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Biggest Fashion Pert Peeve:
1) Women and/or men who dress for their partners and not
for themselves.
2) Dressing from the outside in and not the inside out.
Most Common Fashion Blunder:
A large woman belting or cinching in her waist and not paying
attention to the fact that every other body part is huge.
You end up looking like two very unappetizing sausage links
connected at the middle.
A Quick Fashion Fix:
Invest in a good mirror and an honest friend.
A Personal Fashion Confession:
I dress, in real life, like a Malibu, Calif., sloppy housewife
headed out to the hip grocery store. Very Pamela Anderson
on a down day with her rug rats. I call it moneyed mess.
Baggy sweats, old, paint-splattered T-shirts, layered hoodies
and UGG shearling boots. Not a sock in sight. Underwear
... if you're lucky. The last thing I can think about at
5 a.m. while heading out to the set to style 40 dancers
and a celebrity for a 24-hour-a-day video shoot is my own
outfit.
Favorite Rule of Thumb:
Here's my favorite rule of thumb: If someone mentions that
they have a green thumb and there's not a garden in sight,
you should wonder where that thumb has been.
Favorite Accessory:
The Sarah Jessica Parker school of accessories: a cute husband
in a hit Broadway show.
Favorite Splurge Item:
Creme de la Mer and Clair de Peu. If you don't know what
they are, you're probably botoxing as we speak.
Favorite Budget Item:
The "I love New York" free plastic grocery bags.
They are the perfect pooper scooper for the dog. I hoard
them. You laugh, but try being on the street in the rain
at 11:45 at night with a sick 150-pound Tibetan mastiff.
That bag, at that moment, is better than a free Prada laptop
case.
Favorite Part of What Not to Wear:
I have to say my favorite parts of the show are the "Hits"
and the "Secret Filming." The hits are like guerilla
warfare and are a total rush! We run in having NO idea what
will go on! Will they run? How will they react? The incredulous
looks on the victims' faces are wild! The friends are like,
"Oh no, what have we done!" When Stacy and I introduce
ourselves, trust me, our hearts are pounding, we're ready
for anything!
Funniest moment while filming What Not
to Wear:
The funniest moment in filming was when Stacy and I were
trying to explain to a British director what an American
"Long Island" women's style might be. "No
way," he said, "it could never be that bad."
We started to describe the bad sweat suits and the colorful
plastic kind that crunch in the crotch and produce heat
from the thighs as they rub together. Sounds like a freight
train comin' round the bend when they walk. Suddenly, we
see a vision up ahead on the Long Island Expressway. Wouldn't
you know it, broke-down car, hitchhiking. There she was,
our Long Island Lolita, wrapped up like the perfect plastic-wrapped
Easter basket, confirming our every fashion fear. Yellow
and lavender plastic "casual" wear head to toe
with a purple headband. She had "that" mullet
hair cut, short and curly on top and long in the back. The
look on the director's face was priceless. He had to cut
because we couldn't catch our breath from laughing so hard.
Wayne Scot Lukas
I dress, in real life, like a Malibu, Calif., sloppy housewife
headed out to
the hip grocery store.
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