Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
Director James Crump restores a pioneering fashion-world icon to his rightful place in the pantheon in this stylish, celebratory documentary. A groundbreaking illustrator, stylist and pansexual party animal whose career straddled New York and Paris in the late 1960s and 1970s, the Puerto Rico–born Lopez mixed with a cool celebrity crowd including Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, Yves Saint Laurent, Jerry Hall, Karl Lagerfeld and Andy Warhol. Between seductive flashbacks to this lost disco demi-monde, Crump’s elegantly dressed film also explores how Lopez challenged latent racism in the fashion industry before his untimely AIDS-related death in 1987.
Joan Juliet Buck, Paul Caranicas, Michael Chow
- Notes From Sophie De RakoffFor those who dream in color there is no better bedtime story than the tale of Antonio Lopez, the ferociously talented Nuyorican artist whose personal fabulosity and era-defining illustrations shaped culture at the 1970s intersection of fashion and art. From the Factory to the runways of Paris, director James Crump’s high energy yet delicate embrace of Lopez and his partner Juan Ramos is as much an exploration of a creative partnership as it is a celebration of a beloved individual. Tangled among all the visual delights are a series of wildly satisfying interviews with original Antonio Girl Jessica Lange and legendary New York street photographer Bill Cunningham, who brings a tear to a glass eye with all the feels. Visit the Antonio Archives and repeat after me: “I do believe in fashion.”
