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Kenneth Cole’s New Documentary Follows His Impact Beyond Fashion

Kenneth Cole is getting the big-screen treatment! The designer’s new documentary, A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole, premiered to a fashionable crowd this week at The Paley Center For Media. Directed by Dori Berinstein, the film doesn’t just cover Cole’s fashion career—it also tracks his decades of working in social and cultural causes impacting the world.

“It wasn’t necessarily my project—I didn’t initiate it,” Cole exclusively told The Daily Front Row. “Somebody else did, and they’ve been working on it for a couple years, and it’s a great time for a story like this to come to life. I thought it was going to be more of a fashion story, but it’s actually more of a story about humanity and social impact, which I think is bigger at the end of the day than what we do in the ordinary course.”

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Cole’s longtime work across AIDS research is notably highlighted in the film. In the ’80s, the pandemic’s devastating impact on the fashion industry—which included one of Cole’s own business associates—led the designer to launch his legendary ads aimed at destigmatizing the disease. His work as amfAR’s chairman, as…