I tend to watch documentaries from a non-documentary perspective, so after watching this, the first choice is to recommend it. But on the whole, the recommendation is a more pertinent and fair evaluation.
I am a person who loves fashion. I personally think that the real love of fashion is not the love of fashion itself. Just like Grace doesn't make fancy dress requirements because of her beautiful works, she is just an ordinary black dress wherever she goes. What we love is nothing but a sense of beauty exuding from the inside out through the color-jumping collocation, a romantic attitude that combines movement and stillness with reality and reality, a beautiful experience of coexistence of obscurity and clarity, realism and romanticism .
All fashion elements come from nature. After being combined and spliced, they are then reconstructed by different interpretations in everyone's mind, thus establishing a complete aesthetic system. Compared to Anna, Grace is a complete artist. Grace has been unable to extricate herself to pursue the path of art since she was involved in the modeling industry at a young age. The reason why I say art rather than fashion is because the definition of fashion from the perspective of the general public is the move on that Anna has always emphasized. The center of fashion is update, constantly updating, constantly deconstructing, constantly reorganizing after deconstruction, and then reinventing itself into something completely new. Without updating, fashion will lose its life and become a backwater. Literally speaking, fashion and art are completely interdependent things, but there is a very subtle relationship between the two. Art can be completely destroyed and then a high-rise building can be erected on the ground. It depends entirely on human consciousness and innovative thinking to interpret it, and then be released completely. For example, the exhibition of Mankiw's works I saw in Chicago was not seen by others. Understanding, to a certain extent, is the record of the writer's thought spark or the catharsis of pure emotion. But art can also be updated conditionally. For example, we often say the retro trend. After a large number of avant-garde and modern finished products swept various stores, designers brought the popular elements from ten or decades ago again. The T stage, the reorganized structure after ingenious processing easily attracted everyone's attention. Grace is completely inspired by nature, this sensitive, amiable and stubborn woman, born for art. Her eyes can capture all the subtle changes and frictions, just like she has a pair of flexible hands, still following the old-fashioned designer's behavior, changing and arranging the clothes of the models herself, every detail and every embellishment is hand-picked until it is presented. until she finds the muse she wants. Pursuing and possessing beauty is her lifelong goal, just like she can discover the beauty hidden behind the ordinary anytime, anywhere, and then turn the decay into the magic, showing a subtle sense of isolation inside and outside the painting, between reality and myth.
Artists are strict and do not allow any mistakes and misunderstandings about their works. In every dispute with Anna, Grace has never given up her position. For her, fame, fortune, and glory have been put aside, and all she wants is to construct a scene like a painting by herself, which can be successfully displayed to those who will appreciate it. . As she said, if I hadn't loved the industry, I wouldn't have been here for so long. Looking at this woman's face withered by the car accident, I couldn't help thinking of her understated career, "I entered Vogue on the same day as Anna, I worked in American Vogue for 20 years, and before that, I also stayed in British Vogue for 20 years. .” 40 years of devoting herself to her own fashion art, Grace has completed the perfect transformation from living for fashion to living in fashion. No matter how time ravages, this woman is destined to be more beautiful than ever.
Many people do not understand Anna. She is cheesy, arrogant and domineering in the film, and even her fashion sense is hard to compliment. But when you look at it, you will find that this is indeed an amazing woman. Why does Grace work with her for so many years, even though there may be several quarrels every day, she still accompanies her, even if the other party only has a faint "Grace, how are you doing?".
Anna is a typical British woman, with a prominent family background, brothers and sisters Doing an orthodox and respectable job, when Anna herself mentions the word amused, she repeats it twice. Dodging eyes and embarrassed expressions exposed her heart. You will be surprised to find out that she is still not confident enough in her work and not satisfied with herself until now. In part of her consciousness, there is still the notion that fashion is unrefined. You can call her the queen of fashion, the godmother of fashion, but she herself has fallen into an indescribable double sorrow, which makes her never able to release herself and achieve the same soul and flesh as Grace with art.
But she is destined to succeed because she knows how to succeed. She respects Grace and realizes the gap between reality and ideals. She wants to make a popular magazine, not as simple as an art album. Media effects, public influence, and audience acceptance are all elements that must be considered and constantly debated. She is not a devil who stubbornly insists on wrong opinions. She knows marketing and decision-making. This is also her own advantage mentioned in the interview later: courage. She foresaw the star power of celebrity and the devastating effect fur would play in the fashion industry, so she was not afraid to try, and she succeeded. As a successful editor-in-chief and a woman in the fashion industry, she knows her role better than anyone else. Between investors and designers, she must be the one who uses realistic capital To fulfill idealists.
The end of the documentary has a dramatic side to it, when Grace has not been selected for her own shoot and has to take a set of photos within a limited time due to the fickle boss's fickleness. Taking up only a small part, Grace's photos are still the mainstay, and follow the design style previously envisaged. While Grace was happy, Anna, who finally appeared, also gave the perfect footnote to the weird but rock-solid relationship between the two:
Grace is genius, and no one can do it as well as she does.
You suddenly realize that this is the golden partner. She understands her, she understands her. There is very little communication between the two, but they are always on the same page.
As an idealist, Grace has achieved Anna in the process of constant struggle and compromise in reality, and Anna has also achieved her.
The two of them together made a book called Vogue.
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