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Thom Filicia on Queer Eye, Designing for David Bowie & the Elevator That Changed His Life
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48:22Now PlayingThom Filicia got his big break because his dog needed to pee.
He was a successful interior designer in Soho with a dozen people working for him when he got stuck in an elevator with a group of strangers, a panicking woman, and a dog with his legs in a knot. By the time the fire department pried the doors open, one of the women in that elevator had decided this hilarious stranger belonged on television. That woman was a casting director. What happened next was Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Oprah, the Tonight Show, and three shows of his own.
You know him as the design expert with the filter to Carson Kressley's no filter. What you may not know is the kid from Syracuse who drew a house all over his school desk, got in trouble for it, and realized in that moment exactly who he was going to be.
Thom gets into how he reads a room in seconds, why he turned childhood dyslexia into his greatest strength, designing for David Bowie and Tina Fey, the dinner party trick he uses to escape boring small talk, and why the best design, like the best people, has a soul you can feel.
He is warm, wickedly funny, and completely himself. Come hang out.
Thom Filicia
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