How Directors Dress

DETAILS

“I care about directors who invite us to sit, who do not give easy answers and invite us to question and doubt. They call upon our imagination, about what it means to be a human being.” – Yohji Yamamoto, in the afterword to How Directors Dress

From François Truffaut on the set of Mississippi Mermaid, in his burnt orange rollerneck pullover with his pack of cigarettes rolled up in the bottom of his sleeve, to Jean Luc Godard’s office white shirt, plaid tie and Ray Ban sunglasses on the set of Le Mépris, to John Cassavetes’ polo t-shirt on the set of Gloria, to Hayao Miyazaki’s signature aprons and Sofia Coppola’s button-up shirts, How Directors Dress: On set, in the edit, and down the red carpet uses clothing to tell new stories about directors, their lives, their individualities, their movies and the times in which they were made. Each director has his or her own reasons to wear something, even though practicality is many times at the forefront. In their natural setting, making movies, they must feel like themselves, but also that they are in command, sometimes maybe of something that can not be tamed, nor even controlled – their dreams.

Featuring:
A foreword by director Joanna Hogg
An introduction by Charlie Porter
Original writing from leading fashion journalists and style writers, including Hagop Kourounian (aka @directorfits), Lauren Sherman, Rachel Tashjian, Lynn Yeager, Brad Phillips, Shumon Basar, and many others
An afterword by designer Yohji Yamamoto
Over 200 archival photographs

Paperback, 256 pages

Language: English

Published by A24, 2024