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Revision as of 17:52, 5 December 2019
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| Calendar Girl | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Christian D. Bruun |
| Produced by | Christian D. Bruun Natalie Nudell Kate DelPizzo Kikka Hanazawa Raphael Avigdor Tracy Jenkins Angela Sun Teresa Lai Mark Romeo Mary Hackley |
| Cinematography | Christian D. Bruun |
| Edited by | Rosie Nakamura |
Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Calendar Girls is a 2020 American documentary film about Ruth Finley (1920–2018), founder and editor of the Fashion Calendar, directed by Christian D. Bruun.
The Film
A quintessential New York story. From 1945, for 69 years, the influential subscription-only Fashion Calendar with its iconic pink pages and red covers—designed to be easily noticed on someone's cluttered desk—laid out every fashion show and event in New York City, including New York Fashion Week. Behind it was founder Ruth Finley.
Ruth Finley
In the 1940s Ruth Finley carved out a place for herself in the New York fashion industry. The term fashion wasn't used yet and it was a man's world[1]. Each department store in New York had their own seasonal, private showings of the upcoming season with no central coordination in the industry as a whole. Working for Eleanor Lambert, the founder the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Finley came up with the idea of a clearing house for fashion events in New York: The Fashion Calendar. As the industry grew, she found herself and her calendar increasingly at the center of fashion shows and events in New York and became a key figure in the consolidation of the New York fashion industry, as we know it today. She raised her sons and built her career from home, and developed a reputation characterized by tenacity, fairness, and decency [2], and was celebrated by both the industry's powerhouses and rising stars, and survived its many incarnations. In October 2014, at age 94, Ruth sold the Fashion Calendar to the Council of Fashion Designers of America, known as the CFDA, ending an era[3]. Ruth retired at 95 but kept a presence and active interest in the New York fashion scene.
Production
The film was made over five years, filming exclusively in New York.
Featuring
Besides Ruth Finley, the film features interviews with Peter Arnold, Mark Badgley, Jeffrey Banks, Mickey Boardman, Andrew Bolton, Thom Browne, Bill Cunningham, Stan Herman, Carolina Herrera, Betsey Johnson, Harold Koda, Steven Kolb, Marylou Luther, Fern Malis, Nicole Miller, James Mischka, Ellin Saltzman, Tadashi Shoji, Valerie Steele, Eric Wilson.
References
External links
- Calendar Girl at IMDb
- WWD: The Ultimate ‘Calendar Girl’ Ruth Finley Spotlighted in Upcoming Documentary
- Vogue.com: Ruth Finley, Fashion’s Original Calendar Girl, Is Getting the Documentary Treatment
- NY Times: Ruth Finley, Who Put Fashion Shows on a Schedule, Dies at 98
- The Hollywood Reporter: Godmother of New York Fashion Week Ruth Finley Dies at 98
- Ruth Finley Set the Schedule for New York’s Fashion World
- The Fashion Studies Journal – The Ruth Finley Collection
- Medium.com: Talking about Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar with Natalie Nudell
- Forbes: Four Lessons From The Life Of Fashion Pioneer Ruth Finley