Unzipped Movie Review

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is the whole show in this crowd-pleasing documentary that won the 1995 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film focuses on Mizrahi's preparations for the showing of his 1994 collection. It also touches on how he reads fashion in classic Hollywood movies, like 1935's Call of the Wild starring a dressed-to-the-nines Loretta Young: “If you're going to freeze to death in the Yukon, this is the way to do it.” Perhaps because of the surprise success of this movie, another film about fashion—Catwalk—was rushed into 1996 release, also featuring Mizrahi but to a lesser extent. If you can only see one movie about the trials and tribulations of assembling a fashion show, Unzipped is the one to see. It's unpretentious, it's stylish, and it's FUN!

1994 (R) 76m/C D: Douglas Keeve; C: Ellen Kuras. Sundance Film Festival ‘95: Audience Award. VHS, LV, Closed Caption