2022 · documentary
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
Directed by Alison Klayman1h 29m2022
All the cool kids were wearing it. This documentary explores A&F's pop culture reign in the late '90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion.
Our read: White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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