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Article: POLLY MELLEN, MOVING ON
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 26, 1999
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Fashion editor Polly Mellen is perhaps best known for her
supporting role in the Douglas Keeve documentary "Unzipped." In that
1995 film, designer Isaac Mizrahi gives Mellen a preview of his
upcoming collection and Mellen responds with a dire warning to avoid
too heavy an emphasis on frills and frippery. "Fussy: Finished!" she
proclaims dramatically.
In the few moments that Mellen is on-screen, she embodies the
cryptic nature of fashion, with its penchant for theatricality and
its uncanny ability to reflect the cultural Zeitgeist. But what was
missing from that brief glimpse of Mellen was the sense of precisely
why she represents an element of the industry that is rare, beloved
and rooted ...
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