We are in the middle of awards season, the female equivalent to football season. While men are done with the Super Bowl, women are gearing up for their version of the big game in this Sunday's Academy Awards red carpet, according to pop culture legend. And in this spirit of celebration and spectator-dom, one woman has developed her version of fan interaction.
Arising from the popularity of "Fantasy Football" leagues, where men can join free online leagues, like ESPN's Fantasy Football, drafting and developing their ideal football teams/roster, women are now taking the reigns, leaving spectator-ville and playing with the Oscar's red carpet, according to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, titled, Live your fashion fantasy, by Teresa Mendez.
If the traditional Oscar fare feels tired, or you just don't care much about sound editors (no offense), play the game a little differently this year: Guess what the stars will be wearing on the red carpet - arguably the best part of the awards, anyway - and avoid enduring the four-hour show. Fantasy Fashion League (fantasyfashionleague.com) is the brainchild of Erica Salmon, a New Jersey mom who got the idea from watching her fantasy-football-obsessed husband.
The concept of Fantasy Fashion League is brilliant, but no less a waste of time that most women don't have. But being that a New Jersey mom, probably a bored housewife created it, I can see how one would want to fill up the day. While I do believe it is a total waste of time to draft a team for a celebrity because fashion and especially the ass-kissing that it takes in the red carpet season to get a celeb to wear a designer's gown is quite ridiculous, no less a sport. Here is how it works:
The rules are simple…each drafts a team of 10 comprised of three celebrities, three clothing designers, one jewelry designer, one shoe designer, one handbag designer, and one celebrity designer. They'll earn points each time their designers' clothes make a red-carpet appearance. Additional points are awarded if their celebs take home a gold statuette. As it turns out, the game, while diverting, has little to do with fashion expertise or insight. Points aren't awarded for matching celebrity with designer or highlighting the unexpected, but for recognizing designers with mass appeal.
Okay, if you really believe that you would sit at a computer, draft a team of such industry people and companies, and sit at the TV this Sunday to watch who wins, I feel sorry for yah. But I guess, it could be a great game if you had money on it. So, I recommend for the sake of fashion, to raise the stakes ladies, take some shooters and some buffalo wings, and beat your girlfriends this Sunday. At least it will give you a substantial reason to watch the 2-hour pre-show.
