Prêt-à-Porter
Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter is a fashion-world frenzy – a sprawling satire filmed amid the real-life theatrics of Paris Fashion Week. With glitzy runway shows, bitchy backstage antics and an all-star ensemble cast featuring Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger and Lauren Bacall, the film favours atmosphere, spectacle and delicious deviance over conventional plot. Folding in a who’s who of ’90s fashion figures – among them Jean-Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Helena Christensen and Claudia Schiffer – it approaches this world with bemusement and curiosity. Arriving after Altman’s critical triumphs The Player and Short Cuts, Prêt-à-Porter was unkindly maligned on release and is now ripe for rediscovery.
35mm print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive
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