| Malin Akerman | ... | Herself | |
| Jennifer Beals | ... | Herself | |
| Tyson Beckford | ... | Himself | |
| Stacey Bendet | ... | Herself | |
| Phillip Bloch | ... | Himself | |
| Amanda Bynes | ... | Herself | |
| Stephen Cardino | ... | Himself | |
| Sharen Davis | ... | Herself | |
| Christina Ehrlich | ... | Herself (as Cristina Ehrlich) | |
| Nicole Fischelis | ... | Herself | |
| Jean-Paul Gaultier | ... | Himself | |
| Kevin Jones | ... | Himself | |
| Ilyana Kadushin | ... | Herself - Narrator | |
| Michael Kaplan | ... | Himself | |
| Monique Lhuillier | ... | Herself | |
| Debra McGuire | ... | Herself (as Deborah McGuire) | |
| Maria Menounos | ... | Herself | |
| Navid Moradi | ... | Himself | |
| Omid Moradi | ... | Himself | |
| Kim Morgan | ... | Herself | |
| Deborah Nadoolman | ... | Herself (as Deborah Nadoolman Landis) | |
| Arianne Phillips | ... | Herself | |
| Brett Ratner | ... | Himself | |
| Ramin Setoodeh | ... | Himself | |
| Jeff Vespa | ... | Himself | |
| Caroline Weber | ... | Herself | |
| Suze Yalof Schwartz | ... | Herself | |
| Rachel Zalis | ... | Herself |
Produced by | |||
| Gregg Backer | .... | executive producer | |
| Maggie Clough | .... | associate producer | |
| Alexander Emerson | .... | associate producer | |
| Evan Kanew | .... | executive producer | |
| Evan Kanew | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Bo Boddie | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Edgar Garcia | (as Ed Garcia) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Tim Streeto | |||
Production Management | |||
| Christopher Black | .... | executive in charge of production | |
| James 'Smokey' Knudsen | .... | production manager (as Smokey Kudsen) | |
Sound Department | |||
| Mike Frank | .... | post-production sound | |
| Joe Lipari | .... | field audio | |
| Timothy Riese | .... | field audio (as Tim Riese) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Joe Lipari | .... | additional photography | |
| Timothy Riese | .... | additional photography (as Tim Riese) | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Alexander Emerson | .... | assistant editor | |
| Ken Eng | .... | on-line editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Ashley Benedict | .... | rights and clearances | |
| Matthew Lefferts | .... | legal affairs (as Matt Lefferts) | |
| Neora Luria | .... | production assistant | |
| Tyler Martin | .... | production assistant | |
| Joe Mustachio | .... | production assistant | |
| Travis Stewart | .... | production assistant | |
| Steven Belgard | .... | publicist (uncredited) | |
Thanks | |||
| Joy Holloway-D'Avilar | .... | special thanks | |
| Jackie Levine | .... | special thanks | |
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This made-for-television documentary develops a simple premise, and it develops it so simply that anyone with a basic familiarity of film and American culture will likely not learn anything that justifies the time it takes to watch this.
The underlying problem is that the film exists on a plane of rigidly narrow superficiality, unvarying in tempo or tone. Its rapid editing leaves only enough time to register the existence of costumes or fashion presented, not study or contemplate them. The same is true for all the interviews. The comments are kept light and quick, and never leave the commercially viable zone of the self-evident or non-challenging. The same opinions by different people are voiced too many times, either due to editing oversight or as if the filmmaker thought he were honing in on some documentarian's profound discovery of truth. E.g., movies influence fashion and vice versa.
The student of fashion and costume will find nothing of interest here. Who will? I suspect it's the grotesque species of American--the six-hours-a-day television watcher, an obese couch slug, globally clueless and utterly unaware of the fact.
This is television, will be the retort. What do you expect?
I and others expect that some modicum of resistance will be offered to the machine, that in this short life you'll somehow find it within yourselves to dare to imagine a media environment that rises above sugary nothingness and the ever present commercial drive to dumb down. Do you always like taking it from The Man, or have you come to share his assumptions?