The economist Paul Dolan's recent book Happiness by Design shows the happiest people are those who experience feelings of both purpose and pleasure over time.
Tragic backstories and heroic self-sacrifice proliferate, but they can't quite conceal that the films, individually and collectively, lack both purpose and soul.
More broadly, the tension between seriousness and unseriousness in both purpose and execution is the domain of caricature whether or not it's aimed at particular people.
In later life, Loridan-Ivens becomes a documentary-maker, and there is a sense of both purpose and defiance in her chosen career: "I wanted to become part of a story that was greater than my own".
Organized by Dilys E. Blum, the museum's curator of costumes and textiles, it confirms that Schiaparelli had a distinct artistic greatness about her: a sense of both purpose and freedom, of fearlessness and fun.
Arguments about this second sort of "creationism" are connected to the ambiguity of the term "design", and indeed "plan", both of which can be used to imply both purpose and structure: the designs I have on you are different in kind to the design of your body, though they may be stimulated by it.
