Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940) is a Documentary film that follows this short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features. Hollywood: Style Center of the World is not currently listed with streaming providers in your selected region, but availability can change over time. It has a user rating of 5.5 out of 10 from 2 votes. Fans of documentary movies may also want to explore similar titles below.