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No doubt many of you know what is it about, but for those who do not I have to note it is the name of a TV doco depicting the inners of the half a year preparation of the Vogue magazine for its September 2009 issue.
A few personal remarks with your kind permission. I have always loved and admired, adored Vogue's photographs. I have never attempted to be a fashion photographer because it is not just about fashion photography. I think we can fairly say that there is fashion photography and there is Vogue photography. Two worlds apart, the latter being the Paradise of creativity.
It is all very personal in the sense of how much you get impressed by Vogue's photography - a fairly personal extasis shown very well at the doco by the very fact that their actual leading figures started in their youth at this cathatonic exaltation, since we are talking about a magazine that started at the 19th century!
Now comes the doco about what there is behind the mask, and surprise again ! The only doco about the fashion industry I have seen to day showing very serious non extravagant pople. May I say serious workers of Art.
Lastly a fashion doco in which the people show sincerity by own will - a revolutionary approach, as revolutionary as Art itself.
After all there is an inner logic here in that where there is substance, there is honesty too, going hand by hand. The film shows very well the two contradicting souls behind Vogue, whose unpleasant counscious compromise fuels its continuous success.
On one side the doco acquints us with Ms Anna Wintour, who not only manages and edits the whole enterprise, but is gifted with the vision to finger point and guess what the new trends the masses are looking for - and therefore she cuts and rejects straight into the flesh of great creativity, being this a self devastating ungreeted task.
And on the other extreme we are aquinted with Ms Grace Coddington, the Art director, whose creative mind makes me wish to be her most minor assistant for life and for free. Just to see the secenarios she creates is worth enough. Scenarios that are turned down one after the other by her friend Ms Wintour, not for being second rate but for not answering that special instinct of Wintour in seeing into the future.
Ms Coddington and Ms Wintour both express themselves about it in the most open and clear terms, no hidding of feelings. But at the same time both express their need one for the other. Because without Wintour, Coddington says, there is no workplace. This sort of sincerity, of humbliness, is so unusual - this is greatness encapsulated.
A small detail which cannot escape to be mentioned, both women dress in the most modest way. As if they were saying what every true artist should say - it is not us, it is the power of Art itself.
The main editorial meetings, with the participation of Conde Nast owners or managers (I do not remember) are due to mention too for the seriousness of these fellows too and the respect they show towards Ms Wintour and their complex mission.
As you end watching this doco you cannot but remain deeply happy that great creativity is at the leading hands of responsible and art minded folks, non of which belongs to the level to spit that fashion is not the Social Security - unlike that circus clown named Karl Laggerfeld.
Lastly is to mention that both Wintour and Coddington have been at their time Vogue's models, and before becoming pro models they were exited fans of the magazine.
For me, a folk of street photography, Vogue's pictures will continue to burn my eyes, monthly infusing me with high dosis of creative inspiration.
Very much recomended doco, available too by Amazon and similars.
On the other hand, not my wife nor my daughter, both with interest in Art, have such a strong feelings for Vogue as I have - So if you do not find yourself adoring Vogue, you fall in the same cathegory of the people I love most.
Cheers,
Ruben
A few personal remarks with your kind permission. I have always loved and admired, adored Vogue's photographs. I have never attempted to be a fashion photographer because it is not just about fashion photography. I think we can fairly say that there is fashion photography and there is Vogue photography. Two worlds apart, the latter being the Paradise of creativity.
It is all very personal in the sense of how much you get impressed by Vogue's photography - a fairly personal extasis shown very well at the doco by the very fact that their actual leading figures started in their youth at this cathatonic exaltation, since we are talking about a magazine that started at the 19th century!
Now comes the doco about what there is behind the mask, and surprise again ! The only doco about the fashion industry I have seen to day showing very serious non extravagant pople. May I say serious workers of Art.
Lastly a fashion doco in which the people show sincerity by own will - a revolutionary approach, as revolutionary as Art itself.
After all there is an inner logic here in that where there is substance, there is honesty too, going hand by hand. The film shows very well the two contradicting souls behind Vogue, whose unpleasant counscious compromise fuels its continuous success.
On one side the doco acquints us with Ms Anna Wintour, who not only manages and edits the whole enterprise, but is gifted with the vision to finger point and guess what the new trends the masses are looking for - and therefore she cuts and rejects straight into the flesh of great creativity, being this a self devastating ungreeted task.
And on the other extreme we are aquinted with Ms Grace Coddington, the Art director, whose creative mind makes me wish to be her most minor assistant for life and for free. Just to see the secenarios she creates is worth enough. Scenarios that are turned down one after the other by her friend Ms Wintour, not for being second rate but for not answering that special instinct of Wintour in seeing into the future.
Ms Coddington and Ms Wintour both express themselves about it in the most open and clear terms, no hidding of feelings. But at the same time both express their need one for the other. Because without Wintour, Coddington says, there is no workplace. This sort of sincerity, of humbliness, is so unusual - this is greatness encapsulated.
A small detail which cannot escape to be mentioned, both women dress in the most modest way. As if they were saying what every true artist should say - it is not us, it is the power of Art itself.
The main editorial meetings, with the participation of Conde Nast owners or managers (I do not remember) are due to mention too for the seriousness of these fellows too and the respect they show towards Ms Wintour and their complex mission.
As you end watching this doco you cannot but remain deeply happy that great creativity is at the leading hands of responsible and art minded folks, non of which belongs to the level to spit that fashion is not the Social Security - unlike that circus clown named Karl Laggerfeld.
Lastly is to mention that both Wintour and Coddington have been at their time Vogue's models, and before becoming pro models they were exited fans of the magazine.
For me, a folk of street photography, Vogue's pictures will continue to burn my eyes, monthly infusing me with high dosis of creative inspiration.
Very much recomended doco, available too by Amazon and similars.
On the other hand, not my wife nor my daughter, both with interest in Art, have such a strong feelings for Vogue as I have - So if you do not find yourself adoring Vogue, you fall in the same cathegory of the people I love most.
Cheers,
Ruben
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