The many talents of Isaac Mizrahi will be on display next weekend at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, starting Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. with a live performance by the entertainer-designer and his band, and continuing Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. with a screening of the 1995 documentary “Unzipped.”
Accompanied by six jazz musicians, Mr. Mizrahi will perform an all-new show, including tunes made famous by Billie Holliday, Barbra Streisand, Cole Porter, and Madonna. The music will be interspersed with his musings on everything from politics to dieting to his latest Instagram obsessions.
Mr. Mizrahi, who divides his time between New York and Bridgehampton, told The Star in 2019 that putting together a program “is like designing a collection, writing a book, or anything creative. It starts with an idea, something that’s hilarious or beautiful that I know I can kill with my band and I know will be really funny . . . so it builds, one thing onto another.”
Mr. Mizrahi has an annual residency at Cafe Carlyle in Manhattan, and performs regularly at such venues as Joe’s Pub, the Regency Ballroom, and City Winery. The New York Times has said of his shows, “He is determined to challenge the cultural status quo and help blaze a path into a more liberated future where few subjects are off-limits.”
Douglas Keeve’s documentary “Unzipped,” which won the audience award for best documentary at Sundance in 1995, follows the designer through the creation of his Fall 1994 collection. He is seen auditioning models, talking about fabrics, working on sketches, and, according to the Times critic Janet Maslin, “gossiping madly about everyone he meets.”
Fashion celebrities appear throughout the film, among them the models Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Kate Moss, and such industry notables as Polly Mellen, Candy Pratts, and Andre Leon Talley.
Ms. Maslin called the film “a smart, spiky documentary . . . [that] appreciates not only the loony excess that makes fashion such a high-stakes adventure, but also the monomania of Mr. Mizrahi's creative process.” The screening will be followed by a conversation between Mr. Mizrahi and Tracy Mitchell, the theater’s executive director.
Tickets for the concert start at $69; the screening is $15.
