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The Project Runway Top 10 split into two teams this week. It's about as pretty as such team challenges usually are.
Although there are no team leaders, according to Heidi, they are going to pick teams ... just like gym class. As last week's winner, Anthony gets to choose first, and then each person chosen is the next to choose for their team. So it goes like this:
Anthony chooses Anya chooses Viktor chooses Olivier chooses Bryce.
KingJosh chooses Laura chooses Kimberly chooses Becky chooses Bert.
And you just know Team #2 is a disaster waiting to happen -- given, especially, KingJosh's past clashes with both Becky and Bert.
Image courtesy Lifetime
Heidi makes it worse by pointing out to Bert that this is the second time he was last chosen, saying "I feel so bad!" Nice way to rub it in, Heids.
So, this week is the HP/Intel challenge: Create a textile from scratch. With the added tasks of creating a video with music to play behind the runway show.
They'll have 2 days; they'll each have to have a look, and at least 3 of those looks have to include the prints they design.
Then, oddly, they bring on Betsy Johnson as a guest mentor ... just to show them what her last show looked like. I say it's odd because she doesn't end up being a judge at the end, so she's just there for these brief minutes.
Laura shares that she thinks she's Betsy Johnson and Oscar de la Renta's love child. And I have to say, where is the Glam Girl Laura purported to be? It hasn't been showing up much in her designs, nor in her own fashion, nor now in her claim to be closely attuned to Betsy Johnson's design sensibility. What?
Betsy shares her ultimate piece of advice: It all starts with the girl. And the music. Who is she? Where is she going? (And apparently, what music does she listen to on the way?) KingJosh probably should have listened closer to this part, since later he makes the faux pas of not believing it should matter where she's going or what she's doing.
Once Tim and Betsy clear out, high drama ensues. KingJosh goes ballistic on Bert, using all sort of high-drama language: "I will not have it." "Don't come near me." "I'm just going to forfeit." Because he thinks Bert swore. KingJosh doesn't like the dirty words. KingJosh must spend a lot of time feeling quite disheartened.
He storms out, leaving his team in the dust...and making obvious observations. Like:
Kimberly: "That was unnecessary." Oh really, ya think?
And Becky: "He seems to be dealing with some grief." Yup, it's the mother thing rearing its ugly head.
Laura goes off to calm KingJosh, and it is decided that those two will focus on the video, while Bert, Kimberly and Becky go to Mood.
Anya, observing the other team from afar, is very happy all is harmonious and enjoyable over on her side of the workroom.
Speaking of that team, Bryce and Viktor are tasked with doing the video, and they head off to Times Square to do so, while Josh and Laura take lots of video of Laura in lots of different shoes getting in and out of cabs. And even a shot of KingJosh doing the same. And he does know how to rock a pair of yellow pumps.
Once everyone is back form filming and Mood, we get a big public apology from Josh. And hugs all around.
Bert, while accepting the apology, privately looks at it a bit askance, but concedes that "he did it and that's the most important thing."
I am with you, Bert. I look at it a bit askance as well.
The custom fabric is in the house. I didn't spend any time writing about the textile design part of the process, because it was dull -- and the fabrics all reflected that. The two teams say they feel good about their prints. but they're not really objective, you know?
The on honest person is Kimberly, who isn't using any of her team's textiles, because she doesn't like them. So she's not doing it. So there.
As if they were listening to my feedback last week that we weren't hearing much from Laura, the producers gave her more airtime this week. I'm not sure it's very helpful, though. In addition to her bizarre Betsy/Oscar love-child comment, we also learn that Laura thinks Becky's look is Judy Jetson math teacher. And that she is more inspired by the other team's textiles than her
