Filmmaker Douglas Keeve’s 1995 documentary “Unzipped” follows fashion designer and eventual mogul Isaac Mizrahi, then the director’s boyfriend, into his fall 1994 collection. The ’90s-centric movie remains the ultimate portrait of New York’s high fashion world at the time, with guest appearances including Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Kate Moss. Plus, the film won the audience award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Now, Janus Films is bringing the movie back to theaters courtesy of a new restoration. Watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis courtesy of Janus Films: “Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with an effervescent intimacy by Douglas Keeve, Mizrahi’s then-partner. Both a time capsule of the buoyant, raucous 1990s, when pop culture and high art became interchangeable, and a vérité-style, in-the-trenches report on the daily agonies and ecstasies of the creative process, this seminal artistic portrait — sumptuously shot by Ellen Kuras and Robert Leacock — transcends glitz and glamour to offer an extraordinary view of the charisma and force of will inherent to genius, as well as its personal costs.”
Charli XCX recently told Vogue: “Directed by Douglas Keeve, it follows Isaac Mizrahi as he gets ready for his New York Fashion Week collection. If you love fashion, you have to see this documentary. All the legends are there — Kate, Naomi, Christy — and even Galliano and Polly Mellen. But most importantly, the film perfectly captures the artist’s creative process: bursts of inspiration, self-doubt, vulnerability, and finally, triumph.”
Janus Films opens “Unzipped” on Friday, September 25 at Film Forum in New York City. Then, the film opens in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal and Glendale on Friday, October 9. A national rollout will follow. The Sundance Institute and UCLA Film & Television Archive digitally restored the film.
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