HBO Doc “Suited” Profiles A Brooklyn Store Tailor-Made For Trans and Gender-Nonconforming People

"A Bat Mitzvah is about becoming a woman—and I don't want to become a woman."
From: NewNowNext

Suited, a new documentary produced by Girls co-creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, profiles a Brooklyn tailor who specializes in clothing for trans and gender-nonconforming individuals.

The film follows New Yorkers who identify across the gender spectrum—including a transitioning young man in search of his Bar Mitzvah outfit and a trans groom who needs a tuxedo for his wedding—as they find their way to Bindle & Keep in Park Slope.

“No one contacts us and says, ‘I want a fitting,’” Bindle & Keep founder Daniel Friedman says in the trailer above. “They usually say, ‘This is my story.’”

The film underscores fashion’s role in crafting identity and self-confidence. “For a lot of people with all kinds of bodies and identities, clothes can make or break every day of their lives,” says one of Bindle & Keep’s tailors.

Suited screened at Sundance and will have its New York premiere at the BAM Cinemefest in June, before premiering on HBO on June 20.