I had to listen to valued commenter Jason (the commenter) when he demanded that I include Project Runway in my list of reality shows. But I am not a big fan. You see I have learned a little something about fashion since we opened the store and most of what goes on in Project Runway is pure and utter bullshit. As far as the nuts and bolts of selling and producing clothes is concerned. It might be spot on in the glitz of couture fashion but in the real world it is from another planet.
In fact I have some experiance with all the underlying assumptions of all of these reality shows and each one is more phony than the next. In fact if I had to choose one adjective to describe them, the last one I would pick would be "reality."
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Troop, leaving aside this particular show for a moment, much of the clothing I've seen on runway models is "from another planet." I don't understand how the designers or design houses behind runway fashion (a lot of it, anyway) stay viable economically. Is there enough of a market for the way out stuff to keep them afloat?
ricpic, They probably make money off the things most people can afford: handbags, sunglasses, perfumes. The flashy stuff on the runway is just to get them some name recognition and make their name worth something.
What designers do is market their "coture" collections on the runway. They sell very little of that. But they get a name and then market themselves in a dumbed down manner to the big department stores. So you can buy their "collection" at Bloomy's or Macy's but it is a hell of a lot different from what is on the runway shows.
That's why it is all bullshit.
The buyers aren't glamorous beauties like Anne Hathaway...they are chubby old ladies with sensible shoes with glasses on a string.
At least the ones I see at the shows.
The dudes and girls on Project Runway have no concept of what it takes to get a line of clothing off the ground. Working with the cutting services and the sewers. We are in the process of doing it and it is ball breaking work.
That's why I was in Califorina at the sweatshops, dickering with the owners.
Dickering. Hee.
The wife made this great dress. We call it the black roses because it has black roses in the pattern. Clinton Kelly saw it when they filmed the show and he loved it. The thing was we turned it inside out. The bright part of the fabric was inside and the more subdued part was on the outside. It makes for a very interesting and cool dress. Of course the contractor thought we made a mistake and reversed it. Even though he had specific instructions he still changed it without asking anyone about it. So we had to send everything back to be ripped out and resewn.
They don't talk about that shit on Project Runway.
they were talking that balloon boy starts to signal the death of 'reality' tv on bloggingheads the other day...
Trooper York,
You mean you don't have six hours to make each dress, by hand, after thinking about it for thirty minutes? I'm shocked!
I thought Project Runway was about building your own aircraft.
Did everybody see the reenactment of 11/22/63 last night on Mad Men?
Stopped by to offer an early congratulations on the Yanqui's World Series victory.
Ah wait. The Phillies are ahead 3-1 in the first inning.
They'll probably lose, so the congratulations stand.
Let me be the first to offer my condolences.
See you back in the city, Yankee fans!
Just walk Utley from now on. That's the only way the Yanks'll win this thing.
My favorite realty show was "Flip This House."
The shows you mention here? Why bother. Especially that Runway Show.
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