Check out the video for Irina's Spring 2010 collection - still stealing from Madonna (Love Profusion video) with rolling blond model & butterflies. Ugh.
I absolutely hate it that every finale, M. Kors wears those damn sunglasses. A. It's dark in there - sunglasses are so silly. B. Why the Diva attitude? It really, really irks me!
Ok, so here's the scoop on how they came up with "designer introductions" during the runway show, when in reality the designers were hidden backstage during fashion week.
Missy Schartz at Entertainment Weekly (who was at the Bryant Park show last February) says they filmed the segments where you see designers on the runway separately, on the same day they had the real show in front of the public. (See her recap where she mentions this here: [www.ew.com]) They had to stick a bunch of extras in some seats to fill up the front rows for those shots. Schwartz surmises that they are probably all employees of Lifetime. (I'm guessing also Bunim-Murray.)
So they basically held two shows: One for the public, in which the designers' identities were hidden, and then a second one in front of just the judges and a few extra seat-fillers, where they had the designers come out and introduce themselves - and then appear later to walk with the models at the end of their shows.
Then they spliced the two together to create the illusion that the public got to see who the designers were. (Which, as Brian points out, is totally stupid, because the whole world knows that didn't really happen.)
@Zira: I don't think so. In those seasons, they just had decoy collections from designers who didn't make the finals but whose auf'ing had not yet aired.
@Zira: They never had to do that before, because usually everybody knew who the final four, five or six designers were by the time the final runway show happened. So they'd have every designer left (as of the last show aired before fashion week) do a runway show. One to three of these were "decoy" shows and the others were real.
They couldn't do that for this season, because none of the episodes had aired when Fashion Week happened. So they had to keep every designer's identity a secret.
They'll probably go back to the old model next season. That season starts Jan. 14, and fashion week will likely be in late February. So they'll probably do the "decoy" thing and show six or seven collections at Fashion Week again.
There was a fascinating article in one of the rags about how the Bryant Park fashion shows for each season are too far in advance of the actual season.....what is actually shown in the fashion shows doesn't reflect what will actually be in stores because its too far in advance. Its a throwback to an earlier time when it took much longer to produce and ship clothes.
There's been a lot of talk about changing the dates for the Bryant Park shows.
@MisterHippity: That's going to be interesting, because Fashion Week is February 11th-18th. If the season starts January 14, only four designers will have gotten the boot before the finale is filmed. If they use 12 designers, that means 8 will have to show. If they do 16 designers (as they did for season six), that means 12 will have to show. That would be pretty crazy, either way.
@Brian Moylan: Well, I see your point ... there would have to be more decoys than usual. But not quite as many as your counts, I don't think.
The P.R. show is always the last day of Fashion Week, which is a Friday. So that means they'll hold the final on Friday, Feb. 19.
Now the show starts on Thursday, Jan. 14th, so that means they'll actually have time to air six episodes before the final runway show (1/14/ 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 and 2/18). So that means, if they have 16 designers again, they'll be left with 10 still standing by the time the runway show happens.
But I think they'll do a double-elimination just before the runway show (as they did in the last season in 2008). So there will be 9 left. And then maybe they'll show nine collections (where five or six will be decoys).
But that's still alot of decoy shows. The most they did before, I think, was six shows (three decoys) in 2008.
Obviously, if they have fewer than 16 contestants, the number of decoys needed would fall accordingly.
This is why I'm really surprised they waited in until 1/14 to air the premiere. I thought they' do it on 1/7, to squeeze in that extra week before the final show.
The only garment--literally the only one--that I liked was the knee-length gold dress that Carol Hannah made. And of course, it was on a model with the worst walk in the universe.
That's a stretch. The Glad joke was certainly poking fun at "Top Chef" for its overt shilling, but in the process 30 Rock dedicated an entire scene to sandwich bags. I doubt Glad is too unhappy about that. #30rock
30 Rock is the only thing on NBC right now worth watching every week. I watched it on my DVR this morning and was laughing my butt off. It's probably the only thing that NBC doesn't completely sanitize before reaching the airwaves. I love that they take digs at the network and whether it's b/c the Lornes/Fey team is powerful enough to get away with it or the people at the network are too stupid to get it (it's definitely possible,) I'm all for it. I highly doubt it'll be the digs that get them canceled but the ratings should they fall low enough, not that NBC can afford to lose any more programming at this point.
I love Jack's reaction when Padma showed him that she was pregnant. It's a reminder of what all women experience when they announce their pregnancy to superiors, no matter their job or industry. Meanwhile, you could come to work and announce to everyone that you had herpes and the reaction wouldn't be any worse.
