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HomeMy Public PortalAboutLTC 124-2015 - Fashion Project - Dressing Down the Movies, a Fashion Film Festival'AL H BOUR 1:L0RIDA'S. PARADISE OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE MANAGER NO. 124-2015 LETTER TO COUNCIL TO: Mayor Martin Packer and Members of the Village Council FROM: Jorge M. Gonzalez, Village Manager �% 0' i DATE: July 17, 2015 SUBJECT: Fashion Project — "Dressing Down the Movies," a Fashion Film Festival The purpose of this Letter to Council (LTC) is to share with you the Fashion Project schedule of upcoming exhibitions and programing. The Fashion Project is an experimental space dedicated to fashion and culture, located on the third level of Bal Harbour Shops. The Fashion Project will be having a Fashion Film Festival, "Dressing Down the Movies" from August 15, 2015 to September 30, 2015. Attached is a press release provided by the Fashion Project which includes the schedule and provides additional details about the Film Festival. If you have any questions or need any additional information, please feel free to contact me. Attachment: Fashion Project Press Release Bel Harbour Shops Contact: Jennifer Valdes Harrison & Shriftman 305-534-0008 jvaldes@hs-pr.com FASHION PROJECT BAL HARBOUR SHOPS ANNOUNCES "DRESSING DOWN THE MOVIES;' A FASHION FILM FESTIVAL FROM AUGUST 15 TO SEPTEMBER 30 BAL HARBOUR, FLORIDA, July 15, 2015—Fashion Project, an experimental space in Bal Harbour Shops dedicated to fashion and the broader culture surrounding its design, production, dissemination, and consumption, announces its summer film festival, Dressing Down the Movies: Nat Chediak on Fashion. The festival runs from August 15 through September 30, with complimentary films at 2:30pm and 7pm Monday through Saturday and 3pm Sunday. The twenty-four classic films span nearly seven decades, from 1929 through 1994, and explore the rich intersection of fashion and film. Beginning with Pandora's Box from 1929, featuring Louise Brooks with her iconic bob, dressed in a Jean Patou tank dress, to Robert Altmann's entertaining and vitriolic Ready to Wear from 1994, the films present pivotal fashion moments, trends, designers, and some of our favorite fashion emissaries. There's Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face from 1957, with her Givenchy- designed Paris wardrobe; the narrow lapels and cuffless trousers donned by the Rat Pack in Ocean's 11 in 1960, and of course Jane Fonda in futuristic armor by Paco Rabanne in Barbarella, the 1968 cult classic. The festival is curated by Nat Chediak and offered in partnership with Coral Gables Art Cinema. Film screenings take place in Fashion Project's one -thousand -square -foot space on the third floor of Bal Harbour Shops. For the film festival, the space is being converted from an exhibition space into a chic, living room/screening room designed specifically for the festival by noted architect and designer TO Pranich of Tui Lifestyle. A selection of books on film and fashion is featured at neighboring Books & Books Bal Harbour Shops. "Film and fashion have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship since before the advent of sound. The two dozen films in our selection explore the many ways both disciplines have influenced one another over time. The historical retrospective spans almost seven decades of fashion in film and will be screened chronologically, ending twenty years ago for the sake of perspective. The approach is not all-inclusive and has been informed by the pleasure principle: if it feels good, see it, wear it," says Chediak. Seating at the films is limited and will be on a first -come, first -served basis. Contact Fashion Project with questions or for further information: info@fashionprolectbhs.com or 786.245.2200. Schedule and information is below, followed by descriptions of films. FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: Saturday, August 15, 2:30pm & 7pm Sunday, August 16, 3pm Pandora's Box 1929, directed by G. W. Pabst from the play by Frank Wedekind. With Louise Brooks. Monday, August 17, 2:30pm & 7pm Tuesday, August 18, 2:30pm & 7pm Morocco 1930, directed by Josef von Sternberg. Screenplay adaptation, Jules Furthman. Cinematography, Lee Garmes. With Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou. Wednesday, August 19, 2:30pm & 7pm Thursday, August 20, 2:30pm & 7pm Fashions of 1934 1934, directed by William Dieterle. With William Powell, Bette Davis. Friday, August 21, 2:30pm & 7pm Saturday, August 22, 2:30pm & 7pm Top Hat 1935, directed by Mark Sandrich. Songs by Irving Berlin. