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Filmmaker R.J. Cutler has covered politics and race — now he’s turned to another combustible topic: fashion. For “The September Issue,” he goes behind the scenes at Vogue and watches its imperious editor Anna Wintour and her creative director Grace Coddington at work. Wintour “seems to be the descendant of the minister of fashion from the court of Louis XIV,” he tells Kurt.

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