Clinton Kelly and Stacy London are back together, and if this declaration does not excite you, it is only because you have never seen “what not to wear”, the series they co-organized from 2003 to 2013 on TLC. (There is no other possible explanation.)
First only six months before “Queer eye for the hetero”, “ As “queer eye” was known then, he made his “contributors” badly dressed with the kind of sensitive brutality that is associated with the great Zen masters, a process from which they are emerged with elegance and spiritually free. The clothes made the woman (and from time to time a man), but the fact was that everyone was already beautiful, if only we know how to show it. (I doubt that we have watched the 345 episodes of this house, but a few hundred, most likely; Interview the hosts In 2010, at the start of their eighth season, because I wanted it.)
The new London and Kelly series, “Wear what the F you want”, in the first Tuesday on Prime Video, is another type of travel towards a similar end. “We can finally do things correctly this time,” says Kelly, which means that they are in “the company that does not judge as much”, but to let the guest pave the way.
In the old series, participants – generally happy, or at least not unhappy, of the way they dressed but unable to see themselves as others saw them – were elected by friends and families to receive a youthful cure; It was a kind of intervention. The “what not to wear” system involved secret images, ambushes, a “360 degree mirror” in which the subject had to explain his former wardrobe, which will soon be rejected forever. Emotions could be raised; There was resistance; There were arguments. There were “rules”.
Here, the participants have put themselves forward or were recruited through all the means that emissions like this are populated. They actively seek change; They know what they want but do not know how to get it.
Stacy London and Clinton Kelly with a makeover guest on “Wear whatever you want”.
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Everyone has a fantastic ideal. (“Associated with age” is not a sentence that you will hear here, but “comfort zone”, as if leaving it, presents itself several times.) We meet Selena, a “content of content” Gothic with green streaks in her hair, a ear with razor blade and a pointe neck, which would like to look more accessible, like Alicia Silverstone. Naomi, an Amoméh advance that has become an exotic dancer who became a mother, has returned to dress in bags and hats since he has gained weight after pregnancy (more a case of dysmorphia, it looks like an objective assessment) and aims at “Country Glitz and Glam”, with Dolly Parton. Alan, in transition, male to woman, wants something “ambiguous” to express elements of both sexes. Patrick, a “brewery dad” with long hair in the overalls, a t-shirt and fangs of the green day, hopes to release his interior “punk rock”. The survivor of cancer freedom seems to be a “powerful diva”. And so on, more than eight entertaining episodes with differently and entertaining flavor.
London and Kelly have been informed in advance – there are files – so that when the subject arrives at “the wardrobe”, a room filled with Togs and promising accessories awaits them. The idea is to work together, with the guest opening the way: “We can support you, we can be cheerleaders, we can be railing so as not to get out of the cliff but get what you want,” explains Kelly, unless it is in London; It's a kind of two -headed creature. The hosts express opinions – they will explain what will not only work after the customer expresses his own doubts – and will show their joy when they like an outfit (“awesome!” “Adorable”), but do not discuss. (“If you don't feel it, it's a no for us.”)
Where “what would not wear” was a five -day process, “carry everything that the F” was rationalized and compacted within 48 effective and effective hours, including an opening conversation; A Go-Wild “style session”; A segment in which they are sent to “test” a fantastic outfit in a social framework; And a second style session in which a more refined look, but always expressive and, hopefully, is created. During all this, we get a good image from each client, their family history, formative trauma, hopes and dreams. Halfway through each episode, a friend visits to give stylists an additional perspective. Hair and makeup complete the image. As in “What to Not Wear”, the episode ends with the subject transformed at home, the astonishment of their loved ones. It's a joyful moment.
While the talents are engaging, moving and fun – who does not like a story of Cinderella? – The main draw of the series is the fairy sponsors. Fortunately together again after a dozen years, London and Kelly are the ghost subjects of the show, such as detectives in a procedure. Each episode begins with them walking in the arm in a street in New York, speaking of this or that – what kind of dog they would be, their first big fashion purchase, what they would eat if they could only choose one thing forever, how cold is so cold that it cannot feel its face.
“They are like our parents of reality TV”, explains “the visionary artist” Akemi, who would like to look as psychedelic as his paintings, said to a visit friend, Taj, and they are looking at the younger subjects with a kind of parental tenderness. During the events of the “pressure test”, they hide nearby, observing, but sometimes participating – Kelly will be the dance of pole and line; London will have a tattoo. In the middle of the fifties now, they will have some things to say about children these days, their slang and others; They sniff in Burning Man, to which they have never been and will never go. (“I don't like dust,” says London. “I don't like potties,” says Kelly.)
They have a great time – with a lot of laughter and jokes, and perhaps a tear or two when a butterfly emerges from the cocoon – or they are excellent actors. I choose to believe the first.
