Drama
A young "fabric geek" lands a job at an upscale Japanese lingerie company — and quickly discovers she'll need help to survive.
Mayuko steps into a curious new world: the lingerie industry. On her first day of work the office is busy with an upcoming floor show.
The atelier's owner, Nanjo, teaches Mayuko about brand strategy. Mayuko helps her first customer and finds she has much more to learn about lingerie.
Nanjo pushes Mayuko to decide whether she wants in or out of the lingerie industry. A life-changing experience helps Mayuko grapple with the decision.
President Nanjo wants to expand into big department stores. Preserving the brand while growing fast creates many issues for a small business to solve.
Sometimes you have to take risks to make a company grow. Mayuko is learning how to take chances while finding her place in the company.
You can't sell products and build a strong brand without a bold advertising strategy. Mayuko volunteers so she can learn, but finds it perplexing.
Mayuko plans an ambitious runway show -- which she wants to rival those of the top designers -- but no one is sure how it will turn out.
Emotion is holding its first runway show ever. It’s an experience that goes beyond what the staff could have imagined. An incident occurs.
With the big show finished and Emotion transitioning, Mayuko begins to think about her own future. What is lingerie to her? Where is Emotion headed?
Mayuko creates the ideal lingerie. Nanjo visits the old site of a lingerie maker from her thwarted past. Emotion’s founding secret is revealed.
The employees are all worried about work even though they are on extended leave. Mayuko begins to actually create the lingerie that she wants to make.
The runway show is a success, and Emotion receives more attention from the fashion industry, which in turn brings the new request Mayuko has been longing for.
Emotion preps for a new runway show themed "elegance," but it unfolds like a memoir of Nanjo's past. Mayuko learns about Nanjo's true intentions.
Mayuko Tokita
Mayumi Nanjo
Yuri Kouno
Jin Saruhashi
Mizuki Nishizawa
Fumika Iida
Reiko Tanaka
"Mariana & Scarlett" centers on two sisters with dreams of fashion success. Their close bond is tested when they fall for the same man, Roberto. Set in the glamorous fashion world, the telenovela explores the complexity of sisterhood, love, and ambition, leading to a dramatic love triangle filled with betrayal.
A teenager who dreams with a career as a top model becomes part of a prostitution scheme and meets a powerful and obsessive businessman. As a last resort, he marries the girl's mother just to be near her. This series explores the limits of obsession, wealth and pleasure, using the fashion world as backdrop.
It tells the story of young people who dream of a modeling career and the rise of their lives. It all starts when the Sex Appeal agency, led by Edgar and Cecilia, runs a contest that will award the winner two hundred thousand dollars and the possibility of living abroad. The main competitors are Angel, Vilma, Eva and Claudinha. They will do anything to earn, even things they would never imagine doing.
Chiyuki Fujito was going to be a professional runway model until she stopped growing. Poor Ikuto Tsumura is not even sure if he wants to be a fashion designer because of his family responsibilities. Faced with overwhelming adversity, they need to decide if their dreams are worth pursuing. It’s not impossible – they’ll just have to be creative in how they get there!
Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.
Gloss was a television drama series in New Zealand that screened from 1987-1990. The series was about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family. It was a starting point for many actors who went on to many productions in New Zealand, Australia and around the world including Temuera Morrison, Miranda Harcourt, Peter Elliott, Lisa Chappell, Danielle Cormack and Kevin Smith. Writers for the show included James Griffin, who went on to write Outrageous Fortune, Rosemary McLeod and Ian Mune. The show's title theme song was performed by Beaver Morrison. The show has not been rescreened since its original screening, but selected extracts have been made available for viewing on NZ On Screen.
Sarii Machida
Rin Nakatani
