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1987FASHION & BEAUTY
10/13/87 October 1987 Paris Spring,
fashion designer Hermes; Hermes scarf sale, women buying scarves, store manager, Chanel backstage before fashion show. Chanel designer, Karl Lagerfeld (in his prime)

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Pan long queue of people all the way down the street outside the Hermes store in Paris. CU's of some of the folk on line, mostly women of all ages.
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Ext. Hermes building. Pan out from building to the street, throngs of people lined up outside the store in Paris, traffic going by, peds.
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Large Roman numeral clock on Hermes building exterior
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Int. appears to be a scarf sale inside the Hermes shop, explaining the line outside the building. Everyone wants an iconic Hermes scarf! Women and some men rummage through tables full of 'designer' scarves and buying scarves. Sign on wall with prices of scarves (in french)
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An older woman, maybe 50-60 looking at camera. Pan down to cu of her hand holding a pen attached to a chain and writing a check or receipt.
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Women looking through racks of clothing
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A male Hermes designer or store manager talks to unseen interviewer about how they prepare for the sale and the crowd. He states it takes 2 months to prepare and they only allow 200 people at a time inside. He states they expect 1,020 people in one day. He states a sales person was once bitten on the hand over the sale of a scarf in the past.
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Several shots of the hundreds of customers shopping for scarves at Hermes.
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Next segment: Behind the scenes, backstage, at a Chanel fashion show. Large wall of fashion designs and diagrams, some photos, a woman explains in French to models.
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A waiter walks around carrying a tray of drinks.
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Two models wearing street clothes, sitting in chairs, one model's hair in rollers. Dozens of people milling about
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A 'young' Fashion Designer for Chanel, the famous Karl Lagerfeld, shot from behind in his signature pony tail. He walks around carrying a stack of newspapers
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Primping a model's hair, Lagerfeld pulls her hair back
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CU's Karl Lagerfeld.
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Trays full of fashion jewelry and baskets full of rosettes, hats, chains.
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CU a model shows off her extremely elaborate hanging earrings with a photograph of a man in a heart and tiny teddy bear
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A Black female model applying her own eye make-up. Other model having her haid done by a stylist.
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Behind the scenes - Hair stylists working on model's hairdos, models having their make-up applied, models being primped
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Before the show - rows of empty seats, notebooks on each chair. Audience begins to arrive.
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