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blare. Sunday, August 23, 3pm Monday, August 24, 2:30pm & 7pm The Women 1939, directed by George Cukor. Screenplay adaptation, Anita Loos, from the play by Clare Boothe Luce. With Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard. Tuesday, August 25, 2:30pm & 7pm Wednesday, August 26, 2:30pm & 7pm Cover Girl 1944, directed by Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Eve Arden. Thursday, August 27, 2:30pm & 7pm Friday, August 28, 2:30pm & 7pm Mildred Pierce 1945, directed by Michael Curtiz. From the novel by lames M. Cain. With Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett. Saturday, August 29, 2:30pm & 7pm Sunday, August 30, 3pm Rebel Without A Cause 1955, directed by Nicholas Ray, from a screenplay by Stewart Stern. With James Dean, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Natalie Wood. Monday, August 31, 2:30pm & 7pm Tuesday, September 1, 2:30pm & 7pm High Society 1956, directed by Charles Walters. With Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Grace Kelly. Wednesday, September 2, 2:30pm & 7pm Thursday, September 3, 2:30pm & 7pm Funny Face 1957, directed by Stanley Donen. With Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. Friday, September 4, 2:30pm & 7pm Saturday, September 5, 2:30pm & 7pm Designing Woman 1957, directed by Vincente Minelli. With Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall. Sunday, September 6, 3pm Monday, September 7, 3pm Bonjour Tristesse 1958, directed by Otto Preminger. Title design by Saul Bass. With Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr. Tuesday, September 8, 2:30pm & 7pm Wednesday, September 9, 2:30pm & 7pm North By Northwest 1959, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Ernest Lehman. Title design by Saul Bass. Music by Bernard Herrmann. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau. Thursday, September 10, 2:30pm & 7pm Friday, September 11, 2:30pm & 7pm Ocean's 11 1960, directed by Lewis Milestone. Title design by Saul Bass. With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop. Saturday, September 12, 2:30pm & 7pm Sunday, September 13, 3pm Last Year At Marienbad 1961, directed by Alain Resnais. Written by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Cinematography by Sacha Vierny. With Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitodff. Monday, September 14, 2:30pm & 7pm Tuesday, September 15, 2:30pm & 7pm Blowup 1966, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Produced by Carlo Ponti. Written by Tonino Guerra and Antonioni from a story by Julio Cortazar. Music by Herbie Hancock. Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma. With Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Veruschka, The Yardbirds. Wednesday, September 16, 2:30pm & 7pm Thursday, September 17, 2:30pm & 7pm Bonnie and Clyde 1967, directed by Arthur Penn. Screenplay by Robert Benton, David Newman. With Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons. Friday, September 18, 2:30pm & 7pm Saturday, September 19, 2:30pm & 7pm Barbarella 1968, directed by Roger Vadim. Produced by Dino De Lourentiis. Screenplay by Terry Southern. With Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg. Sunday, September 20, 3pm Monday, September 21, 2:30pm & 7pm Ciao! Manhattan 1972, directed by John Palmer and David Weisman. With Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Baby Jane Holzer, Viva, Brigid Berlin, Roger Vadim. Tuesday, September 22, 2:30pm & 7pm Wednesday, September 23, 2:30pm & 7pm The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 1972, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Production design by Kurt Raab. Cinematography by Michael Balhaus. With Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann. Thursday, September 24, 2:30pm & 7pm Friday, September 25, 2:30pm & 7pm Annie Hall 1977, directed by Woody Allen. Cinematography by Gordon Willis. With Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carl Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken. Saturday, September 26, 2:30pm & 7pm Sunday, September 27, 3pm American Gigolo 1980, written and directed by Paul Schrader. With Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina van Pallandt. Monday, September 28, 2:30pm & 7pm Tuesday, September 29, 2:30pm & 7pm Desperately Seeking Susan 1985, directed by Susan Deidelman. Written by