Shown on BBC Four on Thursday 26
January 2012, We’ll
Take Manhattan focuses on an unpredictable and electric photoshoot
for British Vogue in 1962 New York. Itreveals
how visionary photographer David Bailey (Aneurin Barnard - Ironclad) refused to
conform and insisted on using an unconventional and unknown model for the June
cover, Jean Shrimpton (Gillan). Over the course of a freezing week in Manhattan, David Bailey realised
he had found his muse - someone both he and his camera had fallen in love with.
Having thrown out the rule book
he made startling and original photographs, which changed the face of fashion and
catapulted Shrimpton into celebrity status as one
of the world's first ever supermodels.
We’ll Take Manhattan brings to life the whirlwind romance
between Bailey and Shrimpton and the explosive love affair which inadvertently set
the look of the Sixties along the way.
Written and
directed by John McKay (Robin Hood - TV
Series) and also starring a scene-stealing Helen McCrory (Hugo, Harry Potter) as Vogue fashion
editor Lady Clare Randlesham, We’ll Take Manhattan explores the electric tale of two young people falling in love; who took
a chance and accidentally changed the fashion world forever
WE'LL TAKE MANHATTAN is out on DVD 30 January.
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