Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco

A pop movie with an extraordinary soundtrack – Donna Summer, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Chic, and the Temptations – the film recounts the fashion business from 1969 to 1973 through the figure of Antonio Lopez, the most influential fashion illustrator of the time, who died of AIDS in 1987. Originally from Puerto Rico, raised in the Bronx, Lopez renewed the postwar fashion scene, inspired by ethnology and street-life in New York and Paris. Thanks to a mix of photographic and video materials and interviews with major figures of the fashion of those years, including Paul Caranicas, Joan Juliet Buck, Charles James, Grace Coddington, Crump’s film narrates the uninhibited and turbulent relationships between Lopez’s friends and collaborators. Among them: his creative partner Juan Ramos, Yves-Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfeld, the makeup artist Corey Tippin, photographer Bill Cunningham, and his muses, Cathee Dahmen, Grace Jones, Pat Cleveland, Tina Chow, Jessica Lange and Jerry Hall. This colorful and extravagant milieu changed the story of style and the idea of fashion as an artistic expression.