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…
The 16th annual Runway Fashion Show returned to the Festival of Arts main stage on Sunday, Aug. 10, showcasing sartorial creations designed from recycled, reclaimed and repurposed materials. Makanna Johnson’s “The Dream Set” is made of pleated recycled newspapers and magazines. (Spencer Grant/LB Indy) Guests gained free admission by donating a gently used clothing…
When did working out become so…complicated? Pricey gym memberships, workout systems that take up precious space in the garage, and don’t even get me started on finding the “right” running shoe for your feet (if such a thing even exists). Yes, there’s far too much confusion surrounding walking and running in terms of fitness. But…
LA JOLLA – Fashion Week San Diego designers showcased their designs during Art Walk on July 11. The event coincided with a Bastille Day-inspired celebration in La Jolla Village. Throughout the day, visitors took gallery strolls and the designers presented a special French-themed showcase. Top designer MSTR STAG was featured at the Unscripted Spaces showroom….
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture honored B Michael and his husband Mark-Anthony Edwards on July 9 for their gift of couture pieces that were worn by the late pioneering actress Cicely Tyson. “It was as meaningful as it was beautiful,” the designer said Monday, during a joint interview with Edwards,…
Blue Farrier and Jacky Marshall drawing the couture for Vogue Runway. At the couture, fashion’s ultimate—and most expensive—expression, haute is usually synonymous with perfection, and for the most part that remained true this season. On offer were a multitude of perfectly pretty gowns and seriously sexy embellished pieces destined to dazzle. These reflected a world…