Huffington Post takes a look at the new documentary, The September Issue.
R.J. Cutler’s The September Issue and last year’s The Devil Wears Prada have ripped the frilly veil off the $2 trillion global fashion industry, revealing it as the last bastion of a bunch of autocratic dinosaurs. Even for a dedicated non-fashionista like myself, it is shocking to see the iron grip that the fashion potentates have had over this huge marketplace, and equally refreshing to see the revolution that is clearly brewing to dethrone them. For someone who is more familiar with the worlds of entertainment, media and politics, the recent slew of behind-the-scenes fashion movies is like taking a trip back to the days of Tammany Hall politics or movie mogul Hollywood. Seeing Anna Wintour dismissively pronouncing “I don’t like black” as cowed assistants hurriedly remove all remnants of black clothing from the upcoming issue of Vogue is a lot like watching a Chicago political boss haul in a hapless City Councilman and summarily fire him or having Sam Goldwyn casually toss out a script by F. Scott Fitzgerald. – From Huffington Post