![]() ![]() ![]() Pedro Almodóvar wears turtleneck, jacket, and trousers (worn throughout) by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. That film was based on Jean Cocteau’s 1930 play, something of a lodestone for Almodóvar, who turned to it as inspiration for his breakout hit, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Strange Way of Life, a queer Western in which Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal duel for one another’s love, is only the second film Almodóvar has directed in English- The Human Voice was the first. Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello, is taking things a step further, turning the venerated fashion brand into a movie production house, with projects helmed by some of cinema’s greatest auteurs including Paolo Sorrentino, David Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara, Wong Kar-wai, Jim Jarmusch, and Gaspar Noé.įirst, though, is a collaboration with Almodóvar, the godfather of Spain’s La Movida, the raucous movement that brought sex and punk to the country’s moribund film and music scene after the death of its Nationalist dictator Francisco Franco. Tom Ford proved that designers could direct movies. There’s an exhilarating kind of logic in having a house like Saint Laurent launch its own film production arm. Would Givenchy be Givenchy without Hepburn? Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face is nothing without Givenchy. Trying to separate one from the other would be as cruel and antithetical to nature as severing children from their daemons in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Tilda Swinton in a scarlet Balenciaga crinoline dress in Pedro Almodóvar’s short The Human Voice. The candy-colored ’50s frocks of Don’t Worry Darling. Lydia Tár’s deliciously sleek and commanding wardrobe. The filmmaker and Saint Laurent Productions’s artistic director reflect on 'Strange Way of Life,' and giving new impetus to its decade-old script
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