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a list of fashion movies and documentaries and books and museums by me for you

no long intro for this. copy and save to your notes app for a rainy day :) in no particular order other than the one my mind came up with. don’t be a gatekeeper and share with a friend. this is not a chatgpt list, i watched all of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

movies and documentaries

• Franca: Chaos and Creation (2016)

• Lagerfeld Confidential (2007)

• Catwalk (1995)

• The First Monday in May (2016)

• Martin Margiela: In His Own Words (2019)

• Mademoiselle C (2013)

• Dries (2017)

• Dior and I (2014)

• Unzipped (1995)

• The True Cost (2015)

• The September Issue (2009)

• Bill Cunningham New York (2010)

• The Gospel According to André (2017)

• Issey Miyake: Making Things Move (2016)

• 7 Days Out: Chanel (2018)

• Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)

• McQueen (2018)

• McQueen and I (2011)

• Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)

• Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)

• Very Ralph (2019)

• High & Low: John Galliano (2020)

• Invisible Beauty (2023)

• Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton (2007)

• Behind the Velvet Ropes (2001)

• Iris (2014)

• In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye (2012)

• Anna Piaggi: Fashion Visionary (2016)

• The Super Models (2023)

• House of Z (2017)

• The Rachel Zoe Project (2008–2013)

books around fashion

• Fashion Climbing – Bill Cunningham

• Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem – Daniel R. Day

• Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster – Dana Thomas

• Worn: A People’s History of Clothing – Sofi Thanhauser

• Overdressed: The High Cost of Cheap Fashion – Elizabeth L. Cline

• Blood Beneath the Skin – Andrew Wilson

• Grace: A Memoir – Grace Coddington

• The Chiffon Trenches – André Leon Talley

• Miss Dior – Justine Picardie

• The Beautiful Fall – Alicia Drake

• Anna: The Biography – Amy Odell (I didn’t love it but worth it for an intro)

• Gods and Kings – Dana Thomas

• Make It Aritsy – Chrif Chirgil

• In My Fashion – Bettina Ballard

• D.V. – Diana Vreeland

• Audrey and Givenchy – Cindy De La Hoz

• Being Armani – Tony di Corcia

• One Woman Show: The Life of CBK – Ashley Longshore

• Pat in the City – Patricia Field

• Ametora – W. David Marx

• Savage Beauty – Andrew Bolton (ed.)

• House of Versace – Deborah Ball

• Champagne Supernovas – Maureen Callahan

• Empress of Fashion – Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

• The Battle of Versailles – Robin Givhan

• Fashionopolis – Dana Thomas

• The Vanity Fair Diaries – Tina Brown

• The Cartier’s – Francesca Cartier Brickell

• The Vogue Factor – Kirstie Clements

museums that I could think of around fashion and textiles

• The Costume Institute – New York City, USA

• The Museum at FIT – New York City, USA

• FIDM Museum – Los Angeles, USA

• Victoria & Albert Museum – London, UK

• Musée des Arts Décoratifs – Paris, France

• Musée Yves Saint Laurent – Paris, France

• MoMu Fashion Museum – Antwerp, Belgium

• Gucci Garden – Florence, Italy

• Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum – Getaria, Spain

• Kyoto Costume Institute – Kyoto, Japan

• Musée Christian Dior – Granville, France

• Fashion and Textile Museum – London, UK

• Museo della Moda – Florence, Italy

• Kunstgewerbemuseum – Berlin, Germany

• LVMH Museum – Paris, France

• Fondazione Prada – Milan, Italy

• Fashion Museum – Bath, UK

• Palais Galliera – Paris, France

• Bata Shoe Museum – Toronto, Canada

• Museo Salvatore Ferragamo – Florence, Italy

• Fashion History Museum – Cambridge, Canada

• YSL Museum – Marrakesh, Morocco

• La Galerie Dior – Paris, France

• Armani/Silos – Milan, Italy

• SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, USA

• The Museum of Lace – Alençon, France

• Museum of Bags & Purses – Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Palazzo Fortuny – Venice, Italy

happy to hear about everything that i missed! and again please share with a friend.

B