The Collection, Chinese translation of "Fashion Clouds", is a commercial drama produced by the BBC with a fashion coat. After the second World War, the French economy was in a slump, and fashion was still alive.
The Sabine brothers, however, maintained their creativity during the dark years of Nazi occupation, and then flourished under the support of the French cultural Renaissance, achieving brilliant achievements in the "golden age of design and commerce."
Dressed in bright clothes, handsome men and beautiful women, "Fashion clouds" in the slow exposition of the gorgeous Paris haute couture after World War II, but also tells the plot and rise and fall of a family.
Family business war
When you first read "Fashion Clouds", you may be fooled by its name, and be deeply attracted by the oil-like picture and exquisite shooting composition, thinking that it is a fashion drama.
The genius design of the costume designer in the play, it seems very fashionable today, and the high definition runway show 100 years ago, the beauty is shocking.
However, the British series has a deep set, as the story develops.
Fashion drama slowly became a mystery crime drama, business drama. Sabine family two brothers, brother Paul external play the role of designer, exquisite, he is articulate, quite the ladies like, and celebrities from all walks of life also seem to get along well, will take care of the family business in good order.
It can be said that the reason why Sabine's family can survive and prosper in such a difficult period is based on his dealings in the outside world.
The real genius of the Sabine family, however, was his younger brother Claude. He has a lot of talent and a flair for design. Personality and brother is also a strong contrast, introverted, not good at expression, and because of homosexual tendencies and not suitable for external publicity. He doesn't care about the family business, but is used by his snobbish brother Paul and his mother.
"You do your best work out of fear." In order to exploit Claude's talent, Paul and his mother arrange a series of attacks and murders to stimulate his brother's inspiration. Claude, despite his Bohemian private life, has a simple heart, and he struggles in the trap set by his brother and mother, and is scarred.
Everyone in the Sabine family is a link in a chain of interests, used by others at the same time, and the chain is ultimately held in the hands of Mrs. Sabine.
She looked on coldly from the love of older brother and younger brother to kill each other, single-handedly supported the family business, with various means to maintain the survival of the family, cold-blooded and chilling.
She doesn't trust anyone, and she'll do anything to get what she wants. It is precisely because of this cruelty that she has the ability to manipulate the whole situation.
There are many other characters in this TV series who have ideals and desires, but they are all real and ironic. Charlotte, Paul's assistant, runs his business and becomes the person who knows him best until she becomes his mistress.
Later, out of dissatisfaction with Paul, he provoked his brother to work alone, wanting to compete with his brother.
However, no one in the entire fashion industry wanted to fight Paul, and his brother, who had always been behind the scenes, was not good at words and could not sell his designs to the noblewoman. In the end, the mother-in-law also blamed the murder she arranged on the assistant, and the result of the assistant was tragic.
There are also black seamstresses, who work very hard to make haute couture for the Sabine family, with designer dreams. But in the end she said: I know it is impossible, I will never be able to enter the high-end places, I want to be a designer just like I also want to be a mermaid, it is impossible.
Behind the light, blood and tears always follow, behind this seemingly bright family, hidden many unknown stories. Its success and longevity is no accident, but comes at a high cost to the freedom and lives of many.