♥ Of “Fashin” movies and italics posted September 10, 2009, 12:50 am

I’m actually inspired to write again, to test out this new plugin called After the Deadline.

Italicizing words that are between (I know there’s a correct literature term for this but I forgot), e.g. Coco avant Chanel, makes it look so much nicer don’t you all think? A real live example of this would be on Jina Bolton’s newly redesigned site, Sushi & Robots. Lots of instances of this style of type treatment there, maybe even excessively so, hah.

My mention of Coco avant Chanel (oops– Coco avant Chanel) probably suggests that I’ve seen the said movie. You guessed right, it was last Friday. There are friends of mine who absolutely loved it, even going so far to use words like “inspirational”. Personally I thought it was just alright. Not a bad movie but not that great either, much less the greatest fashion based film produced for the mainstream. That title would belong to the Devil wears Prada (DwP), which in my opinion is pretty hard to top.

The upcoming film the September Issue, which Vanity Fair acclaimed as “the real Devil wears Prada”, is no doubt a real contender to replace DwP as “the greatest fashion film ever”, given it’s endorsement and blessing by Anna Wintour… on a movie about Anna Wintour herself, and american Vogue. Fashion fiends everywhere are loving it, having made lines from the trailer into ringtones and religious worshipping of the trailer– no surprises there, the tagline is after all, “fashion is a religion, this is the bible”. Despite early rave reviews and the movie’s strong position (in the fashion scene), snippets of the movie from here and there creates doubts on how good the cinematic quality and storytelling would actually be. After all, it was filmed to be a documentary and probably lacks what a staged, acted movie can achieve. We shall see.

The September Issue is to open locally on the 10th of September, according to the film’s distributors, but no where is it listed as showing in Singapore yet. It will achieve U. S. wide release on the 11th.