The Day Before

The Day Before on the Sundance Channel will is an original series which follows some of the biggest names in the business (Proenza Schouler, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Fendi's Karl Lagerfeld) for the 36 hour period leading up to their runway shows. The four-part series begins on a very hactic day in fashion, the day before New York Fashion Week in September. The series was directed by Loic Prigent, the fashion journalist behind the very brilliant documentary Marc Jacobs & Louis VuittonThe series covers the global fashion calendar - from Sonia Rykiel's 40th anniversary celebration in Paris in October to Proenza Schouler in New York in February, Fendi by Karl Lagerfeld in Milan in March, and Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture show in Paris in July - capturing designers at this key moment when creativity and business come together. Each house has its own unique energy, mood, character and rhythm - and its colorful moments of panic, last minute inspiration and ego-unleashing. MORE