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  • Calendar Girl (2020)
    Review preview for Calendar Girl

    Most interestingly, the documentary takes us back in time to when Ruth Finley was hired as a girl Friday by the number-one fashion publicist, Eleonor Lambert, who was pivotal in getting American designers the recognition they deserved in the 1940s.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Ruth Finley has been the queen of the fashion industry since the 1930s. As a young mother, Ruth created the iconic pink Fashion Calendar, a publication that continues to organise and marshal American fashion today.
  • The First Monday In May (2016)
    Review preview for The First Monday In May

    For those who are living with a 19th century idea of what art is, dismissing fashion as trivial and frivolous, Bolton counters that sometimes "fashion is easier to understand than language itself."

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    An in-depth documentary about the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition and gala.
  • Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams (2024)
    Review preview for Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams

    “I always have been a dreamer” the designer says, as we get a glimpse into his tie closet while he buttons his vest.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A definitive portrait of pioneering American fashion designer Thom Browne, whose visionary reinvention of the tailored grey suit revolutionised fashion by challenging established notions of how men and women are expected to dress.

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