Gucci, Versace o Halston: Hollywood dirige con aguja y dedal

Victims of life and fashion, the most consecrated designers in the history of preparation and the pattern have a curriculum of doubts, demons and experiences that gave their biographies of an opposition anecdotes, although succulent.

With biopics, adaptations and, ultimately, hours and hours of audiovisual content that glimpse the angels and demons of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty -first century, Hollywood and the film guild have been manifesting their predilection for their predilection for the tragic and superlative stories of personalitieslike Gianni Versace, Christian Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent or Coco Chanel.

The last in capturing the vicissitudes of the fashionist universe has been Ryan Murphy with Halston, Netflix's new bet that delves into the universe of substances, lovers and tissues of satin and silk of the American designer.Ridley Scott has already finished filming in Rome of House of Gucci, a feature film that will travel the murder of Maurizio Gucci at the hands of his wife Patrizia Reggiani.These two recent examples glimpse a predilection of decades about the story of the great figures behind Singer machines, fabrics and the most sophisticated cross point.

Gucci

Scarves, Logos XL and the famous Jackie bag that put President Kennedy's own woman on the map.Gucci is the epitome of Italian fashion, red, green and white, and taking a margherite pizza next to the Roman Piazza Navona.Maurizio Gucci (Florence, 1948 - Milan, 1995), grandson of the creator (Gucci Gucci) of the Azzurra stamp of the most coveted catwalks, has an intrahistory that Ridley Scott has decided to move to the screen, and that will see its premiere in the lateof the year or early 2022.

House of Gucci promises to find the key to Maurizio's murder at the hands of his ex -wife, Patrizia Reggiani, who hired a hitman to get rid of his lord's services.Based on Sara G's book.Forden, Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamor, and Greed (2000), the American director will tell for his staging on the screen with Lady Gaga (which will play Reggiani) and Adam Driver (Gucci).

Reggiani, nicknamed the ‘black widow’ of the Italian brand, was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of its ex -husband, of which it has fulfilled about 17.After his departure from the prison, with 65 years of age, Patrizia would serve the years that subtracted him from the sentence under house arrest and granted an interview to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in which he admitted that he wanted to return to work for the fashionable house:«I still feel a gucci.In fact, everyone's most Gucci ».

The images of the filming went around the world in a matter of minutes, proof that nothing likes the spectator than a traumatic family history full of revenge in which the big designs become secondary characters.

Halston

Ryan Murphy, god of the Netflix Olympus, returned to the load last Friday with the premiere of Halston, his new series based on the drug story, party and fashion of Roy Halston Frowick (Iowa, 1932 - San Francisco, 1990) andthat Ewan McGregor interprets on the small screen.

It is said of him that he was the first designer who formed the figure of superstar, the one that was above all and all.Halston was the man who wore Studio 54 and who entered the disco directly from his limousine.Lovers, drugs, show and a gigantic ego, Halston put American fashion on the map in an era in which the great French atéers (Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Saint-Laurent) dominated the scene and catwalk.

Through their halstonettes, the slender and high models that contained their works of art, and other essential figures that dressed their designs that included Liza Minnelli, Jackie Kennedy or Babe Paley, the American created her own empire of clothing and becameIn a clothing specialist, pattern and in a new successful figure surrounded by bad decisions, dramas and spirits not suitable for the mundane and compartmentalized life of the human being with a routine from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m..

Gianni Versace

Medusa is one of the most remembered mythological figures for their capacity, neither innate nor inherited, to turn people into stone with just a look.His relationship with Poseidon, God of the seas, filled Athena, who turned his overwhelming curls into a mane full of snakes.

Only such a tragic story about beauty and betrayal could house a simile story about a designer.Gianni Versace (Reggio Calabria, 1948 - Miami, 1997) employed Medusa as the main badge and image of his brand and became an idol in the 80s and 90s, when models like Naomi Campbell and popular idols such as Diego Armando Maradona walkedHis eccentric and sensual designs on the catwalk and the streets of Naples.

Known for its iconic prints and silk shirts, Versace was the brand that shapes the free woman who could put mini -cides with impossible pins and holes and combine all of the above with some heel sandals that reached the knee.However, Calabrés designer ended up being killed by Andrew Cunanan on July 15, 1997 at the door of his Miami Beach mansion in the United States.I was 50 years old.