Leora Barish. With Rosanna Arquette, Madonna. Wednesday, September 30, 2:30pm & 7pm Ready to Wear 1994, directed by Robert Altman. With Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Marcella Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Chiara Mastroianni, Stephen Rea, Rupert Everett, Rossy de Palma. ABOUT THE FILM FESTIVAL CONTRIBUTORS Nat Chediak is the dean of South Florida's film exhibitors. He was the founder of the Miami Film Festival and served as its director for eighteen years (1984-2001). Currently he is director of programming at the Coral Gables Art Cinema. He is also the author of Diccionario de Jazz Latino and a three -time Grammy and three -time Latin Grammy music producer. Tui Pranich is the owner of Tui Lifestyle, with two stores in Miami and one in New York City, dedicated to revolutionizing the way home furnishings are sold. Creative designer Pranich has developed a turnkey, high -style, fully decorated room settings with luxury furniture, accessories, and amenities. PROGRAM NOTES Pandora's Box 8/15 & 8/16 What else could Louise Brooks possibly play other than a seductive, thoughtless young woman whose raw sensuality and uninhibited nature bring ruin to herself and those who love her? "When you meet someone like this in life, you're attracted," wrote an admiring Roger Ebert, "but you know in your gut she'll be nothing but trouble." Pandora's Box's impact on fashion is timeless. The Brooks bob is as iconic as the tank dress she slinks around in, courtesy of Jean Patou. 1929, directed by G. W. Pabst from the play by Frank Wedekind. With Louise Brooks Morocco 8/17 & 8/18 Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich in a dazzling erotic tango: you never know who's leading and who's following because their mercurial state as master and slave is in constant flux. In the opening number, when la Dietrich —decked out in top hat and tails —kissed a woman, her signature look was born. She preferred wearing men's duds because, she explained, "I think I am much more alluring in these clothes." 1930, directed by Josef von Sternberg. Screenplay adaptation, Jules Furthman. Cinematography, Lee Garmes. With Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou. Fashions of 1934 8/19 & 8/20 William Powell is the dapper couturier who pilfers Parisian designs, and Bette Davis, in an early glamour role, is his secretary -model. Consistent with Fashion Project's programming, Fashions of 1934 flirts with issues ranging "from creativity versus commerce, originality versus copy and exclusivity versus mass -availability, to the rivalry between Paris and New York." The great Busby Berkeley's choreography compliments the sensuous gowns by Australian expat Orry-Kelly, an Archie Leach intimate before the latter became Cary Grant. 1934, directed by William Dieterle. With William Powell, Bette Davis. Top Hat 8/21 & 8/22 The greatest musical comedy of the Astaire -Rogers tandem features classic Irving Berlin melodies. It's also a reminder that Astaire chose his own wardrobe with an eye to his mobility as a dancer. As GlamAmor points out, "fashion giants like Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger are still learning lessons from Astaire's carefully crafted image." Not to be outdone, Rogers collaborated with costume designer Bernard Newman on her outfits, with the exception of her very own infamous feathered gown, which shed all over the dynamic dancing duo during "Cheek to Cheek." 1935, directed by Mark Sandrich. Songs by Irving Berlin. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blare. The Women 8/23 & 8/24 The cattiest comedy of Hollywood's Golden Era features a cast devoid of men. The Women was directed by lioness -tamer George Cukor, working from Anita Loos' adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's oft -revived play. MGM costume designer Adrian turned to avant-garde couturier Elsa Schiaparelli for inspiration, as evidenced by Rosalind Russell's surreal "Seeing Eye" dress and the wildly imaginative Technicolor fashion show. 1939, directed by George Cukor. Screenplay adaptation, Anita Loos, from the play by Clare Boothe Luce. With Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, loan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard. Cover Girl 8/25 & 8/26 Rita Hayworth is a chorus girl who is given a shot at stardom when offered the opportunity to be a highly paid cover girl. One of the most popular Technicolor musicals of the war years pairs the raven -tressed beauty with