This is an interesting movie. Whenever I lose hope and expectation for work, I turn it out, and I have to read it every time the holiday is coming to an end to wake up the feeling of work.
The author of this shaky documentary is a fashion layman and a film crew led by him with a slight belly. The ignorance of the main creator and the limited vision of the camera just prevent this film from becoming another fashion blockbuster with hundreds of layers of filters.
It successfully demonstrates the logic of struggle that underpins the fashion publishing industry, namely, from conflict to equilibrium. You can see how the editor-in-chief, investors, retail representatives, editors, designers, design directors, photographers, and even their assistants are crazy, and this process is not fashionable at all, very common. Grace was outraged when she heard that almost all her designs were overturned, and Anna was really stunned when she learned that the photographer had deleted the data that should have been backed up at her own will. The forced calm and pitiful micro-expressions, the slick flattery of the bottom staff and the innocence of the star models are in sharp contrast.
Tell me how I feel about fashion. Fashion is just a product of knowledge that highly condenses all wearing information. Because it is too concentrated, the real public in life can not accept it, thinking that fashion is independent of production. In fact, the essence of fashion really has nothing to do with personality. Personality is what you do behind closed doors to please yourself. And fashion is all about hiding yourself, disguising yourself, like that actress' wig. God, I really hope that one day productive labor can return to labor itself. It does look purer than anything, but this is an unrealistic leftist fantasy. The insistence on wearing uniform clothes does not mean that the freedom of choice is far from fashion, but it only puts individuals into labor and social systematization to a greater extent. Fashion is a top-ranking industry that cannot be exempted from serving the system and can make small struggles at the same time.
Turning the fragments into art, and inviting all the art compromises to form a business, everyone is happy in the end. Accurate timing, both soft and hard, this is Anna Wintour's specialty. You will see that fashion is not nothing at all, but it is very practical and has traces to follow. It is one of the boring jobs among thousands of boring jobs. It is better than other industries in that it does not look ugly. .
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