“The September Issue,” a documentary about Vogue’s powerful editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and the process behind creating the September Issue, the issue that typically dictates the fashion trends for the coming year, is interesting enough. However, traditional runway shows that result in fashions being in the stores six to eight months later now seem irrelevant as do the huge catalogue-like fashion magazines. Designs can be seen online minutes after a designer shows them and purchased soon after with knock-offs appearing in malls at a fraction of the price. The Internet allows the convenience of shopping any time, anywhere and with the economic shift, the fashion industry faces a huge challenge.
Nonetheless, if you want to get a glimpse behind the scenes of a woman who did have (and maybe still has) huge power in the fashion industry, “The September Issue” will give you that look. And if you’re a fashionista, you’ll enjoy watching Wintour as she oversees photo spreads of some beautiful, some trendy, some awful – but all expensive – clothes. Wintour is the top dog and all of her underlings know it as they scramble to keep her happy. But her creative director Grace Coggington, who has worked for Wintour for years and creates beautiful photographs that succeed on their own as art, is often willing to contradict her boss. So if Wintour is the one who dictates the direction of clothing trends, Coggington is responsible for the artistic style that keeps Vogue the leader. Wintour can boast that the 2007 September Issue was the biggest ever, but, according to an LA Times article, Vogue is a third slimmer than last year and Vogue’s ad pages decreased 36%. Change happens. So what you see in “The September Issue” might be a picture of the past. 9/10/09
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"The September Issue" turns out to be a dinosaur of a documentary since the industry has changed so radically in the past couple of years. I beleive this was the same lady as the one in "The Devil Wears Prada". It would have been better for this picture to have been released a few years ago for best effect, too bad, it was still interesting.
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