Amor fans spoil fashion list
2007-01-09 13:50
Cape Town - Pretoria fashion designer, Simon Rademan's long awaited list of South Africa's best and worst-dressed women, published annually, has been put on hold for the first time in its five year-existence.
A syndicate - presumably initiated by fans of singers Amor Vittone and Patricia Lewis - is one of the main reasons for this controversial list not to be published early this year.
Rademan said in a press release on his website that it was easy to discover a syndicate that would place Amor Vittone and Patricia Lewis directly opposite one another.
"Voters would nominate Me Vittone as best and (almost without exception) Me Lewis as a worst dressed woman and vice versa. We have to stress that the said list is not a love or hate-list, and neither is it a popularity competition."
According to Rademan the SA Best and Worst Dressed Women list is a registered independent trademark and does not belong to any individual publication, but to the style-followers of South Africa. "Anyone has a say in its outcome. I merely comment on the outcome of this list."
Bad sportsmanship
Rademan added that he has also had enough of the harmful threats and bad sportsmanship displayed every year.
"I have grown tired of the attempts of bribery suggestions and public 'threats of bodily harm' by husbands and close friends of worst dressed people.
"This bad sportsmanship of worst dressed people leads me to believe that there is much room for maturity amongst our 'not so stylish' style-'leaders'."
"Our beautiful country is not too small to accommodate socialite wannabe's that are prepared to grow as real life style-icons. I will continue to be honest in my opinion."
"Perhaps now other style- and fashion designers like 'Errol van de Merwe' and 'Gert Arendz' will leave me in peace as there is no list to comment on for 2006 (like they have done in the media)," he added.
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