All about Yves – a passion for fashion

I love fashion, and am glad to see the New Zealand International Film Festival has a trio of fashiony movies:

Saint Laurent

The latest French biopic of the iconic fashion designer is a heady experience, stunningly realised without official YSL approval, and concentrating on the decade that culminated with a triumphant collection in 1976

The library has the other recent YSL biopic Yves Saint Laurent. I watched in the weekend - the actor who played Yves nailed his fragility and fierce glamour. Find more YSL stuff at the library.

Iris

Colourful fashionista Iris is one of my style heroines. Big glasses, accessories piled on. Check out the book Rare bird of fashion for a closeup look at her fabbo gear, and Advanced Style (book or movie) if you want to see some more older style goddesses.

Iris talked to Noelle last weekend on Radio New Zealand Saturday morning.

Women he's undressed

Gillian Armstrong’s doco celebrates the colourful Orry-Kelly, the Australian-born designer who dressed Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca, Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot and Bette Davis in many of her greatest roles.

We have the splendid looking book on order.

Fashion docos and movies in our collection you might like to watch include:

• Valentino
• Coco avant Chanel
• Bill Cunningham New York (street style photographer supremo)

And just to tantalise your fashionbuds - here's some new books to swoon over:

• Check out our pages on Fashion and New Zealand fashion.
• Read more NZIFF blog posts.

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