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| Stuff that's all terribly boring to Polly... |
I attended WOW (World of Wearable Arts Award Show) in the
weekend and it was mind-blowingly good.
My friends Mum was exceedingly generous in buying us some tickets and
enabling my long held desire to attend.
We made a day-long road trip together from Palmy to Wellington with just
enough time to check out David Jones, and then enjoy a mouth stimulating
cocktail near the waterfront at Foxglove before the show.
The day was already a winner before I’d even stepped into
the TSB Arena for WOW. It was in this wandering around Wellington stage that my
friend brought up Radio DJ Polly Gillespie’s ranty- tanty article about WOW. We both screwed up our faces and said “F*ck
her”. My friend had not even read the
article because she thinks Polly is just pathetic and won’t give her the time
of day anyway, but I just had to check it out.
Maybe she heard wrong, maybe, Polly who asks for so much tolerance and
understanding for herself, would never criticise something she had never even
seen, maybe it was a stitch up...
WOW! She did it!! Unbelievably
Polly took the time to weave a tale all about why she found WOW so annoying. She actually called her uninformed perspective
“anti-antsy-pantsy-arty-farty-fartiness”!
She went on to describe this world event of extremely high calibre “all
a bit of a craft project on steroids." She thinks WOW is a giant
inconvenience to her and her friends, who get exasperated by all the women that
come and get in their way in Wellington.
That’s fine to talk shit with your friends Polly, hell everybody does
that right? But to publicly talk shit and belittle people that find it
outrageous to buy a $500 t-shirt from your friends shop is just the height of
snobbery. Personally I think most of the Radio DJ’s on popular radio
are quite moronic (Vaughan Smith and Karen Hay are notable exceptions, as are
probably most people on National Radio) and I’m shocked that people can listen
without wanting to grate their ears off, but I wouldn’t usually pick a public
forum to air that . And besides, I’ve
got an audience of say a few hundred people at most, not the tens of thousands
that you probably have.
When you ask “What would Coco Chanel say for God's
sake?” well I imagine she wouldn’t waste her time talking to someone so ill-informed
about fashion as you, she’d probably go to WOW to recruit talent and rejuvenate
her soul. I also would like to point out that you are not living in “POLLYWOOD”,
but actually Wellington, where people like the arts a lot! It does seem that you think that WOW is “silly”
because it’s not all about you. Well
thank goodness because POLLYWOOD would not be a place I’d like to hang
out. Your stunningly cruel jibes about
how people outside of Wellington dress say nothing about them and everything
about you. You’re a mean girl Polly and
extremely selfish. Why couldn’t you just
say that shit to your friends and leave it at that?
So let me fill you in on the people that you have been
talking shit about. Well, for a start
Dame Suzie Moncrieff whose heartfelt write up at the beginning of the programme
should have you weeping tears of sorrow for your ‘silly’ words. This amazing woman spent her life making WOW
what it is and still feels passionate about she’s done. I want to cry with gratitude for the
inspiration that she is, if only you would cotton on Polly. The Directors from
Inside Out productions Mike Mizrahi and Marie Adams along with artist Reuben
Paterson who created this stunning show from threads of creativity inside their
heads probably and hopefully won’t be wounded by your mindless comment. Probably
Weta , who made the giant lifelike tiger that moved and spoke with Jermaine
Clements voice, they might feel a bit put out about it. Maybe Don Mcglashan who worked on the cleverly
chosen music that saturated our souls, or the lighting guy that had us
enthralled with at times terrifying and at times mesmerising light work might
feel a bit f*cked off Polly. Maybe the
dancers that kept the show pumping on a set that moved, a magical constantly
changing set, might feel miffed. How
about the designers that aren’t actually trying to make any type of clothing
that you might want to wear? That’s really silly Polly- WOW is about art, it’s
about showing just how amazing your skills are, what you can achieve when your
creativity and your skills combine. I’m not sure how long their designs take but I
could well imagine it would be months if not years of work. An award for your entry could be a career
defining moment in a young designer’s life, not to mention for the models,
dancers and all the cast and crew that create such an amazing spectacle.
Because I’ve seen how upset you get when people say bad
things to you, I am utterly gobsmacked at your ruthless casting aside of the
skills of such a huge bunch of talented people, basically anyone who
participates in the arts, and their appreciation society. At the very least you could have witnessed it
first hand before you commented.
I’d like you to suck
it up and go see a show Polly, buy a programme so you can read about the
amazing people behind the scenes, then, at least, you can comment with some
knowledge which would be a great turnaround from your ignorant uniformed rant.
I hope next year someone enters a design called Polly’s Big
Mouth, and that it takes up the whole stage and maggots fall out of it, or maybe
you could just open the show with a giant apology...
P.S. I drove my car all around Wellington and I hope I cut
you off...
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