Oh, Goody! ‘Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style’ Begins Tonight!
Project Runway Fashion Guru Strikes Out on His Own
Bravo is so kind. While Project Runway fans anxiously wait until December to get their fill again of Heidi Klum and her next crop of competing fashion-forward designers, the basic cable network is giving viewers an early start to Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, the long-awaited new reality series hosted by Klum’s knowledgeable right-hand go-to man Tim Gunn. Although the show doesn’t officially premiere until it debuts in its regular Thursday-night, 10pm EST time slot tomorrow, alert fans can get a late-night early look (how’s that for an oxymoron?) at Gunn’s first solo project today when Bravo airs the episode “Karen Vito” at the special time of 11pm.
The title Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style pretty much sums it up when it comes to this wardrobe makeover series. Assisted by former supermodel Veronica Webb, who handles shopping duties with each episode’s guest, and excerpts from his own book, Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality Taste and Style, the former Chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons The New School for Design and current Chief Creative Director of Liz Claiborne Inc. will counsel assorted needy women from around the country in hopes of helping them to get a clue about how to dress with both ease and charisma, as if they were to the closet born, so to speak.
In the host’s opinion, the ultimate indication of success will be if he and Webb manage to inspire the participants “to achieve their own stylish identities,” what he also calls a “signature look.” I’m pretty sure that just breathing the same air as the fashion master will do wonders; so, one can only imagine how great the lucky women in each of the first season’s eight episodes will look after the phenomenal double team of Gunn and Webb get through with them. If Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style doesn’t become another instahit in Bravo’s mostly superb reality-TV stable, I, for one, will be absolutely stunned.
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style will air Thursdays on Bravo at 10pm EST starting September 6
Tim Gunn and Veronica Webb photo courtesy of Bravo
