Television
How To Make It In America
How To Make It In America
Nice HBO fiction about a couple of guys and girls who try to make it in the fashion industry in New York, or rather the world. Good performance from multitalent Kid Cudy.
Best quote:
‘Everybody has ideas, nobody wants to put in the work’
Catering the super wealthy
The World’s Most Expensive Food:
Meet the people supplying and buying £195 chocolate bars, £80,000 bottles of wine and £1000-per-person bespoke dining experiences.
A fine example of extreme marketing for the super wealthy to cater their endless lust for things less wealthy people can’t have. And bloody entertaining too.
Series two of Channel 4’s The World’s Most Expensive Food meets William Hanson to see him at work teaching the art of afternoon tea.
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
The film is hosted by Hollywood star Dennis Hopper and is directed by Hermann Vaske. Shot in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Hopper delivers a powerful performance. Arty as you’ve never seen him before, he puts advertising into perspective of popular culture at the end of the 20th century. Spitting colour, laughing his head off, destroying books, Dennis Hopper sends Hermann Vaske on a mission to talk to the greatest ad men, directors and artists to find out about the crossover between various creative disciplines. In a visually dazzling, wickedly funny slam of creativity and media obsession, Hermann conducts unconventional kinds of interviews
Epilogue
Interesting to see that part 4, which is about using shock as a paradigm and which you should surely skip if you detest shocking imagery, hasn’t survived the test of time. Pulp Fiction by Quintin Tarantino, quoted in this part of the film when it was just released, has.
Mary Queen of Shops
Mary Queen of Shops is a British television series presented by Mary Portas broadcast on BBC2. The series began with a four-week run starting on 7 June 2007, and returned for a second series of six episodes beginning on 9 June 2008. A third three-part series, titled Mary Queen of Charity Shops, began on 2 June 2009. The show returned for a fourth series on 7 June 2010, featuring various independent shops, rather than just fashion boutiques.
In each episode, Mary Portas troubleshoots her way around the UK on a mission to help turn around struggling fashion boutiques. Mary is a leading retail communications expert and is the founder and creative director of Yellowdoor.
Her aim is to turn the businesses around and put glamour back into shopping.
First, she visits the boutiques while the owners are away. Then she revamps them, gets the shop owners right up-to-date and hopefully helps them to start making money again.
In season 3, Mary takes on other retail shops.
Alex Polizzi - The Fixer
An appetizer on this page, but you should see the complete series. If you can.
Alex Polizzi: The Fixer is a business documentary show that has aired on BBC Two since 31 January 2012 and is presented by Alex Polizzi. The programme sees Alex turning around family businesses who are struggling for various reasons to attract customers.
Inside the house of Chanel
If you are interested in what the world of one of the most prestigious and billion euro companies is all about.
From Karl Lagerfeld’s first sketches, through the daily grind of the workshop, and into the hands of the client, this documentary follows the incredible journey of a haute couture collection, taking the viewer behind the scenes of this legendary atelier on the Rue Cambon 31.
One of Karl Lagerfeld's excellent quotes: 'Chanel is dead, don't touch it, that's what people said to me, in the early days, when I was talking about going there'
Some appetizers on this page, but you should see the complete series.
Signe Chanel – Haute Couture Collection [DVD]
DVD ~ Signe Chanel
Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000A6M9YY