Unzipped

• Director: Douglas Keeve
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Leisure Arts
• Movie Type: Biopic, Beauty & Fashion
• Themes: Fashion World
• Main Cast: Isaac Mizrahi
• Release Year: 1995
• Country: US
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

This documentary takes a lighthearted inside look at the fashion industry follows New York designer Isaac Mizrahi as he prepares to stage a fashion show. While the film avoids criticism and in-depth probing into Mizrahi, it does provide insight into the man's creativity as he deftly deals with the chaos. Mizrahi narrates the film and frequently quotes famous lines from the old movies he dearly loves. Film clips from the movies are included. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Review

"Think Eskimos!" screams the outrageous, extroverted fashion-designer Isaac Mizrahi, in this entertaining, engagingly superficial documentary about the fashion business. Mizrahi, having had several bad seasons, is desperate for inspiration for his new collection. He finds it in Loretta Young stylish and chic in 1935's Call of the Wild who looks sensational even after giving birth in an igloo and fighting with sled dogs. Unzipped features a cast of superficial, competitive, over-paid supermodels, celebrity friends and enemies, and very opinionated magazine editors, all of whom must be charmed and catered to, while Mizrahi must do the very real work of putting together his collection. This is perhaps the best film to date about the fashion industry, showing it through the offbeat, campy eyes of Mizrahi and his mother, who was always sure of his genius. The fashion show at the finale of the film is a treat, as Mizrahi succeeds in pleasing the crowd and saving his career and his sanity. The film is bitchy, irreverent and witty fun and a delightful look at how the creative process must also deal with economic reality. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

Cast

Naomi Campbell - Herself; Cindy Crawford - Herself; Eartha Kitt - Herself; Isaac Mizrahi - Himself; Sandra Bernhard - Herself

Credit

Paul De Benedictis - Co-producer, Keith Estabrook - Co-producer, Douglas Keeve - Director, Paula Heredia - Editor, Dori Berinstein - Executive Producer, David Pecker - Executive Producer, Nina Santisi - Executive Producer, Ellen Kuras - Cinematographer, Michael Alden - Producer, Tula Goenka - Supervisor/Manager

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