The Best Thing Joel Schumacher Has Done Since...?

Sweet relief! Should anyone feel compelled to ask oft-derided director Joel Schumacher "what have you done for us lately?" he need no longer sheepishly mumble "Trespass with Nic & Nic". Instead he can point right to this great fake ad, shot by Steven Meisel, which announces the launch of Joel Schumacher's fashion label "Made to Measure".

Love it.

Here's the accompanying text:

Joel Schumacher, 72, might not seem like the most obvious man to front a glamorous high-fashion label in the vein of Halston. But long before he was directing such films as St. Elmo's Fire and Batman Forever, Schumacher was a fashion kid, designing window displays for Henri Bendel and styling stories for Diana Vreeland at Vogue. Additionally, "he's just so chic," says Enninful. 

More of Meisel's fake advertisements from the new issue of W Magazine.

I snuck my two favorites in after the jump: "Tantrum" and "Pizzazz"

The funniest thing about the ads is how, uh, subtle they are... with the slight heightening of fashion ad conventions. Plus, they're just nestled in with the magazine's regular ads. A children's luxury wear line for those scary beauty pageant demons? And "Tantrum", a lingerie ad with spanked red bottoms! Hee! 

Comments

[iggy]

I had no idea Schumacher was so old. But I had no idea there were so many working directors who are around or above the average retiring age. Some random trivia:

- James Cameron, 57
- Kathryn Bigelow, 60
- Robert Zemeckis, 60
- Pedro Almodóvar, 62
- Nancy Meyers, 62
- Steven Spielberg, 65
- Terrence Malick, 67
- George Lucas, 67
- Mike Leigh, 68
- Martin Scorsese, 69
- Nora Ephron, 70
- Joel Schumacher, 72
- Woody Allen, 76
- Garry Marshall, 77
- Clint Eastwood, 81
- Manoel de Oliveira, 102

[Walter L. Hollmann]

And let us not forget Joel Schumacher did the costumes for Interiors and The Wiz!

[Carlos]

Yeah, I would also say that De Oliveira is around the age of retirement!! LOL what a guy!