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The Day Before

2010 · 1 season

A hushed, fly-on-the-wall look at creative professionals racing a deadline, equal parts craft, pressure and quiet backstage drama.

Created by
Loïc Prigent
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Peter Copping, Narciso Rodriguez, Alexander Wang
Overview
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.

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Created by
Loïc Prigent
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Peter Copping, Narciso Rodriguez, Alexander Wang
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    • work
    • art
    • ambition
    • obsession
    Places
    • workplace
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • documentary
    • serialised
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    • Language mild
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    • Sex none
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    Humour2
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    Romance1
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    Genres
    documentary
    Created by
    Loïc Prigent
    Starring
    Peter Copping, Narciso Rodriguez, Alexander Wang, Jeremy Scott, Donatella Versace, Diane von Fürstenberg, Anna Wintour, Isabel Marant
    Length
    1 seasons, 12 episodes
    Network
    ARTE, ARTE
    Country
    France

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