http://www.kentucky.com/587/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Jamie Gumbrecht 60 Thu, 29 May 2008 12:13:05 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/587/story/60840.html http://www.kentucky.com/587/story/60840.html Fri, 04 May 2007 09:56 EDT Tim Gunn's multimedia domination: The best thing to come out of Bravo's Project Runway isn't the show or even its official star. No, it's Tim Gunn, fashion guru and wise man to Heidi Klum's pretty host.
Now that the What Not to Wear formula has gone beyond stale, try relying on Gunn's new book for fashion advice. A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style (Abrams Image, $17.95) gently demands that you consider who you really are, what fit — not what number size — you ought to wear and what fashion icon might work for you, based on those conditions.
Best of all, Gunn and co-author Kate Moloney offer the inspiration and aid to help you purge your overstuffed closet, leaving you lighter and with fewer bad options in the morning.
All of this is written with that pithy Gunn-esqe lilt, as if he is speaking directly to you. Who else will give you perfectly reasonable advice like “Your underwear drawer should be like a Boy Scout, always prepared.” Because he trusts and respects his reader, he qualifies with this knowing line: “That simile is rather strange, but we trust you understand.”
A little more advice from Tim Gunn: It's Derby Week, which can be Kentucky's most elegant and egregious day in fashion. That said, let's turn to Mr. Gunn's new book for some simple fashion advice, shall we?
* Gunn on glamour: “We would like to see a return to a subtler form of glamour, a less sparkly form of glamour. Think of it as less Marilyn, more Lauren Bacall.”
* Gunn on “the very real problem of flip-flop induced waddling”: “This gait not only looks ungainly from the front, it does terrible, terrible things to the view from the back.”
* Gunn on perfume: “Just because you happen to be ready for another round of gimlets does not mean that you must wear a fragrance that evokes the same.”
* Gunn on black tie for women: “Depending on how often you attend the types of events that call for black tie or one of its relatives, you may be better off with a fabulous — read: black — cocktail dress that can be ‘garnished' with beautiful accessories.”
* Gunn on royalty: Should you get an invite to a royal wedding, (maybe after you bump into the queen at the Derby?) “e-mail us. We will respond.”
The return of Studio 60: After too many months of waiting, NBC announced this week that the once-promising show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will return to the air for the summer, at least. That still doesn't answer the question of whether it'll be back next season, but there doesn't seem to be much optimism surrounding the big-budget, big-name, little-watched show. (In case you forgot and assuming you actually cared in the first place, the last episode was called “4 a.m. Miracle.” It featured Matt wading through writer's block, Harriet still working on the Rolling Stones movie that Matt hates, and Jordan and Danny using an electronic baby doll to decide who would be the better parent.) The episode that will kick it off again sends Jordan to the hospital. Watch it in its new time, 10 p.m. Thursday, starting May 24.
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