I was a newspaper reporter with USA Today at the time, and I'd arranged an hour-long sit-down with the bandwhich they abruptly canceled shortly before we were set to meet. Why? Well, Robert Redford had made them a better offer. The Sundance founder (and Sundance Kid) had invited them to his mountainside Sundance Mountain Resort to have a drink at his personal watering hole.
What we love so much about 'Unzipped' is the unflinching way it exposes every neurotic high and low of the fabulously connected, then-30-something designer as he readies an Eskimo-inspired fall fashion collection that's way less harebrained than it sounds.
"I just fell in love with it. It was such a well written script with just exactly the right kind of situation for comedy. It's just ordinary people, chosen family, the kind of love that they couldn't find in their families, they found in each other."