Sundance Airs Great Fashion with "The Day Before" Series

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Sundance Channel is once again airing some quality fashion based television. Loic Prigent is adding to his documentary roster with a new 4 part series “The Day Before” which chronicles the 36 hours leading up to the fall 2009 runway shows of Sonia Rykiel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler, and Karl Lagerfeld for Fendi.

Prigent has previously produced Signe Chanel in 2005 and Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton in 2007 which offered insight into the creative process of Marc Jacobs who has single-handedly renovated the Louis Vuitton label and redefined luxury handbags. Prigent’s last projects involved shooting footage over a six month period and this new series was born because he was looking for a shorter time frame that would be considerably easier to edit.

These new episodes of “The Day Before” offer moments of levity as well as tension. “The Day Before – Sonia Rykiel” premiers Wednesday, September 9 at 9p.m. central and subsequent episodes air Thursday, the 10th through Saturday the 12th.