Auntie Fashion

CariDee

I happened to turn on the TV this afternoon just in time to see a commercial for The Fiercee Awards.  When I interviewed CariDee a couple of weeks ago, she told me that they were going to be a lot of fun.  However, I forgot to ask her when the show would air.  I was afraid that I might miss them due to my glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle.

Anyway, the show will air a week from today on Wednesday, May 14th.  I can’t wait!  I haven’t been this excited since T-Zone was shut down during a rabies scare that eventually proved to be a prank.  I wonder if they ever discovered the identity of the anonymous tipster who called the cops?  Heh heh heh . . .

Fashion Magazine

I should probably review this magazine, but I’ll save that for another day.  Danielle at finalfashion mentioned this contest a while ago, but I didn’t actually visit the contest site until yesterday.  It seems like a fun idea.  Fashion Magazine is looking for ten bloggers to keep Canada updated on their local fashion scenes.  The winning bloggers will get $1200 for twenty-four posts that will run bi-monthly over the next year.  It’s not much, but since most bloggers work for free, it’s enough to buy a shiny, new computer or a nice pair of winter boots at Gucci.

I was going to enter, but I don’t believe Fashion magazine would make me a semi-finalist.  I’m too much of a know-it-all, and some people find that threatening.   I can’t say that I blame them.  I shake in my own presence when I think about how fabulous I am.

I also can’t shut my trap when it comes to how much I loathe Fashion File since Adrian Mainella took over the hosting duties.  Because the magazine and the TV show are in a partnership, I imagine I’d get into a little trouble if they realized that Prunella Crudsworth is Auntie Fashion.

So I’m just going to stick to this blog.  My post about Behati Prinsloo has seen about fifteen-hundred hits so far, and a few others have got a lot of attention, too — especially my interviews with CariDee and Simon Doonan.

I’m happy to be blogging for free, anyway.  It allows me to be the rebel that I want to be.  Getting paid to write a blog about antifashion would be sort of hypocritical, anyhow.  If I’m trying to protest the commercialization of the art that is fashion in this blog, I’d be an idiot to ask for a paycheque to do it.

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a forum for the Psoriasis Education Program called Loud and Clear with CariDee.  After the forum wrapped up, the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 met with fans to shoot the breeze (easy, breezy and beautifully, of course).

I was amongst the autograph hounds lined up to meet CariDee — not as a fan (although she is my favorite winner), but as a crack reporter.  Auntie Fashion asks the tough questions that everyone else is afraid to ask.

When I questioned CariDee about the upcoming Fiercee Awards, she was taken off guard.  “How do you know about that?” she asked me.  I explained that I know everything worth knowing, and she accepted that like any rational person would do.  She also told me that the Fiercee Awards are going to air on an upcoming Tyra episode where several of the ANTM contestants are going to get what’s coming to them.  I can’t wait!

Then I asked CariDee the question that no reporter has been courageous enough to ask: Was she the one responsible for “Smellrose”, undoubtedly the best nickname in ATNM history?  “No, that would be Jaeda,” she replied.  However, I’m not completely sure that I believed her because she was doing that thing where her eyes dart upward, like she did in her Spanish CoverGirl commercial.

Anyhow, the highlight of the evening was when my friend asked CariDee to reenact the triumphant moment when she won ANTM and hugged Melrose.  CariDee committed to the scene like a trouper and the result is the priceless photo I posted above.  Give the girl an Oscar!