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Fashion Revolution Week April 22-28, 2019
Fashion Revolution Week is a week of campaigns and action to demand greater transparency in the fashion supply chain. It takes place during the week of April 24th in commemoration of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rana Plaza housed a number of garment factories, and when the building collapsed on April 24, 2013, 1,138 people were killed and many more were injured. The tragedy highlighted the unsafe conditions in which many people in the garment industry working.
The campaigning organization Fashion Revolution works to end exploitation in the fashion industry. During Fashion Revolution Week it encourages people around the globe to ask fashion and clothing brands ‘Who made my clothes?’, using the hashtag #whomademyclothes. -- from globaldimension.org.uk
Fashion Designers
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel by Call Number: DVD 20607Publication Date: 2011During Diana Vreeland's fifty-year reign as the "Empress of Fashion," she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie Onassis, and established countless trends that have withstood the test of time. An intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century, an enduring icon who has had a strong influence on the course of fashion, beauty, publishing and culture.
Dior and I by Call Number: DVD 20700Publication Date: 2015A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons's highly anticipated first haute couture collection as the new artistic director at Christian Dior.
Dries by Call Number: DVD 20608Publication Date: 2017For the first time, fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and home life.
Iris by Call Number: DVDPublication Date: 2015This quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has been a presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. See her creativity and how her soaring free spirit continues to inspire.
Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer by Call Number: DVD 20618Publication Date: 2017This biopic chronicles fashion designer Jeremy Scott's ascent to his position as the Creative Director of Moschino.
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards by Call Number: DVD 19483Publication Date: 2017A portrait of legendary fashion designer Manolo Blahnik and how his dedication led him to become the world’s most famous luxury shoemaker, revered by celebrities, stylists, and industry icons for generations.
McQueen by Call Number: DVD 20012Publication Date: 2018A personal look at the extraordinary life, career, and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, it celebrates an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary.
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper by Call Number: DVD 21314Publication Date: 2016Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years. In this production, Vanderbilt and her son, TV journalist Anderson Cooper, look back at Vanderbilt's remarkable life.
Saint Laurent by Call Number: DVD 20643 and eVideoPublication Date: 2015Explore the mind of creative genius and fashion icon, Yves Saint Laurent and the intricacies that turned the haute couture label into a worldwide phenomenon.
Valentino: The Last Emperor by Call Number: DVD 6737Publication Date: 2008Profiling legendary fashion designer Valentino Garavani, this film captures the dramatic closing act of the fashion icon’s celebrated career, telling the story of his extraordinary life and work while also exploring larger themes affecting the fashion business.
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist by Call Number: DVD 20639Publication Date: 2018Since igniting the punk movement with ex-partner and Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren, Dame Vivienne Westwood has been redefining British fashion for over 40 years, and is responsible for creating many of the most distinctive looks of our time.
Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times by Call Number: DVD 3438Publication Date: 2001For the last forty years, Yves St. Laurent has reigned as one of the most influential couturiers of our times. This collection of two films starts with the debut of his first line under his own name at age 22, to his becoming one of fashion's most creative and unorthodox designers.
Environmental Impact
China Blue by Call Number: DVD 3387 and eVideoPublication Date: 2005This documentary visits a Chinese blue-jean factory, where workers are trying to survive a harsh working environment. When the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.Environmental, Social and Economic Issues in Textiles by
Call Number: DVD 11714Publication Date: 2010What wheat is to bread, cotton is to textiles. But the "white gold" that has lined the coffers of cloth manufacturers for centuries has also brought about economic and environmental harm. This program examines the global impact of cotton production and its effect on vulnerable populations. Learn how pesticides, insecticides, and irrigation systems used to grow cotton have increased pollution, depleted water sources, and spurred global warming.Riverblue by
Call Number: DVD 19184Publication Date: 2017Following international river conservationist Mark Angelo, this film spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world's most pollutive industries, fashion. The documentary examines the destruction of our rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future.
The Secret Life of Your Clothes by Call Number: DVD 18292 and eVideoPublication Date: 2014Paralympian Ade Adepitan tells the fascinating story of the afterlife of our clothes. He follows the trail to Ghana, the biggest importer of our castoffs where thousands of tons of our old clothes arrive every week. Ade meets the people who make a living from our old clothes, from wholesalers and market traders to the importers raking in more than the average yearly wage in a single day.
The True Cost by Call Number: DVD 16937Publication Date: 2015Learn about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact they have on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. Visit countries all over the world and travel from the brightest runways to the darkest slums.
Fashion Industry
Advanced Style by Call Number: DVD 20601 & eVideoPublication Date: 2014Based on Ari Seth Cohen's famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging, and Western culture's increasing obsession with youth.
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco by Call Number: DVD 20603Publication Date: 2017A time capsule of Paris and New York between 1969 and 1973 as viewed through the eyes of Antonio Lopez, the dominant fashion illustrator of the time. Counted among Antonio's discoveries (muses of the period) were iconic beauties such as Grace Jones, Jessica Lange, and Jerry Hall.
