Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestA fashion designer, returns home to Australia from America intent on becoming a major player in the Australian fashion industry. Her success leads to bitter jealousy amongst her rivals and she also has problems when a one-time employee. Pamela Winter-Smith, manages to win a court case claiming back her designs.
Tessa returns home to Melbourne to establish her own label while battling her devious younger sister, the mob, and a slew of other enemies including an alcoholic competitor, a stalker, drug dealers, jealous wives, corrupt police, and militant unions. Tessa also juggles love affairs with a married Australian businessman who may be a gangster, an American photographer, and a hot-tempered Irish thug, in between surviving various attempts on her life and investigating the “accidental” death of her father.
Costume
Early 90s Australian fashion that screams power shoulder and bigger hair.
Acting
Joanne Canning commits to every unhinged sisterly scheme with gleeful malice.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Flair arrived during Australia's brief obsession with glossy, American-style miniseries featuring ambitious women in dangerous industries—think 'Return to Eden' with more cocaine.
Khym Lam, who played Mira, became one of Australia's first prominent Asian-Australian actors in primetime drama—a casting choice more progressive than the show's writing deserved.
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