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Tems’ Oscar Dress Blocks Will Smith’s Slap at the Oscars

The Oscars celebrate excellence in filmmaking, but most folks watch it for the celebrity gazing, jokes and the fashion!
Oscar nominee Tems wore a puffy oversized cloud dress designed by Ukranian designer Lever Couture that seemed to block the view of the folks sitting behind her.

Today comedian Rachel Hall joins us to look at this year’s Academy Awards hi-jiks, the awards, the Will Smith slap jokes and musician Tems’ controversial dress that blocked views of the stage but became a spectacle in its own right.

Posted in: Comedians, Podcast 2 years ago 0

FOF #2936 – Mystique Summers Keeps it Hot on a Chilly Mardi Gras

It’s Fat Tuesday! The streets of New Orleans are empty, but we are celebrating from home with our good gal pal Mystique Summers, from Season 2 of RuPauls’ Drag Race.

Last week, Mystique’s and her drag sister Nina Bonina Brown got into a deep conversation about trans bodies, the art of drag, and Nina’s comments on Gotmik’s scantily clad runway look on Drag Race.

Today Mystique Summers joins us to take a look at the heated conversation taking place about trans drag queens, Gotmik’s showing off that body ody ody and how Texas is freezing.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 4 years ago 0

FOF #2659 – Work the Runway Paulo Batista

At this past New York Fashion week in September, designer Marco Marco made history for celebrating the beauty of being trans by featuring 34 openly trans models in his new clothing line.

Today, bodybuilder and leatherman Paulo Batista joins us to talk about the groundbreaking experience of celebrating trans bodies at New York Fashion Week.

Posted in: Hunks, Podcast 6 years ago 0

FOF #2439 – Living La Vida Lolita

Dolly fashion, or as it’s better known in Japan as Lolita is all about putting babydoll dresses, frills and bows inspired by classic Victorian literature. Lolita started on the streets of Japan but now it has conquered the world from t cosplay conventions to drag shows.

Joining us to talk about Lolita fashion is Steven Lopez, from the reality TV show “The Doll Life” which follows the behind-the-scenes antics of the dolly fashion brand Dolldelight.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Interviews, Podcast 8 years ago 0

FOF #2362 – That Was So Gay

Gays are known as trendsetters but what happens when the trend becomes so ubiquitous that it loses any sense of what made it fagtastic?

Today we take a look at things that people used to think of as very gay gay gay that aren’t so gay anymore.

Posted in: Podcast 8 years ago 1

FOF #2338 – When Fashion Kills

The fashion industry hasn’t always had our best interests at heart- even back in the Victorian era, the Rational Dress Society was fighting against the ridiculous corsets women were forced to wear.

Today writer Zach Stafford joins us to take a look at futuristic jumpsuits as a way to make clothing more economical and ecologically friendly.

Posted in: Podcast, Writers 8 years ago 1

FOF #2303 – Wrestling, Bodybuilding and Fashion

As much as Americans love televised professional wrestling, many dismiss the sport by saying it’s “not real” and that the fights are less painful than they look. But nothing is quite as torturous as some of the wrestler’s fashion choices.

Today comedian Cody Melcher joins us to talk about fashion and televised wrestling. Cody, whose dad was a championship wrestler and bodybuilder, now writes about fashion in wrestling.

Posted in: Comedians, Podcast 9 years ago 3

FOF #2290A – When Reality TV Bites Back

In the early days of the podcast, we blurred the lines between reality and fantasy, with many of our guests improvising their roles we created for the live show. But, in many ways the characters they played were a mirror of their true selves.

Today comedian Amanda Cohen joins us to take a look at her pioneering role as Amanda Steinstein 14 years ago and how all of us being on What Not to Wear impacted our friendship.

Posted in: Comedians, Interviews, Podcast, Television 9 years ago 14

FOF #2290B – When Reality TV Bites Back

In Part two of “When Reality TV Bites Back” we continue our podcast with Amanda Cohen about how being on the reality TV makeover show What Not to Wear impacted our friendship.

Plus, how Amanda rediscovered her love for stand up comedy. And how big of a struggle did Amanda have with the host of the show Stacy London?

Posted in: Comedians, Interviews, Podcast 9 years ago 0

FOF #2156 – Looking Good and Feeling Fine

Fashion— it’s how we tell the our own personal story to the world without speaking a word. But sometimes what we want to say gets lost in that orange scarf with matching Crocs.

Today fashion stylist George Brescia joins us to talk about the ever changing world of men’s fashion and what’s hot right now, athleisure – clothing inspired by jogging suits, jockey uniforms and baseball shirts.

Posted in: Artists/Designers, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 5