Prêt-à-Porter (1994) review

There's a lot happening during Fashion Week in Paris: TV personality Kitty Potter (Kim Basinger) scrambles around interviewing designers (such as Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianfranco Ferré and Issey Miyake), Fashion Council czar Olivier de la Fontaine (Jean-Pierre Cassel) dies from choking on a sandwich, reporters Joe Flynn (Tim Robbins) and Anne Eisenhower (Julia Roberts) are forced to share a room together (and make the most of their time), famed photographer Milo O'Brannigan (Stephen Rea) is taking incriminating pictures of magazine editors, Sergio (Marcello Mastroianni) is trying reunite with old flame Isabella (Sophia Loren), etc.  Altman's ADHD brain is back at it again by impatiently jumping between his many characters so the audience never gets to know much about any of them, and it doesn't help that he clearly holds the industry in total disdain ... although I do think the final "runway show" - in which the models are wearing their birthday suits - is a little clever.  While the world of haute couture is shallow and ridiculous - and there's no way they aren't already aware of this (it's just that they don't care) - there are critics out there like Bliss Foster (on Discord and YouTube) who actually tries to take it "seriously," going through the designers' notes and analyzing the way trends and styles change over the years.