A rags to riches story of a young woman from the Chigago projects who longs to become a fashion designer who has an on and off again relationship with a political activist boyfriend who doesn't do much to encourage her aspirations. Through an encounter with a fashion photographer in the department store she works with she ends up in Rome as a model.
It has many of the tropes of when it was made: that if a woman succeeds it has to be a Pyrrhic victory, that the success of her man should be put above her own without considering that it might be possible for both to succeed in their respective interests.
The ending is unclear. Is she giving up her dreams to be with her man? It doesn't seem to present the possibility of a bright future that the makers intend.
Ultimately this story comes off as kind of standard for the era - watchable but not memorable. It seems more of a vanity project for its star, Diana Ross, than something made for the audience.
It has many of the tropes of when it was made: that if a woman succeeds it has to be a Pyrrhic victory, that the success of her man should be put above her own without considering that it might be possible for both to succeed in their respective interests.
The ending is unclear. Is she giving up her dreams to be with her man? It doesn't seem to present the possibility of a bright future that the makers intend.
Ultimately this story comes off as kind of standard for the era - watchable but not memorable. It seems more of a vanity project for its star, Diana Ross, than something made for the audience.