Video Evidence That Iman Can Single-Handedly Revive Bravo's Fashion TV Cred
Now that a gloriously torrid season of Project Runway is over, I'm suffering from a fashion TV void the size of Lincoln Center. But it appears that Bravo, Project Runway's original stomping grounds, is prepared to fill the niche with a revamped version of its The Fashion Show. With Kelly Rowland relieved from hosting duties and supermodel Iman taking over, I can assure you (with magnificent video evidence) that we might be in for the best fashion TV in existence.
Iman hosted the fabulous (and real, I swear) Project Runway Canada for two seasons. See if you can handle this season-one intro. Remember to curl up and cackle when she says, "Tempers will flare."
As for her actual judging abilities, Iman is a unflinching critic. Click to 3:35 to hear Iman tell a contestant, "I never want to hear that excuse again."
But what about her ability to rant at length about fashion, you ask? Iman's second-to-none. Dig her impassioned defense of "goth" as a "legitimate look."
I'm signed on. I'll be recapping The Fashion Show: Ultimate Collection every week, beginning with this Tuesday's premiere. Hopefully Iman will be in top form, the contestants won't disappoint, and co-host Isaac Mizrahi will let Iman do her thing (shooting blue fire from her eyes). Here's a preview, complete with the soon-to-be-immortal sendoff, "You're out of fashion."
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A quick take on Bravo's The Fashion Show from an average viewer "out there".
I love fashion and I have thoroughly enjoyed episodes of "Project Runway". Both Heidi and Tim give "Project Runway" a lot of verve. They both (along with the judging staff) give truly constructive criticism and seem to genuinely appreciate and care about the talented people competing on the programme. We get that they see fashion as an art as well as a commodity.
That said, I wish the same were also true of "The Fashion Show". Bravo built the first episode around new host, Iman and that, perhaps, was a misstep. Iman may be a fashion legend, an icon and an all round benefit to society but in "The Fashion Show" Iman is also awkward, artificial and awful. She seems to have plucked her "persona" out of a really, really mediocre community theatre production of "Grand Hotel". It begs the question -- why would anyone choose to stamp themselves with such a clumsy caricature? If Episode 1 of "The Fashion Show" is to be believed, Iman must possess a very limited imagination about herself. This failure of comprehension makes for a strange combination as Iman takes the spotlight -- unintentionally amusing, repulsive and rather sad all at the same time.
Throw in Issac Mizahi -- devoid of his usual pop and fizz -- trying desperately to come across as a sage mandarin of fashion, a collection of rather toothless designers and Bravo's "The Fashion Show" begins to resemble not so much "Project Runway" but "Waiting For Guffman".
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