His tragic story became an award -winning miniseries: American Crime Story: the murder of Gianni Versace (2018), a story that Edgar Ramírez led by giving life to Gianni himself and Penelope Cruz as his inseparable Donatella Versace, the woman who took the reins of the empirethat his brother left.

Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award to the ‘Best Miniseries’, the story co -directed by Ryan Murphy managed to dazzle criticism with a story loaded with gold, blood and betrayal.Some consider that it did not reach the level of their first installSuccess are not always in the hands of happiness.

Alexander McQueen

Lee, Alex or Alexander.The English prodigy that grew from darkness and misunderstanding has become one of the most remembered figures in the fashion guild.McQueen (Lewisham, London 1969 - Mayfair, London2010) committed suicide surrounded by unhappiness and pressure, hanging at his London home after high consumption of cocaine, sleepy and soothing.

McQueen was the terrible enfant of haute couture: a self -taught man who always opted for his ideas and denied the conventions on the catwalk, even when he signed for Givenchy in 1996 (replacing John Galliano in the French firm).In addition to working for a brand that was not accustomed to the originality and freshness that McQueen put on the table, English lived in Paris and London to also give life to its own creative empire.

Its personal and professional history is detailed in two biopics released in 2014;Yves Saint-Laurent (Jalil Lespert) and Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello).Both stories delve into their relationship with Pierre Bergé, entrepreneur and love of his life, but the feature film of Lespert deepens his beginnings with Dior and his iconic collections (such as Piet Mondrian from 1965), while Bonngelo is focused onthe period between 1965-76 and the fall to the inferous of French.

Saint-Laurent also followed the wake of the party and cocaine, in addition to being a regular customer of the great temples of the celebration both in Paris and New York.Its accustomed consumption of substances caused that in many parades it gave a bad image and had to be sustained by the models of its own catwalk.

In 1960, Saint Laurent was recruited to serve in the French army during the War of Independence of Algeria.It is said that the origin of its vices was because of the electroshock therapy he received at the Military Hospital of Val-de-Grâce, where he entered 20 days after starting military service because of the stress caused by the novatados of hiscompanions.He also received intimate amounts of sedatives and psychoactive drugs in that room.

Chanel

Gabrielle Chanel (Saumur, France 1883 - Paris, 1971) is one of the most iconic fashion figures.Artistically known as Coco Chanel, she is the only fashion designer who has managed to sneak into the list of the hundred most influential people of the twentieth century of Time magazine.

The symbols of the French brand, one of the most reputed in haute couture both in the previous and current century, are iconic: their tweed suit, the pearls, the double 'C' that forms its logo and the drops ofIts nº5, perfume that accompanied a whole generation of passionate of the Parisian classic glamor.

Coco Chanel prevailed to bet on a fashion for women inspired by male pattern cuts, wanting to transfer comfort to the pieces of their clients.Open skirts, costumes, pants ... The French designer glimpsed a modern and hardworking female who, in addition to feathers and sequins, needed a uniform that would allow her to function with ease through the city.

The history of one of the most classic fashion brands of the newspaper library is presented in two films that narShirley McLaine;And the second, perhaps the best known, Coco, of rebellion to the legend of Chanel (2009), with Audrey Tatou (Amélie) as the distribution leader.

Christian Dior

Tulo dresses with wasp waist, large bell -shaped silhouettes and one of the symbols of the inveterate elegance of French sewing.Dior became the brand of female women, voluptuous, but correct.It was created by Christian Dior (Granville, France 1905 - Italy, 1957) in 1946.

At present, with Maria Grazia Chiuri as creative director of the brand, the designs have taken a 180º turn, becoming an oasis of feminism and the modern woman who carries both cotton t -shirts and flat sandals.

In Dior and I (2014), a documentary led by Frédéric Tcheng, the Belgian designer Raf Simons (currently in Prada) replaces John Gallian, a strict and committed deadline.The pressure, the dates and the DNA Dior become the main ingredients of a tape that shows, with ample details, the difficulties of taking the throne of one of the most reputed marks of world haute couture.