Alice Winocour and her Couture cast defied uncharacteristically wet weather in San Sebastian Sunday night for the European premiere of their new film, a drama backdropped by the glamorous frenzy of fashion week. The French director-writer, known for her César Award-winning screenplay Mustang as well as the Eva Green-starring Proxima (2019) and Paris Memories (2022)…
Between glossy runways and fragile bodies, the drama reveals the pressure, ambition, and vulnerability behind the glamour of Paris Fashion Week. Several stories from the fashion world are stitched together in Couture, a film whose title nods not only to haute couture itself but also to the broader idea of seams—emotional, psychological, and physical. Alice…
“Couture” is a drama set during Paris Fashion Week, starring Angelina Jolie as a character who is fashion world-adjacent — a goth-glam director of hip indie horror films named Maxine Walker, who has come to Paris to shoot a lavish short (it features a forest fire and wolves and a model playing a fang-bearing vampire)…
Movies involving and primarily about three women intersecting have been a longtime staple. Think Robert Altman’s Three Women, The Hours, Hannah & Her Sisters, Dreamgirls and then go back to 1949’s Oscar-winning A Letter to Three Wives, and forward to director Jean Negulesco’s 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain set in Rome, and a decade…
Fashion is a serious business. It makes people billions of dollars a year, it influences culture in myriad overt and subliminal ways. But when covered on film, this haute world is typically skewered, in sophisticated satires like Robert Altman’s “Pret-a-Porter” and absurdist comedies like “Zoolander.” Credit to French director Alice Winocour, then, that she approaches…
Angelina Jolie admits she was “nervous” filming “Couture.” The Oscar winner stars in writer-director Alice Winocour’s French and English language ensemble as Maxine Walker, a director of low-budget horror movies who is commissioned by a French fashion house to direct a film for its Paris Fashion Week runway show. As Maxine balances work, motherhood and…
Fashion meets food! Amanda Kloots, Kaitlynn Carter, Sara Jane Nader, and more It-girls are taking the runway to the restaurant. The chic starlets gathered at Craig’s in West Hollywood, California on Aug. 21 to celebrate the celeb hotspot’s collaboration with fashion house, L’AGENCE. BFA.com/Jason Sean Weiss The ready-to-wear line, whose pieces have been seen on…
When you think of a typical fan of English football, it would be fair to assume that the glamorous faces seen at the most exclusive events in Hollywood do not come to mind – but these women are proving that football fever doesn’t discriminate and can grip anybody. For some supporters, they’re bound to a…
July 29 (UPI) — The 73rd annual San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain announced its competition lineup, including Couture, a fashion drama starring Angelina Jolie and Louis Garrel. The film festival, scheduled for Sept. 19 to 27, announced the Official Selection competition lineup will include director Arnaud Desplechin’s Deux Pianos, Kentaro Hirase and Yutaro…
PARIS — Galeries Lafayette is celebrating African fashion designers, as the continent gears up to launch the Pan African Fashion Alliance, a new public-private partnership designed to facilitate sourcing, develop skills and grow capacity to encourage trade both domestically and internationally. The French department store chain on Wednesday opened a pop-up store on the third…