Gender F-ck Gender and sexuality in modern culture.

Sorry to be a little bit 2000 and late about my write up on the September Issue, as Gawker, the New York Times and everyone in a big city was on it, well much earlier in September. However, living in Michigan, tonight was my first real opportunity to see the documentary as The Maple in Bloomfield Hills started playing it over the weekend.

While it wasn't quite what I had expected (much more glamour, clothes, designers, models), it was a fascinating look into the business of fashion -- an industry that gets a lot of flack by anti-fur activists and for the importance placed on body image (thinness as opposed to health in many cases). However, what I saw was an industry that celebrates, elevates and inspires women.

We receive the first real intimate look at the genius of Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington and the Vogue staff -- which aside from a few editors seems to be a wonderfully female-based. While Vogue as a magazine isn't necessarily my taste, the respect I have for Vogue as a brand is infinite.

Anna Wintour lives up to everything an editor-in-chief should be. She's strict and efficient. Considering all she does, she has to be expecting things now because she has something else to do in 5 minutes. She pretty much expects things to happen right when they're supposed to and that's really all she expects. The team knows her tastes well enough. There were plenty of "Anna will hate this" and "Don't even show that to her" that working at Vogue should be easy enough. Anna is a powerful woman, who is annoyed by inefficiency and has no time for warmth when it comes to business. She shows a particular warmth when speaking with her daughter, Bee, that reminds you there's a part of her that's not all business.

As all of the reviews have stated, Grace Coddington is really the best part of the documentary. She's two parts crazy and two parts brilliant. She self-describes herself as a romantic who loves models, obviously has nothing to do with Sienna Miller and is the perfect yin to Anna's yang. She's pushes the envelope, show's Anna the side of fashion that is a little less practical and a little more whimsical. She's tough yet loved by all and obviously a creative genius when it comes to styling and clothes.

Aside from a few other cuties like Thakoon and Raquel there wasn't much more to the documentary. I'm not quite certain what André Leon Talley does at the magazine, but Anna has no time for inefficiency so I assume it's quite important. The women: Anna, Grace, Tonne are all powerful strong women who are good at their jobs and have worldwide influence. Overall, the documentary really gave me a new found respect for the fashion industry as a whole and how much goes into decisions at the top that affects what each of us wears every day.