Channel 4’s latest fashion series sees the designer guide shoppers through ‘the trauma of the changing room’. Despite some idle stereotyping,it’s refreshingly different from other makeover shows
Fashion designer Henry Holland has gone full-on Gok Wan as the presenter of Channel 4’s latest fashion makeover series, The Changing Room. With cameras rigged in changing rooms across the country (although mostly Birmingham, or Oxford Street and Londons Westfield stores so far),Holland is seen lurking around high-street stores (“I’m dusting off my shop-assistant’s badge!”) in order to guide shoppers through “the trauma of the changing room”. Meanwhile, we’re invited to sit back and watch shoppers strip down to their undies like a bunch of sartorially minded peeping toms.
In the age of Asos, and no one uses changing rooms any more but we do watch a lot of reality TV,and that’s where the real appeal of The Changing Room lies. Episode one was easily as well cast as First Dates or Gogglebox, from bezzie mates Carl and Sandy in need of matching outfits for Pride (and unable to regain in and out of various tight-fitting ensembles without each other’s assistance), and to straight-talking,stylish over-50s Mo and Sheila, who arent approximately to assume fashion advice from anyone, or least of Holland,who they never actually meet. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com