Remember the “cerulean blue” monologue by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada? Well, I think that knocked some sense into a lot of us who took pride in underestimating what clothes can do for us.

The perfect movie for New York Fashion Week is 1981's Model, Frederick Wiseman behind-the-scenes documentary on the industry. Like all of Wiseman’s work, Model is observational and rooted in the ...