion show will be gigantic, but will the secret be kept ? How many technical incidents will jeaopardize the succes of the event ? It’s going to be a bumpy ride to pretty moving show.
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Director: Loïc Prigent
Studios: Story Box Press, Arte GEIE
Release Date: 2009
Duration: 0h51
Description : Jean Paul Gaultier had been the king of Parisian ready-to-wear when he decided to launch a Haute-Couture line. Haute-Couture is the pinnacle of high fashion and high luxury with astronomical prices. The theme of the show is cinema and iconic actresses and Jean-Paul Gaultier doesn’t disappoint with poignant appearances of Marylin Monroe and Greta Garbo. The head of workshop Mireille is everywhere, doing everything. The embroideresses are one the verge of exhaustion. Of course, absolutely nothing is ready, and short of a miracle, the fashion show won’t happen in time. It’s a sleepless night, nothing is ready, no model fits the incredible crocodile dress, nothing is ready, nothing is ready.
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Director: Bertrand Bonello
Studios: Mandarin Cinema, Europacorp, Orange Studio, Arte France Cinema, Scope Pictures
Release Date: 2014
Duration: 2h24
Nominated in 10 categories at the 2015 César Awards, this biopic that scorns the conventions of the genre offers a staging of grace and inspiration at every turn.
1967 – 1976. The meeting of one of the greatest fashion designers of all time with a free decade. Neither of them will emerge intact.
The life of Yves Saint Laurent, mostly between 1967 and 1976, his professional and emotional torments as well as his relationship with the dandy Jacques de Bascher and the one who will become his companion, Pierre Bergé. The film focuses on his working methods, as well as his encounter with his two muses, Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux.
Bonello summed up the film’s premise, “We weren’t interested in showing how Yves Saint Laurent became a genius. We wanted to show what it cost him every day to be who he was, and that’s why, at the beginning of the film, he is already a star.
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