hoofer extraordinaire Gene Kelly. Add songs by Gershwin & Kern, a lavish title number, and breathtaking costumes by Travis Banton. Who could ask for anything more? 1944, directed by Charles Vidor. With Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Eve Arden Mildred Pierce 8/27 & 8/28 Joan Crawford (in her Oscar -winning role) is at her best as a hard-working mom with a daughter fixation. From the time we meet her, dressed in fur and ready to jump off the Malibu Pier, we know this classic James M. Cain film noir has style to burn. Padded shoulders were used to bolster Crawford's petite frame; Milo Anderson's career -oriented suits are still in fashion with working women today. 1945, directed by Michael Curtiz. From the novel by James M. Cain. With loan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett. Rebel Without A Cause 8/29 & 8/30 A movie that is one with its subject. According to Roger Ebert, Rebel "desperately wants to say something and doesn't know what it is. If it did know, it would lose its fascination." James Dean died in a car crash a month before the opening. Much has been said about him; here was a man "whose clothes perfectly summed up the first decade in which young people's style was distinguished from their parents," write Lauren Cochrane and Helen Seamons in The Guardian. Unlike star-crossed Sal Mineo, teenagers Dennis Hopper and Natalie Wood left indelible marks of their own in the years that followed. 1955, directed by Nicholas Ray, from a screenplay by Stewart Stern. With lames Dean, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Natalie Wood. High Society 8/31 & 9/1 A musical adaptation of Philip Barry's hit play The Philadelphia Story that stands on its own thanks to a marvelous Cole Porter score and a cast that includes Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and, of course, Grace Kelly, dressed to the nines by Helen Rose. Everything Kelly wears swings, from her white halter swimsuit to the full -collar gown designed as a cover- up for the maillot. So pleased was Grace that Rose went on to design her wedding dress. 1956, directed by Charles Walters. With Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Funny Face 9/2 & 9/3 One of the all-time great films about fashion, with Fred Astaire playing a character inspired by Richard Avedon, the film's visual consultant. Audrey Hepburn plays a clerk at a Greenwich Village bookshop who could care less about haute couture. Givenchy designed all of Hepburn's Paris costumes and shared credit —and an Oscar nomination —with the indomitable Edith Head. 1957, directed by Stanley Donen. With Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn. Designing Woman 9/4 & 9/5 Helen Rose reigned as MGM's chief costume designer for twenty years and is credited with suggesting the story of this film, which is really Woman Of The Year, set in the fashion world with Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall in the Tracy/Hepburn roles. George Wells won the Best Screenplay Oscar for the movie. Bacall wears about thirty changes (from a yellow bathing suit to a mink dress), allowing the versatile Rose to display the full range of her talent. 1957, directed by Vincente Minelli. With Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall. Bonjour Tristesse 9/6 & 9/7 Jean Seberg's heart belongs to daddy David Niven and she wants love interest Deborah Kerr (playing a dress designer!) out of the way in the worst way. Fran4oise Sagan's best-selling novel gets the Technicolor, CinemaScope treatment by way of an Arthur Laurents' screenplay. In terms of fashion, it's a double statement—Givenchy sketched the more formal wardrobe while Hope Bryce was responsible for Seberg's gamine Cote d'Azur look. 1958, directed by Otto Preminger. Title design by Saul Bass. With Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr. North By Northwest 9/8 & 9/9 Bewildered ad executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is pursued by spies trying to smuggle secrets out of the country. In Alfred Hitchcock's classic, the mistaken identity motif extends to Grant's justly famous blue and grey, fine glen plaid suit. Arthur Lyons at Kilgour, French & Stanbury of Savile Row was responsible for the original. Quintino, Grant's Beverly Hills tailor, made the requisite copies, as the actor wears the two-piece lightweight worsted wool suit practically from beginning to end. 1959, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Ernest Lehman. Title design by Saul Bass. Music by Bernard Herrmann. With Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint lames Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau. Ocean's 11 9/10 & 9/11 On the surface, it's all about a platoon of World War II vets trying to pull off a multiple casino heist on New Year's Eve in Vegas, but it's really the ultimate Rat Pack movie. Forget about the— count'em—three sequels that were made half a century later. Feast on bespoke tailor Sy Devore's suits for The Clan. This is where narrow lapels and cuffless trousers find their maximum expression. 