Age: 52
female
Paris is a French-American actress of Moroccan descent. After working on multi-award winning films, plays and radio dramas in London and Paris, she established residence in Los Angeles where she joined Tim Robbins' theater troupe The Actors' Gang. She continues to work in film and television, recurring in shows such as Stranger Things (Netflix) and Succession (HBO). Paris speaks fluent English, French and Arabic.
She is the creative director of Paris's oldest fashion house. The house is being sold to a private equity firm. She has sixty days to show them that fashion is not a content category. Set inside the world of Parisian haute couture — the specifically French universe of fashion as art, history, and national identity — Lumière follows Isabelle de Laurent, 41, the creative director of Maison Lumière, a fictional 170-year-old couture house that has survived two world wars, the prêt-à-porter revolution, and the internet, and is now facing its most existential crisis: acquisition by a global private equity firm whose interest in fashion is entirely financial. Isabelle has sixty days to produce a collection that demonstrates the house's commercial relevance without compromising the artistic integrity that makes it worth preserving. Three seasons track the collection's creation, the negotiation's outcome, and Isabelle's personal reckoning with what she has sacrificed over twenty years of devotion to a house that was never technically hers. S1E1 — Maison The house in its daily operation — extraordinary, fragile, irreplaceable. The acquisition letter arriving. Isabelle reading it in the atelier surrounded by half-finished garments. S2E6 — The Collection The final collection's presentation. Every piece shown against the background of what it might be the last of. S3E10 — The Decision Series finale: What Isabelle chooses. The strapless mini she designs for the finale — the first piece under her own name.
