A high-profile Paris fashion show provides a glamorous backdrop to romantic and personal conflicts, including an illicit affair between two journalists, two former lovers trying vainly to revive their passion for each other, a photographer hurling abuse at all and sundry and a designer preparing to reveal his masterpiece. Robert Altman's satirical comedy, starring Kim Basinger, Tim Robbins, Sophia Loren and Richard E Grant.

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.