Eyes of Laura Mars.

Mahogany! It is gorgeous! If it had subtitles, critics would have said it was a work of genius!

"American Gigolo" -- everything you need is wrapped up in the opening credits:

Richard Gere -- wearing Armani -- driving a Mercedes 450 SL -- with the music of Blondie singing, "Call Me."

Now that's hot! (Or, as Cole Porter would say, "haute"!)

(Too bad the rest of the movie was such a wreck!)

Devil Wears Prada!!!! It's the REAL September Issue.

Can an actor be singled out for fashionable mention in a film that has little to do with fashion?

For instance:

Grace Kelly's succession of jaw-dropping outfits in "Rear Window"

Tippi Hedren's green outfit in "The Birds"

Cary Grant in a double-breasted suit and pretty much anything

Audrey Hepburn in the opening scene from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - and anything else she was in

If memory serves, Clark Gable caused a sensation in "It Happened One Night" when he took off his shirt and wasn't wearing an undershirt - apparently men across the nation stopped wearing undershirts - scandalous!

etc.

FELLINI'S ROMA

If you can't tolerate Fellini's larger-than-life approach, the sometimes-garish colors, or the circus atmosphere, you'll probably find Roma insufferable.

But fans of Fellini will be in seventh heaven, especially during some of the wonderful set pieces--a music dance hall performance that's interrupted by bombing during World War II; a papal fashion show that's so surreal it must be seen to be believed;

" Pret a Porter" Sophia Loren!

Ah, LIPSTICK. Margeaux Hemingway running through a parking lot with a rifle...in couture. Classic.

The third version of "Back Street," starring Susan Hayward as fashion designer 'rae smith' (all lower-case letters, very chic).

At her big Paris fashion show Vera Miles, as the drunken wife of Susan's lover John Gavin, orders Hayward's showstopper wedding gown, to be delivered to -- "although she'll never get to wear it -- Miss rae smith!"

Gasp!

Susan, identified in front of a roomful of dress extras as Gavin's "Back Street" wife!

Is it a Ross Hunter movie? DUH!

Lucy Gallant (1955) with Jane Wyman, Charleton Heston, Claire Trevor, and Thelma Ritter.

An unappreciated classic.

september issue ?? stocked full of madison avenue bullshit -- 800+ pages with just over 100 as content -- the rest proffering schlock as such it would be difficult to make a fashion film in many places reduced to skeletons with little spine and very little meat when it comes to character.

madison avenue bullshit -- much like dreadful charity ventures which should really be the september issue....if you ever want to encounter the vapid and fallacy of the fashion cliche -- try working with some of the non-profits i've encountered. it makes you want to scream AMBER ALERT.

ERROL FLYNN'S "ROBIN HOOD" SAW IT OVER 30 TIMES AND KNOW EVERY LINE OF DIALOGUE..if you see it anywhere don't miss it and you'll know what I mean.

Certain moments in films like Michelle Pfieffer in Scarface and Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffanys come to mind.

Weren't movies like Rebel Without A Cause and The Wild One fashion films in itself because they set trends? Same with Bonnie & Clyde.

"ME....M-A-HA-GONY!!!!!" LOVE THIS CAMPY, DISHY, DELIGHT AND THE UBER SKINNY MISS ROSS GIVING HER FIERCE MODEL LOOKS. GIVE IT UP MICHAEL MUSTO BITCH.

"ME....M-A-HA-GONY!!!!!" LOVE THIS CAMPY, DISHY, DELIGHT AND THE UBER SKINNY MISS ROSS GIVING HER FIERCE MODEL LOOKS. GIVE IT UP MICHAEL MUSTO BITCH.

^^thanks Southern Dave, loved being reminded of that film. Especially since I saw Miss Heyward chew some scenery and rave at some Africans in the Snows of Killamanjaro the other night. She wanted (Gregory Peck) to LIVE!

It has to be My Fair Lady. Hello, those corseted creations at the horse race alone are worth the price of the DVD!

It has to be My Fair Lady. Hello, those corseted creations at the horse race alone are worth the price of the DVD! And those hats..oh my!

And you call yourselves gay?! Not one of you mentioned Grey Gardens!

I agree with Sister Prayjean about
FELLINI'S ROMA !
My favorite fake documentary,
from the hookers around the bonfires on the loop,
to the papal fashion show hallucination.

another Fellini fashionfest is:
FELLINI'S CASANOVA
the film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design 1977, with the Oscar going to Danilo Donati.

and don't forget:
LA DOLCE VITA
winning the oscar for Best Costume Design: Black-and-White (1960).

Mahogany!!!!!!!!!!!!

The men love me, the women love me..Me...Mahogany!

All the other choices are in the words of Miss Ross "Goddamn Losers"

Funny Face! Think Pink! Think Pink, the glorious Kay Thompson! The first thing that popped into my head, followed by The Eyes of Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway played a fashion photographer right?)

Ok it was not strictly about fashion but the clothing and fashions in the film Auntie Mame
[the one with RR NOT Lucy] not to mention the sets were pretty fab!!!!!!

Docs:
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Unzipped
Lagerfeld Confidential
Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton
Features:
Blowup
Darling
Funny Face

diana ross...of course! She is the BEST!

Say what you will about the film Mahogany, its success ushered in a renaissance for make-up and fashion for women of color(WOC).

All of a sudden companies like Maybelline discovered WOC as consumers.