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greengrey
08/19/09

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There are too many fashion "reality" TV shows. The one about Elle internships was the most unrealistic crap I've ever seen. I wouldn't mind if they made a TV show about fashion and pulled out the tired Devil Wears Prada refs, but putting it in "reality" shows just encourages the stereotypes.
It'd be like making a finance reality TV show (plz god no), and modeling it after "wall street".
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Yahtzii
08/19/09

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Okay, I have to admit it, Gwyneth Paltrow is growing on me. I am sort of bizarrely charmed that she has the audacity to charge 100 pounds for a studded tank top. It's a joke, right?
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BiteMeMitchell!
08/19/09

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"there's no indication why the line should start at £100." Well, aside from the fact that Gwyneth would never put her name to anything that might be considered "cheap".
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cuteasabutton
08/19/09

@BiteMeMitchell!: Indeed. Her Goopiness would never associate with the peasants!
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cocktail bun
08/19/09

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I think Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson should have picked a more creative stage name if she was going to be such a bitch about it.
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AthertonMerriweather
08/19/09

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I think I'm the only person who doesn't have a fashion line.
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BiteMeMitchell!
08/19/09

@AthertonMerriweather: You probably do, but you've just forgotten about it because you're so busy with your new fragrance launch at the moment.
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Nicola-M
08/19/09

@AthertonMerriweather: my line is all well worn PJs with various foodstains and my fragrance is Eau'd Shut In.

I shall charge thousands!
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AthertonMerriweather
08/19/09

@BiteMeMitchell!: True. Eau De Atherton smells like your finest armpit.
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GirlFailer
08/19/09

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Lord help us. Kenny Chesney is getting an apparel line? I foresee straw hats, cutoff shorts, tank tops and discreet weed pockets.
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CurtCole
08/19/09

@GirlFailer: I just think it's amusing that he's doing anything that involves closets.
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GirlFailer
08/19/09

@CurtCole: He'll be sure to start off the launch of his apparel line by filling everyone in on how many women he's slept with. You know, to cancel out the fact that he has a fashion line. He'll also sing a song about how much he loves women, and the various reasons why.
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hortense
08/19/09

@GirlFailer: Well there won't be any shirts or any shoes, if his discography is any indication.
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bitchney
08/19/09

@GirlFailer: Every so often, I hear of a celebrity starting a fashion line, and I really want to quit being a fashion designer. The Kenny Chesney item certainly makes me want to quit. Right now.
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sybann
06/05/09

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these are beautiful women who look damn good - until this no-talent bunch of hacks dress them. I'll give you Reco - that's cute. That last dress looks like a costume. A cheap costume.
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sybann
06/05/09

@sybann: And the first one looks like what a waitress or the hostess at IHOP would wear - only the hostess's ensemble would be better constructed. I can see the hem from here - and wtf is up with the sleeves and neckline?
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mbot says Spock yeah!
06/05/09

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I was actually surprised Isaac wasn't more angry with the designers, given his whole "design for all" with Target thing.
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Alys Brangwin can't stop the beat
06/06/09

@mbot says Spock yeah!: I thought he was grandstanding because of that.
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rednrowdy
06/05/09

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hold on...tom and lorenzo said the following:

"..if they were actually dealing with obese clients we could at least understand some of their dismay (because that does require an entirely separate skillset)"

it does NOT require an entirely separate skillset to SEW CLOTHES regardless of the size of the person you are designing the clothes for!

the skills needed to make all clothes are...design a pattern, cut the pattern, sew the clothes together - THAT IS THE SKILL SET FOR A DESIGNER, REGARDLESS OF SIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

i'm not trying to be reductionist here, i'm trying to point out that clothes for EVERYONE are made the same way... is there some other kind of technique of fastening fabric together that doesn't involve a needle/thread/glue gun/velcro that i'm unaware of that cannot be done for someone who is obese?! um, NO. so yeah, tom and lorenzo, good intention on the first part, but utterly massive, horrendous fail on the follow through.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
06/05/09

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"It's the hardest challenge. Because… all these girls, they have problems with their bodies."

I hate to break this to you, but there is no such thing as a perfect body. You may think that a size 0 model is perfect, but that is only because that is what you have been socially conditioned to think.

I am through being nice. Kiss my size 8 ass.
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AuntieBee
06/05/09

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Devil with a blue dress

blue dress, blue dress

Devil with a blue dress on!
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Hana Maru
06/05/09

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The contestants on this show are, for the most part, wretchedly untalented. However, something like this happened on Project Runway, and the designers were extremely upset and at a loss. Jeffrey was so mean to his client that she was crying.
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bluebears
06/05/09

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Plus, "The Fashion Show" is seriously the lamest show title ever.
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saintbernadette
06/05/09

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I haven't really watched this show, but isn't it supposed to be more of a real-world version of PR?

Like, these "designers" are actually trying to create sellable stuff, not high-fashion stuff, right?

So who the fuck did they think they'd be designing for?
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babyruthless
06/05/09

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"Tell me: What is the thing that bothers you most about your body."

I remember going to a weekend retreat when I was in high school, and we were asked what we disliked most about our bodies (seems counterproductive to me, but whatever).

After hearing a bunch of girls whine about their size-six thighs or slightly bumpy nose, it got to be my turn. I hated that my knees hurt most of the time, even though I was just 15. I thought that wasn't fair. And it wasn't even a particularly serious medical condition, just something that I found annoying. I guess the other girls were lucky that they didn't have anything actually wrong with them, but I don't think anyone just said "you know what, I like my body." And that is sad.
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sequined
06/05/09

@babyruthless: I think announcing to a room what you dislike about your body reinforces that dislike in your own head. Which I think is sad. If you never admitted to yourself that you kind of suspect you might have cellulite, you probably aren't wasting your time thinking about it, and talking about it at retreats, etc. I think thinking about what your body can DO is so much more productive--"I'm thrilled that these size-X thighs climbed a mountain last week!" etc.
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emilyanne
06/05/09

@babyruthless: the moment I realised I was failing at mastering basic human skill sets came at boarding school when all the girls in my class used to queue up at night to point out their flaws and say things to me like 'don't you think my thighs are fat and horrible' 'tell me the truth i'm really overweight aren't I' and I would be unable to say anything beyond 'I'm sorry i never look at your thighs, I am completely uninterested in them and I've never considered them in any way'.

Then they would say what do you hate about your body and i would say (truthfully) 'the fact that it's not double jointed because I always wanted to do weird shit like my sister and freak people out'. I didn't have an amazing body or anything - i was a short arsed size 8 - I just never really thought about my looks much. And it depressed me to be somewhere where that was all anyone did.
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IceRoadHooker
06/05/09

@emilyanne: retreats are supposed to be positive. why in the world would they even put the idea in kid's heads that they would dislike something about their body? I agree with sequined--it only reinforces negative behavior.
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emilyanne
06/05/09

@IceRoadHooker: I don't know because i've never been on a retreat and wasn't talking about it - did you mean to respond to me?
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