Charlet Duboc
| Charlet Duboc | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
Charlet Duboc September 1985 (age 30) Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist, Model , Film maker |
| Known for | VICE Host |
Charlet Duboc (born September 6, 1985) is an on-screen correspondent and documentary producer for the UK branch of VICE Media. Duboc specialises in cultural exposé and human interest documentary, fronting a variety of VICE's content, including acclaimed groundbreaking series "Fashion Week Internationale". [1] and "Munchies guide to Scotland".[2][3] She also writes for The Guardian[4] and has appeared on CNN.[5]
Early life
Duboc was born in Surrey, United Kingdom.[6] Interested in Vice magazine as a teenager, she told scribd.com in 2013 that, "I’d travel all the way to London to get a copy of the magazine. I’d take it home and hide it from my mum and fantasise about dating the guys who wrote it.”[7]
VICE career
Duboc started off at VICE as an intern tasked with finding fashion-related stories. Her first break came when she found that the first ever fashion week was scheduled to go ahead in Islamabad Pakistan. After pitching the idea of using 'other' fashion weeks as a hook to explore stories of identity and culture around the world, she was given the go ahead and made the presenter of the new show, titled Fashion Week Internationale, soon after learning to self-produce and direct much of the content she fronts.[8] This production was done with the help of director William Fairman, whom Duboc credits as her mentor and greatest professional inspiration, and under the guidance of Andy Capper. Each episode of Fashion Week Internationale web series is 30 minutes long and is based in a country not commonly associated with mainstream fashion programming.
In 2015 Duboc took a break from reporting on screen to step wholly behind the camera, in order to produce a TV show for the upcoming launch of VICE Media's television channel VICELAND. The production is a remake of her series Fashion Week Internationale, this time for a US television audience. The show goes by a new name 'State of Undress' and is fronted by new host - American model, actress and writer Hailey Gates. Filming was completed in late 2015 and the 6 part show airs from early March 2016. 2016 will see Duboc return to VICE's screens.
Fashion Week Internationale
Duboc hosts Fashion Week Internationale, a VICE series that explores the world's lesser known fashion week events, using them as a backdrop to uncover often controversial cultural issues: race, gender, sweatshops, plastic surgery to name a few.[9]
| Episode No. | Title | Original Air Date | No. of views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Islamabad Fashion Week | Oct 13, 2011 | -- |
| 2 | Full Figured Fashion Week | Oct 29, 2011 | -- |
| 3 | Colombia Fashion Week | Nov 12, 2011 | -- |
| 4 | Las Vegas International Lingerie Show | Dec 10, 2011 | -- |
| 5 | Merry Christmas from Fashion Week Internationale | Dec 19, 2011 | -- |
| 6 | Cambodia Fashion Week | Jan 07, 2012 | -- |
| 7 | Nigeria Fashion Week | Jan 28, 2012 | -- |
| 8 | Rio Fashion Week | Sep 13, 2012 | -- |
| 9 | Caribbean Fashion Week | Oct 01, 2012 | -- |
| 10 | Seoul Fashion Week | Oct 22, 2012 | -- |
| 11 | Happy Friday from Fashion Week Internationale | Nov 30, 2012 | -- |
| 12 | Urban Fashion Week | Dec 04, 2012 | -- |
| 13 | Tel Aviv Fashion Week - Teaser | Dec 10, 2012 | -- |
| 14 | Tel Aviv Fashion Week | Dec 21, 2012 | -- |
| 15 | Ukrainian Fashion Week | Apr 29, 2014 | -- |
Black Bike Week
Duboc also hosts "Black Bike Week," a documentary about an annual event of the same name near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. By taking part in the life of an attendant at the festival, she investigates the gritty side of this Memorial Day tradition.
Munchies Guide to Scotland
MUNCHIES is a web and digital video food channel that is run by VICE. Their latest series is MUNCHIES Guide to, it is dedicated to food and its purpose globally. Charlet Duboc hosts MUNCHIES Guide to Scotland where she travels around Scotland to examine the idiosyncrasies of Scottish culture via its cuisine.[10]
| Episode No. | Title | Original Air Date | No. of views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting Buzzed off Buckfast | 18 Aug 2014 | 198,320 |
| 2 | Meet the Steampunk Lobster King | 19 Aug 2014 | 113,969 |
| 3 | The Best Fish 'n' Chips in the World | 20 Aug 2014 | 216,438 |
| 4 | Hunting and Foraging | 21 Aug 2014 | 92,383 |
| 5 | Owls, Haggis-Throwing, and the Highland Games | 22 Aug 2014 | 82,172 |
Fortress Italia
Charlet travels to Italy to investigate the fallout from the 360 migrants that drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boat capsized near the island of Lampedusa. Fortress Italia is a four part web documentary produced by VICE news. She talks to all parties involved including migrants that are running from war in Syria that where on the capsized boat. Interviewing the locals and the victims that were effected in this shipwreck off the small island she tackles some hard hitting issues.
VICE Shorties
On 31 Oct 2014 Charlet sat down with Russell Brand to discuss his new book "Revolution".[11] This was part of the VICE Shorties series.
References
- ↑ "Fashion Week Internationale".
- ↑ "MUNCHIES Guide to Scotland — Episode 1author=Charlet Duboc". Munchies. 18 August 2014.
- ↑ Charlet Duboc (4 September 2014). "Summary of Munchies Guide to Scotland". The Independent.
- ↑ Charlet Duboc (19 September 2012). "Beyond London, fashion weeks fabulously cut from a different cloth". The Guardian.
- ↑ Charlet Duboc (19 June 2012). "Fashion week in Islamabad". CNN.
- ↑ Rebeeca Moore (11 December 2012). "Interview Charlet Duboc". Idolmag.
- ↑ Ben Machell (26 January 2013). "The Vice Squad". Times Newspaper.
- ↑ "Interview with Charlet Duboc". rookiecreative. 11 December 2012.
- ↑ "You MUST watch VICE'S Fashion Week Internationale". MODA&ESTILO. 18 September 2013.
- ↑ "Trestles Table: MUNCHIES, VICE'S FOOD CHANNEL, PRESENTS MUNCHIES GUIDE TO SCOTLAND". trestlestable. 17 September 2014.
- ↑ "Russell Brand on Revolution: VICE Shorties".