"Mike Nichols  Suzy Parker" "Richard Avedon" "You produce most of the dresses in New York?" "Yes." "So you can undersell everybody?" "Yes." "Then your clothes can be schlock?" "I hear you're the No. 1 hustler in New York." "You're the consultant for US fashion?" "Yes." "So you're the No.1 American expert?" "Yes." "You know, the French worry because a big store didn't come to Paris." "Since when do you know Saint Laurent?" "Since he was 16." "He came to Paris... ." "as a student... ." "For his degree, with his mother." "He came from Algeria." "He was about as tall as he is now, and as skinny, 5'10" and 150 pounds." "Always with his mother." "We saw, right off, his special chic." "He wasn't Leonardo da Vinci but he was a charming designer." "A man who had a special sense... a man-a baby - with a very special sense of fashion." " He already had a style?" " Absolutely!" " At 16?" " Yes, at 16." "It looks good, no?" "Yes, but hard to wear." "Really..." "But it would make a great photo." "This is fun, don't you think?" "Don't move too much, OK?" "Don't jiggle around." "OK, but do it right." "A pin here." "Otherwise... if it comes off in front of everybody..." "Take off those earrings!" "Marvelous." "Good colors." "Oh yes!" "Ideal!" "She's a vamp... our national vamp!" "He's someone who knows fabric even if it's hard to work with." "This thing can't be copied." "We MUST have dresses like that!" "Terrific concept!" "Enormous collection." "Incredible!" "And the look is great!" "Watch out for your hair so the chignon doesn't come apart." "This one comes later." "There's one more, then it's the one after." "Some pins... ." "Some PINS!" "I have to sit down!" "There's no time." "Don't panic." "Dubrica!" "Dubrica!" "Come here so I can put on your chignon." "Just this little feather in your hair." "Paule!" "Send me Paule, fast!" "Each embroidery is prettier than the other." "You're right, so delicate." "That looks fabulous on Paule." "The dress is delicious." "Marvelous!" "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" "The shoes, the shoes!" "And the gloves!" "Watch it, that's the wrong hat!" "I went the wrong way." "Look, do the first with our thingamajig, that gizmo... ." "the chignon, right." "Really great, really... stunning!" "Hey, hairdresser!" "Like an egg!" "Slick her down like an egg." "Shears, please." "Now, gorgeous... ." "You turn, you glide and you fly away!" "And once around is enough." "Here comes the Dragon Lady!" "Which one?" "She's THE fashion editor!" "Miss Maxwell's here." "She'll hate it, that cunt." "But what does she know?" "Not too tight!" "Isn't she marvelous!" "Gorgeous!" "It's uncomfortable but so what?" "Stunning!" "Superb!" "Stupendous!" "Magnificent!" "I told you, the wings are too high!" "Lower them!" "No fingers!" "You'll smear it!" "How many times must I tell you?" "I'm wounded!" "Cover it with pancake." "Ouch!" "We'll stop the blood, nobody will notice." "It hurts." "I'll throw up." "I swear!" "With pancake it won't show." "He's recreated Woman!" "Here he is!" "You've recreated Woman!" "Well..." "I did my best." "The poet of sheet metal!" "I dress the Atomic Woman." "Isidore Ducasse!" "Botticelli's angels copulate!" "The French robot is born!" "The gods are jealous." "Petrified!" "I am deeply moved." "You're more than a creator!" "You're a galvanizer!" "And I am... ." "Galvanized!" "I'm glad you like it... ." "I have big plans." "The next step is copper!" "I'm 20... ." "I'm in love and I let him go all the way." "Now he won't speak to me." "Heartbroken." "Take a tip from monks and athletes... ." "What do I do when a boy whistles at me?" "Don't turn around." "A gentleman doesn't whistle." "AND, he may not be whistling at you." "My mother gets me down." "She's a sloppy dresser, lets herself go." "How can I make her understand that at least, for my sake and my sister's... ." "Help her regain her self-respect..." "Make her realize she's still attractive." "I read in the papers that" "Prince Igor wants to marry a model." "Who?" "!" "They don't say." "I knew a girl who married a prince." "Then she found out he already had 85 wives!" "So what did she do?" "She made a terrific stink... ." "But what could she do?" "You've got to be careful with princes..." "I lift... you push!" "What an adorable