Winner of the Audience Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, Unzipped has been hailed as “your favorite fashion person’s favorite fashion documentary” by W Magazine. Charli xcx calls it “truly incredible,” while Hari Nef has named it “the best fashion documentary.” Fresh from an acclaimed theatrical rerelease, the 4K restoration of this landmark portrait of designer Isaac Mizrahi will make its exclusive streaming debut on the Criterion Channel on December 1. It will be accompanied by a new installment of the Criterion original series Adventures in Moviegoing, in which Mizrahi sits down with Criterion’s Peter Becker to discuss the films that have shaped his singular sensibility.
Douglas Keeve’s portrait of Isaac Mizrahi in the 1990s to stream exclusively on the Criterion Channel starting Tuesday, December 1
Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with an effervescent intimacy by Douglas Keeve, Mizrahi’s then-partner. Both a time capsule of the buoyant, raucous 1990s, when pop culture and high art became interchangeable, and a vérité-style, in-the-trenches report on the daily agonies and ecstasies of the creative process, this seminal artistic portrait—sumptuously shot by Ellen Kuras and Robert Leacock—transcends glitz and glamour to offer an extraordinary view of the charisma and force of will inherent to genius, as well as its personal costs.
