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The challenge on last night's episode of Project Runway should have provided the designers all the tools they need to really shine:
Pick their inspiration
Pick their fabrics
Design the outfit of their choice (with the caveat that the inspiration and destination for the outfit should be NYC at night.)
I was expecting to really get a lot of great outfits and to be able to start to determine which designers I should be rooting for.
I was a little disappointed, how about you? A preponderance of dresses that looked like someone or something vomited down the front of them (in varying colors and positions) led me to that disappointment, and now I'd like to share it with you. Like drinking, one should never be disappointed alone.
We start with Heidi coming out in, and it must be said: Jeans that were actually too tight! A Heidi fashion faux pas? What is the world and PR coming to? (Meanwhile, didn't Tim Gunn look hawt in his jeans? Seriously, Tim, dress down a little more often...you got it goin' on.)
Then there was some model discussion (I never pay attention to the model discussion..."this is a competition for you too"? Whatevs.) Suede continued to speak in the third person ("Suede loves Tia") And Elisa finds herself getting used to it, which Elisa finds scary, really, since talking abotu oneself in the third person is, usually, a very very bad idea.
The designers were dumped off in various parts of the city to take pictures and find their inspiration.
Suede, Daniel, Leanne and Jennifer were dropped off at Columbus Circle.
Stella, Kenley, Blayne and Keith were dropped off at Times Square.
Korto, Kelli and Joe were dropped off at the NY Public Library (the one with the big lions out front.)
Terri, Emily and Jerell were dropped off in Greenwich Village.
They all took bunches of photos, picked one to use as the inspiration, then went to Mood and spent $100 on fabric to make it come to life. They also learned that the winner of the challenge will get immunity, so it is ON, motha fuckas!
(Perhaps they don't say it quite like that, but they do all get their competitive game faces on...which for Kenley will always include bright red lipstick.)
So, what tidbits helped us get to know the designers better this episode?
-"Suede is gonna rock it!" Uttered by Suede, of course.
-Kenley's print is hideous, but no one will admit it.
-Blayne is a weird freak...with googly eyes worthy of a serial killer.
-Stella got to say "Leathah!" again, which made my evening.
-Terri's fabric and initial constructions looks like she's making a schmatke that your grandma would wear while spending the winter in Boca.
-Leanne didn't learn her less and seems to be seeing how many flaps of fabric she can add, once again to every available inch of her garment.
-Keith is really really into himself and his artistic sensibility. Which is ironic once you see his dress.
But let's get to the runway, featuring an incredibly scary looking Sandra Bernhard. Seriously, Sandra, what have you done to yourself? I'm really not trying to be catty, I'm seriously bemoaning the fact that she felt the need to smooth over and puff up her own unique beauty.
OK, enuogh drama, let's move on.
1. Keith's dress was supposed to be inspired by a ratty, rained-on, torn up magazine he saw on the ground. Oh yes, the dress really did look as pretty as that sounds! He took a white sheath and affixed tiny flaps of fabric scraps all over it, obscuring the actual sheath and making his model look like a rag drawer come to life. It was nasty, people.
2. Blayne also started with a sheath dress, this time black, and then he affixed this hideous rainbow-sherbet-colored cascade of ruffles down one side. It looked like Castro Street itself puked on her the morning after Gay Pride. And it made this tiny wraith-like model look huge. Quite a trick.
3. Joe produced a black skirt with a gold bustier with some grid lines on it. It was Bo. Ring. But at least actually wearable and flattering.
4. Emily also created a black sheath (these designers are killing me with the preponderance of sheath dresses they have produced in a mere three weeks.) Rather than Castro Street, it was a volcano that puked a bunch of orange and red ruffles down the other side of her dress. Her inspiration was a long-exposure look at car taillights, and she went way literal with that red/orange zig-zag path across and down the dress. Bleh.
5. Leanne shocked
