Material Girl BBC1 "WE'RE three models down, nobody fits the shoes, and there's an outfit and a half still at the airport," said designer Ali during a stressful catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week. I know how she feels. It took me half an hour to find a clean vest this morning.
Material Girl is the new series set in the world of the fashion industry.
Swiss Chanel Ceramic Replica WatchesFor those of us currently sporting the winter collection from Primark, it was always going to be an eye-opener. The action centres on Ali, a lowly frock-maker whose creations are influenced by such inspirations as "lightning hitting the sea".
It sounds pretentious, but I know exactly where she's coming from. Much of the way I dress my children is influenced by spaghetti hoops hitting the T-shirt.
Initially, she was working for Davina Bailey, an esteemed figure in needlework circles, having provided outfits for many an A-list celebrity. And Denise Van Outen.
But the world of high fashion is a bitchy, back-stabbing one - you wouldn't believe what goes on behind the scenes at Millets - and the pair had fallen out when Bailey overlooked Ali for promotion.
This was the low point for Ali, but things started looking up when she met a toothy hunk in a bowling alley - male models are known for their love of skittles - and was offered a job by Replica Balenciaga Bags the roguish Marco.
"I'll be Tamara Mellon to your Jimmy Choo," he told her - this, for the sartoriallyuneducated, being a reference to the empire of the renowned London-based, Malaysian-born clogmaker.
To be honest, I'd have understood it better if he'd name-checked St Michael. This, naturally, sparked a war between the houses of Bailey and Marco, them both competing to robe some drippy actress for the Baftas.
She eventually chose Bailey's creation, a ridiculous little thigh- length number, which one observer remarked looked "like chicken foil".
I'm not sure it'll catch on, although it might be worth getting a roll of BacoFoil in for when all your work clothes are in the wash.
Marco and Ali, however, still managed to steal the show by dressing a common oik in their dress and shoving her up the red carpet.
I've never done fashion journalism, but I'll do my best to describe it: a blood-coloured, ankle-length smock, low-cut to the stomach and necessitating the taping of the bosoms within.
To my mind, if the BBC was going to make a fashion drama, they should have chucked a few quid at Louise Lombard and Stella Gonet and revived
embroidered patches The House Of Eliot. It's 15 years since that duo last made anything and, to be honest, my original "Beatrice and Evie" 1920s gentleman's undergarments are looking a little threadbare.
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