Seems the fashion show has been cancelled.

Slippers · 31-01-2006 1:28am #1

Not of general interest I know, but I only found out through another model so there could be someone else who doesn't know.
edit: due to insufficient sponsorship

Umaro · 31-01-2006 3:02am

breadmonkey · 31-01-2006 3:50am

Very disappointing tbh. My mate was stage manager last year and I know a lot of effort went into it.

Despite the fact that I have no other info, I'm going to go with my gut feeling and say that this reeks of apathy.

tintinr35 · 31-01-2006 11:06am

ha ha what a load of bolox

Umaro · 31-01-2006 11:38am

breadmonkey wrote:

Despite the fact that I have no other info, I'm going to go with my gut feeling and say that this reeks of apathy.

i'm glad to hear that.

Slippers · 31-01-2006 12:06pm

breadmonkey wrote:

Very disappointing tbh. My mate was stage manager last year and I know a lot of effort went into it.

Was that Mark? I remember he was a lot of help during the Grafton St. promotion.

breadmonkey wrote:

Despite the fact that I have no other info, I'm going to go with my gut feeling and say that this reeks of apathy.

Apathy on the part of the committee, sponsors or UCD students?

tintinr35 · 31-01-2006 12:10pm

what happened all the money they raised last thursday nite at the black and white thing in the vaults!! guess they will be donating to charity*

*or going on the piss with it

TheVan · 31-01-2006 2:24pm

Ha ha!!

The only thing orange people were useful for is taken away! Ha!

I mean, it was a huge success last year and this year they couldn't get sponsors?....what's that I smell??.....oh yeah, bs!

breadmonkey · 31-01-2006 2:28pm

Umaro wrote:

i'm glad to hear that.

Sorry, who are you?

hullaballoo · 31-01-2006 2:33pm

Yep, this is a lovely new desk I'm sitting at in the library. A desk with sockets and an internet connection. And books. There are books here too.

I guess the Brady Administration decided that education is also important to University students. Beats the hell out of me, but I guess a fashion show wasn't going to help us step up in the race to the top of the OECD charts.

TheVan · 31-01-2006 2:43pm

Hey I have a great idea! We can still save the honorable institution that is the UCD fashion show! All we need is some Quinn guys, Quinn girls and a smattering of Arts students!

We'll construct a walkway type thing out of tables and let them walk down it in the middle of Arts.

Everyone walking by will get to witness it for free and as per usual no-one will actually give a toss that it's on!.....not giving a toss for free....no costs!....I like it!

Come on guys, we have bigger worries in our life than this!

Mr_Roger_Bongos · 31-01-2006 2:45pm

:eek: DAMMIT! Who's going to pay for my all over tan now!!! :mad:

Slippers · 31-01-2006 3:07pm

hullaballoo wrote:

Yep, this is a lovely new desk I'm sitting at in the library. A desk with sockets and an internet connection. And books. There are books here too.

I guess the Brady Administration decided that education is also important to University students. Beats the hell out of me, but I guess a fashion show wasn't going to help us step up in the race to the top of the OECD charts.

I don't know if the University funds it. Could they not just give the money straight to the Down Syndrome Centre if that's what they wanted? Also, I thought the decision to cancel was taken by the producers.

GusherING · 31-01-2006 3:40pm

I think UCD funded a lot of it last year because it was for the 150th celebrations. That kind of funding was once off I'd reckon.

MiniMetro · 31-01-2006 3:43pm

Now all that needs to happen is to the abolition of Ryan Tubridy, fashion mullets, male "fashion" items in pink and any other "new" Ireland type things knocking about.

Quote from TV3 or RTE (whichever one that has that black guy doing the fashion, think it's TV3): (A model comes out modelling a pair of jeans among other garments, various waffle follows about how great all the clothes are, then they come to the price of the jeans)

Presenter: "So how much are the jeans?"
Fashion Guy: "They're €595 from ....."
Presenter: "€595 that's very expensive, is it not?"
Fashion Guy: "No, no a good pair of jeans is an investment"!!!!!

Where did it all go so wrong??

"For what died the sons of Roisin?"

