I don’t know how in favor I am of this whole House of Style redux. Some things seem so completely and excellently of their era that they seem best left there, and to my mind, House of Style is about as quintessentially 90s as it gets. Plus—like so much MTV of that era—the show’s appeal was all about the fact that it exposed insidery, indie-ish culture to everyone, anywhere across the country who cared to tune in. And two decades later, we live in a world where the blogosphere and Twitter and Pinterest and whatever comes next have rendered that particular task redundant.
Still, the unrepentant 90s nostalgist in me is very much looking forward to the House of Style documentary, which is airing August 7 (you can watch a preview clip here). And I am obsessed with the exceedingly thorough rundowns and commentary on MTV’s site of every single episode in the entire ten year series. They’re written by Mary H.K. Choi, a writer who (I’m guessing) was drawing in her Lisa Frank notebook during kindergarten class when the first House of Style aired, but who really knows her stuff.
I really liked that show back in the 90′s. I am curious what the new version would be like.
Cindy Crawford’s eyebrows in that picture are pure 90s perfection. Sigh.
I loved when MTV did Fashionably Loud as well. (The one featuring Tricky was my favorite– I even recorded it on video!)
Loved that show back in the day! Now that Crawford has come out as a Romney supporter, I have no interest in seeing her on TV ever again.
How I miss the days of real models. I never buy magazines anymore because of the celebrity coverage overkill. I don’t want to see the actress of the month, that has a movie to promote, wearing clothes.
My guess is that MTV is looking to capitalize off the hole that is left after Fashion Television got cancelled after its super long run. There seems to be a void of these fashion reporting shows like Fashion File, FT and the like.
Still like you said it is still to be determined if in the internet/social media age if they are still relevant when I can see the collections live stream and read tweets about peoples favourites as they walk the runway.