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The First Monday In May
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Filmmaker Andrew Rossi examines an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that showcases Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Filmmaker Andrew Rossi examines an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that showcases Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Actors:
Baz Luhrmann,
Sarah Jessica Parker,
Kanye West,
Kar-Wai Wong,
Bill Cunningham,
Bradley Cooper,
Thom Browne
Baz Luhrmann
17 September 1962, New South Wales, Australia
Sarah Jessica Parker
25 March 1965, Nelsonville, Ohio, USA
Kanye West
8 June 1977, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Kar-Wai Wong
17 July 1956, Shanghai, China
Bill Cunningham
March 13, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bradley Cooper
5 January 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Thom Browne
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Andrew Rossi
Andrew Rossi
Country:
United States
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April 21, 2016
The film's focus is too easily distracted by celebrity and turns less documentary and more fawning love letter to an industry already in love with itself.
April 05, 2017
A film that, with each look, each sentence, each reproach, is conforming itself as an interesting portrait of characters, commanded by a great protagonist. [Full review in Spanish]
September 30, 2016
Both events are minefields of planning and politics, which Rossi captures well, though meanderingly at times.
December 27, 2016
Maddeningly unfocused.
January 15, 2017
This was more interesting than I thought it would be not just because it shows how much work, thought and creativity goes into such a show, but because of the deep connection to film in this project.
April 21, 2016
Will lights and hardware be ready? Can they afford the $200K demanded by headliner Rihanna? The viewer's pulse may rise, too, as Rossi's camera roams frantic hallways, offices and limos.
May 04, 2016
If you don't care about fashion there is another issue that unfolds fascinatingly over the course of the film: whether the theme of "the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion" is actually a celebration of Orientalism.
November 07, 2016
The doc clearly tells us that we better believe that fashion should be viewed as art because fashion creates dreams.
April 28, 2016
Gorgeous, gossipy, yet penetrating documentary about the marriage of culture and commerce.
October 07, 2016
I am always a sucker for the eye-gasm of a fashion documentary.
April 22, 2016
There are many deliciously revealing moments, including discussions about who will sit where at the gala - there has to be a celebrity at every table - and whether Vogue can afford to pay Rihanna twice the usual fee to entertain the guests.
September 26, 2016
The kind of party you'll almost definitely never get an invite to.

