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Ethnography/Civilization, Fashion, people & places


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
ARTE France

Music: Olivier GIRARDOT

Length:  1x26

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: International

Nationality: France

Year: 2011

Rights: all media, world

Support(s):  SD – Digital 16/9

Collection: DECODING DRESS CODES - series 3

DRESS IN NEW YORK

Director(s): Yaël BITON – Writer(s): Yaël BITON   Contact Contact   Download Print page

Meet the typical Wall Street trader – he walks 8km each day and the colour of his jacket is a sign of his position in his company’s hierarchy.
Shaun, a young mother, explains why she owns ten pairs of jeans and we learn that under his or her relaxed and cool attitude, the typical New Yorker is not immune to the occasional fashion « faux pas ».
Young Sidd tells us why he practises the “sagging” with his 400$ jeans and we discover that sneakers are true collector’s items and a valuable trading commodity. The true collectors – the sneaker heads – meet at the Dunkxchange to trade the most prized models for up to $ 2000!
And we meet Jen who tells us that in Brooklyn, she exchanges freely her clothes with those of her “hipster” friends…
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