There’s been alot of hype over The September Issue, a documentary chronicling Anna Wintour and Team Vogue’s preparations for the 2008 A/W Vogue issue (said to weigh 5 pounds, the largest issue ever published). First shown at the 2009 Sundance festival, later to a packed house at MoMA, and only due to be released in August 09, The Cut reports that fashion types who missed out are going underground on the hunt for bootleg copies. This has resulted in fashion screening parties and movie nights all about town.

This could very well be a mere Conde Nast Publications X Anna Wintour corporate video. But I obviously don’t know what I’m talking about since its unattainablity and critic raves have cemented the documentary’s status. Raves from Uncut, Telegraph (UK),Washington Post etc…

“Director R.J. Cutler delivers a rare insider account of the nine months leading up to the printing of the highly anticipated September issue of the magazine, which promises to be the biggest one ever. He takes us behind the scenes at fashion week, to Europe and back, on shoots and reshoots, and into closed-door staff meetings, bearing witness to an arduous and sometimes emotionally demanding process. At the eye of this annual fashion hurricane is the two-decade relationship between Wintour and Grace Coddington, incomparable creative director and genius stylist. They are perfectly matched for this age-old conflict between creator and curator.”

Menswear Fashion Week must be very stale if there are more postings and news about The September Week than what’s on at Milan and Paris’ Spring 2010.