The September Issue: The Salvation of Anna Wintour?

‘The September Issue’ is the highly anticipated documentary movie that takes a look behind the scene of Vogue magazine and its infamous Editor in Chief Anna Wintour. The documentary chronicles the events leading up to the September 2007 issue of Vogue, September being the beginning of the fashion year. Accurately and interestingly depicted in the trailer below, not only does The September Issue gives Vogue readers and fashionistas alike the unique opportunity to see the inner workings of the popular publication, but more importantly it gives them the chance to watch the magnificence that is Anna Wintour beyond perceptions of her behavior depicted in movies such as The Devil Wears Prada.

Directed by R.J. Cutler and recipient of the Excellence in Cinematography Award for a US Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008, the film takes us behind the scene of fashion weeks, on photo shoots, and in the most sacred of closed door meetings at Vogue.  Being slated as the real The Devil Wears Prada, the movie shows us exactly why Anna Wintour is “like Madonna” as designer Thakoon Panichgul says in the trailer with obvious reverence.

With appearances by Anna’s colleagues Andre Leon Talley, and super stylist Grace Coddington The September Issue is loaded with designers, models, and clothes that would put a tear in any fashionistas eyes.  R.J. Cutler hit the nail on the head with this one ladies, he offers us a privileged peek into a world many dream of but rarely ever see. I for one, can’t wait!

Here at M.I.S.S., we love to shake our bootys, so in honor of International Dance Day we’re showing you some of our favorite dances EVA. Much love goes out to Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Ballet companies worldwide, Gregory Hines, Bob Fosse, and Fred & Ginger. And, we can’t forget some of the ground breaking music videos that created dance crazes like Madonna’s Vogue, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation, Kid ‘n Play’s House Party Dance-Off, MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This, the Macarena and Digital Underground’s The Humpty Dance.  Oh, one more, I had to add the best dance scene from a movie ever made - the last scene of Girls Just Want To Have Fun (SJP waaaay before SATC)! Comment and let us know what your favorite dance / dance music video is!!

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Michelle Ten started Missfit Styles, an assortment of Fashion services ranging from styling, writing, and brand consulting, in 2004. In “game” years, that might as well be a full decade! Her clients include URB Magazine, XLR8R Magazine, Sean John, Chris Brown, Ludacris, Sean Kingston, and D Woods of Danity Kane, just to name a few.

Before this, Michelle was a fashion assistant at The Source Magazine. Leaving The Source to work on freelance assignments for artists like Ashanti and Full Surface Records, Michelle returned to The Source, at the height of the magazine, to act as Fashion Editor.

New York native Michelle Ten knew from an early age that she wanted to be in fashion. Cutting out her favorite looks from magazines like Vogue, Elle and Mirabella to create her own books out of photo albums. With fashion being her passion, she knew she wanted to have a career doing what she loves to do and this lady is doing it! This is why, today we honor Michelle Ten as a Woman Making History!

Michelle on some current and upcoming projects:

I’m a fashion stylist & personal shopper based out of new york. I work on celebrity and editorial projects along with ad campaigns and catalog. I’m a fashion consultant for t7live.com, styled Saturday Night comedian Fred Armisen for the cover of Urb magazine coming out March 2009. Did market for Mariah Carey in the Dream’s My Love video and recently styled New Era’s Fall 2009 catalog for their traditional apparel division.

Some on Michelle’s work:

Top left image: New Era Traditional Apparel catalog, Top right: The Gluttsie Gangster Glam

Bottom left: Cream NYC Lookbook, Bottom right: The Peralta Project Fall 2008, where Michelle took men’s t shirts and had them made in different women’s silhouettes! So fun!

We have a Q&A with Michelle, including a handwritten survey and more, after the jump!

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Ever wonder what goes into compiling those hundreds of pages? All the hours, joy and pain in putting together that one issue a year that could double as a deadly weapon - you know how heavy “that” issue is!! Well set to debut this weekend at the Sundance film festival is “The September Issue”. WWD reports that filmmaker R.J. Cutler documented 300 hours of Anna Wintour and her team as they prepared for the September 2007 issue, Vogue’s biggest issue ever. Not only does the film explore the process to creating this massive issue but dives into the the intimate details of Wintour’s personal life relationships with her late father, legendary British newspaper editor Charles Wintour, and daughter Bee Shaffer, as well as with creative director Grace Coddington.

There are said to be guest appearances by Oscar de la Renta, Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Nicolas Ghesquière, Jean Paul Gaultier, Stefano Pilati, Phillip Lim and Isabel Toledo. A star studded cast to say the least! How many times have you thought “if I could only know what goes on in the inside” . . . well now we just might get to know!

