Why Fashion Documentaries Are Ready For Their Close-up

 It took more than 30 years before award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Lacy, a pioneer of biographical portraits of cultural giants, turned her camera on a fashion figure. And she immediately understood the appeal of the milieu. “Fashion is something that most people have some interest in, and some opinion about,” she said. “And people are looking for a good story and a good subject.” Her latest movie, “Very Ralph,” debuting on HBO on Nov. 12 and devoted to American fashion icon Ralph Lauren, headlines another bumper crop of fashion documentaries out this year and underscores the growing popularity — and malleability — of the format. Among the varied personalities also getting the treatment are Belgian iconoclast Martin Margiela, perhaps the most camera-shy designer of all time; Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, who documents his life incessantly on Instagram; Space Age couturier Pierre Cardin, also the subject of a retrospective now on at the Brooklyn Museum, and Chiara Ferragni, an influencer who parlayed her photo blog The Blonde Salad into a teeming lifestyle enterprise. The latter two movies are to be screened at the Venice International Film Festival. Behind the scenes of the “Chiara Ferragni — Unposted” docu-film.  Courtesy Photo Known for her thorough and incisive

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