Finally! After four strenuous 10-15 hour days styling the amazing wardrobe for the pilot of the soon-to-be- hit web series "This is Fashion", I get a break to gossip about the experience. The days started off around 6:30 for me, and consisted of trucking all steamers, shoes, clothes, accessories, garment racks, and Starbucks coffee to our first location, coordinating with our NEW makeup and hair professionals as our previous makeup artist called from the hospital the night before to tell us she could not make it and our hair stylists flaked (surprise surprise- this is Hollywood afterall), steaming all the clothing to be used for the day, helping unload all of the equipment, and trying to keep the models/actresses entertained while they waited for hours to get into hair and make-up. Needless to say, our first day was a little shaky as first days tend to be. But as we got the into the swing of things, we had nothing but high hopes for the incredibly funny lines of the show and the remarkable style of the models (even with the unimaginably low budget of $500 for 9 characters).
The series portrays 2 bachelors in their mid-twenties, one bi-sexual (typical of LA proper) and one straight male with gay tendencies (also typical of LA proper- but that's what I love about it). The boys share their studio apartment with 6 models from different parts of the world. There's Lisa our somewhat masculine but light-hearted Australian model, Marie the sophisticated Frenchy, Anouk- the wise but eccentric Nigerian model, Fafi our Middle-Eastern model, Jamie the mid-west oil riggers daughter played by Cody Kennedy (sister of "Internet-It-Girl" Cory Kenney), and Isadora, our hot Brazilian with lots of flavor! The girls are underestimated by our male characters who feel that their sole purpose is to "take care of their babies", a somewhat twisted paternal instinct considering that the models are grown women. Jeremy and Derek, our 2 bachelors, go about their pretentious lifestyles, threesomes with other members of their highfalutin circles, having babies with editors from top magazines, and of course manning the kitchen while the girls eat breakfast- making sure to keep their girls skinny. While the men may come off as pricks to the average viewer, their concern for the girls is actually quite heart felt and their obliviousness to the models' artistic talents (one of the model's draws a replica of a Munch painting with a box of crayons Jeremy gives to her) is a breath of fresh air to the woman viewer searching for a reason to continue watching the chauvinistic male characters drag the female models' reputation through the mud. The series definitely promotes a different kind of humor that people find hilarious or extremely offensive. It makes no difference to the creators, they have their finished pilot and they are sticking to it- as for me, I recognize a piece or art for art's sake when I see it and stick to making the characters look incredible. Stay tuned for more blog entries on the series premier including pictures of the fabulously chic fashions of up and coming LA designers worn by the girls!
