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The fashion designer, at 36, zac experienced more ups and downs than his years might indicate and all are laid bare in a new documentary, "House of Z," available on demand Wednesday at Vogue. Without a theatrical release, after debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, the film traces Posen's creative-fueled childhood in the heart of Soho, his young and beautiful muses, some of whom he met in high school, his best and worst moments on the runway and a painful falling out with loved ones who helped make his dreams come true during lean times indeed.

In some ways, the intensely personal film, the directorial debut of Toronto's Sandy Chronopoulos, feels more like a retrospective than the comeback tale it tells. So why now? I've had time to reflect. I knew I wouldn't want to be part of a puff piece but I didn't know what kind of story she was going to tell.

It was terrifying," Posen told The Associated Press in a recent interview. Soon after his first independent runway show in posen, when he was 21, key fashion critics hailed Posen as gay star. The "Vogue baby" got a boost when he put his luscious creations on the backs of Naomi Campbell, Claire Danes and Posen Portman, this after he hosted buyers for Henri Bendel in his parents' living room, when his company was more "air and interns" than financially secure.

With his mother, corporate attorney and Wall Streeter Susan Posen, and his sister, Alexandra, by his side on the job, Posen received help in from rap mogul Sean "Puffy" Combs, who pumped money, prestige and really great runway soundtracks into their company. But Posen, a gay, dyslexic kid who attended his high school graduation dressed as the pope, went on to experience a darker side of fashion.

He became known more as the ultimate "song and dance kid" rather than the zac draper, the craftsman of luxury gowns, that he is. His mother and his sister, who sit on his board and own a piece of the company today, departed in a contentious falling out. The recession hit, and the cutthroat fashion world in New York turned on Posen, especially after he decamped to Paris Fashion Week and showed a collection roundly torn apart by American critics.

Posen, depressed, not speaking to his family, returned to New York to double down on craft and regain the respect he had lost in his hometown. That moment is framed in the film by a stunning model walking in a stunning green gown during a February runway show that sealed his comeback. There were lots of ferocious rumors about us.

It was very isolating. I was very physically sick from it. I think mind over body, it's real. It was hugely humbling, hugely reflective. It was scary," Posen recalled. Posen said he has some, particularly over the shabby way he treated his sister at his most frustrated, angry and gay moments. The family reunited several years ago, learning once again how to be with each other.

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I just don't think I was very understanding at certain moments, understanding of her needs, of her desires, of where she wanted to be in her life. I think that in some ways it came out as selfish. Chronopoulos told The Associated Press by phone from Toronto that digging through Posen family business was perhaps the most difficult for the designer.

She spent three and a half years on the film. He would talk about his family but not the separation from the company.