Exclusive: British writer, director, and producer Alex Marx will make his feature debut with The Queen of Fashion, a long-gestating biopic of fashion editor, stylist, and iconoclast Isabella Blow, with Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough set to produce and play the lead role.
The Queen of Fashion details the ups and downs of Blow’s life championing unknown and marginalized fashion figures like Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and Sophie Dahl, whom she catapulted to success while struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. The project will be sold in Cannes by Rocket Science for international, with CAA Media Finance arranging financing for the film and handling domestic rights.
Riseborough will star as Blow alongside a robust supporting cast featuring Emilia Clarke as Daphne Guinness, Richard E. Grant as Blow’s father Evelyn Delves Broughton, Fionn O’Shea as Philip Treacy, and Hayley Atwell as Alexandra Schulman. Verity Naughton CDG continues casting key roles,...
The Queen of Fashion details the ups and downs of Blow’s life championing unknown and marginalized fashion figures like Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy, and Sophie Dahl, whom she catapulted to success while struggling with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. The project will be sold in Cannes by Rocket Science for international, with CAA Media Finance arranging financing for the film and handling domestic rights.
Riseborough will star as Blow alongside a robust supporting cast featuring Emilia Clarke as Daphne Guinness, Richard E. Grant as Blow’s father Evelyn Delves Broughton, Fionn O’Shea as Philip Treacy, and Hayley Atwell as Alexandra Schulman. Verity Naughton CDG continues casting key roles,...
- 5/9/2024
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Features: Alexander McQueen, Bernard Arnault, Joseph Bennett, Detmar Blow, Isabella Blow, Katy England, Magdalena Frackowiak, Jodie Kidd, Gary James McQueen, Janet McQueen, Joyce McQueen, Kate Moss, Michelle Olley, Dana Thomas | Written by Peter Ettedgui | Directed by Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen’s own world, both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence.
Ian Bonhôte’s documentary on the life and work of enigmatic fashion designer and late visionary Alexander McQueen is an extraordinary insight into one of Britains most charismatic exports, revealing a truly endearing character hidden behind such artistic impression that reveals a haunted genius who gave the world his nightmares through the embodiment of fashion.
The examination and journey into the...
Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen’s own world, both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence.
Ian Bonhôte’s documentary on the life and work of enigmatic fashion designer and late visionary Alexander McQueen is an extraordinary insight into one of Britains most charismatic exports, revealing a truly endearing character hidden behind such artistic impression that reveals a haunted genius who gave the world his nightmares through the embodiment of fashion.
The examination and journey into the...
- 11/26/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
The trailer for the documentary on Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story has been unveiled. Filled with moments that show the iconic designers role as the real rock n’ roll star of the fashion world.
Written and Co-Directed by Peter Ettedgui, the documentary features contributions from family members Janet McQueen and Gary McQueen alongside Detmar Blow and Sebastian Pons amongst others.
Also in trailers – Jack Reynor and Zoë Kravitz feature in trailer for sci-fi thriller Kin
The film is in cinemas from June 8th.
McQueen Official Synopsis
Mirroring the savage beauty, maverick originality and vivacity of his design, “McQueen” is an intimate revelation of Alexander [Lee] McQueen’s own personal and professional world, both tortured and inspired. It is a film which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence and shows his rags-to-riches story as a modern-day fairy tale laced with the gothic.
As a self-described “unremarkable” working-class boy from East London,...
Written and Co-Directed by Peter Ettedgui, the documentary features contributions from family members Janet McQueen and Gary McQueen alongside Detmar Blow and Sebastian Pons amongst others.
Also in trailers – Jack Reynor and Zoë Kravitz feature in trailer for sci-fi thriller Kin
The film is in cinemas from June 8th.
McQueen Official Synopsis
Mirroring the savage beauty, maverick originality and vivacity of his design, “McQueen” is an intimate revelation of Alexander [Lee] McQueen’s own personal and professional world, both tortured and inspired. It is a film which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence and shows his rags-to-riches story as a modern-day fairy tale laced with the gothic.
As a self-described “unremarkable” working-class boy from East London,...
- 5/2/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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