The designer and entertainer also reveals that he's developing a TV series with producer Christine Vachon about the late paparazzi photographer Ron Galella. No doubt Isaac Mizrahi is excited about the release of the newly restored “Unzipped,” the 1995 documentary chronicling a moment in time when he was one of the fashion world’s hottest designers. However, Mizrahi admits he’s not that eager to watch it.
I had such cute dark hair. But it’s not just vanity. It’s more just about the experience of your life.
Man, that is crazy.” Directed by Mizarahi’s then-boyfriend Douglas Keeves, “Unzipped” chronicles the designer’s planning and execution of the show for his fall 1994 collection. The film, which Miramax bought after it was a Sundance hit in 1995, includes appearances by Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, the late André Leon Talley and Eartha Kitt along with a bevy of other fashion insiders and glitterati. The film runs at only 73 minutes.
There were about 10 minutes of Faye Dunaway that got out because we couldn’t get the rights to run footage from ‘Mommy Dearest.’” “She came to a fitting. She was doing a TV pilot, and she needed a lot of suits,” Mizrahi remembers. Being the big gay that I am, I was enthralled by every word out of her mouth.
One really hilarious thing that I do remember about Faye Dunaway was that she would look in the mirror, and when she liked something, she’d go, ‘Oh, that’s very Faye. Very Faye.’ Talking about herself in the third person was so fantastic. If I like what I look like, I go, ‘Oh, it’s very Faye.’ It’s like I think of myself as Faye Dunaway.” I ask Mizrahi what he would tell himself if he could go back three decades.
Without missing a beat, he says, “You’re not that fat. Swear to God, that’s what I would tell myself. I used to wear these crazy Fred Mertz kind of high-waisted pleated pants that I made myself because I was so fucking crazy that my waist was big.
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