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Keeve peeks beneath this cover to the realities of fashion fantasy. Mizrahi explains that his collection-to-be is inspired by "Nanook of the North"; but his inner creative genius is tormented by the knowledge that big fur pants won't sell. "It's about women not wanting to look like cows. I guess," Isaac muses from between his sheets: "Actually, there's something quite charming about cows...
There's something quite charming about the designer, too. His striking resemblance to Eraserhead coupled with a penchant for chain smoking, introspective piano playing and faith in the ouiji board's design prowess make him a perpetually fetching image: Keeve never probes beyond the show that Mizrahi chooses to put on, but that's revealing in itself. At one point, the artist pauses in the middle of a Pronouncement to a studio of followers, his gaze riveted to a worktable. "Who's doing the crossword?" he asks. "Iguana!" Then it's back to the masses...
There's something to be learned from such unprozacked creativity. Like all fashion designers, Mizrahi's name is made on his near-consistent ability to turn sophisticates into slaves of his latest look. "I get this gesture in my head," he says, from which he must draw a season's worth of fashion headlines...
...fall "gesture" chronicled in "Unzipped" inexplicably has its genesis in Clark Gable's discovery of a supposedly frostbitten Loretta Young in the film "Call of the Wild." Mizrahi sets (and Keeve clips) the moment at which he discovered his new season's look: she's wrapped in fur; her make-up is "dewy," lip gloss fresh. "If you must freeze on the tundra." Mizrahi deadpans, "this...
...story you'll hear more than once in "Unzipped," because it's a good one, and Mizrahi has too many people to seduce to use a new line each time. His role is to flirt with clients, models, fashion editors and friends in pursuit of the notoriety and pizazz that will earn him his daily bread and next season's collection...