Q-Seattle Events: Tacky Tourist Clubs

If you don't read (or look at, at least) Jasmine's Pike/Pine blog regularly, then you should add it to your local blogs menu. It's a near-daily look at the fashion sense (generally trying to ignore our nonsense) of Seattle, and sometimes beyond. Usually, you'll find a single photo each day with a minimal, but always enlightening comment from Jasmine.

We read it frequently, but missed (mea culpa) last week's report that Tim Gunn would be in town last Sunday for a book signing and to judge a fashion contest sponsored by Seattle Metropolitan magazine. Mr. Gunn (and, somehow, he seems to require the honorific) helped Jasmine and other judges determine "Seattle's most stylish man" for the glossy mag.

Jasmine reports of Mr. Gunn that "he came off just as smart, charming, and gracious as he does on the show." Project Rungay has told us that before, so we're not surprised to hear it.

As for the contest, it sounds like there was at least some Runway style banter at University Bookstore. Jasmine tells us that one a judge said that one contestant was "dressed the way you'd want to dress someone who had no sense of style." Heh. Great Nina Garcia line even if it was said about Gopi, the software developer who would eventually be declared the winner.

Labels: celebrities, local bites, Seattle, TV