cemetery!" "So convenient!" "So near Paris!" "It's for our magazine..." "We're running a feature:" ""Is Paris Dead?"" "Meaning High Fashion, of course..." "Yes, ma'am..." "She's so marvelous!" "Yes, ma'am." "Wonderful!" "Divine!" "Sociologist:" "Take 1!" "Another version of Cinderella... ." "Freddy, the mike's in the shot." "Lower!" "More!" "I'm sorry!" "Let's start again." "Let's take it again, from the top..." "There's another version..." "Mr. Sociologist, please..." "A little to the left." "Thank you." "Holy shit!" "It's jammed!" "So sorry, but don't worry... ." "We'll change angles, just relax." "It's working now." "Yeah, well, it's not my fault!" "Wait... ." "Elbow further out." "Relax, be natural, look at the camera." "There's another version of Cinderella." "The Prince comes, and her sister the eldest sister tries on the slipper." "The slipper is too small." "Her mother tells her to cut off a toe." ""Queens don't walk, they're carried."" "The girl cuts off her big toe... the slipper fits, and the Prince rides off with her on his charger." "The hoax backfires, though... ." "Blood on her stocking... shame and scandal, etc." "So there you are:" "fetishism... ." "So there you are: fetishism... ." "mutilation, pain... ." "Fashion in a nutshell!" "In any case, the child learns... several crucial things:" "The value of tiny feet and fine clothes... ." "since they help Cinderella... ." "find love and a happy marriage." "Also, the eroticism of fashion is revealed." "The Prince is turned on by the slipper." "He's actually a sort of fetishist." "Fashion is above all sex." "I think we have it... ." "Do we cut?" "Yeah, cut!" "How was the sound?" "Dynamite!" "Look where you're going!" "But I've got high heels on." "Don't make such a fuss!" "Polly, you're impossible!" "She should go up there." "Up there?" "Come on, it's nothing." "She's crazy?" "It's a movie." "Who is it?" "It's Polly Maggoo." "Don't forget, its the neckline!" "It's her!" "You're sure?" "It's them all right!" "Polly's problem:" "her hair is soft, but brittle." "Beer makes it strong." "Lemon juice makes it shine...  but then so does beer!" "What to do?" "If you have dainty,  sensitive nostrils which quiver like a horse's...  you were born under a lucky star!" "Do you have a wide mouth?" "Straight and finely chiseled?" "With slightly upturned corners?" "Does your face fit into a circle?" "Everything round is right!" "Your eyebrows:" "the archway to your eyes!" "Recompose your face." "Rearrange highlights and shadows." "Your eyes have unsuspected powers!" "But be careful!" "They speak volumes!" "In one wink they've said everything." "No more 5 o'clock shadow!" ""Who Are You" has gone behind the scenes... ." "with its hidden cameras and shown you the rituals of the magic kingdom." "And shown you its queen:" "Polly Maggoo, Queen of a Day," "Queen of Today." "But day is done, do you realize it, Polly Maggoo?" "Where will you go now?" "WHERE ARE YOU GOING, POLLY MAGGOO?" "!" "What do we see next?" ""WHO ARE YOU, POPE PAUL VI?"" "This week... ." "WHO ARE YOU's crew takes you behind the walls of that citadel of faith... ." "the Vatican." "His Holiness Pope Paul VI..." "GUEST COUPLE" "We met, we made out." "Like in the song." "Whose song?" "Hugues Aufray's, I think." "Sing it, please." "Not, not like this." "I can't stand this, it's like diapers." "No wait, you'll see... ." "Hold it." "I'll show you." "Look how chic." "See?" "I rang." "Didn't you hear?" "OK, now calm down." "Now, you must talk by numbers." "By numbers!" "Wait..." "This isn't a game, you know." "3, 3, 3, 33, 33, 22." "40." "Claudine, Jean-Michel, thank you." "Hey, what's going on up there?" "Nobody's hurt, I hope?" "Come on, listen, who..." "What's the big idea?" "It's not us, it's the farmers." "They're demonstrating." "But it's OK, now." "They've gone." "But who's gonna clean up this mess?" "Look, not me." "I'm alone today." "Can I come out?" "This is crazy." "These people are..." "There's no picture." "They've must've pulled the antenna." "THE STREET" "ADS" "ADS" "There was a time when women were subdued," "dependant, docile..." "And they certainly knew their place." "But today, many women are neither docile, nor dependant, nor subdued." "It's for them that Yves St Laurent created" "Left