ANDREW SCOTT
 

                        

I HAVE A FASHION EMERGENCY...

When we started this show, there were no other makeover shows on TV.  Getting people to participate was next to impossible and our budgets were very small.  I remember that hairdressers and makeup artists wanted us to pay lots of money for taking up their time and stores that we shot in demanded we returned the used clothes after the shoot.  (You try asking someone you just “Made Over” for their clothes back after the shoot.)

 

By the end of the run, and after “Fashion Emergency” became iconic,  stores were literally shipping box loads of clothes to our offices, salons were inviting not only myself but my friends for free haircuts and begging me to shoot in their shops.  Stores insisted on flying me first-class across the country just to shoot in their flagship shop and “donated” thousands of dollars worth of clothes.  For Christmas one year, Elizabeth Arden Spa personally gave me a gift card for UNLIMITED treatments in any of the spas FOR A YEAR. (by the way, to this day I don’t think I ever shot in an Elizabeth Arden Spa).  One shop owner told me that after her “Fashion Emergency” aired (each episode would air countless times throughout the years..I think it still airs) that she would get at least 400 calls about that product.  Who would have thought.....

 

This is the first show that Jonathan Antin, now star of Bravo’s “Blowout” ever did, and I was the first person to put him on TV.  We were also the first show to make “stylists” stars, and watching people like Phillip Bloch’s career blossom after Fashion Emergency has been a real treat.  My episode about the “nudists” needing clothes for a night out, still remains the highest rated “Fashion Emergency” ever and I have to say I am quite proud of that.  Hosts Emme, Brenda Cooper, and Leon Hall have gone on to do countless other projects, but I will always remember those beginning days.........