Directed by Lorna Tucker (2018)
Featuring Vivienne Westwood, Andreas Kronthaler
Running time 1 hour 23 minutes
MPAA Rating: not rated

by Jaime Davis, The Fixer

My mom worked in fashion when I was younger. In New York! In the garment district. But before we moved to New York she was a dress buyer at Carson Pirie Scott, a department store that used to exist in Chicago. Carson's was swanky and classy - it was where nice Chicago moms with their nice money bought nice clothes if they weren't already shopping at upscale Marshall Field's. If truth be told my favorite department store back then was Madigan's, because they had THE coolest window displays around. I was just a lil' thing in the 80's, when department stores were peaking but still arbiters of style. If you asked me at age six what I was going to do with my life I would tell you I was going to be a visual merchandiser at Madigan's. Yes, I grew up in a retail family. I knew what a visual merchandiser was. And not because I'd watched Mannequin too many times. (Oh but I have. That's another story.)