Flair (1990)

Directed by

Henri Safran

Genre

drama

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ambitious fashion designer moves back to Australia from New York to start her own label. She clashes with her scheming sister, dodges threats from gangsters and corrupt cops, and navigates romance with several dangerous men while investigating her father's mysterious death.

glamoroussoapyfast-paceddramaticcampyseductiveintenseexcessive

What happens

Flair is a 1990 Australian miniseries about an ambitious designer who wants to break into the fashion industry. The plot concerns a driven career woman returning to Australia from New York to make her mark in the world of fashion design. Tessa (Heather Thomas) returns home to Melbourne to establish her own label while battling her devious younger sister, the mob, and a slew of other enemies including an alcoholic competitor, a stalker, drug dealers, jealous wives, corrupt police, and militant unions. Tessa also juggles love affairs with a married Australian businessman who may be a gangster, an American photographer, and a hot-tempered Irish thug, in between surviving various attempts on her life and investigating the “accidental” death of her father. The program was described as cross between Dynasty and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, with Australian media academic Albert Moran calling it: “an entertaining melodrama with its characters moving in a fantasy world of glamour, greed, wealth and sex.” (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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