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The Project Runway designers team up, and that's never pretty! Oh and also...being almost a week late with my recap isn't pretty either.
This episode kicks off with a sight I really hadn't expected to see: As though Heidi needed to be any taller and more Amazon-Goddess-like, she comes out on stilts. Big, tall stilts.
Image Courtesy Lifetime
She tells the designers they'll need to think big. And then ALL the models come out on stilts. It's freaky, I won't deny it. And once you realize there are only seven freaky tall skinny models up there, you know that this is a Dreaded! Team! Challenge!
Yup, they're put into teams of two...using the button bag...and the teams look like this.
Bert and Viktor (With Viktor being really bummed about it, despite Bert having won challenge #1...that was a long time ago, beeyotches...in fashion one minute you're in, and the next you're AUF!)
Anthony and Laura (Color Blind Boy and Shallow Glam Girl who's been shopping at Nieman's since the single digits, people!!...can they fill in the missing pieces in each other's lives?)
Joshua and Julie (Nature Girl and Glam Boy...you do the math)
Danielle and Cecilia (Who?)
Anya and Oliver (Battle of the cool accents. But seriously...he grew up in the States, we learned, until he was a late teenager...how did he acquire this mysterious accent?)
Kimberly and Becky (Again...who?)
Bryce and Fallene (Oh, so sad...the loser duo)
For some reason it's a big deal that this will be the first runway show done outside (not sure why I care) and in front of audience and press (like the finales always are). I just wasn't as excited about these two "twists" as they all seemed to be.
What I am excited about is that, for the first time this season: We're off to Mood!! Yay Mood!!! Of course you know that the entire time they're at Mood (all 60 seconds of it) I'm on Swatch Watch. Will they show the adorable little bulldog mascot of the store?
And then, at the end, when all hope seemed lost: Swatch!!!! Thank you, Mood.
And I think you can all thank me, because I'm pretty sure every Swatch shot you see is because I have been such a tireless Swatch advocate.
So, now we get to the drama part, the actual team work. And here is what we learned this week about the designers we still barely know by name:
- Viktor and Bert are like dueling children, full of "I know you are, but what am I" and "No you didn't, yes I did, no you didn't, yes I did, didn't, did, didn't, did..." OMFG, want to burst my eardrums, just so I don't have to listen to the petulance anymore. I was rooting for Bert at first, and he was probably even more right in this situation. But now? They just BOTH annoyed me.
- Olivier, despite...or maybe because of...the mysterious accent sounds all smart sometimes. Like when he's talking about collaboration.
- Apparently it is very very important to learn to cut fabric on grain. And apparently you can only learn this is fashion school.
- Fallene is a crybaby. Every season has to have one.
- Every season also has to have the person who spends all of his or her time working on one little detail, forcing his or her partner to run around trying to finish everything else. And if that one detail is good...that lazy-ass person will get all the credit and poor put-upon-partner will wind up looking like the loser. (This happens on shows like Design Star, too!) On this episode that person was Julie and her 12-hour jacket. Special extra credit foes to Fallene for her 12-hour FAILED top, which led to her tiny little head piece as her only contribution.
We move on to the exciting! outdoor! show! in Battery Park. Again, I'm unclear why they're doing this, and why it's so exciting.
Regular judges Heidi, MK, ninagarcia are joined by Kim Kardashian. Who I guess is coming out with a line of fashion for Sears next year (prompting her to sue Old Navy for using that KK look-alike in their ads).
Here we go. As always, click on the link under each designer pair's name to see the outfit I'm babbling about:
Oh dear, talk about a costume. Or perhaps an anime character. This outfit consisted of black and white bric a brac pants, paired with a red bolero jacket with one big kimono sleeve, over
