Documentaries about eccentric and talented people (I)
The September Issue: spent much of this thinking how amazing Anna Wintour's eyes are. Then I came home from the movie theatre and worked into the night on the deadline for SSBB no.21, the irony of which was actually completely lost on me at the time. XD; But I have a much better grasp on what happens here than on what happens in It Might Get Loud. I can see why Anna says No to the things she does; I would never have the heart and/or the cojones, but that doesn't mean she's wrong - although I waffle back and forth on whether that Sauron's Eye And Ripper's Scalpel approach to aesthetic arbitrage makes for an airless product in the long run. Sometimes pearls are more beautiful for being baroque, yanno? Grace Coddington's work provides the essential buoyancy and warmth, but her final gesture of wrongness ("Cameraman Bob") wouldn't be so remarkable if there were at all a place for wabi-sabi in Anna's tenets.
Nevertheless the obvious weaknesses that ultimately arise aren't Anna's - or Grace's - at all, but due to vagaries of contributors, celebrities, the very nature of the beast (do a shoot, use all the clothes from the first shoot in other features, redo the first shoot). It may be the largest issue in history but 7/8 of that isn't Wintour-controllable content, which in fact is being squeezed: all of it is ads.** And no one in Anna Wintour's family seems to take her seriously, not even her daughter. XD; Explains a lot, probably. It's no hagiography but I don't think the end result would piss her off, which is more than I'd say for Sienna Miller.
** Granted Anna Wintour's influence is shockingly pervasive on the business side; that was the part of the documentary I found most interesting.
Nevertheless the obvious weaknesses that ultimately arise aren't Anna's - or Grace's - at all, but due to vagaries of contributors, celebrities, the very nature of the beast (do a shoot, use all the clothes from the first shoot in other features, redo the first shoot). It may be the largest issue in history but 7/8 of that isn't Wintour-controllable content, which in fact is being squeezed: all of it is ads.** And no one in Anna Wintour's family seems to take her seriously, not even her daughter. XD; Explains a lot, probably. It's no hagiography but I don't think the end result would piss her off, which is more than I'd say for Sienna Miller.
** Granted Anna Wintour's influence is shockingly pervasive on the business side; that was the part of the documentary I found most interesting.