Funny Face (1957)

The classic Hollywood fashion musical, and more knowing about the industry than its candy colors suggest. The story was inspired by Richard Avedon's photographs of couture, Avedon himself worked on the film as a visual consultant, and Kay Thompson's magazine editor is said to be based on Diana Vreeland and Carmel Snow. Audrey Hepburn plays the Greenwich Village book clerk turned model, and Hubert de Givenchy designed her Paris clothes. The plot is fluff, but the photo-shoot sequences show how 1950s fashion pictures were imagined.