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OMG Fashun<\/em>\u00a0is a brand-new, out-of-the-box collaboration between actor and media personality Julia Fox and Scout Productions, the studio behind such hits as\u00a0Queer Eye<\/em>,\u00a0The Hype<\/em>, Legendary<\/em>, Living for the Dead<\/em> and The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning<\/em>. Each episode in the competition series sees Fox, celebrity stylist Law Roach and a rotating guest judge challenge a group of fashion \u201cdisruptors\u201d to create couture out of upcycled and unconventional materials. Scout Productions\u2019 David Collins, co-founder and executive producer, and Rob Eric, chief creative officer and executive producer, discuss all things\u00a0OMG Fashun<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0TV Real<\/em>,\u00a0along with the power of bold ideas and how the company is navigating the current industry landscape.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>Talk to me about\u00a0OMG Fashun<\/em>. How did it come about?
\nERIC:\u00a0<\/strong>We got a call from our agent who said, Would you like to jump on a call with Julia Fox? It was supposed to be a ten-minute call; it ended up being about an hour of Julia walking down the streets of New York with a phone under her nose. We started talking about fashion. We\u2019re big fashion people here, obviously\u201420 years of\u00a0Queer Eye<\/em>\u2014if we\u2019re not, we\u2019re in trouble. We love to create unique shows with unique talent. We started throwing things back and forth, and she was like, I\u2019m really into this. We put creative meetings on the books and created the insane show that you see in front of you today.
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s her real-life experience with fashion.
\nERIC:\u00a0<\/strong>When we were pitching, everything she wore [to the meetings] made it into all the trades those days. We were like, this is the show. This is literally the show.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019d love to talk about Julia Fox and what was behind her involvement. She\u2019s such an icon. What\u2019s the appeal of star power when you bring a show to market, for\u00a0OMG Fashun<\/em>\u00a0and titles you\u2019ve produced in the past?
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>The story we could tell with Julia is new. She\u2019s fresh. We saw an opportunity to build a really unique format around her.
\nERIC:\u00a0<\/strong>We work with a lot of celebrity talent. Because we are outside the box and we do things that are cinematic and tell interesting stories, celebrities tend to come to us with these ideas. This was a slightly different situation. We were put together on a date, and thankfully we loved each other and got married. A lot of times celebrities will come to us with an idea or a seed of an idea because they know we\u2019ll turn it into something that is bigger than what they had imagined. They know we\u2019re never going to do a show that doesn\u2019t feel like them. We don\u2019t just attach somebody\u2019s name to a project. We want to work with people who want to work. We\u2019re finishing a show with Charlie Puth that is so out of the box and crazy. Julia was involved in every aspect of the show. It was one of the most fun sets we\u2019ve ever had because it was so hyper-creative. That\u2019s what makes us thrive.
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>You see from the show that Julia is in it from beginning to end. She is the guiding muse and force.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>What role did the broadcaster E! play during development?
\nERIC:<\/strong>\u00a0I will tell you my favorite line from the network. We tend to do shows that are very outside the box, like\u00a0Legendary<\/em>,\u00a0The Hype\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Queer Eye<\/em>. Sometimes we have to censor ourselves. We sent something to them that was crazier than what we put on paper because we wanted to feel it out. They hit back with, Could you make this crazier? We\u2019ll let you know if it goes too far. They were so incredibly involved. It was so important. Shows look like this when the network trusts the producer and says, We know and support what you\u2019re trying to do.
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s the best feeling in the world. We are really blessed and fortunate to have a 20-year-plus relationship with Frances Berwick [chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment] and the entire NBCUniversal team because they were the original owners of Queer Eye<\/em>. It\u2019s an amazing moment to come back and be full circle with them again.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>Sustainability and upcycling are a huge part of\u00a0OMG Fashun<\/em>. What\u2019s behind that choice?
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s all Julia. From day one, she was really telling us her truth about fashion. [One day when] we went on our pitches, she wore an entire outfit made of expired condoms. The story behind that, though, is where the real truth of her lies. There are warehouses and warehouses filled with expired condoms. These aren\u2019t used condoms; these are boxes of expired condoms that have gone past a date where they\u2019re going to be effective, and they sit in warehouses. So, for her and these artists, they\u2019re like, What are we going to do with all that? It\u2019s going to end up in a landfill if we don\u2019t figure out how to upcycle, recycle and turn this into fashion. And that\u2019s exactly what this show is about.
\nERIC:\u00a0<\/strong>We also did\u00a0The Hype<\/em>\u00a0for HBO Max, which is a streetwear competition show. We talk about sustainability on there. It was already something that was really important to us as well. We\u2019re not saying, \u201cDon\u2019t buy fashion.\u201d It\u2019s what you do with it. You don\u2019t just throw things out, you can recycle them. We have an entire episode where they create stuff with tampon applicators. You think, Oh, how can that be couture? But it becomes couture.
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s beautiful art that comes out of this.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>How does\u00a0OMG Fashun<\/em>\u00a0fit in with the entire Scout Productions remit?
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>Our filter is really simple: transformation through information told with comedy that has heart. Transformation, by the way, is not about always a new dress or a new couch or all of that. It\u2019s the work inside. I see you; you see me. It\u2019s the sharing of our stories. When we do that, we get to see each other\u2019s humanity. That\u2019s where change happens and where real transformation is possible. For us,\u00a0OMG Fashun\u00a0<\/em>lives within the\u00a0Queer Eye\u00a0<\/em>universe of Scout Productions and what comes out of our batshit crazy minds.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>In terms of the industry landscape right now, how is Scout dealing with that? How did this show work around the circumstances?
\nERIC:\u00a0<\/strong>We truck ahead with what we do best, which is make great television and make interesting formats. The business will always ebb and flow. We just surf that storm. When you are in this type of moment in the industry, you need to make shows that stand out and make waves. Our upcoming slate of what we\u2019re going out with is big, loud and different. It\u2019s meant to break through a market that\u2019s having problems.<\/p>\n

People want to watch television, and we need to be there to provide that content so we don\u2019t lose it to platforms like TikTok and Facebook. We want to help make sure that streamers can live up to that never-ending flow of content.
\nCOLLINS:\u00a0<\/strong>This business is always going to ebb and flow. Change is good. It\u2019s scary, but it\u2019s good. We keep our noses down, stay creative and keep coming up with good ideas. That cream will always rise to the top. Folks want good programming. They want to feel challenged. They want to get excited.<\/p>\n

This format, for example, is\u00a0Project Runway<\/em>\u00a0meets\u00a0Chopped<\/em>. It\u2019s a half-hour, which is so fast and exciting. We haven\u2019t done a half-hour in a long time. It\u2019s fun to push the barriers of that right now.
\nERIC:\u00a0<\/strong>You have to think of the industry like fashion. One moment, bell-bottom jeans are in, and everybody goes out and buys bell-bottom jeans. Then, suddenly, it\u2019s skinny jeans. Either you\u2019re going to keep wearing the bell-bottoms or you\u2019re going to adapt to put on the skinny, and then it\u2019s going to go to something else. You have to know it\u2019s always going to change. It doesn\u2019t stop changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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