9 Sept 2026

Isaac Mizrahi’s Closet Picks

The designer and subject of Douglas Keeve’s Unzipped shares why every artist should see The Red Shoes, admires the magnetism of Terence Stamp in Teorema, and delights in rediscovering his favorite westerns.

Isaac Mizrahi: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

13 single, 3 box sets

single films

chosen on their own

box sets

one choice, many films

films reached

the same visit, box sets opened

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This visit as a strip, a cell for each choice: paler the older the film, indigo for a box set, which is one cell however many films it holds. The order is the order Criterion's own page lists them in, which is probably but not provably the order they came off the shelf.

44 The Red Shoes 1948 235 The Leopard 1963 1098 The Damned 1969 SET Pasolini 101 281 Jules and Jim 1962 1028 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 1090 Original Cast Album: “Company” 1970 SET Essential Fellini 1052 Claudine 1974 732 My Darling Clementine 1946 1024 Destry Rides Again 1939 SET The Complete Jacques Tati 1004 Now, Voyager 1942 1003 All About Eve 1950 995 Polyester 1981 1021 Show Boat 1936

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1948	16
2	The Leopard	Luchino Visconti	1963	9
3	The Damned	Luchino Visconti	1969	5
4	Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films			13
5	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut	1962	10
6	Dance, Girl, Dance	Dorothy Arzner	1940	4
7	Original Cast Album: “Company”	D. A. Pennebaker	1970	5
8	Essential Fellini box set, 14 films			16
9	Claudine	John Berry	1974	9
10	My Darling Clementine	John Ford	1946	7
11	Destry Rides Again	George Marshall	1939	3
12	The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films			19
13	Now, Voyager	Irving Rapper	1942	5
14	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	1950	10
15	Polyester	John Waters	1981	4
16	Show Boat	James Whale	1936	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1936 to 1981, box sets 1949 to 1987

Essential Fellini

The Complete Jacques Tati

Pasolini 101

a single film, at its year a box set, across the years of its films the collection, by decade

The axis is the same 1920 to 2030 on every visit page, so a haul that stayed inside one decade looks like one. A box set is drawn across the years of the films inside it, which is a range of release dates and not a claim about the set. Nothing here is in the order the choices were made: displayed position moves film year by a fifth of one percent of its variance, which is not a slope worth drawing.

How long this haul is

Its 42films run 78.4 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 293.9 minutes of film for each of its 16 choices, counting a box set as the one choice it was. Across the 375 visits with a complete total, the median is 136.4 minutes.

How unusual this haul was

Its 16 choices had been taken by 8.5 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Show Boat, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of John Waters, through Polyester, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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