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By Joyce Slaton
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Fascinating battle stories from fashion's front line.
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In Vogue: The Editor's Eye
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What's the Story?
For over 100 years, Vogue magazine has run some of the most striking, lovely, ethereal, and even weird images in fashion. The people responsible: A cadre of dedicated fashion editors spotlighted in IN VOGUE: AN EDITOR'S EYE. Through interviews with the editors who made Vogue great along with backstory on some of Vogue's most iconic images, viewers will swiftly learn that behind every great image, there's a lot of hard work. Longtime editor Anna Wintour makes an appearance, but she largely takes a backseat in favor of chats with Vogue's indomitable creative director Grace Coddington, and the somewhat terrifying Polly Mellen, a former protege of style icon Diana Vreeland. Celebs such as Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker also make an appearance, talking about their shoots with the Vogue editors spotlighted.
Is It Any Good?
Even those who weren't Vogue fans before watching In Vogue are likely to be by the time they're done watching this. The tough, clever, hard-working, and wily women of a certain age are a beguiling lot, and the images they create do tend to stay in the mind. "They give us access to another world," Kidman says of fashion editors. "They give us access to dreams."
Fashion followers and Vogue readers will be in absolute ecstasies over getting to hear the inside story behind such famous Vogue images as Nastassja Kinski all wrapped up in a giant snake, or a Doberman closing its jaws on Christy Brinkley's hapless leg. Though such images do owe a debt to luck and timing, they're ultimately brought together by the fashion editors spotlighted in In Vogue, who are simultaneously creative muses and arbiters of taste.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about why many of the fashion editors in In Vogue are former models themselves. Why would a woman stop modeling and start working behind the camera? What about the passage of time makes this career trajectory happen repeatedly for these women?
Does Vogue look like a fun place to work? What about In Vogue brings you to this conclusion? Would you enjoy working at Vogue? Why or why not?
Many of the images spotlighted in In Vogue are disturbing rather than beautiful, i.e. the picture of the dog biting the model's leg. Why would a fashion magazine run a photograph that's not beautiful? What do you think photographs such as these are trying to make you feel?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : June 4, 2013
- Cast : Grace Coddington , Hamish Bowles , Nicole Kidman
- Directors : Fenton Bailey , Randy Barbato
- Inclusion Information : Female Movie Actor(s)
- Studio : HBO
- Genre : Documentary
- Run time : 90 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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