Calendar Girl (2020 film)
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| Calendar Girl | |
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| Directed by | Christian D. Bruun |
| Produced by | Christian D. Bruun Natalie Nudell Kate DelPizzo Kikka Hanazawa Raphael Avigdor Tracy Jenkins Angela Sun Mark Romeo Mary Hackley |
| Cinematography | Christian D. Bruun |
| Edited by | Rosie Nakamura |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Calendar Girl is an American documentary film about Ruth Finley (1920–2018), founder and editor of the Fashion Calendar, and is directed and produced by Christian D. Bruun and produced and written by Natalie Nudell. The film premiered at the 2020 DOC NYC via virtual screenings.[1]
Production
Calendar Girl was made over five years, filming exclusively in New York. Production began after director Christian D. Bruun was approached by Kate DelPizzo (who later became a producer of the film), a family friend of Ruth Finley. Ruth's life's work, the Fashion Calendar, was about to be sold to the CFDA, signaling the end of an era in American fashion. Filming commenced during the last months before the closing of the Fashion Calendar office on Manhattan's Upper Eastside and captured the in-house printing of the last mailed-out issue. Over the following two years the director and producer Natalie Nudell followed Ruth in her daily life; both in the fashion world as well as her personal life after retirement.
Synopsis
From the early 1940s, for over 70 years, the influential subscription-only Fashion Calendar with its iconic pink pages and red covers—designed to be easily noticed on someone's cluttered office desk—laid out every fashion show and event in New York City, including New York Fashion Week. Behind it was founder Ruth Finley.
Featuring
Besides Ruth Finley, the film features interviews with industry insiders 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, and Eric Wilson.
Distribution
The film is represented worldwide by Syndicado Film Sales. In November 2020 the film had its North American premiere at DocNYC.
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