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IN VOGUE: THE EDITOR’S EYE: (L-R) Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey
Photo Credit: Mathu Andersen/ courtesy HBO
Everyone alive that has an ounce of fashion running through their veins is certain to have some degree of worship for the publication that the world knows as Vogue, and those that bring their devotion to the highest level of intensity know that only in 1909 did it become a fashion magazine under Conde Nast who also gave it a photo cover for the first time that year, adding to the society focus that began in 1892. To keep up your love for Vogue, there is something you must see on HBO on December 6th 2012: The Editor’s Eye. Opening with a flip-book-like look at the actual covers one by one since that starting year, The Editor’s Eye by HBO is the latest and greatest in their documentary hit parade of beauty and intelligence combining to give American entertainment a degree of quality that is not easily found in our reality television world today of star power with little substance.
The Editor’s Eye addresses the question-what is it a fashion editor does? In being introduced to Absolutely Fabulous in their 20th anniversary special this past fall, Patsy Stone’s answer would be quite different from the women you see here of Vogue. However, Anna Wintour’s first cover in 1988 did boast Lacroix, whom Eddy Monsoon constantly promotes and adores with zero sense of shame. Not only does The Editor’s Eye include several in-depth interviews with these fashion editors throughout the years, but they also reach to actresses including Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker and supermodels of course, previously featured on Whom You Know in HBO’s About Face and Michael Gross’s Model. We love the intelligent, animated timelines and learning about how correspondents developed, particularly during World War Two. And we agree-we hope grunge never comes back.
IN VOGUE: THE EDITOR’S EYE: Natalia vodianova
Photo Credit: © Annie Leibovitz/ courtesy HBO
You’ll acquire a new way of seeing it all from a dream of Alice in Wonderland to a nightmare of a Doberman on your leg or a bee on your lip. Images will shock you, move you, entice you and make you keep reading Vogue for the next 120 years. The challenges they face you may not ever think of yourself as you breezily turn the pages for your own entertainment, but Anna says “It’s the mishaps that make it fun and bring you the surprise. God forbid that a shoot would be perfect…”
Everyone that’s been reading Whom You Know since we began in 2009 has been delighted to see the short clips of Anna Wintour commenting at The Met, which we’ll remind you of here in 2009 and 2010.
Anna is known to always look forward, not backward to the past, but for this 120th Anniversary she makes an exception to celebrate such a milestone. “Fashion is so universal now…Fashion has been embraced by everybody…Fashion is a reflection of our times…Fashion can tell you everything that is going on in the world with a strong fashion image.” Though Anna certainly continues to strike us with her brilliant ideas, it is Polly Mellen whom we are most impressed with among all the fashion editors presented.
From 1966 to 1991, Mellen had the crème de la crème opportunities, highlighted by The Great Fur Caravan which included a monstrously long five week shoot-today they are about three days. Working with the legend Richard Avedon on location which follows Veruschka on a Japanese journey, Mellen was envied by many. We are sure she earned every spot that was hers and her boss Diana Vreeland told her: “Polly, who needs friends? Get on with it!” We admire how they each pursued excellence, and footage of the late Vreeland is also included.
Other areas that will pique your interest include:
*You’ll find out what they do when they want the scarf to fly in the breeze
*Vera Wang’s experience working at Vogue, from the horse’s mouth
*What happened in the days before photoshop and how they used steak to accomplish their goals
*Find out what happens when you tell the Fashion Editor that you, the model, likes snakes
*What made Elizabeth Taylor angry, and what did her mood do to the photograph?
*The last shoot of The Plaza Hotel before it goes into renovation, 2005
*What do you do with dairy cream and a bathtub?
Clearly, anything and everything for the picture is a philosophy of the successful fashion editor, and they don’t come any more successful than at Vogue. First with an intelligent concept that captures beauty and style, adding a cast of perfection and a killer photographer to illustrate your idea accurately, you’ll see by following this formula there’s nothing a Vogue Fashion Editor CAN’T do, so tune in to see how it all works behind the scenes because it’s so much more than you breezily turning the pages while sipping your latest winter red. Whom You Know Highly Recommends In The Editor’s Eye.
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In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of Vogue, debuts THURSDAY, DEC. 6 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. The documentary film takes a look at some of the world’s most influential fashion images as conceived by the magazine’s iconic fashion editors. Other HBO playdates: Dec. 6 (5:00 a.m.), 8 (3:45 p.m.), 12 (4:30 p.m., 12:25 a.m.), 18 (12:15 p.m.), 21 (3:30 p.m.) and 24 (1:15 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Dec. 19 (8:00 p.m.) and 28 (3:30 p.m.)
“The people who are responsible for the fashion images are the fashion editors,” says Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue. “They have always been our secret weapon, so it seemed to me that we could celebrate Vogue, and also, at the same time, celebrate these great editors.”
“The exquisite and detailed inspiration that goes into a fashion editor’s staging of a photograph was a surprise to us,” comments Sheila Nevins, president, HBO Documentary Films. “The images found in the pages of Vogue exist as true works of art and the editors themselves are gifted, yet often unassuming, artists.”
Drawing on Vogue’s exceptional archives, the film features behind-the-scenes interviews with editors who have contributed to the magazine’s legacy, including current editor-in-chief Anna Wintour; fashion editors such as Grace Coddington, Tonne Goodman, Polly Allen Mellen, Camilla Nickerson, Phyllis Posnick and Babs Simpson; celebrated Vogue subjects Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker; industry icons such as Hamish Bowles; and fashion designers Alber Elbaz, Nicolas Ghesquière, Marc Jacobs and Vera Wang (herself a former Vogue fashion editor), all of whom share their experiences collaborating with top photographers and image-makers of the day.
In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye is produced and directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (HBO’s “The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Emmy®-nominated “Wishful Drinking”).
“Vogue: The Editor’s Eye,” a book on the same subject, was published by Abrams in October.
HBO Documentary Films in association with Vogue presents a World of Wonder production; produced and directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato; edited by Langdon F. Page and Francisca Kachler; original music by David Benjamin Steinberg; director of photography, Thomas Curran; associate producer, Jane Fitzgerald; producer, Mona Card. For HBO Documentary Films: supervising producer, Jacqueline Glover; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.
