1/8
PRET A PORTER (1994)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Robert Altman
Starring:
Summary:
During the days leading up to the Paris Fashion Week, the who's who of the fashion industry flock to Paris. An unprecedented incident during the event disrupts the life of the participants.
Reasons to Watch
*Includes stars Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts and Kim Basinger
*Shot during Paris Fashion Week, gives a real preview of the grits and glamour
*Features runway shows and designer interviews ( Jean Paul Gaulthier, Claude Montana, Christian Lacroix, Issey Miyake and Sonia Rykiel )
*Appearances by supermodels (Naomi Campbell, Cristy Turlington, Carla Bruni)
*Portrayal of all cliche characters like the bitchy editors, the perverted photographer, the eccentric muse, the cool rising star designer)
*Murder in the mix of the usual drama and scandals of Fashion Week
Scene from Pret a Porter
2/8
THE EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978)
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring:
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring:
Summary:
Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a renowned New York City fashion photographer who features sensual and violent images in her controversial work. Suddenly, Laura gains the ability to see visions from a serial killer's perspective -- and it happens to be her friends and associates that he is stalking. Aided by police investigator John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones), Laura tries to prevent the murderer from finding more victims, but she has no idea who the psychopath could be.
Summary:
Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a renowned New York City fashion photographer who features sensual and violent images in her controversial work. Suddenly, Laura gains the ability to see visions from a serial killer's perspective -- and it happens to be her friends and associates that he is stalking. Aided by police investigator John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones), Laura tries to prevent the murderer from finding more victims, but she has no idea who the psychopath could be.
Reasons To Watch
Starring Faye Dunaway as a photographer
Helmut Newton worked as a consultant / (based upon the work of Helmut Newton,
Photoshoot scenes
3/8
GIA (1998)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Cristofer
Starring:
Summary:
Gia Carangi (Angelina Jolie) travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway), a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modelling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs -- and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.
Reasons to Watch
Starring a young and then unknown Angelina Jolie as the rebellious and troubled model
Faye Dunaway plays the agent who discovers her
Based on true story of the tragic life and death Gia Carragi
Gia is credited as being the original first "supermodel" and started heroin chic
Touches on several controversial themes like drugs addiction, homosexuality, aids, brutal and harsh modelling industry
Book version available Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia by stephen F
Reasons to Watch
Starring a young and then unknown Angelina Jolie as the rebellious and troubled model
Faye Dunaway plays the agent who discovers her
Based on true story of the tragic life and death Gia Carragi
Gia is credited as being the original first "supermodel" and started heroin chic
Touches on several controversial themes like drugs addiction, homosexuality, aids, brutal and harsh modelling industry
Book version available Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia by stephen F
Scene from Gia
4/8
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT ( 1972 )
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Margit Carstensen
Summary:
Two women (Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann) form a sexual triangle with a fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) in her arty apartment.
Reasons to Watch
5/8
PECKER ( 1998 )
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: John Waters
Starring:
Summary:
A teenage boy, obsessed with photographing everything he sees around him, is seized upon by an aggressive gallery owner from New York who views the youngster as fresh young talent worth entertaining, but as his success and fame grows, the boy finds himself less welcome in his home town and decides to turn the tables on the elitist art snobs of the city.
Reasons to Watch
*Raunchy, trashy and over the top signature style of the obscene John Waters
Christina Ricci, plays a moody laudry-mat queen whose the girlfriend and muse of main character, Pecker.
*Brief cameo by artist Cindy Sherman
*Lesson on teabagging
Scene from Pecker
6/8
MAHOGANY (1975)
Genre: Mystery/Drama
Director: Berry Gordy
Starring:
Summary:
Struggling Chicago fashion design student Tracy (Diana Ross) goes from rags to riches when a chance meeting with hotshot fashion photographer Sean (Anthony Perkins) in the department store where she works leads to a runway life as a model in Rome. Tracy's overnight success and strong ambitions bring her professional success as a designer, but her diva antics may destroy her relationship with social activist Brian (Billy Dee Williams), as well as her respect in the fashion world.
Reasons to Watch
7/8
BLOW UP (1966)
Genre: Mystery/Drama
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring:
Summary:
A successful London based photographer is living the life, he always wanted with beautiful models for easy sex, and some substance for the high of life.
Summary:
A successful London based photographer is living the life, he always wanted with beautiful models for easy sex, and some substance for the high of life.
Reasons to Watch
( Capturing the Swinging '60s London scene, Blow Up follows a fashion photographer (inspired by real-life photographer David Bailey) as he works with the biggest models of the day, played by Veruschka and Jane Birkin. The fashion-based movie offers a rare glimpse into the London fashion scene during its explosive beginnings.) Reasons to Watch
*appearance by peggy , jane, veruschka
*based on David Bailey
The film contains a rare performance of The Yardbirds during the period when Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were both in the band.
