CULTURE CLUB
Fashionable new films, TV shows, books and albums to improve your weekends
KILLING EVE (2018)
Touted by Vogue as
“the most fashionable show on TV”, Killing Eve
(new episodes added Mondays at 6pm on TVNZ OnDemand) is a cat-and-mouse thriller starring Sandra Oh as an M15 security officer and Jodie Comer as Villanelle — an assassin with a penchant for Dries van Noten suits and Molly Goddard gowns. “That’s how she rewards herself for her kills,” says costume designer Phoebe de Gaye. “She goes out and buys something else.”
ALAÏA: LIVRE DE COLLECTION BY PROSPER ASSOULINE (ASSOULINE, 2018)
Transporting us once more to Azzedine Alaïa’s spring/summer presentation in Paris, 1992, Assouline’s reprint of this visually stunning book is a testament to the 35-year friendship between the publisher and the late fashion designer. The ultimate Alaïa fan is advised to snap up one of 50 collector’s editions bound in black, red or green leather, $495, from assouline.com.
DIRTY COMPUTER BY JANELLE MONÁE (2018)
It features collaborations with Grimes, Pharrell Williams and Stevie Wonder, but it’s the influence of music legend Prince, who was instrumental in developing Janelle Monae’s sound, that has Rolling
Stone dubbing her third studio album “a sexy, MF-ing masterpiece”. Get on board this Afrofuturism-meets-soul train now.
OCEAN’S 8 (2018)
Aformidable all-female cast comes together in this fashionfocused continuation of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy, in which Danny Ocean’s estranged sister Debbie, played by Sandra Bullock, attempts to pull off the ultimate diamond heist at New York’s annual Met Gala. Co-starring Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter, with many a scene-stealing cameo thrown in, the hotly anticipated film premieres June 7.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ (2017)
In this illuminating portrait of ex-US Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, filmmaker Kate Novack delves into the style aficionado’s youth in the segregated South, his early career answering phones at Andy Warhol’s Factory, and his rise through the ranks of some of the biggest fashion publications on the planet. Also featuring Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford, it’s screening at Auckland’s Q Theatre as part of the Documentary Edge Festival in May.