La Collection est une nouvelle émission sur le design de la mode, qui prendra les ondes du réseau TVA dès avril 2009.

Huit semaines durant, dix designers de mode - hommes et femmes - devront dessiner et confectionner des vêtements pour les artistes féminins les plus en vue du Québec.

Avant de créer chaque vêtement cependant, les designers devront mettre de l’avant leurs aptitudes physiques et mentales en s’affrontant dans différentes épreuves, qui leur permettront de remporter des privilèges pécuniers et autres.

Un panel de juges provenant du milieu de la mode votera pour la création gagnante de chaque émission. À la fin, un grand prix alléchant: un contrat de 100 000$ avec La Baie en plus de voir leur collection vendue dans tous les magasins La Baie du Québec!

La Collection… Une émission où se côtoient talent, ambition, endurance et émotion!

I have had the opportunity to attend several television shows, and all of them even though they were Canadian were really fun and interesting. This one on the other hand was terrible.

It was already a difficult morning for me, the weeks work was really catching up to me and i was exhausted. I still wanted to attend this little activity because this meant i would see some fashion shows. Half asleep i made my way to TVA for 12:45 the time i was asked to be there, last Thursday (Feb 12th) Sure enough, everyone was running late, so an hour and a half went by and finally we were called in to be seated. I thought this was it no more waiting, from here on i will be watching fashion shows until 5. But NO that's not what happened at all, once everyone was seated. (The 20 seats) :) we again waited for about 30 minutes until the models and camera crew were ready. By this point i couldn't wait to get started.

Finally after all that time of waiting, Chantal Lacroix comes to take her seat in the audience. At this point i thought, why isn't Chantal speaking to us a little about the show, or tell us just what we will be doing today, or what they will be presented today... we got NOTHING!

Silence sur le plateaux, YEAH! we are finally going to start. I had no idea what we were going to be watching but i was assuming it would be interesting.

So the 7 models start strutting their stuff.... they did that about 7 times. over and over and over again. Obviously because its going to be on television they have to make sure it was perfect but.. No one was sure what to do ... do we clap when the model reaches the end of the runway.... or do we stay completely still for the whole show...are the models suppose to stop for 3 sec or 5 sec.... oh god!

About an hour later.... i think.. that part of the show was finished. Next thing we here is " alright everyone take a 15 min break" i was thinking to myself .. ARE YOU SERIOUS! man these people are paid.. to do nothing. you would think that they would want to do 2-3 different fashion shows.

Anyways so its 3:45 and everyone takes a break... we all thought that perhaps we could go eat something or that we were going to get some snacks. But of course not! we weren't allowed to step out more then 20 feet from the room, and there were no snacks!

So finally at 4 everyone gets back into the room to see the next fashion show. 4:10, 4:20, 4:30, 4:40, 4:45. Nothing was happening..... no one told us anything.. we were all just sitting there looking like idiots. Even the owners of LaBaie were sitting there, questioning what they were doing there.

This was ridiculous.. and that's when i decided to leave..

If they don't do a good editing job on this show it will be terrible. Real Canadian Crap.. like a friend of mine would say. :)


Jessy Lalancette