The Best Fashion Films of All Time

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Elle Fanning in The Neon Demon. © Broad Inexperienced Footage / Courtesy of Everett Assortment

The Neon Demon (2016)

You might want a powerful abdomen to take a seat by means of a number of the extra grisly moments of Nicolas Winding Refn’s psychological horror The Neon Demon, however you’ll get your reward by means of loads of eye-popping trend, too. Elle Fanning’s younger modeling ingenue quickly will get swept up within the scene’s darker underbelly, leading to demonic possessions, serial killer photographers, and a very horrifying remaining sequence involving an exorcism, necrophilia, and so much (so much) of blood. Whereas its sideways swipes on the darker corners of the style business could also be slightly heavy-handed, The Neon Demon makes for a bracing and gloriously gory responsible pleasure.

Vicky Krieps and Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread.© Focus Options / Courtesy of Everett Assortment

Phantom Thread (2017)

Few movies seize the obsessive, exacting nature of high fashion as deftly as Paul Thomas Anderson’s claustrophobic and brilliantly eerie Phantom Thread, which charts the connection between the excessive society designer Reginald Woodcock—loosely based mostly on Charles James—and a younger lady he meets at a seaside café who turns into his muse. Daniel Day-Lewis’s Oscar-nominated efficiency is greater than matched by his co-stars Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville, bringing this darkish fairy story to vivid, plausible life. Phantom Thread’s window into the world of post-war trend is an intoxicating, superbly woven fairy story—however one which in the end feels nearer to a nightmare.

Emma Stone in Cruella.© Disney+ / Courtesy of Everett Assortment

Cruella (2021)

Whereas Disney’s fantastical take on the world of trend could also be slightly far-fetched, it will get extra proper than it does incorrect. It tells the origin story of 101 Dalmatians’ infamously fashionable villain Cruella DeVil, right here performed in her youth by Emma Stone. Her beginnings as a renegade dressmaker—when she pushes again in opposition to the florals and frivolity of Nineteen Sixties London model and introduces one thing darker and extra harmful to the combination—has loads of parallels in real-world figures akin to Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano. The costumes could also be ahistorical (albeit deliberately so), however the story of egos and extra in trend is undoubtedly timeless.