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[Insert obligatory "hard" joke at your leisure.]
Forgive the delayed recap. Hard as it is to imagine, a mainstream hotel in a major urban center did NOT have Lifetime on their TV roster, so I couldn't watch this week's episode until this morning.
Let me break it down:
-One of Project Runway's famous "unusual materials" challenges, the contestants had to construct fashion of out things they could buy at a hardware store.
-It was, apparently, hard. [Insert another obligatory joke here.]
Image courtesy Lifetime
-Boys are attracted to copper sheeting. I honestly don't know what that means.
-Hardware seems to say "Judy Jetson" to both boy and girl designers.
-The Project Runway judges will save outre skank over well-made Barbie any day
OK, let's take a look, shall we? I hope you've had your coffee. Or maybe a stiff drink. As always, click on the link under the designer's name to see their creation for yourself.
1. Mila
I guess Mila is a testament to the stick-wtih-what-you-know approach. Yes, more graphic color-blocking, this time in black and white. yes a bit of a 60s mode aesthetic. What? You were expected draping? It was definitely well-done, but not exactly out of the box.
2. Jesse
Jesse created a cross between the Judy Jetson look and a Degas ballerina. The bodice was copper sheeting (painted silver) featuring a similar asymmetrical back seam treatment that his little girl dress had two weeks ago. I didn't really like that asymmetry then, and it didn't wow me now. Of course it was the only thing the judges liked. This bodice on its own might have been interesting and well-crafted enough to get him by, but the skirt was a big tulle-looking tutu. The tutu did him in!
3. Jonathan
Jonathan used duct tape and copper sheeting to make a halter dress. He threw in a little bit of everything...some stripes, some pleats, some folds, some piping. And yet it was amazingly boring for having so much going on. I can see why it was in that middle pack of safe...not bottom, not top, but it was pretty uninspiring.
Image courtesy Lifetime
4. Anthony
Anthony walked that fine line between creating magic out of a challenge and obfuscating the challenge so much you miss the point. And he crossed it, as far as the judges were concerned. Actually his lavender and silver sheath dress is quite pretty. If it were in fabric they would definitely say it wasn't quite innovative enough, but I think it was pretty impressive for him to make it out of, I don't even know what. But he went too far and didn't leverage the hardware elements in a way that paid homage to the challenge, but instead tried to hide the challenge.
5. Ben
I'm a little surprised Ben wasn't in the Bottom 3. He created a big wrinkly copper sheath dress. I am not sure what was the redeeming factor about it. He tried to hide that it was copper sheeting as much Anthony tried to hide his materials. Only it looked a lot more of a tortured mess. I have a theory: The judges don't really realize Ben is actually there either!! That's the only explanation.
6. Emilio
Well, where to begin. Emilio wanted to make some kind of macrame mini-dress with cord and washers. [Just go with it.] But he didn't buy enough cord OR washers. So instead he made a macrame bikini with cord and washers. Click on the link, it's really as horrendous as it sounds. Even more so, because I bet you wouldn't anticipate the little problem that the washers were so heavy they kept pulling the bikini bottoms down, so then he had to tie little knots to the top to keep the bottoms up. Best of all, he played it off like he meant to do a bikini because everyone else was doing a dress. Actually have to give him credit for pulling that lie off! This was just trashy, but you can't say he didn't feature the hardware!
7. Jay
Jay worked his magic with Hefty. He created leather-looking pants and a braided leather-looking belt...all out of black garbage bags. The pants/belt were accompanied by a be-striped and be-ribboned strapless peplum top made from more garbage bags and duct tape. It really was a daring concoction that he pulled off with aplomb.
8. Seth Aaron
Seth Aaron had immunity, so I think this was a throwaway effort on his part. It evoked his former designs on the show, the ones where Judy Jetson was his
