Ready to Wear (1994) on Netflix
Journalists, models, editors and photographers gather in Paris for Fashion Week. Fashion Council head Olivier de la Fontaine dies, and television personality Kitty gathers sound bites.
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Plot summary
Paris Fashion Week brings together models, designers, magazine editors, photographers and journalists who work, argue and try to seduce one another. Fashion Council head Olivier de la Fontaine dies after choking on a sandwich, leaving behind his wife Isabella, a mistress and a Russian companion who fled. The death is investigated while the week's shows go on. American television personality Kitty moves among the designers collecting sound bites. Two American journalists, Anne and Joe, are thrown into the same over-booked hotel room and abandon their coverage for a tryst. Three rival editors from competing magazines court the photographer Milo O'Brannigan. Sergei, a fading icon, and Isabella, the widow, hope to revive a love affair from years before.
Cast
- Tara Leonas Kiki Simpson
- Georgianna Robertsonas Dane Simpson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ready to Wear (1994)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Robert Altman got the idea for the film in 1984 after going with his wife to a Sonia Rykiel show in Paris. He said he could not believe what he saw: it was such a circus, and too theatrical not to want to film.
SPOILER
For the finale in which Simone sends her models down the catwalk naked, Altman told the actors what was coming but not most of the audience, so the shock on the spectators' faces is real. He credited Ute Lemper, the pregnant bride closing the show, with making the scene land.- The MPAA threatened to take away the film's R rating after Columbia Records ran a New York Times advertisement for the soundtrack showing a naked Helena Christensen above the words "See the Movie", relenting only when the label agreed to stop using the image to advertise the film.
- Karl Lagerfeld went to court in Germany to block the film over a line that called him a plagiarist. The German distributor Senator Film agreed to cut the reference and the release went ahead as planned.