Bank perfume." "BACKSTAGE" "FASHION IN FRANCE" "A QUICK HISTOR Y" "In 1900, society women dressed like fortresses." "They couldn't dress or undress alone." "They needed help." "Dressmakers were deluxe tradesmen." "Never asked to dinner by their clients." "In 1905, revolution... ." "in St. Petersburg." "In Paris, the first fashion revolution:" "Poiret eliminated corsets." "He liberated women's bodies, but they still needed help to dress." "After that, every 20 years, a new war and a new revolution in fashion." "20 years later:" "Chanel." "The war was over." "Skirts were shorter, first to the ankles, then to the knees." "Short hair, no more lingerie, no breasts." "Chanel..."deconstructed"" "clothes, as they say." "Ladies could at last dress themselves... ." "and Chanel was welcome in society." "20 years later: the Depression," "Hitler... . 100 million dead." "In Paris, a new revolution:" "in '47, Dior "restructured" clothes." "That was the New Look." "A return to "femininity", that is, women trussed up again:" "girdles, bras, petticoats..." "A counter-revolution." "20 years later, Vietnam, man in space, women's lib, sexual revolution... ." "in Paris, Courrèges' revolution, the dress as "architecture", space suits, jump suits, miniskirts." "Now the revolution's non-stop... ." "like every 6 months." "FASHION IS IN THE STREET" "A kilt pin as a tie pin." "Sure I should wear that?" "We'll try it to see how it looks." "Try the plaid, but set back." "It's not me..." "Look in the mirror." "Give me a break!" "Higher, it's worse." "Then squash it down." "Must we?" "Not really." "That's all right." "A giraffe woman." "Yeah, giraffe..." "Your neck is so long and this will set it off... ." "like that." "Can you breathe?" "A little." "This way's better!" "We'll tilt it to the side, but that's..." "A cleaning-woman's knot, with tails." "The hair's OK, maybe we'll... ." "What happened?" "No problem." "It's better when it falls." "Fashion's not easy." "Especially for a fashion junkie." "Is this OK on me?" "Can I try that one... ." "Oh, it's really you!" "Terrific." "That's the one!" "But I'd like your belt tighter." "It's perfect, stop complaining." "Just a little lower, please." "You do your job, I'll do mine." ""Be beautiful and shut up."" "That's great." "Nothing to change." "In France, I'm tall, but in the US..." "That's sweet!" "He looks like grandma!" "You dress for yourself first, to make a statement, to show who you are." "You don't know how others see you." "You can teach them how to look." "What counts is to feel right." "If your clothes feel good... ." "You don't teach anything... ." "you impose an image!" "I saw that, even in weird clothes, if you feel OK, people aren't threatened." "But if you're trying to show... ." "if you come on strong, they feel threatened." "If your clothes feel right, then cool." "Even your reaction... no problem." "Try it, you'll see." "I'll take the subway like this." "No sweat." "You'll knock them dead." "A good idea." "With bodyguards." "Or, my femininity bugs you, so tough..." "Or, my femininity is superb, look!" "Yeah, yeah." "Sorry, but feel that." "It's like a rock!" "Come on!" "I've been stung once!" "Not a drop of juice!" "Stop, thief!" "Anything else?" "That's it?" "Here!" "27 francs." "Is that all, ma'am?" "What'd the lady buy?" "A steak." "What's the price?" "24 francs a pound." "So that's 8 francs 30." "More like it!" "Incredible!" "Man with the mustache served me." "We need a computer." "8 francs 30, then." "I don't have change." "No cash." "Hi, Arielle!" "You OK?" "We go to a hotel, or your place?" "My place." "Fine." "You go first, I'll follow." "300 francs!" "What floor?" "Fine..." "I love the street scene, don't you?" "Nice place, this." "Decorate it yourself?" "You ready?" "Where'd you find the lamp?" "Is that an owl?" "FASHION IS A CEREMON Y" "There I was, in the middle of nowhere, this extraordinary light coming from all over." "I'll call a doctor." "My God!" "Give me a hand!" "Now I feel... ." "Two glasses of champagne?" "1976 Piper-Heidsieck!" "Watch it, magician." "That's my wife." "You and your eggs!" "She's not a hen!" "Cool it!" "He's so violent!" "He won't stop!" "Get back to your husband!" "That's enough!" "I mean it!" "Don't touch!" "I'm the greatest!" "It's