At last! A documentary about that underexposed group: the 1 percenters in their lair. In Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's, the storied store is presented in cinematic terms as ex-screenwriter Matthew Miele watches decorator David Hoey madly creating window displays of phantasmagorical "installation art" that moves. The film's climax is the famous annual holiday unveiling as the hoi polloi press their noses against the glass. Yet the long-term employees fascinate more than the clothes: They are beautiful gargoyles, true freaks of fashion. We don't get interviews with non-celeb shoppers of the reticent monied class, but designers Manolo Blahnik, Jason Wu, Patricia Field, and others each give their rendition of "What Bergdorf's Meant to Me." Vera Wang nails it: Being obsessive is a g...
- 5/5/2013
- Village Voice
It covers an entire city block of New York's Fifth Avenue, a Dover marble and bronze citadel of consumption at its most conspicuous. Bergdorf Goodman is shopping at its highest end, a fashion arbiter at the oh-so-exclusive retail level, the capital of aspirational America. From its exquisite designer salons to its ornate street level windows, ornate expressions of consumerism as public art, it is a monument, in its own way, to the American Dream.
"Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" is a love letter to this New York institution, a celebration of its place within the fashion food chain and those designers who know that when they've been accepted there, their fortune is made.
Filmmaker Matthew Miele has made a worshipful, often playful documentary about the history, the people, the couture and the class of this worldwide icon of money-is-no-object shopping.
Designers from Karl Lagerfeld to Isaac Mizrahi, Jason Wu to...
"Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" is a love letter to this New York institution, a celebration of its place within the fashion food chain and those designers who know that when they've been accepted there, their fortune is made.
Filmmaker Matthew Miele has made a worshipful, often playful documentary about the history, the people, the couture and the class of this worldwide icon of money-is-no-object shopping.
Designers from Karl Lagerfeld to Isaac Mizrahi, Jason Wu to...
- 5/2/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
“Being able to shop at Bergdorf-Goodman is an aphrodisiac.” — celebrity stylist Robert Verdi
The one-of-a-kind mecca of materialism at the corner of Manhattan’s 5th Avenue and 58th Street is practically an erotic destination for society’s wealthiest and most stylish personalities. But for other mere mortals, the store’s magnificent window displays are the closest they’ll get to the fabulous designs inside — 1.5 million walk by and gawk each week.
Director Matthew Miele followed David Hoey, Bergdorf-Goodman’s senior director of visual presentation, and his team during their holiday window preparations in 2011 as part of his documentary about the store’s legendary mystique,...
The one-of-a-kind mecca of materialism at the corner of Manhattan’s 5th Avenue and 58th Street is practically an erotic destination for society’s wealthiest and most stylish personalities. But for other mere mortals, the store’s magnificent window displays are the closest they’ll get to the fabulous designs inside — 1.5 million walk by and gawk each week.
Director Matthew Miele followed David Hoey, Bergdorf-Goodman’s senior director of visual presentation, and his team during their holiday window preparations in 2011 as part of his documentary about the store’s legendary mystique,...
- 4/18/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
See photos from Matthew Miele's Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's. Distributed by eOne Films, the documentary opens May 3rd, 2013 in New York City, and expands to other cities after that. Included are Karl Lagerfeld, Oscar De La Renta, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, Georgina Chapman, Christian Louboutin, Linda Fargo, Betty Halbreich, and David Hoey. It’s the most mythic of all American emporiums – a one-of-a-kind Manhattan institution where over the last century, the view of fashion has been transformed into modern art. But behind Bergdorf Goodman’s magical window displays lies a very real world where the rich and famous wield their power and eccentricity, where young and talented designers have their dreams granted and denied, and where money and ambition co-mingle with radical ideas of beauty and provocative style. Now, for the first time, audiences get a chance to peek inside this world, as Matthew Miele...
- 3/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See photos from Matthew Miele's Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's. Distributed by eOne Films, the documentary opens May 3rd, 2013 in New York City, and expands to other cities after that. Included are Karl Lagerfeld, Oscar De La Renta, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, Georgina Chapman, Christian Louboutin, Linda Fargo, Betty Halbreich, and David Hoey. It’s the most mythic of all American emporiums – a one-of-a-kind Manhattan institution where over the last century, the view of fashion has been transformed into modern art. But behind Bergdorf Goodman’s magical window displays lies a very real world where the rich and famous wield their power and eccentricity, where young and talented designers have their dreams granted and denied, and where money and ambition co-mingle with radical ideas of beauty and provocative style. Now, for the first time, audiences get a chance to peek inside this world, as Matthew Miele...
- 3/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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