Crazy Sexy Geeks: Tim Gunn on Star Trek TOS & Gender!

Tim Gunn of Project Runway & Liz Claiborne, Inc. reunites with geeky actress Jennifer Ewing and comic book historian Alan Kistler to discuss the fashion of Star Trek: TOS and the power of gender. Star Trek belongs to Paramount, no copyright infringement is intended. Also check out the Crazy Sexy Geeks weekly podcast on iTunes.

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• tim gunn
• star trek
• crazy sexy feeks
• jennifer ewing
• alan kistler
• agent of s.t.y.l.e.
• superhero fashion
• comics
• Captain Kirk
• Uhura
• Wonder Woman

[Mistahealy]

Why did you only talk about Star Trek for like three minutes?

[CrazySexyGeeksSeries]

@Mistahealy As explained in the video, this is the first of many discussions and people had written in about our previous video team-ups and asked us about certain viewpoints on gender so it seemed an excellent opportunity to discuss it.

[artisbreathing]

I had a geekgasm when I read Tim Gunn and Star Trek in the same sentence.

[CrazySexyGeeksSeries]

@artisbreathing - Haha. Yeah, I thought people would enjoy that.

[Soulpin]

Great stuff! Keep em' coming! :)

[CrazySexyGeeksSeries]

@Soulpin If folks sent paypal donations to SizzlerKistler at gmail dot com, then we'll be able to! :-)

[Metalgear132]

I'd love to see what Tim Gunn would create if he had to design his own super hero costume.

[MathewMcPheeX]

Jennifer you're hot!

[koomori]

See, I've always seen the Star Sapphire's costume design as they *did* say something about the character, or rather the corps. The Violet Lantern Corps/Star Sapphires embody the kind of crazy, obsessive/possessive love (read: infatuation) that drive people to dress up in absurd hyper sexualized outfits to try to "win" the object of their affection/obsession.

Now, honestly, that's a bad message, given that they're trying to make them heros, but it's there, and it's the way they corps still is.

[geoffreycarman]

One of the reasons for the drab colours, was that they had were filiming in colour but knowing the majority of the audience would watch in Black and White. So they had a filter that would show how it would look in B&W and they chose colours that looked like colours in B&W. Thus they look kind of drab in real colour.

[0BatGirl0]

If they really wanted to go realistic with superhero costumes, everyone would be wearing something like a SWAT uniform. Boring.

But I'll admit it works for the Punisher and the current Venom.

[TheCavemanEtc]

Great video, but the most striking thing about it is HOLY CRAP Jennifer Ewing is smoking hot. Extremely attractive woman. 

[H0tkebab]

I love this show, costume design can either make or break a character. So critiques like this are very important for costume designers or graphic/comic book artists.

[chwenhoou]

I love these videos of Jennifer and Alan alongside Tim Gunn. He offers such great insight into the costume design of heroes from comics and sci-fi. With their discussion on the Wonder Woman outfit, I wouldn't be surprised that Jim Lee's last two designs on the WW costume (the JMS "written" run and the DCnU 52 revamp) were decided by a committee that have no concept of who the character is, how she is portrayed, and what the fans really want.

[chwenhoou]

@ItsTheFizz Agreed.

[Azmodeus87]

@Hydrophidian Don´t really agree there. To make the suit work in a different media or retool it is the work and responsibility of the team handling that adaptation. As has been shown with videogames and many other outlets of pop-culture, isf you try to make something to "fit all" you miss out on the fully realized potetntial of a spezialised package for a certain audience and media. On adaption shouldn´t have to make compromises to be easier for adaption.

[MavenCree]

Actually, according to Nichelle Nichols, the women were fine with the skirts. Now they look ridiculous, but apparently back then it was supposed to be liberating. Women weren't supposed to show that much leg so the fact that they could do so was very 'modern'.