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Loic Prigent opens the secret doors of Paris Fashion Week. Interviews of creative directors, journalists and influencers help us understand this obscure microcosm and give us the keys to fully apprehend this hidden industry.

Loic’s camera films discreetly and lets the viewer observe as a real attendee of these crazy fashion moments. Paris Fashion Week enables the audience to finally experience and understand the unique circus of fashion shows.
 
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The progress of an haute couture collection from Karl Lagerfeld's initial sketches through to the selling of the clothes to wealthy customers.

This is a loving depiction of the fascinating enclosed world of the couture house, with its esoteric age-old skills, human comedy and tense, secretive atmosphere.

Also available : THE MAKING OF SIGNE CHANEL (60') - the jobs, the cut scenes and behind the scene.

40 minutes in total immersion in the fashion world with Mademoiselle Agnès. Ten days of fashion, stimulated by the new generation of designers, reassured by the old guard, and dazzled by hallucinating scenography.

As every season Mademoiselle Agnes immerses herself in the backstage of women's ready-to-wear to take the tension of the business, to measure the height of the heels as well as the morale of the troops.
 

In this eight-part documentary series, Prigent chronicles the final 36 hours prior to crucial seasonal runway shows featuring creations by some of the fashion world's leading designers: Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin...

In SIGNE CHANEL (2005) and MARC JACOBS & LOUIS VUITTON (2007), documentarian Loic Prigent unveiled rare and refreshing glimpses behind the doors of some of the world's leading fashion houses.

THE DAY BEFORE captures 8 differents fashion houses 36 hours before a show. The backstage, the ateliers, the designer in studio, the fittings, the stress and the dramas occuring in this specific period of time. Each episode is totally different but tells the same story: how to create in a state of emergency?  This is a never seen before full access story.

Episodes in 52' : Jean Paul Gaultier, Proenza Schouler, Fendi, Donatella Versace, Diane Von Furstenberg, Isabel Marant, Lanvin.

Episodes in 26' : Narciso Rodriguez, Jeremy Scott, Alexander Wang, Nina Ricci.

This is a hilarious, irreverent and insightful report about the whole fashion world: the trends, the business and of course, the people. By Mademoiselle Agnès and Loïc Prigent.

For now almost 10 years, LALALA has been producing the bi-annual TV show about fashion, Dressed for Summer and Dressed for Winter .

Meet Mademoiselle Agnès, French fashion reporter. She is in the heart of the action, running on 5-inches heels. Front row and backstage, she collects all the secrets, confidences and gossips for a funny insight of the fashion world.

New York Times : "Mademoiselle Agnès is the rare personality who can approach a runway show as if nothing, or no one, in fashion is sacred, which is why it was not surprising to find her lurking outside the ateliers of Dior and Yves Saint Laurent last week to stick a camera in the face of Anna Wintour."

What criteria do we use to define human beauty? And what values underlie our criteria? What role do women play? What are their beauty secrets? How are social and love relationships established?

When we delve into what beauty really is, different worlds become apparent. What seems to be a focussing on the superfluous is in fact touching the essence. Beauty enables people to acquire self-knowledge and to blossom.

The "Beyond Beauty" documentary collection is an invitation to discover beauty as an original expression of world cultures.

3 decades told via the careers of emblematic designers, combining major historical events with minor happenings, anecdotes with fate and fortune, and pop nuggets with collective drama.

The collection looks back over 3 decades of fashion (from 1980 to date), from the carefree emergence of the star-designer of the 1980s, to the arrival on the market of the major luxury groups and the toughening-up of the system.

Vuitton, the century-old leather goods brand, has teamed up with Marc Jacobs, the creator of Grunge Glamour. A successful match, and a flourishing business, portrayed in an inventive film plunging us into the heart of the fashion creator's work.

Masked guests in outrageous costumes hasten to the New York fancy-dress ball on the theme of Venice. A strange looking bird in glasses arrives, dressed as a pigeon - it is Marc Jacobs, the most influential fashion designer of his generation.

Today, he is artistic director of Louis Vuitton, the most profitable luxury goods company ever imagined and the spearhead of the LVMH group.
No one has ever filmed Marc Jacobs at work before, but thanks to the support of a member of the creator's inner circle, Dominique Miceli, Loïc Prigent was able to slip into the workshops, offices and backstage at fashion shows.
His film is both a portrait of Marc Jacobs and an immersion into the heart of the creation process, peppered with a few figures on Vuitton's breathtaking success story.

