USA | 2009
80 minutes
Directors: Ole Schell, Sara Ziff
Producers: David Hochschild Ole Schell, Sara Ziff, James Lefkowitz
Photography: Ole Schell
Editors: Ole Schell, Sara Ziff, James Lefkowitz
Music: Jordan Galland, Morningwood
With: Sara Ziff Giles Bensimon, Nicole Miller, Missy Rayder, Lisa Cant, Tanya D, Diana Dondoe, Kevin Krier, Heather Marx, Caitriona Balfe, Karl Lagerfeld
DigiBeta
Censor rating exempt
Sarah Ziff has been modelling since she was scouted in the street at 14. It was, she admits, a way to rebel against her academic background, and by the time she was 20 it had turned out to be an extremely well-paid alternative to college too. But the academic vantage point never quite deserted Ziff. She and her boyfriend, filmmaker Ole Schell, began shooting behind the scenes at Ziff’s shows. For five years, they recorded parties, castings, life on the road, and backstage finagling as she became the face of campaigns for Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, The Gap... What emerged is an impressively even-handed portrait of her exhilarating rise – and of the darker side of the fashion world’s rabid appetite for beautiful young women.
“One of the best films about the world of modelling and an honest portrayal of an industry built on artifice.” — Louise France, The Observer
“What’s the difference between posing in my underwear for a Calvin Klein ad – which I've done – and being a stripper?” —Sarah Ziff
“It’s a current and universal parable on the very dark
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