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The Top 3 present perhaps the most consistent and wearable finale collections ever, but did anyone really knock it out of the park?
So, Season 7 of Project Runway is all over. How did we like it? Was it a big improvement over the inaugural season on Lifetime last season? Will you watch season 8?
I liked it OK. It was a big improvement over last season. And of course I will watch Season 8!
But.
-Please keep the show in NYC. L.A. does not cut it.
-Please bring back the Mood dog. If you read these recaps, you know what I'm talking about :)
-Please make sure that MK and ninagarcia are a consistent presence. Not because I love them so much, but because it makes for a more fair, consistent season...one that makes sense and has some sense of continuity.
-And what about the idea of getting more reaction from Tim pre- and post-runway? Who does he think will win, go home? How does he react to who actually wins, goes home? I know he talks about it on his blog/podcast, but why not incorporate some of that stuff into the show: It would spice it up a lot, because...
I don't mind the lack of "drama" between the contestants, that works just fine for me -- but the show needs some drama. Bring the drama with the fashion and everyone's reaction to it, especially Tim's!
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That's my advice.
As for the runway show.
MagicallyUnpregnantHeidi, MK and ninagarcia were joined by Faith Hill for the finale. There wasn't even an attempt to name her a "fashion icon" or a mention of her having some clothing line for some store, or anything like that, so it was a bit of a "huh?"
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1. Seth Aaron went first. (He had a military influence, wow, never seen that before, eh?)
You can view his collection starting at this link.
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Seth Aaron probably got a lot of credit for taking his established design aesthetic -- which was appreciated, but starting to get old -- to the next step and then taming it to be a fashion collection, not a costume set for Cirque du Soleil. That said, none of it drove me wild. Well-made? Definitely. Fashion forward? In some cases, yes. Surprisingly feminine and pretty? Yes, a couple of times. But he seemed to get bitten by the Mila black and white bug, and he had a couple of downright laughable costumes.
Bottom line: I thought the whole thing was very hit or miss.
2. Mila was next. (With a "shadows" theme.)
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You can view her collection starting at this link.
So, my viewing companion had a far more favorable view of Mila's collection than I. To me it was incredibly repetitive, one-note, and not of all that much personal interest to me. Both Seth Aaron and Emilio celebrate a woman's figure much more than the only woman designer, Mila. Her outfits are boxy, really boxy, doing their best to actually obscure the shape underneath. She did have two dresses that appealed to me, both because they escaped the black and white palette the rest of the clothes had, and because they were more flattering.
Bottom line: This was a black-and-white, more-of-the-same effort from Mila, and it didn't contain anything that made me think "wow."
3. Emilio closed. (Don't think he mentioned a theme, except that he was inspired by print and color.)
You can view his collection starting at this link.
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I will say that Emilio's struck me as the best, for a number of reasons:
-He used the aforementioned color and print, which gave his collection a fresher feel ... fresh both as a quality of the clothes themselves and how they didn't have the somewhat dour feeling of the other two, but also fresh meaning new, not just what he's done before or what other Project Runway designers have done before. Something his own.
-OK, he had one suitthat was sort of '80s and not in any kind of good way, and one dress that was an overall "meh", but most of the collection felt very now, very streamlined and modern, very hot, and finally, capped off by an epic gown.
-His was the least costume-y, the least derivative, the most "ready."
Bottom line: Maybe
