It is the most chic event of the year. Netflix broadcasts the series Girlboss, delirious comedy faithfully inspired by the life of Sophia Amoruso. Unknown in France, this queen of "fast fashion" is the founder of an empire that is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A girl who grew up in the Californian middle class and lived a few years of odd jobs before finding, at 22 years, the idea that was going to change his life: to resell on Ebay rare coins picked up in thrift stores.

Sophia Amoruso, an uncompromising pioneer

Anticipating the very contemporary taste for vintage, Sophia Amoruso founded in 2006 her ready-to-wear site, Nasty Gal, become in ten years one of the heavyweights of fashion, with nearly 100 million dollars of figure annual business and 350 employees. Hyperactive on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the young woman expanded her empire by publishing a bestseller in 2014, which she sold rights to Netflix for this 100% autobiographical series.

Produced by Charlize Theron, written by Kay Cannon (screenwriter of 30 Rock) and interpreted by Britt Robert son, she draws the portrait in a provocative tone of a young woman lost, a little marginal, whose accession to power as well as personal accomplishment.

Sophia Amoruso, as a heroine

Mixing her chaotic love life with her first steps in business, her existential doubts in the building of her empire, Girlboss approaches Sophia Amoruso as a heroine and tells in filigree the emergence of an era obsessed with vintage, scene of self and social networks. Funny, sometimes touching, this comedy nevertheless remains on the surface of his character, of which she refuses to explore all the shadows.

Sophia Amoruso is an intricate businesswoman, a pioneer in the digital economy and a priestess of fashion. Sophia Amoruso is a complex woman, at the head of an empire that is beginning to show its faults. It remains to be seen whether the end of the first season, which counts thirteen episodes, will somewhat blunt this charming but incomplete myth of the beautiful success story.

"Girlboss" by Kay Cannon, with Britt Robertson, from April 21 on Netflix.