Side note: Padma needs to stick to presenting on Top Chef. Her monotone robotic delivery doesn't really work for anything else. Some girls (and also boys) need to accept that a pretty face can only take you so far. #30rock
Padma Lakshmi can't act her way out of a Glad bag. I cringed during that whole scene. Josh Fadem as Liz Lemon's agent on the other hand...brilliant. #30rock
@b4nt4: I cringed through most of Padma's horrid performance, until she started stealing food (in a Glad bag!) at the end. That deserved a chuckle, but only because she wasn't actually saying anything. #30rock
I think this analysis is completely backwards. 30 Rock has made dissing the actual product and product placement itself a form of product placement. Like Jack says in the Jack-Tor episode in season 1, it's like "Letterman dissing the suits. Hippy humor." Look, NBC is in on the joke, they're cool! Seems odd that Gawker wouldn't be able to grasp this type of thing, since it built an online empire doing pretty much the same thing re: media.
The sandwich bag jokes are pretty clearly subtle product placement, not a "real kick in the shins". We all know she shills for Glad, and here she is taking credit for inventing the sandwich bag! Buy Glad!
@missdelite: i thought the episode was better than all the rest of them, but that foine looking gentleman might have something to do with it. Dayum! #30rock
@missdelite: Cheyenne lives in my neighborhood and I see him walking his dog all the time. Every time I spot him I stop in my tracks and pee myself. He is really that hot. #30rock
@tim.lemire: Pretty sure that's because it's a long-standing improv device, and Tina Fey has a long history in improv. Family Guy did not in any way, shape, or form invent or pioneer the cutaway. #30rock
@MartaD: Parks & Rec is the best show on the teevee machine (or Hulu or wevs). Period. But Lesbian Sour-Fruit's show still has its moments. (And I can still pretend Jack and Liz are more than just a fauxmantic couple.) #30rock
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Missy Schartz at Entertainment Weekly (who was at the Bryant Park show last February) says they filmed the segments where you see designers on the runway separately, on the same day they had the real show in front of the public. (See her recap where she mentions this here: [www.ew.com]) They had to stick a bunch of extras in some seats to fill up the front rows for those shots. Schwartz surmises that they are probably all employees of Lifetime. (I'm guessing also Bunim-Murray.)
So they basically held two shows: One for the public, in which the designers' identities were hidden, and then a second one in front of just the judges and a few extra seat-fillers, where they had the designers come out and introduce themselves - and then appear later to walk with the models at the end of their shows.
Then they spliced the two together to create the illusion that the public got to see who the designers were. (Which, as Brian points out, is totally stupid, because the whole world knows that didn't really happen.)
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Do you know if they did something similar when Project Runway was on Bravo or was this one of Lifetime's brilliant innovations?
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They couldn't do that for this season, because none of the episodes had aired when Fashion Week happened. So they had to keep every designer's identity a secret.
They'll probably go back to the old model next season. That season starts Jan. 14, and fashion week will likely be in late February. So they'll probably do the "decoy" thing and show six or seven collections at Fashion Week again.
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There was a fascinating article in one of the rags about how the Bryant Park fashion shows for each season are too far in advance of the actual season.....what is actually shown in the fashion shows doesn't reflect what will actually be in stores because its too far in advance. Its a throwback to an earlier time when it took much longer to produce and ship clothes.
There's been a lot of talk about changing the dates for the Bryant Park shows.
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The P.R. show is always the last day of Fashion Week, which is a Friday. So that means they'll hold the final on Friday, Feb. 19.
Now the show starts on Thursday, Jan. 14th, so that means they'll actually have time to air six episodes before the final runway show (1/14/ 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 and 2/18). So that means, if they have 16 designers again, they'll be left with 10 still standing by the time the runway show happens.
But I think they'll do a double-elimination just before the runway show (as they did in the last season in 2008). So there will be 9 left. And then maybe they'll show nine collections (where five or six will be decoys).
But that's still alot of decoy shows. The most they did before, I think, was six shows (three decoys) in 2008.
Obviously, if they have fewer than 16 contestants, the number of decoys needed would fall accordingly.
This is why I'm really surprised they waited in until 1/14 to air the premiere. I thought they' do it on 1/7, to squeeze in that extra week before the final show.
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I love Jack's reaction when Padma showed him that she was pregnant. It's a reminder of what all women experience when they announce their pregnancy to superiors, no matter their job or industry. Meanwhile, you could come to work and announce to everyone that you had herpes and the reaction wouldn't be any worse.
Side note: Padma needs to stick to presenting on Top Chef. Her monotone robotic delivery doesn't really work for anything else. Some girls (and also boys) need to accept that a pretty face can only take you so far. #30rock
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The sandwich bag jokes are pretty clearly subtle product placement, not a "real kick in the shins". We all know she shills for Glad, and here she is taking credit for inventing the sandwich bag! Buy Glad!
That's the way I saw it last night, at least.
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If I were in NY I'd totally check him out on Broadway. #30rock
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