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->''"Sex. Greed. Murder. Some things never go out of style."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

''Prêt-à-Porter'', released in the United States as ''Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter)'', is a satirical comedy from 1994 focusing on the fashion industry in Paris during Fashion Week, and directed, produced and co-written by Creator/RobertAltman.
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!!This film provides examples of:

* AccentInterest: The British Vogue editor meets a Texan designer and mentions how much she loves that accent.
* TheAlcoholic: Anne Eisenhower, who downs three glasses of red wine in less than two minutes.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Many of the figures in the fashion industry.
* AnimeHair
* AudienceSurrogate: The female New York Times reporter, as she's the most normal person amongst the cast and she [[TheWatson asks a lot of informative questions]] of the designers.
* AutopsySnackTime: A coroner has a snack while autopsying a corpse (in the presence of several police officers investigating the death, too!)
* BadBoss: Most of the designers and publishers, to their assistants and models.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Anne and Joe argue quite a bit in between having sex.
* BenevolentBoss: In a film full of obnoxious egotistical bosses, Simone Lo is the one exception. Among other things, she's the only designer to have a kind-hearted reaction to Albertine's SurprisePregnancy.
* ButNotTooGay: The gay couples show a lot less physical intimacy on screen than the straight couples.
* CampGay: Many of the male fashion designers, but especially Cort Romney (except he seems to be bi.)
* CatFight: Sisters Dane and Kiki end up cat-fighting just off-stage during a fashion show because they're both sleeping with Dane's husband.
* ChickMagnet: Milo the photographer, though some of his suitors only want him because he's the best photographer in the business.
* ClosetShuffle: Sissy and Sergio (total strangers to each other) end up hiding in Nina's closet together during Nina's tryst with Milo.
* CoolShades: Milo has these, and often wears them indoors and/or for dramatic effect.
* {{Corpsing}}: In-universe example: Cort Romney's wife Violetta starts cracking up next to him during a TV interview, when he starts rhapsodizing about how his ideal female model "doesn't have to have legs, but oh, it's wonderful if she does."
* TheDandy: Many examples throughout the film.
* TheDitz: Kitty Potter, the reporter.
* DumbBlonde: Kitty Potter, and Sissy Wanamaker's assistant
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Pretty much all of the characters in the fashion industry seem to get it on very regularly.
* AFamilyAffair: Jack is sleeping with his wife's sister.
* FashionShow: Obviously.
* TheFashionista: Most of the film's characters qualify as this.
* {{Foil}}: The serious and competent New York Times reporter Fiona vs. the ditzy and bubbly TV reporter Kitty Potter.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Sissy Wanamaker is on the phone, her blonde assistant is in the background rearranging her mini-dress and mooning the audience.
* {{Gayngster}}: One fashion designer, while not explicitly a gangster, does look and dress in a very "gangsta" fashion, and is dating a man and has an affair with another man.
* GayParee: The film depicts Paris very much in this way.
* GratuitousFrench: It is in Paris, after all.
* HoneyTrap: Sissy sends her ditzy assistant to seduce Milo's assistant to steal Milo's room key.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Kitty Potter's assistant Sophie is far more knowledgeable about the fashion industry than Kitty herself.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Sissy and Nina both try to seduce Milo the photographer (both into bed and into a contract with their magazines). He's totally impervious and just takes photos of them half-dressed as blackmail material.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Again, when fashion shows abound, this inevitably comes up.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Anne Eisenhower.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Joe Flynn is this, to a point.
* LoopholeAbuse: Basically what Simone does in the end. She's not allowed to show her fashion designs without also including those dreadful cowboy boots, so she just [[spoiler:has all her models go onstage fully nude.]]
* MisterMuffykins: Isabella de la Fontaine has one of these, and even shows him in a fancy dog show.
* TheMistress: Simone is this for Olivier.
* PimpedOutDress: Quite a few of these show up, naturally.
* PublicExposure: The film has a whole scene filled with it, meant as a giant TakeThat to the fashion industry
* QuirkyTown: The film presents Paris (or, at least, the fashion industry in Paris) in this way.
* RandomEventsPlot: Very much so; many of the characters and scenes seem to be completely unrelated and the film seems to lack any real protagonist, antagonist, or coherent narrative.
* RunningGag: Various male characters stepping in dog turds.
* ShaggyDogStory: The police spend the whole movie trying to find Olivier's murderer, only to finally realize that he just accidentally choked to death on his sandwich.
* SharpDressedMan: Many of the male characters are wearing very nice suits.
* ShoppingMontage: Louise, the Major's wife, spends most of the film doing these.
* ShoutOut / MythologyGag: To Creator/SophiaLoren's most famous scene in ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow''. As in that movie, she strips sensuously for her former lover (Creator/MarcelloMastroianni), but this time Mastroianni's character falls fast asleep by the time she's finished.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Subverted with the female New York Times reporter:
-->''"How'd you get [Milo, the famous photographer]? Did you sleep with him?"''
-->''"No, [[SorryImGay I don't sleep with men]]."''
* StraightGay: Cy Bianco, one of the male fashion designers.
* SurprisePregnancy: Albertine the model shows up to Paris Fashion Week very pregnant, which causes displeasure amongst the designers who'd created outfits to fit on her pre-pregnancy body.
* SuspectIsHatless: An interesting variant, wherein a murder victim's chaffeur is asked to describe the perpetrator, only to reply that "white people all look alike" to him, and he differentiates people by the clothes they wear; so he can only describe (in great detail) what the suspect was wearing. The photographs taken by others also focus solely on the assailant's clothes as well, and therefore nobody knows what his face looks like.
* TakeThat: The movie was devised as a satire of the fashion industry.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Major Hamilton crossdresses for fun, but wants to keep it a secret, so his wife Louise goes shopping for all the clothes for him.
* WhosYourDaddy: It's unclear who the father of Albertine's baby is.