Explaining the rules and rituals of fashion to someone like me is about as futile an exercise as trying to pick up anti-matter with a spoon. But give me a soapy TV drama about a high-end French fashion house -- led by a family dynasty that’s as dysfunctional as the Roys of Succession -- and you have my undivided attention.
Vincent is forced to resign , while Rovel’s chief executive, the calculating and gimlet-eyed Diane Rovel, moves in for the kill. Vincent’s defenestration is her chance to vanquish Ledu once and for all. Portrayed in the series by Carole Bouquet -- a real-life fashion icon herself and the face of Chanel No. 5 in the 1980s -- the imperious Diane is the wealthiest woman in France; she fixates, nevertheless, on what she doesn’t have. “ wants to get it all — to eat the world,” Bouquet tells me.