Kingdom of Dreams #Docuseries
Oh la la ! This looks fascinating …
‘This docu series ( On Stan) tells the glamorous story of the fashion world spanning from the 1990s to the 2010s. A period now considered the Golden Age of high fashion, when the forces of ground-breaking creativity and disruptive business converge and collide.
Kingdom of Dreams explores the rivalries and rising stars behind the ‘golden age’ of fashion
The new series, which was made by the team behind the McQueen documentary, showcases the rise of John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford with interviews from Tim Blanks, Amanda Harlech and Philip Treacy among others.
Fashion, for all its glamour and grandeur, has a dark underbelly. Historic feuding between couture houses and the power struggles of their financial puppeteers make for an industry rife with contention, as well as prime material for a highly watchable documentary series. That’s exactly what is delivered in Sky Original series Kingdom of Dreams, which lays bare some of the most famous fashion feuds of the last three decades, with a dramatic quality befitting such tales.
The characteristics of the series will be familiar to anyone who watched producers Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s previous project, the BAFTA-nominated McQueen, with its similarly ominous soundtrack and dark opening sequence. Based on journalist and author Dana Thomas’s book Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster, this time their subject is much broader, as they take on the defining moments of the 90s and 00s.
By painting the story of four designers armed with the task to change Haute Couture forever, the series investigates how John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford propped up a billion-dollar industry, and their relationship to their paymasters, Bernard Arnault and François Pinault.’ from Tatler
