Who directed the 2009 documentary film The September Issue about Vogue?

R. J. Cutler directed the 2009 documentary film The September Issue about Vogue.

The film follows the creation of American Vogue’s September 2007 issue, focusing particularly on editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and creative director Grace Coddington. It shows editorial meetings, fashion shoots, fittings, and the negotiations that shape a major magazine edition.

Cutler is an American filmmaker and producer whose work includes documentaries and television projects. The September Issue brought the usually private processes of fashion publishing to a broad audience and became one of the best-known documentary portraits of a fashion magazine.

Andrew Rossi directed The First Monday in May, a different fashion documentary about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition. That connection can cause confusion, especially because Vogue and the Met Gala are closely linked. The Vogue documentary’s director was R. J. Cutler.