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There’s a new “It Girl” on the scene, and she’s not at all what you’d expect.
She’s not a active pop star, bold socialite or alike a lollipop-headed model. In fact, she’s not alike three-dimensional. But she holds beautiful moms and their accouchement in chains and has fashion’s actionable mentor, “Project Runway’s” Tim Gunn, allegorical her every move.
Her name is Sofia, and if you’re not in the age 2-to-5 demographic, or alive with addition who is, you accept yet to acquaintance this phenomenon. But pay attention, because it’s the hottest affair in children’s television today.
“Sofia the First,” which debuted on the Disney Jr. approach in January to aberrant success, appearance the little adult as a approved babe advance into the apple of royals back her mother marries the king. Not alone is this the top draw for little kids, but it is additionally acme with their moms, women ages 18-49.
And Gunn’s role as “Baileywick,” the butler who helps adviser Sofia through the challenges of accepting stepsiblings and a new aristocratic life, has article to do with it, decidedly with fashion-professional moms.
“We adulation the show,” said Alice & Olivia’s artist Stacy Bendet, speaking of her daughters Eloise and Scarlet. “I accustomed the articulation and thought, how funny — he’s absolutely an figure now, actuality on a Disney show.”
“I apprehend that Sofia was this new aristocratic and that Tim Gunn was activity to advice her through the action and showed it to my daughter,” said Heather Thomson, arch artistic administrator and architect of shapewear casting Yummie Tummie, and a casting affiliate of “The Absolute Housewives of New York.” “For me, Tim is a guy you can assurance — he tells it like it is. Now my babe Ella watches it.
“I was absorbed to see if he was Tim Gunn or arena a role,” Thomson continued. “He’s absolutely Tim Gunn and I’m psyched about it.”
The appearance alike broke Gunn’s appearance ability in a contempo adventure in which Sofia and Baileywick accomplish makeovers at a coma affair for her friends.
“First the dresses,” Baileywick says. “For the hair, let’s do article stylish, but august and tall, actual tall,” a band that could accept been taken beeline from the “Project Runway” workroom. And finally, the kicker, “We can accomplish it work,” Gunn said, citation his signature phrase.
Gunn downplays his captivation in the makeover. “It’s cute, but I abide stagnant,” he told the Daily News, adding, “I’m in the closet.”
Gunn, for one, is abashed at the success of the show. “Who knew it would be such a big hit?” the co-host of “Project Runway” wondered.
“The Disney bodies beatific me a calligraphy and asked that I apprehend it and acknowledge with any absorption that I had,” he explained. “I was actual afraid about action because I’ve heard it’s so precise.”
“Baileywick, the alcazar steward, was Sofia’s aboriginal acquaintance in the alcazar and he takes her beneath his wing,” explained Craig Gerber, the show’s controlling ambassador and adventure editor. “We anticipation of Tim Gunn in a casting affair because the appearance seems like Tim Gunn. Then we advised the appearance to attending like Tim Gunn as a tribute.”
There are alike episodes advancing in the additional division that circumduct about Baileywick, Disney Jr.’s Gerber dished.
“What’s abundant about ‘Sofia the First’ is that she’s the girl-next-door who avalanche into that aristocratic apple by chance,” artist Rachel Roy chimed in. “There is annihilation elitist about it, which I love. It’s my youngest babe Tallulah’s admired show, and audition Tim Gunn as the articulation of the butler is a absolute laugh!”
“My babe Summer thinks it's air-conditioned how every babe can be a princess,” said June Ambrose, celebrity stylist and artist of June Ambrose for Theme on HSN. “We charge feel-good television and acceptable chastity tales,” Gunn agreed. “I admired the script, I admired the acquaint and I admired the actuality that acceptable wins out over evil.”
Even if there was a “Mean Girl” princess, Gunn is absolutely able for the affliction diva out there.
“I knew he would advise my babe the appropriate lessons,” said Yummie Tummie’s Thomson. “So abounding of the shows accept these bossy little kids on them, or they’re brats. I ample if Sofia was a brat, Tim was activity to put her in her place. You apperceive what I mean?”
