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Streaming: High & Low: John Galliano and the best films about fashion
Kevin Macdonald’s finely balanced portrait of the disgraced Dior designer, on Mubi from Friday, is the newest arrival on cinema’s catwalk of fashion industry movies, from Funny Face to Zoolander
In contrast, the candy-bright, Gershwin-scored musical Funny Face offers pure, delicious wish-fulfilment fantasy in its portrait of high-fashion modelling – beginning with the outrageous initial positioning of Audrey Hepburn as a bookish frump. A very different sort of horror film, Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper used the cool, aloof nature of the celebrity-styling business as the perfect backdrop for a chicly frosty ghost story, clothes allowing Kristen Stewart’s haunted heroine an occasional out-of-body escape. For sheer divadom, she can hardly outpreen Daniel Day-Lewis’s hilariously prissy mid-century London couturier in Paul Thomas Anderson’s off-kilter romantic drama Phantom Thread, one of the great films about the muse-artist battle.
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