nothing... ." "All over now?" "Shake hands and scream!" "Take your missus and scream!" "Too much!" "Again?" "Sure, go ahead." "Such a nice evening!" "THE TEMPLE OF FASHION" "FASHION OBSESSION" "I'm near-sighted so I always needed thick glasses," "and I had a see-saw accident as a kid that left me with a scarred mouth, and I lost my teeth until I was 8 or 9." "So when I was little," "I looked like a grandmother." "It's as if I'd lived 2 lives:" "a childhood when I was ugly, always in love with boys who didn't love me... who'd say: "What's the difference" ""between her and a lamppost?"" "And the other boy said: "Glasses!"" "It made me really miserable." "I spent 13 years in Burgundy, as a ward of the court." "The me you see here doesn't exist." "Yet I became a model to exist more fully." "My name is Tiina, with 2 "i"s, then Laakkonen, L-A-A-K-K-O-N-E-N." "I'm Finnish." "I'm very fond of models, not because I am one, but because it's really... ." "you're so manipulated that... ." "I'm very fond of them." "I keep thinking I'm a little ant... ." "among billions of little ants, and how strange that I wound up doing this work, because..." "That's why beauty is so profoundly unjust." "And it's because it's unjust that I profit from it." "A lot." "Another coin, thank you." "I've always had problems with men because regardless of how much" "I explain that that's really not me... ." "they fall in love with my image." "I can't compete with that image." "They say I'm bad-tempered." "I don't know if it's me or them, but it never works." "Not so much men, because... ." "there aren't many... ." "Before, I preferred girls." "I don't think it was very sexual." "I just preferred their company." "For years I lived with girls and I hated men, probably because of what Mom said about Dad." "ANTl-FASHION" "An Australian clothing factory did a survey." "They found the way to read a body is via the neck." "Meaning?" "The visual itinerary of the body starts at the neck." "Or clothes-wise, the collar." "He made shirts." "Who did?" "The guy who paid for the survey." "Lucky he didn't make suppositories." "Very funny!" "Another coin!" "Thank you!" "I don't give a shit about fashion!" "That's impossible!" "Who needs fashion?" "I wear what I want." "Fashion's a sociological parameter." "It's a group phenomenon that reveals the social element in our behavior." "I dress as I please, forget the rest." "You can't!" "It's a dialectic:" "conformism and change." "It's explained culturally, see?" "Let's go!" "I'll give you culture!" "But fashion, you see... ." "I don't like fashion or fashion talk:" "chic, passé, new look, old look, sexy, yuppie, schnuppie, in, out, has-been, right, wrong, chi-chi, flowing tunics, studied sloppiness, high fashion, low fashion, coordinates, geniuses, creators," "dress me, undress me, think for me, bullshit me." "But you like ME?" "Oh, you..." "FASHION IS THEATER" "That's too low." "We'll do a Marivaux play." "In the play, your name is Lisette," "I'm Flaminia, and we're sisters." "Here's the play." "Let's rehearse." ""Off with your beauty spot!"" ""lmpossible!" "My mirror insists on it."" ""Off with it, I say!"" ""Murder!" "Why persecute me?"" ""I have my reasons."" "We'll stop here." "We'll have to do it again." ""You're tall and well-built."" ""Many people think so."" ""You like to please."" ""It's my weakness."" ""Give me a sample of your skill," ""for instance, be an ingenue."" "What's an ingenue?" "Like this... or this?" "Is it ingenue or ingenous?" "I'll show you." "Watch, I'm an ingenue." "What are my orders?" "Come closer, let me look you over." "Look away." "You're very lovely today." "You're tall and well-built." "Many people think so." "You love to please." "It's my weakness." "Could you make someone love you?" "A simple lad, an inexperienced hayseed." "What will you say to him?" "I'll say to him... ." "What would you say?" "Listen." "First, no flirtatious airs!" "Your naughty eyes!" "You're light-headed," "looking young, seductive, dissipated." "Get rid of all these frills!" "Let's see..." "Give me... ." "a sample of your skill." "For instance, an ingenuous look." "How is this?" "What about this?" "And this?" "It needs much more work." "This is for Arlequin, right?" "That's right." "I'm leaving, Arlequin's coming!"