New French movie about couture is cut from a different cloth

Angelina Jolie stars in Couture, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

For years, those working in the luxury fashion industry have watched movies that consistently overlook the grind required to bring runway glamour to life. All too often, the hours of labour, the creative process, and the skilled hands working behind the seams are overshadowed by spectacle or reduced to mockery. Breaking from Hollywood’s worn-out patterns, a French film titled Couture begins the conversation from a different vantage point – positioning itself as a cinematic anomaly, an anti- Devil Wears Prada .

Much of this new drama, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is directed by France’s Alice Winocour, can be likened to an authentic designer bag in