Bill Cunningham New York by Call Number: DVD 10519Publication Date: 2011New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham was a cultural anthropologist who obsessively and inventively chronicled fashion trends and high society charity soirees. Documenting uptown fixtures, downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is an expression of time, place and individual flair.
Dressing America: Tales from the Garment District by Call Number: DVD 16977Publication Date: 2014In its heyday, New York's Garment Center was a thriving, vibrant village that saw a primarily Jewish industry challenge the hegemony of Paris. This documentary tells this largely unknown story of how an industry was created through the rough and tumble efforts of an assortment of characters mixing it up with the unions, the mob, and often enough, one another.
The Extremes of Fashion From Now and Yesterday by Call Number: DVD 5529Publication Date: 2006This program illustrates the cycles of women's couture through the '50s, '60s, and '70s -- and the portrayal of women in the media as they progressed through the postwar decade, the Civil Rights Movement, Beatlemania, the Vietnam War, and the era of Women's Lib.
The First Monday in May by Call Number: DVD 17910Publication Date: 2016New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces a new fashion exhibition with a gala event every year on the first Monday of May. A grand fashion and cultural exhibit fundraiser for the museum's Costume Institute, the film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the the exhibition "China: Through the Looking Glass."
Handmade with Love in France by Call Number: DVD 10736Publication Date: 2015A celebration of the artisans who create fabulous haute-couture outfits for Dior, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Shows the pressure these ateliers face as the number of collections produced by designers threatens to overwhelm these small craft firms.
Notebook on Cities and Clothes by Call Number: DVD 20649Publication Date: 1989Profiles fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto as he and his staff prepare for the presentation of a seasonal collection.
Paris is Burning by Call Number: DVD 7768Publication Date: 2005This pioneering documentary offers a behind-the-scene glimpse of the golden age of New York Drag Balls where rival fashion houses come together to celebrate, vogue and compete for bragging rights. Shot between 1985 and 1989, the narrative inter-cuts between individual stories that chronicle the experiences of the African-American and Latino, gay and transgender subculture in a time when the city was consumed by the ideals of wealth and glamour.
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's by Call Number: DVD 20644Publication Date: 2012An anecdotal history of high-end Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman, as told by celebrities and icons of the fashion industry.
The September Issue by Call Number: DVD 7265Publication Date: 2010An intimate, surprising look at Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, and her team of larger-than-life editors as they create the must-have "bible of fashion."
Traceable by Call Number: DVD 20638Publication Date: 2017Set against the backdrop of the fast-fashion industry and our increasing disconnect with where and how clothing is made and whose hands create it. This film explores our connection to the communities impacted by the products we consume.
Fashion in Feature Films
Coco Before Chanel/Coco avant Chanel by Call Number: DVD 7131 & eVideoPublication Date: 2010Years after being abandoned at an orphanage, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets and begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Balsan, she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend.
The Devil Wears Prada by Call Number: DVD 3958Publication Date: 2006Andy is a recent college graduate with big dreams. Upon landing a job at prestigious Runway magazine, she finds herself the assistant to diabolical editor Miranda Priestly (modeled after Vogue's Anna Wintour). Andy questions her ability to survive her grim tour as Miranda's whipping girl without getting scorched.
Fashions by Call Number: DVD 10952Publication Date: 1934The story whisks audiences off to Paris with a fashion sharpie and a designer who hope to bootleg the hottest haute couture and flood New York with knockoffs.
Funny Face by Call Number: DVD 5877Publication Date: 1956Jo Stockton is a shy, reluctant Greenwich Village bookstore clerk who is transformed into a modeling sensation by a fashion photographer who discovers her and grooms her for stardom.
Phantom Thread by Call Number: DVD 19583 & HDDVD 564Publication Date: 2018Set in 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with a distinct style. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across young, strong-willed Alma, who becomes his muse and lover, disrupting his once controlled and fastidious existence.
Ready to Wear by Call Number: DVD 5960Publication Date: 1994As models, designers and journalists gather for Paris Fashion Week, Fashion Council head Olivier de la Fontaine chokes to death on a sandwich, leaving behind a wife, a mistress, and a mysterious Russian companion who has fled the scene.
Roberta by Call Number: DVD 15838Publication Date: 1935John Kent, visiting Paris with his bandleader friend, Huck Haines, suddenly inherits his aunt's fashionable dress shop in the city. Although clueless about the fashion world, John and Huck get help from designer Stephanie and the fiery Countess Scharwenka, whom Huck recognizes as his small-town sweetheart, Lizzie.
Who Are You Polly Maggoo?/Qui êtes-vous Polly Maggoo? by Call Number: DVD 5165Publication Date: 1966After nearly a decade as American Vogue's most subversive fashion photographer, William Klein made this wild, pseudovérité incursion into the world of Parisian haute couture.
Zoolander by Call Number: DVD 7663Publication Date: 2002Propelled to the top of the fashion world by a photogenic gaze he calls "Blue Steel," dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander thinks he's got a fourth consecutive win as Male Model of the Year in the bag; but when his rival unexpectedly takes the crown, Derek is crushed.