Fashion War
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Fashion War official poster
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| Also known as | Trendsetter |
| Genre |
Drama Fashion Office Polictics |
| Created by | Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited |
| Written by | Benny Wong Mak Sai-lung Kwok Yat-choi Yim Lai-wah Yeung Suet-yee |
| Starring |
Moses Chan Him Law Sisley Choi Vivien Yeo Leanne Li Joel Chan Ali Lee Koni Lui Jeannie Chan Hanjin Tan |
| Theme music composer | |
| Opening theme | Trend (潮流) |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Catherine Tsang |
| Producer(s) | Dave Fong |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Editor(s) | Benny Wong |
| Camera setup | Multi camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | TVB |
| Release | |
| Original network | TVB Jade |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 29 February – 20 March 2016 |
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| Website | |
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| Chinese | 潮流教主 | ||||||||||||||
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| Literal meaning | "Trendsetter" | ||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cháoliú Jiàozhǔ |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Chìuhlàuh Gāaujyú |
| IPA | [tsʰiːṷ.lɐ̭u káːu.tsy̌ː] |
| Jyutping | Ciu4lau4 Gaau1zyu2 |
Fashion War (Chinese: 潮流教主; Cantonese Yale: Chìuhlàuh Gāaujyú; literally "Trendsetter") is a 2016 Hong Kong television drama created and produced by TVB, starring Moses Chan, Him Law, Sisley Choi as the main leads. It premiered on Hong Kong's TVB Jade and Malaysia's Astro On Demand on February 29, 2016 airing Monday through Sunday during its 9:30-10:30 pm timeslot and concluding March 20, 2016 with a total of 20 episodes. The show's producer is Dave Fong, and the head writer is Benny Wong. Filming took place from April to July 2015 on location in Hong Kong.
The drama centers around the office politics of a fictional high fashion magazine in Hong Kong. It also shows the darker gritty side of the fashion industry. It mainly follows the fashion exploits of magazine editor Ip Long (Moses Chan) and his protege, Yannes Cheung (Sisley Choi). Moses Chan's character Ip Long, was modeled after VOGUE magazine chief editor Anna Wintour and designer Karl Lagerfeld.
MODES fashion magazine editor-in-chief Ip Long (Moses Chan) is feared and hated by industry peers and colleagues because of his ruthless attitude. According to him, his opinion and decision is the only one that matters. With the power he welds he forces fashion companies to only exclusively advertise with MODES or else he will not feature them in the magazine. When fashion enthuses, blogger and dress maker Yannes Cheung (Sisley Choi), interviews and gets hired at MODES he has her disqualified for the position because of the counterfeit designer handbag she is carrying. Later he sees her talent when he notices the editor board she had rearranged during her interview but still refuses to hire her.
When rival fashion magazine GINA starts emerging as a heated competitor, Long decides to hire scandalized socialite Vincy Kei (Ali Lee) who was suggested to him earlier by MODES publisher executive Man, as head of the Advertising Department to bring publicity to MODES. Vincy a head strong women who doesn't like to be looked down upon however is not happy when Long has her portray herself to the public as a sad victim of her husband's abandonment.
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