7/8
FUNNY FACE (1957)
Reasons to Watch
Appearance by model Dovima
Fashion editor loosely based on MUSE Diana Vreeland
Photographer character inspired by Avedon Costumes by Hubert de Givenchy
Genre: Musical/Comedy
Director:
Starring:
Summary:
Dispatched on an assignment, New York City-based fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) is struck by the beauty of Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn), a shy bookstore employee he's photographed by accident, who he believes has the potential to become a successful model. He gets Jo to go with him to France, where he snaps more pictures of her against iconic Parisian backdrops. In the process, they fall for one another, only to find hurdles in their way.
Reasons to Watch
*Appearance by model Dovima
*Fashion editor loosely based on MUSE Diana Vreeland
*Photographer character inspired by Avedon *Costumes by Hubert de Givenchy
8/8
WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO? (1966)
Summary:
A model (Dorothy McGowan) tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.
Reasons to watch
*Steven Klein's first movie *Luna's appearance
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Steven Klein
Starring:
Summary:
A model (Dorothy McGowan) tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.
Reasons to watch
*Steven Klein's first movie *Luna's appearance
Scene from Polly Maggoo
9/8
DEVIL WEARS PRADA ( 2006 )
Genre: Romance/Drama Director: Starring:
Summary: Andy, a young graduate aspiring to be a journalist, comes to New York and becomes an assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.
Summary:
Andy, a young graduate aspiring to be a journalist, comes to New York and becomes an assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.
Reasons to Watch
10/8
ZOOLANDER (2001)
Genre:
Director:
Starring:
Derek, a model, loses hope when his rival wins a coveted title. In a bid to revive his career, a designer offers him a runway show but ends up convincing him to kill the prime minister of Malaysia.
Reasons to Watch
Cameos by David Bowie, Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham, Tom Ford, Heidi Klum....
Genre:
Director: Starring:
11/8
HEAD OVER HEELS (2001)
Head over Heels is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters about Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter), a woman living in New York City who works at Metropolitan Museum of Art restoring paintings.
Early in the film, she moves in with four models and falls for a man living in an apartment that they can see across the street. After the models try to help Amanda get the man, they find out he might not be what he appears to be.
Recently dumped Amanda moves into a new apartment — one with a bird’s-eye view of stud-muffin Jim’s digs across the way. Can Amanda and Jim’s attraction survive the doubt Amanda harbors that the object of her affection may be… a murderer?
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Shalom Harlow,
Head over Heels is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters about Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter), a woman living in New York City who works at Metropolitan Museum of Art restoring paintings.
Early in the film, she moves in with four models and falls for a man living in an apartment that they can see across the street. After the models try to help Amanda get the man, they find out he might not be what he appears to be.
Amanda has terrible luck with men, until she meets charmer Jim. But then she think she might have seen him committing a murder. She takes to the streets to try and solve this mystery.
12/8
STARDOM ( 2000)
Genre: Comedy/ Drama
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Jessica Paré, Dan Aykroyd
Summary:
High school hockey player Tina is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of supermodels where she is exposed to paparazzi, fashion and glamour. Through a montage of media, we experience an exciting glimpse of the elite world of the super-beautiful and the superficial while revealing the dark side of idolization, power and exploitation that accompanies it.
Reasons to Watch
*Canadian film
Trailer for Stardom
13/15
PERUME ( 2001)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Rymer, Hunter Carson
Starring: Rita Wilson, Leslie Mann, Michelle Williams,
Summary:
When international fashion folks head to a major show, their personal and professional lives get out of control … and combustible drama and comedy ensue!
Reasons to Watch
*All dialogue was improvised by the actors.
Trailer for Perfume
14/15
NEON DEMON ( 2016 )
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves,
Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee Kershaw
Summary:
Jesse moves to Los Angeles just after her 16th birthday to launch a career as a model. The head of her agency tells the innocent teen that she has the qualities to become a top star. Jesse soon faces the wrath of ruthless vixens who despise her fresh-faced beauty. On top of that, she must contend with a seedy motel manager and a creepy photographer. As Jesse starts to take the fashion world by storm, her personality changes in ways that could help her against her cutthroat rivals.
"This exquisite nonsense from director Nicolas Winding Refn, best known for the excellent Drive, has very little substance -- it's not exactly art -- but it does have plenty of style and tension." Common Sense Media
Scene from Neon Demon
15/15
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE ( 1964 )
Starring: Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok
Summary
The story concerns the brutal murders of a Roman fashion house's models, committed by a masked killer in a desperate attempt to obtain a scandal-revealing diary. All associated with the salon have sordid, sometimes criminal reasons for keeping the diary secret, as drug use and blackmail is very much a part of the salon scene.
Reasons to Watch:
*The scene of Tao-Li's murder has been referenced by several filmmakers, such as Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodóvar and Dario Argento.
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