Charlet Duboc
| Charlet Duboc | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
Charlet Duboc September 1985 (age 30) Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Journalist, Film maker |
| Known for | VICE Host |
Charlet Duboc (born September 6, 1985) is an on-screen correspondent and documentary producer based between VICE Media's London and New York operations. Duboc specialises in cultural exposé, human interest & satirical documentary, fronting a variety of content across VICE's digital platforms, notably acclaimed webseries "Fashion Week Internationale". She has also written for The Guardian,[1] the Observer and has appeared on CNN.[2]
Early life
Duboc was born in Surrey, United Kingdom.[3] where she lived until aged 17 before reading BA American Studies with Film at Kings College London. Captivated by VICE magazine as a teenager, she told scribd.com in 2013, "I’d even travel all the way to London to get a copy of the magazine. I’d take it home, hide it from my mum and fantasise about dating the guys who wrote it."[4]
VICE career
A keen journalist, Duboc started off at VICE in London as an editorial intern. Her first break came when tasked with finding fashion-related stories. She discovered that the first ever fashion week in Islamabad, Pakistan, was scheduled to go ahead in the following weeks. 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, which was given the deliberately facetious title 'Fashion Week Internationale'.[5] The production was done with director William Fairman, whom Duboc credits as her mentor and greatest professional inspiration, and under the guidance of Andy Capper. Each episode of the Fashion Week Internationale web series is 30 minutes long and is based in a country not commonly associated with mainstream fashion programming. Before completion of filming season II, Duboc had learned to self-produce and self-direct herself on-screen and continues to do so with much of the content she fronts. Duboc went on to diversify her video-journalism remit, addressing a variety of themes within the fields of current affairs, cultural commentary, satirical documentary as well as food & music programming.
In 2015 Duboc took a break from appearing on-screen in order to step wholly behind the camera, producing a TV show for the launch of VICE Media's first television channel VICELAND in the United States. The production is a re-make of Duboc's webseries Fashion Week Internationale, this time for a US television audience. The show goes by a new name 'State of Undress' and is fronted by a new host - American model, actress and writer Hailey Gates, with whom Duboc worked closely. Filming was completed in late 2015 and the 6 part show airs from late 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.[6]
| 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.[7]
| Episode No. | Title | Original Air Date | No. of views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting Buzzed off Buckfast | 18 Aug 2014 | 617,134 |
| 2 | Meet the Steampunk Lobster King | 19 Aug 2014 | 298,904 |
| 3 | The Best Fish 'n' Chips in the World | 20 Aug 2014 | 964,468 |
| 4 | Hunting and Foraging | 21 Aug 2014 | 247,040 |
| 5 | Owls, Haggis-Throwing, and the Highland Games | 22 Aug 2014 | 210,217 |
View Count Updated April 7, 2016
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".[8] This was part of the VICE Shorties series.
References
- ↑ 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".