
Watch: The New Trailer For Met Gala Documentary ‘The First Monday In May’
By Jennifer McShane
13th Jul 2016
13th Jul 2016
Not since The September Issue have we been this excited about a fashion documentary. The new trailer for the anticipated The First Monday in May premiered online this week. Yes, the most prestigious?event on the fashion calendar – The Met Gala – finally has its own film.
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour takes centre stage this time?around as the viewer is given full access to the planning and preparation at the creation of the 2015 fashion exhibition?China: Through the Looking Glass and its opening gala. Alas, we have no Grace Codington, but in her place is exhibition curator Andrew Bolton and his quiet yet warm demeanour is a worthy foil to Wintour’s Ice Queen vibes.
Acclaimed documentarist Andrew Rossi followed the pair around for eight months leading up to the event deemed the “super bowl of fashion” – China: Through the Looking Glass became the most attended fashion exhibition in the history of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – and caught everything on camera; from the seating plan stress to that Rihanna gown to Wintour’s warning of a particular celebrity: “tell him he’s not allowed be on his phone the entire night.” We hope he heeded her words.
The film will also investigate whether fashion is a true artform, commodity or as Wintour says, both.??I think fashion should be recognised when it touches people and moves people – I mean what more can you ask from art??
The film hits cinemas?in September, and you can watch the trailer below.
Via Stylist?