:: Gok’s frocks - do they rock?

Posted by Sonja on July 15, 2008

Fashion television can be amazing or shit. But I’ll enjoy it whatever the quality! The Clothes Show had its day, I used to love She’s Gotta Have It, Looking Good presented by Lowri Turner, who looked square but was hilarious as hell, and I still enjoy What Not To Wear although it should be titled How To Dress Middle Class And Boring.
I have a secret penchant too for How To Look Good Naked - not strictly a fashion show, but presented by total queen Gok Wan and a fabulous mixture of high camp and self-esteem boot camp. So at the end of the last series when he said his next show would be a fashion show, I probably grinned at the tv (between my tears over how great the woman who’d just come out of chemotherapy looked in a bikini).
I watched the first in the new Gok’s Fashion Fix series last week and was impressed that he had Brix Smith Start, owner of Shoreditch’s Start boutique, as an ‘expert’, and that they dared poke fun at her with lots of shots of her chasing her silly little dog, Pixie, around her boutique. At one point I swear Pixie pawed at a dress worth thousands of pounds, about to rip into the silk with her doggie claws, and Brix Smith Smart didn’t bat a fake eyelash. I also loved the moment when Gok told Geri Halliwell “I love you with all my chinkie heart”. Not so good was the cheesy jingle, presence of Alexa Chung - (sh)it girl of the moment - and repetitive repetition of what had already happened in the show, and what was coming up (um, I may be a dumb fashion girl, but I do possess a short-term memory).
This week’s episode was also fun - polyester, an amazing Alexander McQueen dress, Karl Lagerfeld looking like Michael Jackson’s grandfather and a few small online shops getting their stuff featured in the ‘high street’ outfits.
It’s not the Amazing Fashion TV Show that I truly crave, but hey ho any old rag show will do for me!

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3 Responses to “Gok’s frocks - do they rock?”

1. Peter says:
   July 15th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

   So long as it’s Snog, Marry, Avoid? I’m happy…

2. Peter says:
   July 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

   D’oh!

   So long as it’s not Snog, Marry, Avoid? I’m happy…

3. Vanessa says:
   July 16th, 2008 at 4:11 am

   There’s a show called that?
   The American versions of both ‘What Not to Wear’ and ‘How to Look Good Naked’ are disappointing. I’m holding out for the UK versions to show on BBC America, which buys up all British TV to show eventually. And I hate that over-recapping technique which is very prevalent here; our version of Kitchen Nightmare’s gives away every twist repeatedly!

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