Between the celebrity cameos and clips of the designer's favorite old films, we come away with some essentials about Mizrahi: He is self-doubting, frenetically creative, something of a depressive and drawn to powerful women. It's a vulnerable scene in a film that largely presents a stylized version of Mizrahi and his inner circle. Looking into the camera, clearly awed by the praise, he says, 'They gave it to me.' Sporting a cap to tamp down his thick black morning hair (and mask his identity), Mizrahi scans a particularly laudatory newspaper column.
In the final scene of Unzipped, a documentary that chronicles the launch of designer Isaac Mizrahi's 1994 fall collection, its subject rises at dawn and heads to a corner newsstand in Manhattan to read reviews of his show.
