Mizrahi's Unzipped Gets a Second Life on Screen

The 1995 documentary that followed Isaac Mizrahi backstage—long before backstage footage was a genre unto itself—is being rereleased, and the designer has been talking about why it still holds up. In new conversation, Mizrahi ranges from Prince to Marty Supreme to the parade of models who passed through his ateliers, treating the film less as nostalgia than as a record of a working design house at full tilt. For a set of readers who know the difference between a fitting and a show, that unfiltered backstage view is the appeal.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.