Umaro · 31-01-2006 4:05pm

breadmonkey wrote:

Sorry, who are you?

what?

panda100 · 31-01-2006 5:15pm

I have to admit i think its a good thing that the fashion show is scraped. There is a lot of events that can raise money for charity.The fashion show isnt a fun event for charity.Its horrible the way those auditions are held where thousands try out and only a hundred or so 'models' get through.A lot of girls get upset over this.The rehersals drag out over nearly the whole college year which cant be beneficial at the end of the day-and what for-so you can walk up and down a runway posing!And lets be honest most people dont go to the UCD fashion show for the clothes. I remember last year they had a picture of all the models wearing all this procative suspenders and garters with the headline 'temptation thigh land'. Its different if your a model in milan but thats got to be pretty degrading being an 18year old student from belfield on the front of the sun.

And no I'm not jealous-i have no problem with people being paid for moddeling.But for a charity event it was one of the most bitchiest thing i've evr been involved with but this could have got better when julian left

tribulus · 31-01-2006 5:19pm

yeah i agree with panda, although there will be less money going to charity which is never good, there are far more fun and less exclusive ways to raise money for charity

*cough* Science day *cough* over 70 000 last year

Sangre · 31-01-2006 5:38pm

Oh Yay!! A charity event has gone under! There is a God(obviously hates down syndrome though).

TheVan · 31-01-2006 6:06pm

To be honest it didn't reflect well on UCD charity events.

It was a self-serving vanity show.

On the other hand Law/B&L day raised €23,000 for Temple Street last year and involved students getting up at 7am to collect on the streets of Dublin.

Support it this year Tuesday 7th of Feb!

Down with the Fashion show and all who reside therein!

MiniMetro · 31-01-2006 6:09pm

What's Julian Benson going to do for a job now?? Well if he's stuck i'll gladly give him €10 an hour to repeatedly run into a wall.

tintinr35 · 31-01-2006 7:09pm

my flatmate was devestated when he found out yesterday!! he was a model thought he was goin to cry and i was trying to hold back laughing in his face

humbert · 31-01-2006 7:20pm

I think it’s a terrible shame, all those hopes and dreams of being recognised as one of the pretty people, even just for one day, being able look down on all the uglier people from way up above on the catwalk where you’re the centre of attention, the way it should be, being able to tell all your friends, relatives, grandkids that you were once a model, dashed! Oh and the charity stuff too, of course.

tintinr35 · 31-01-2006 8:15pm

was just reading in the tribune there, its only been provisionally cancelled! guarantee within a week they will have a sponsor, all publicty i guess, knobs

hullaballoo · 31-01-2006 8:42pm

tintinr35 wrote:

i guess knobs

You guess knobs? Surely not.

TheVan · 31-01-2006 8:55pm

I would actually pay off a potential sponsor just to see the tears on all the sad orange people!

I think the fashion show is like saying, oh let's go and kill some foxes cos we enjoy it (oh but its really for the good of mankind....otherwise we'll have millions of angry foxes roaming the streets with kalashnikovs!)

MiniMetro · 31-01-2006 10:24pm

TheVan wrote:

I would actually pay off a potential sponsor just to see the tears on all the sad orange people!

I have a few grand in the bank, it's yours if you want it.

...actually I better keep a few hundred; i want to get at least a full weeks work out of Julian.

Umaro · 31-01-2006 10:33pm

humbert wrote:

I think it’s a terrible shame, all those hopes and dreams of being recognised as one of the pretty people, even just for one day, being able look down on all the uglier people from way up above on the catwalk where you’re the centre of attention, the way it should be, being able to tell all your friends, relatives, grandkids that you were once a model, dashed! Oh and the charity stuff too, of course.

could not have put it better myself

even if it was for charity it seems so horribly horribly elitist.

HappyCrackHead · 01-02-2006 12:48am

The whole fashion show is just ridiculus...

i do recall a great incident from last year though, female friend of mine was approached by one of the fashion gestapo

Fash-ist: Hi would you loike to be in the fashion show?
My mate: No thanks, its not for me,
Fash-ist: Its okay! you dont have to be pretty or thin or anything!

How do these people even manage to get into college?

ah... sports management... Therein lies all of Belfield's mysteries...

Anyway, Ding dong the witch is dead... Glad there's no fashion show, all we have to do now is get rid of Qsoc, B+L and C+E and we should be rolling just fine.

The idea of a Fashion show is fairly repugnant.

besty · 01-02-2006 1:39am

HappyCrackHead wrote:

The idea of a Fashion show is fairly repugnant.

Even though it's for charity?

arbeitsscheuer · 01-02-2006 2:18am

The end justifies the means... Just as long as it's going to a good cause, and ppl were actually willing to involve themselves in this sh*t, I couldn't see the problem tbh.

Good luck trying to get the oompa-loompas to do anything altruistic now...

Seems the fashion show has been cancelled.

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