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The September Issue covers the preparation of Vogue Magazine’s annual style-setting issue, and profiles the book’s prima fashionista, Anna Wintour, who is arguably the most influential taste-maker in the world. R.J. Cutler follows Wintour into editorial meetings, fashion shows in Europe and to her own home, where she asks her teenage daughter’s opinion about fashion and photographs.
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Director Gero von Boehm’s fawning documentary delivers an uncritical profile of the unconventional photographer Helmet Newton, who often stunned portrait and fashion circles with his women, nude, posed defiantly and seductively. For Newton, two dirty words in photography are “art” and “good taste.” He is, he proudly asserts, a professional voyeur.
Read moreRJ Cutler’s The September Issue provides access to the rarified environs of the fashion world, documenting the preparation of Vogue’s
Read moreAWFJ highlights films made by and about women
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