伦敦一年

A Year in London tells the story of the love between a successful London-based fashion designer and a talented Italian woman, respectively played by British actress Melanie Liburd and Italy’s Nina Pons. 　　A Year in London tackles themes along the lines of inclusivity, sustainability and the gender fluidity of designers emerging from the fashion revolution, shining a light on the contrast between southern Italian culture and progressive attitudes in London. Olivia is one such young fashion designer from a small town in the Italian South, who’s engaged and closely affiliated with her family’s traditional tailoring business. She moves to London for a year to study at a prominent fashion university. Her aim is to refine the techniques she’s learned from her father, who’s a tailor with three generations of traditions behind him, but this experience abroad proves overwhelming, leading her to make some radical changes in her life. Olivia is transfixed by the charisma of her mentor - the famous fashion designer Nina Clark who’s black and gay and proud - and ends up caught in a vortex of unfamiliar feelings. But then, one evening, Olivia and Nina find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time and are involved in a terrorist attack. Their shared near-death experience works to create a special bond between them. Usually detached, reluctant to forge ties and guided by unshakeable ethics when it comes to setting boundaries in her relationships with students, Nina is intrigued by the refreshing spontaneity of Olivia’s approach, not to mention her vision of sustainability and gender fluidity in fashion. Their shared commitment to making the fashion industry more inclusive of diversity and more sustainable becomes the fertile ground in which their mutual feelings grow. But Nina is adamant that the boundaries of their relationship stay within the ethical limits of mentor and student. At least, that’s how it seems…