À La Mode

À La Mode (In Fashion), based on the novel Fausto by Richard Morgieve, is a light romantic French comedy with Ken Higelin in the role of Fausto Barbarico, a seventeen-year-old orphan who is sent to a small Jewish neighborhood in Paris to apprentice with the eloquent tailor Mietek Breslauer (Jean Yanna). Fausto is eager to learn the ways of women and becomes fascinated with their fashion. Using publicity to his advantage his somewhat bizarre designs soon become the rage of the trendy fashion industry and the charming Fausto becomes a celebrity. Wonderful characters make this comedy enchanting and fun, particularly the sexy rompings that his friend and he engage in to win the hearts of the city’s loveliest young women.