1960, directed by Lewis Milestone. Title design by Saul Bass. With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter lawford, Joey Bishop. Last Year At Marienbad 9/12 & 9/13 Film's most enigmatic cipher could be two Alains' (director Resnais and author Robbe-Grillet) idea of a practical joke, a straight-faced play on the old pick-up line, "didn't I meet you ...?" But you may be forgiven for giving in to its labyrinthine charm. Delphine Seyrig's hairstyle was an intentional variation on Louise Brooks' signature bob (see Pandora's Box). Coco Chanel's uncredited, evanescent costumes featured "layers of tulle, wisps of chiffon, delicate lace and dramatic feathers," according to Classiq, the stuff that dreams are made of. 1961, directed by Alain Resnais. Written by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Cinematography by Socha Vierny. With Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertozzi, Socha Pitoeff. Blowup 9/14 & 9/15 Michelangelo Antonioni was born into Style, a scion of prosperous landowners in northern Italy. He graduated from riding fancy bikes and driving flashy sports cars to making movies that also were fashion statements. Blowup luxuriates in the blase, thrill -seeking milieu of fashion photographer David Hemmings, who suspects he might have been witness to murder. Sometimes it takes a foreign artist to capture a special place and time. This is the quintessential Swinging'60s London movie. 1966, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. produced by Carlo Ponti. Written by Tonino Guerra and Antonioni from a story by Julio Cortazar. Music by Herbie Hancock. Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma. With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, lane Birkin, Veruschka, The Yardbirds. Bonnie and Clyde 9/16 & 9/17 They're young. They're in love. They rob banks. And the movie had to triumph in Europe before we owned up to the homegrown derelicts. "Everywhere I went, people looked like me, wearing berets or whatever I was wearing," recalls Faye Dunaway (Bonnie). For costume designer Theadora Van Runkle in her maiden effort, it was a not -to -be -missed opportunity to riff on outlaw fashion. She was nominated for an Oscar, one of ten the film received. 1967, directed by Arthur Penn. Screenplay by Robert Benton, David Newman. With Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons. Barbarella 9/18 & 9/19 As embodied by a pneumatic Jane Fonda, Barbarella was, according to The New York Times, "the most iconic sex goddess of the 60's." The movie that contains her has become a cult classic. Directed by Roger Vadim, Fonda's husband at the time, Barbarella featured the actress in futuristic armor by Paco Rabanne that prompted Coco Chanel to sneer: "He's not a couturier. He's a metal worker." 1968, directed by Roger Vadim. Produced by Dino De Lourentiis. Screenplay by Terry Southern. With lane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pollenberg. Ciao! Manhattan 9/20 & 9/21 Counterculture icon and Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick plays a character much like herself, struggling with drug addiction and celebrity excess in John Palmer and David Weisman's avant-garde cult movie. Vogue's Diana Vreeland dubbed Edie a youthquaker. She's a mod apparition in heavy eye makeup, decked out in straight -neck smock mini dresses and jumpsuits, her short hair streaked with strands of silver and blonde. 1972, directed by John Palmer and David Weisman. With Edie Sedgwick, Isabellewell, Paul America, Baby lane Holzer, Viva, Brigid Berlin, Roger Vadim. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 9/22 & 9/23 This huis clos gem by the late German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder never leaves the confines of famed fashion designer Von Kant's bedroom, where a hothouse drama of unrequited love unfolds. Nubile model Karin (Hanna Schygulla) has the imperious lady (Margit Carstensen) wrapped around her little finger while The Platters croon and factotum Marlene (Irm Hermann) watches mutely. The baroque costumes by Maja Lemcke were an inspiration to Miuccia Prada. 