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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...product-placement show. It venerates ostentation, trades in gay stereotypes and urges men to develop personal relationships with...hair products. But we love it. An average of 2 million people watch, clockwise from left, Kyan Douglas, Ted Allen, Carson Kressley, Jai Rodriguez and Thom Filicia teach clueless heterosexuals about window treatments and Gewurztraminer. The show may do little to advance gay rights, but it is inspiring a nation full of well-dressed metrosexuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered 2003 | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...right, provided a $900 coffee table and a $2,600 sofa to help spruce up Tom Kaden's living room. In the month after the show aired, sales of the items nearly quadrupled, according to the store. Visiting the housewares emporium Domain, Queer Eye's interior designer, Thom Filicia, got excited about the store's red Victoria settee ($3,099) and dubbed it a "chofa" (bigger than a chair, smaller than a sofa). Now Domain plans to rename it too--and has seen sales double. In another show, the crew went to the flagship Ralph Lauren store on Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queer Eye, Straight Plugs | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

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