Underwent a 4K digital restoration in 2021.
Credited by superstar fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier for igniting his passion, stating: "I cry each time I see [Falbalas], but it gave me my vocation in life. It directed the way that I should make fashion - somebody in action, making the clothes, doing the fittings, having a muse. It was a very good portrait of the profession."
Shot during the German occupation of France in World War 2, with filming wrapping weeks after the Normandy landings and released in the liberated country, almost two months after Germany's surrender.