1972, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Production design by Kurt Raab. Cinematography by Michael Bolhous. With Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann. Annie Hall 9/24 & 9/25 Woody Allen's breakthrough romantic comedy won four Oscars (including Best Film). It also created a style and a style icon, as Ali Basye writes: "the outfit that inspired the 'Annie Hall Look'—men's khakis, white cotton dress shirt, fedora, vest and Grammy Hall's tie —not only created a catchall phrase that would forever -after define any woman's outfit that incorporates a man's vest or tie, but created a style icon out of [Diane) Keaton and an entire genre of dressing for women." In case you're wondering, Woody wears regulation Ralph Lauren, to this day. 1977, directed by Woody Allen. Cinematography by Gordon Willis. With Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carl Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken. American Gigolo 9/26 & 9/27 Richard Gere embodies style —and style to spare —in American Gigolo. As Lord Christopher Laverty explains, "Although costumed as a whole by Bernadene C. Mann, American Gigolo is all about [Giorgio] Armani. In two hours it parades every single line across the screen: formal, semi -formal, casual, daytime, evening, leisurewear, underwear, accessories. The pretext is how these sartorial choices define [Richard] Gere's high class prostitute Julian, though really we are watching how his clothes define the Armani name; literally brand creation on film." 1980, written and directed by Paul Schrader. With Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina van Pollandt Desperately Seeking Susan 9/28 & 9/29 Bored housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) wakes up with amnesia after an accident and is mistaken for free -spirited NYC drifter Susan (Madonna). The film showcases a silk bomber jacket —designed by Santo Loquasto—that may or may not have been worn by Jimi Hendrix. It's an '80s world of perms, oversized hair accessories, lace gloves, and harem pants. 1985, directed by Susan Deidelmon, written by Leoro Barish. With Rosanna Arquette, Madonna. Ready to Wear 9/30 Reviled by many as Robert Altman's poison-pen letter to the fashion industry, Ready to Wear plays like a fashionista's guilty pleasure. It skewers sacred cows with ravenous glee; you risk disappointment by taking it too seriously. Declares Roger Ebert: "the purpose ... is not to play fair or be objective, but to entertain." 1994, directed by Robert Altman. With Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Marcella Mastroianni, lean -Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Chioro Mastroianni, Stephen Rea, Rupert Everett Rossy de Palma and too many others to mention! ABOUT FASHION PROJECT Fashion Project is an experimental cultural space on the third level of the luxury retail destination Bal Harbour Shops. Fashion Project is devoted to curatorial projects and programs that explore and celebrate fashion and the culture surrounding its design, innovation, production, and consumption. An initiative of Bal Harbour Shops, it was conceptualized and developed by Cathy Leff, previously director of The Wolfsonian—FIU. Fashion Project is collaborating with groundbreaking London -based curator and exhibition -maker Judith Clark. The result? Thought -provoking exhibitions, programs, and activities that approach the world of and around fashion through a multidisciplinary lens and explore boundaries between fashion, design, art, consumer culture, and costume culture. www.fashionpro'ectbhs.com ABOUT BAL HARBOUR SHOPS Opened in 1965 by retail visionary Stanley Whitman, Bal Harbour Shops was the first all -luxury fashion center featuring high -end retailers in a tropical, open-air setting. Bal Harbour Shops quickly became the most exclusive shopping destination in the nation, with record -setting sales, and it has remained the industry leader for 50 years. In 2012, Bal Harbour Shops topped the list as the world's most productive shopping center, based on sales per square foot, according to data compiled by the International Council of Shopping Centers. Three generations of the Whitman family remain steadfast in their shared vision for this fashion mecca and its continued success. www.balharbourshops.com