DVD, Digital HD Release: The First Monday in May

Digital Release Date: Aug. 2, 2016, DVD Release Date: Aug. 2, 2016
Price: DVD $26.47
Studio: Magnolia


The stylized documentary The First Monday in May follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, 2015’s “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.

The-First-Monday-in-May-2016With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside The New York Times) captures the collision of high fashion and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events chaired every year by Vogue Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Featuring a cast of renowned artists in various fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai and iconic fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano), as well as a host of contemporary pop icons like Rihanna, The First Monday in May movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.