Prêt-à-Porter

Prêt-à-Porter (1994)

Sex. Greed. Murder. Some things never go out of style.

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Date of release
1994-12-23
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (236)
Runtime
2h 13m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Robert Altman

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Moscow and Paris

Prêt-à-Porter, released in the United States as Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter), is a 1994 American satirical comedy-drama film co-written, directed, and produced by Robert Altman and shot on location during the Paris Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models, and designers.

Production

Robert Altman was inspired to make the film after accompanying his wife Kathryn to a Sonia Rykiel fashion show in Paris in 1984. "I couldn't believe what I saw. It was such a circus. It was just too theatrical not to want to film," Altman said in a 1994 interview. For research, in the fall of 1993 Altman attended several fashion shows including those of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent.

The film originally had a budget of $12 to $14 million, however, the final cost was estimated at between $18 to $20 million.

It was shot at the 1994 Spring/Summer season of Paris Fashion Week. In reference to the scene in which Simone's models walk down the runway completely naked, Robert Altman said: "The actors knew, but most of the audience didn't, so I got the surprise reactions I was hoping for. Those women were wonderful. However, I think that without Ute Lemper, the pregnant bride at the end of the show, the scene wouldn't have had that same impact.

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