Marie Claire UK reports that Posh Spice is in talks with Fox to host her own reality fashion show.
The name? Fashion Nightmares.
We’re torn.
We think Posh would make a totally entertaining and adorable host - we could just picture her quoting That Extra Half an Inch every time she comes across a soccer mom in slouchy sweats.
But we’re not so into the idea of her telling women why trouser jeans will improve their lives (a la Clinton and Stacey,) and seeing her teeter through “beauty pageants and backwater towns” in tiny Roland Mouret dresses and ginormous DVB shades acting like an alien from Fashionista Land trying to convert the bourgeoisie.
In short, we’re not sure we’re ready to see Posh make other girls cry.
But of course, we’ll watch no matter what.
As a sneak preview, check out Victoria tonight on Project Runway as a Guest Judge. We can’t wait to see Christian freak out about her fierceness.
—BRETT KANE
Let it be said from the start, with the exception of Project Runway, we practically loathe reality TV. But every once in a while we do indulge in What Not To Wear. What can we say? We live for makeovers.
We’re just not totally convinced that, much like ANTM, anything actually changes after the show.
The episodes usually go: Stacey and Clinton, the hosts of What Not To Wear, barge into someone’s bedroom and throw away everything they own. They announce rules about what they can buy, and send them around Manhattan to sulk over the impossible task of suddenly acquiring style.
The advice? Stacey demands the fashion victims buy color and bold prints, damning every neutral garment in sight. Meanwhile, most people on the show need a new professional look - which might demand neutrality.
You never get the sense that any of the trite advice resonates with the “victims” anyway. Without Tim Gunn standing beside the closet every morning, you know they’ll return to baggy clothes and brassy hair, except now they might be recognized as a “fashion victim” from a reality show.
The newer versions, How Do I Look? and Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, aren’t much better. In fact, none of the shows, including What Not to Wear, seem to have much success at all - so why do they keep producing new ones?
When Nina Garcia filmed a Blackberry commercial, we knew it was just a matter of time before others followed.
Now the torch is passing to Stacy London, who joins forces with Sprint this season to sell phones and give style advice on which mobile matches which outfit.
No, seriously.
Stacy stars in a series of web commercials for Sprint that tells customers which cells work with their jeans, their bags, their budgets, and quite possibly their body types.
We’re a little fazed by the idea of cell phones as fashion accessories, despite the fact that marketers have tried to sell them to women that way for years. But at least the ones Stacy endorses won’t be pink and shiny, like Barbie’s…