Would You Wear This?

By Melissa August, Beau Briese, Rhett Butler, Kathryn Hoffman, Ellin Martens, Sora Song, Heather Won Tesoriero, Kadesha Thomas, Josh Tyrangiel

Moulin Rouge isn't exactly setting the box office on fire, but you wouldn't know it from the store windows at Bloomingdale's, not to mention a huge feature in Vogue's May issue, all touting the movie's high-style fashions. Sure, women started wearing vests, ties and baggy pants after Annie Hall and slouched around in off-the-shoulder sweatshirts after Flashdance. But Hollywood's recent efforts to force-feed movie-inspired fashions to the American public have met with only mixed success.