The September Issue is a documentary about American Vogue that everyone’s pretty excited about. It’s not out yet but I managed to see an illegal download copy. Any film detailing magazine politics is on to a winner. You see, a fashion journalist’s work and interests are the same thing, so that lack of separation between work and life means the usual boss/employee, getting bullied/sucking up thing gets magnified. And in Anna Wintour’s case it goes off the scale, making The September Issue really full-on.
Wintour’s best bud, Vogue’s 68-year-old, ginger-headed creative director, Grace Coddington, has been styling for 40 years but still gets screwed at by Wintour because “rubber isn’t a texture”.
Andre Leon Tally, Vogue’s editor-at-large (below) is possibly the gayest man ever. He says things like, “There is a famine of beauty, my eyes are starved of beauty,” and, regarding an outfit he’s put on, “This is authorit-aaay!”.
Unfortunately for Wintour fans there’s no mention of her affair with Bob Marley, her time at women’s porn mag VIVA or her marriage to child psychiatrist David Shaffer. But The September Issue’s window into consumerism’s apex does reveal that the Wintour fam are lefties. Her younger brother is the political editor of the Guardian, her older brother is some sort of public-housing bigwig and her sister runs a global federation of public service unions. Her daughter, Bee Shaffer, isn’t even into fashion!
Hilariously, Vogue thought people might not know who Sienna Miller is if they didn’t write her full name across the cover. Also, Miller’s hair looked so bad they made her wear a wig. Ha ha ha.
DARYOUSH HAJ-NAJAFI
The September Issue is in UK cinemas from September
July 23rd, 2009 @ 10:48
Reader Comments
July 23rd, 2009
11:29 am
Where can you watch this?
July 23rd, 2009
2:02 pm
Andre Leon Phillips sounds hilarious. Imagine sucking his dick and he goes - this is authori -taaaaaaay SUCKER. What a dude!
July 24th, 2009
1:03 pm
Is there any way of finding out where this is going to be shown?
August 29th, 2009
1:34 am
Untrue. They didn’t make Ms. Miller wear a wig, although they considered and tried doing that because her own hair was suffering from an in-between stage, and she refused to cut it as they requested. They ended up photographing her with a fairly severe up-do. She looked great on the cover and elsewhere, but seemed pretty much out of her element throughout her ordeal, that is true.