Gina Newson
Director
The Look (1992)
Miniseries
Series examining the serious side of the fashion industry
Released Sept. 20, 1992
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.fashion, imdb.chanel, imdb.valentino, tmdb.fashion-industry, tmdb.textile-industry, tmdb.clothing-industry, tmdb.fashion, tmdb.haute-couture
Production Companies: Freelance Film Partners
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Runway
The glitzy runway shows of Paris, Milan, London and New York attract designers, models, journalists, buyers, celebrities, wealthy clients and knock-off merchants. They are all players in a multi-billion-dollar industry. But who sits where? This first film explores the political map of fashion. It also looks at the evolution of the superstar model.
Sept. 20, 1992, midnight
S1E2 - Scenting Money
How marketing techniques - diffusion, franchising and licensing - can mean success or failure for a designer. And a look at Giorgio Armani's lessons in labelling.
Sept. 27, 1992, midnight
S1E3 - Power of the Press
There is a complex of interests among designers, buyers, retailers and the fashion media, all of whom share a common goal - continuing turnover in a multi-billion dollar industry. Tonight's film analyses the power of the fashion press, and its love/hate relationship with the PR machines of top designers.
Oct. 4, 1992, midnight
S1E4 - Uniform and Function
From haute couture to high street to street cred, personal identity can be bought off the peg in the form of fads, trends, looks and national styles. Tonight's film analyses the ways in which people create identity through the uniforms they choose to wear.
Oct. 11, 1992, midnight
S1E5 - Material World
For these three fashion designers, cloth is the essence of the art of design. Futurist Issey Miyake makes hi-tech, innovative use of fabric; Gianni Versace , loved by film and pop stars, uses vibrant silk prints; and Christian Lacroix creates clothes out of fabric painstakingly hand-woven by former down-and-outs.
Oct. 18, 1992, midnight
S1E6 - Yves Saint Laurent
No couture season can end without the YSL collection. But the man whom many call the greatest designer of the 20th century is reclusive, sensitive and so dogged by ill health that his company's president Pierre Berge says: "Yves was born with a nervous breakdown." With the benefit of behind-the-scenes access, this profile of Yves Saint Laurent tries to capture the essence of an elusive man.
Oct. 25, 1992, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 294 min.
Released: Sept. 20, 1992
Last Air Date: Oct. 25, 1992, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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