Exclusive interview with executive producer Ben Silverman on the making of a Fashion Star, series finale tonight on NBC-TV at 10p/9c crowns a new top fashion designer and bridges bricks-to-online retailing with America’s 2-screen lifestyle
By Robin Rowe
Fashion Stars real winners, Macy's, Saks and H&M, TV fashions sell
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2012/5/15 -Would it work for fashion? It’s been done before in music. Then unknowns Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson all launched in reality competition. Whether Fashion Star will launch a star to become a household name is too soon to say, but it has brought bricks-only retailer H&M online and proven that fashion can be sold from reality television as effectively as records. The biggest frustration for viewers? That East Coast viewers buy everything, that the show’s fashions sell out online before the show airs on the West Coast.
Fashion Star executive producer Ben Silverman produced such Emmy and Golden Globe-winning shows as The Office,Ugly Betty, The Tudors, and The Biggest Loser. The former NBC co-chairman’s latest show, Fashion Star, rewards competing designers by carrying their clothing lines at Saks, Macy’s or H&M.
“It’s American Idol with fashion…and you can wear it,” says Ben Silverman. “Unlike other fashion shows that (more…)
Izzy & Ali vegan leather handbags provide socially conscious fashion
by Robin Rowe
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (Gosh!TV) 2012/2/24 – “These are vegan leather handbags, so they’re animal cruelty free,” says Izzy & Ali branding and marketing manager Cindy Newman. “We launched last month. We just got back from New York and we’re selling in boutiques and department stores nationwide.”
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Design company Chick Boss empowers Guatemalan women to design and sell their own jewelry
by Robin Rowe
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (Gosh!TV) 2012/2/24 – “Chick Boss is actually a nick-name I got in another life,” says Chick Boss founder and CEO Pat Pannell. “But it really does correlate to what we’re trying to do as well, which is to try and empower women and to make them feel like they are in charge of there own lives.”
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HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2012/4/23-”It’s all about nail polish and it’s all about color…. so we have our Oscar collection that we’re featuring here at GBK,” says marketing manager Susie Nalivka.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2012/4/18-”We have great, at home, easy to use teeth whitening products that are quick, zero sensitivity, and stuff that replaces your strips and trays…,” says owner Jennifer Gerard.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2012/4/18-”A lot of people who have been playing around with these today…have termed these as adult legos because they’re so much fun,” says spokesmodel Angelica Hildebrant.
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