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The International Center of Photography is hosting yearlong series of exhibitions, “The Year of Fashion,” focusing on fashion photography from the 1920s to the present. The series sets out to highlight the relationship between art and fashion and will feature the works of Richard Avedon, Nick Knight, Steven Meisel, Mario Sorrenti, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi, Michael Thompson, Edward Steichen and Miles Aldridge. Upcoming shows include “David Seidner: Paris Fashion, 1945,” and in May, Richard Avedon’s photos will be the central focus on an exhibition.

The first exhibit opens on January 16th and features the photography Edward Steichen. A few months back I saw the Vanity Fair exhibit at the LACMA while I was visiting LA and my favorite photos were those taken by Edward Steichen. He was Chief Photographer for Condé Nast Publications so his work was regularly featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair. The exhibit was quite amazing because it included videos of photo shoots that Steichen conducted and what made it so impressive what the kind of photography that was popular at the time.  You know those old accordian-type cameras where the photographer covers himself in black velvet cover to take the picture?  Each individual slide/negative is inserted before each shot:   It was a very tedious and painstaking process, but watching a master of light such as Steichen, he made the process look very easy, with cigarette in hand the whole time, of course.  The show opens on January 16th and includes 175 photos by Steichen, with many of the photos from the Condé Nast archives from 1923 to 1937.

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Vogue.com has reported that the model desgin duo of Milla Jovovich and Carmen Hawk will no longer be going forward with Jovovich-Hawk. Hang-on to all those pieces you scored from their Target Go collection, might just fetch a pretty penny down the road. You can view their S/S 08 collection here…I’m assuming it will be their last?? Curious to see what they do next.

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It seems like there’s no better way to promote a product than to get a famous pretty face behind it. In the latest on starlet x fashion news, Tod’s announced that Gwyneth Paltrow is featured in the Fall 09 Ad campaign. Tod’s also got Dennis Hopper on board to write and direct a 4 minute “film” (read: commercial) for the Pashmy bag - the bag in the ads with Sienna Miller a few seasons ago. The short premiered at Cannes, but you can view the behind the scenes teaser on the Tod’s site here. The print ads were shot in Capri by Mario Testio - can’t wait to see what those come out like!

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On A Side Note: Gwyneth is matched with Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man, which I saw a few weekends back. The movie was fun and entertaining but the best part was Robert Downey Jr, who is sexy as ever. He was on GQ’s May cover while co-star GP was Vogue’s May cover girl.

All this week, Sundance Channel will be celebrating fashion-themed programming with a series of style-oriented shows and docs. Tonight at 8PM is the Sundance Channel premiere of the film MARC JACOBS & LOUIS VUITTON. This month’s showings of the film are: Monday, February 4th at 8PM, Monday, February 18th at Noon, and Thursday, February 28th at 10AM. Check you local listings!

“Bringing the same intimate insight into the fashion world as his previous acclaimed documentary series SIGNE CHANEL, filmmaker Loïc Prigent focus on Marc Jacobs, called the most influential designer of his generation. This witty portrait follows Jacobs as he balances roles as artistic director of venerable French house Louis Vuitton and his own eponymous American line, in meetings, preparing collections and at high-profile shows. With Naomi Campbell, Sophia Coppola and Uma Thurman. “Artfully told with humor and panache” — Vogue.

As much as Marc Jacobs and Elle magazine might love Mrs. Beckham - Mr. Blackwell isn’t worshiping at the alter this is Posh spice, and doesn’t plan on it anytime soon.

Yesterday, he released his infamous list scrutinizing the misguided fashion decisions made by some of the world’s biggest entertainers. This year, the victims include: Kelly Clarkson, Eva Green, Avril Lavigne, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and Alison Arngrim, Fergie, Mary-Kate Olsen.

But David Beckham’s babies mama grabs top honors this year. On Victoria, Mr. Blackwell says:

“Forget the fashion spice, wearing a skirt would suffice! In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty Posh can really wreck-em.�?

Ironically, a very troubled Brit Brit was spared:

“I felt that it was inappropriate at this time to make comment, when her personal life is in such upheaval. I hope 2008 is a better year for her,�? Blackwell said.

Dr. Phil are you listening? Oh yeah, we’re not that type of blog.

Back to dissecting our Vogues!

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It’s true. W magazine has parted ways with Style.com.

A reason for the split is unknown, but we hear it was amicable. However, the assets were definitely not split equally between W mag and Vogue, which still resides at Style.com.

At the new site, there are no lookbooks for readers to create, no weekly top 10 best dressed, or any odd Candy Pratt animations. But don’t feel too bad about the mags new online haunt just yet.

The site boasts a pretty interesting editor’s blog, and, more importantly, it has practically every article or feature from W’s current issue online. So, you can still check out that creepy “topsy-turvy�? editorial lensed by Craig McDean.

Raquel is a favorite of ours, but when she starts spewing green stuff and makes her head spin around in complete circles, that’s where we’re going to have to draw the line.

Doesn’t she kind of look like that girl from The Exorcism of Emily Rose?

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