The narration portrays the new way to create fashion - with highly modern chaos and glamour.

The Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation is a treasure trove of iconic haute couture creations. It also includes thousands of extraordinary sketches. Delve into the fascinating universe of one of the foremost fashion designers in the world.

Instantaneous testimony of both the history of fashion and the career of an outstanding creator, these drawings are the little-known legacy of Yves Saint Laurent and form the raw material of this film; along with contributions from Pierre Bergé and other former colleagues.
There are perhaps as many as 200,000 of these gems, moments in time, each with its own story. Brought out of the archives, these drawings come to life.

Who wore what? Who was the best dressed? And who was the worst dressed? This documentary shows how and why medias and the fashion industry have become obsessed with the red carpet ceremony.

TV shows, magazines and sites all over the Internet have turned a specific and restricted ceremony into a popular phenomenon, a subculture with its insiders, its columnists, its crispy anecdotes and, of course, its stars. Some of them are better known for their red-carpet looks than for their career and personal stylists are now masters of the game.

But the red carpet is also a multi-million dollars business: designing gowns ready to go on the carpet is the main target for many fashion brands. The ultimate goal: the right dress worn by the right actress for the right occasion. If the combination works, pictures of the dress will be seen everywhere. And of course, that is good publicity.

Featuring interviews with designers Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, actresses Monica Bellucci and Anna Mouglalis, film director James Gray, among others,"The red carpet issue" is a witty and comprehensive insight into this cultural and sociological phenomenon that is not only changing fashion, but also the medias and the entertainment industry.

An exclusive deep dive into the secrets of creation behind the House of Boucheron and its perennial modernity for over a century and a half. Today, the two women at the head of the company are rethinking luxury by proposing creative and innovative collections, far from the traditional codes of high jewelry.

It is in the heart of Paris, on Place Vendôme, that the world’s greatest jewelry Houses sit across the legendary Ritz Hotel. The very first to set up shop on this iconic square at the end of the 19th century was Boucheron. High jewelry dazzles and fascinates the whole world, elevating jewels to the rank of works of art, and passing down wellkept trade secrets.
 
This documentary offers an exclusive look backstage at the creation and development of the collections – which over the years have established Boucheron’s privileged spot among the most modern high jewelry Houses in the world. Today, a duet of women upholds this tradition of innovation, by designing exceptional jewels, as poetic as they are technologically innovative: Claire Choisne, Director of Creations and Hélène Poulit-Duquesne C.E.O. From Claire’s first intuitions, nourished by inspirational travels, to the first drawings and models, she often lets her creativity run wild, doing away with commercial security. Then, these ideas are materialized thanks to the unique know-how of the research and development teams, the goldsmith’s workshops, and the involvement of specialists whose professions are sometimes a far cry from the world of fine jewelry, such as a member of NASA or a “petal artist”. On all floors, at the Place Vendôme workshop, teams of mostly women are at work – but also all over the world – to obtain the most beautiful stones, with a real ethical and ecological concern about their origins. Once these unique pieces are completed, marketing enters the stage to publicize the collections, which are intended to be “genderless” – for both men and women. Modern and trendy jewelry. This exclusive deep dive into a refined artisanal process allows us to fully understand that there are no hard limits to the possible achievements of this tirelessly creative spirit. One that, collection after collection, reexamines luxury and reinvents high jewelry.

The Versace empire as you have never seen it before! Uncover the success story of the most famous Italian fashion house through the incredible story of the siblings who created it. In the Versace family, glory and tragedy are intrinsically linked.

At the end of the 1970s, Gianni Versace founded a small family business, that in just a few years would become a gigantic “haute couture” empire. While his older brother managed the cash money, his sister Donatella helped backstage as artistic director. At the height of his fame and fortune, Gianni was suddenly shot by a serial killer in 1997. At that time, everybody thought that this sad event would sound the death of the house of Versace. But like every Italian saga, the blood tie would prevail. Despite her immeasurable pain, Donatella fought to take back the reins of the house and managed to assert her legitimacy as she has ensured the prosperity of the family business.