Two St. Louis “What Not to Wear” ambushes in two days
St. Louis Fashion Week began with a bit of confusion.
TLC’s “What Not to Wear” invaded. And for a while, we thought they weren’t going to leave.
The fashion week crew staged a faux runway show and then there was a stop the music/halt the models interruption.
It was so very television.
Then out walks Clinton Kelly and Stacy London to begin a much needed fashion intervention on an interesting woman sitting in the front row. We were not able to confirm her name.
She must have thought that she was lucky to snag such great seats at the fashion show until the duo pounced on her and said that they’d been taping her secretly for two weeks and were now convinced that she could not be trusted to dress herself and be seen in public.
As you can probably tell just by a view from the rear, this fashion intervention is long overdue.
Stacy and Clinton said several harsh things about her gorilla boots and zany hair, but the woman was all smiles. She said that she was aware that her family and friends didn’t approve of her style. That’s her family off to the left being filmed as they react to the critiques in the top picture.
But within minutes the woman in the Clydesdale boots accepted the $5,000 challenge and agreed to let the stylish pair of brash television hosts give her most heinous and probably beloved wardrobe items to charity. They’ll be flying her to New York to teach her some fashion rules and then send her shopping.
Here’s how the crew gets reaction shots from the family and then the audience. A little obnoxious but necessary, I guess.
This is the second “ambush” in St. Louis in two days for Stacy and Clinton. Deb Peterson’s Breaking Schmooze chronicled the tale of the Webster University adjunct professor Gina Jensen who was ambushed during a taping of KSDK’s (Channel 5) “Show Me St. Louis” on Tuesday. She thought she was being interviewed because of her expertise in nonverbal communication (she and her husband Scott co-direct the school’s forensics and debate). Little did she know that apparently, her clothes had been saying the wrong thing.
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OMG!!! I so want to be on this show.
Ok, here’s a quote from this article:
“She must of thought that she was lucky to snag such great seats at the fashion show until the duo pounced on her and said that they’d been taping her secretly for two weeks and were now convinced that she could not be trusted to dress herself and be seen in public.”
First off, it’s “she must HAVE” or “she must’VE” not “she must of.” Hooked on Phonics apparently didn’t work. And secondly, did you realize your screengrab of the video above contains a Windows application/notification box? Sheesh, this is worse than a high school newspaper.
(NOTE: Errors have been corrected.)
And another horrendous English error:
“her and her husband Scott co-direct the school’s forensics and debate”
It’s “she and her husband.”
I will say that the errors are unacceptable, but do you think coming off like a jerky douchebag is the way to go? (Is douchebag one word or two?)
The video has not been corrected……
Thanks Debra for staying up late and cranking this out grammar faux pas or NOT! The show was a BLAST!!! My daughter and I were SO shocked to see Stacy and Clinton walk out on the runway. We love their show!!! Saint Louis Fashion Week rocks and it is way more exciting then people can imagine. I’ve taken a variety of friends with me to the shows and they have all been pleasantly SURPRISED by this event.
I can’t imagine what educated adult would use language such as that used in the previous posts. They are commenting on the grammatical errors of the authors in the article yet use juvenile and unacceptable words in their own posts. Please, STL Today, block such posts from the site!
Okay so let me tell you about my first “St. Louis Fashion Week” experience. Per the advice of some and to the warnings of others, I purchased a VIP Week Pass for this event. My thinking was its something different and I will be willing to try. Now on the Ticketmaster website it states “Ticket buyers receive:
Guaranteed preferential seating at Fashion Week shows
Access to Budweiser Select Saint Louis Fashion Week VIP Lounge at Lumière Place Casino & Hotels, 6p-8p nightly
Access to VIP receptions with designers, 6p-7p nightly (complimentary drinks & hors d’oeuvres)
Access to Budweiser Select After-Parties
VIP gift bags
Parking: Complimentary valet parking for VIP ticket holders. Self-parking available.”
cont. Now I took that exact copy from their website. First, we were stopped in the Valet lane and told there was a misprint on the website. There is no VIP valet parking. We must park in the free lot across the street. Okay, disappointed and lied to but at least there is free parking across the street. Uh, no. The lot was completely full and we had to park around the corner, down the street, and for $5. Yeah, some VIP. Next we get to the “vip reception” which is not VIP because everybody is in here. There are no passes. Now, I must admit we didnt even stick around to see if there were complimenatary drinks because I was now convinced that that promoters of this event were amateur and unprofessional. Attention to detail is key in events of this size. I read posts yesterday which stated how St. Louis is a cowtown and we are not Manhattan. I disagreed at the time because I wanted to believe my city could step to the plate. Now Im not so sure.
Continuing on, the VIP holders and preferential seat holders waited in lines for 45 min after the door was supposed to be open, and an additional 30 min for the show to start. Only to be bombarded by this television crew who is screaming directions at the audience to make it believable. Now Im a fun person, and barring all the other oversights and misrepresentation, I might have been in an engaging mood. But at this point, I was convinced that St. Louis Fashion Week is not up to par. What they have in talent, they lose in preparation and customer service. Sorry to agree, but I think the warning were right.
Oh yeah, and the VIP gift bags?!?! Uh……… about 3 coupons and a shot size bottle of energy drink. Come on everybody. If you can’t deliver, then don’t promise. Patrons would never expect certain things if you never guaranteed them in the first place. Okay, I got it off my chest I guess. I was looking for someone yesterday to express my concerns to but no one could answer the question of who that was. At the end of the show when she walked on stage I was tempted to crash the runway then and let her know, but then I would be only reciprocating what I had been privy to all night; unprofessionalism.
Thanks kind people of the blog world, I hope your critics are as kind to you when you’re writing and trying to upload video at 4 a.m. on day.