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Here we go, here we go, here we go! And we are still in New York City, FTW!!!
Listen, Papa Gunn said NYC was the place to be. One must need always listen to Papa Gunn. Including when he tells you that wearing a teeny fedora makes you look lame.
Image courtesy Lifetime
OK, let me pull myself together from slightly incoherent, but obviously jubilant, ramblings about the start of Season 8 of Project Runway, and actually recap the premiere 90-minute Project Runway opener.
First, things first: We have our new Season 8 catchphrase, delivered courtesy of the thus-far-not-apparently-aptly-named-except-in-his-own-mind Casanova:
"I take New York from the balls!"
That's right, Casanova, I do too! Especially this week, while I'm writing this recap despite the fact that I haven't yet started packing for my early morning flight tomorrow for, that's right!, New York City...which BlogHer '10 is obviously going to take from the balls!
[Do you think Lisa and Jory would kill me if I started to lead a chant like that from the main stage in front of all 2,400 attendees? And how many of those 2,400 would know what I was talking about? Any guesses?]
So, the show opened with about 10 minutes of random meet-ups between designers on various corners of NYC or at Grand Central Station or at other points unknown. I could have done without the set-up. If that's what expanding to 90 minutes is getting us? Pass!
Eventually they all converge on Lincoln Center, where Tim and Heidi meet them with news of their first challenge. Each designer is to pull something out of their suitcase with which to base a design. And then, because there's a twist of course, they have to pass their chosen item over to another designer who will use it for their design.
The aforementioned Casanova is a bit verklempt given he pulled out a $1,000 pair of Dolce & Gabbana pants. And I need to ask him: Have you ever watched this show? Because even if you didn't anticipate they would make you turn over your item to someone else, didn't you guess they might make you deconstruct whatever you pulled out, even for your own design? Did you think they were going to let you just put a $1,000 pair of pants on a model as is and call it a day?
Oh, Casanova, Project Runway really took you from the balls on that one, eh?
With only 5 hours to work, the 17 (yes, 17, and that's just too many...who's with me?) designers get to work, get to freaking out, and get to sniping about one another. Ah, Project Runway, I love you.
When we're ready for the runway, we are comforted to see Heidi joined by our good friends MK and ninagarcia. They are all joined by Selma Blair, who is apparently another one of those "fashion icon" celebrities we hear about every season on Project Runway. I think they're starting to have to dig a little deeper in the "fashion icon" barrel, though. I mean...when's the last time she was even in a movie? No offense, loved you in Legally Blonde Selma.
And here's what the multitudes of designers sent down the runway. As always click on the link under each designer's name to see their creation:
1. Valerie created a mini-dress from Casanova's pants.
It was an inauspicious start to the show with this patchwork desecration of $1,000 pants. There was a pink landing strip. There were beige breast pads...on the outside. There was a yellow hem that badly needed pressing. The Bad Idea Bears got to Valerie on this one.
2. Peach created a halter dress from Michael D.'s scarf.
It's kind of funny that Peach gave up her toile pants (see below) and then made a dress from a blue and white floral fabric that wasn't actually toile, but has the same kind of visual look. The issue here is that she made a cute dress with just the tiniest bit of Michael's scarf included. She didn't really rise to the challenge. She wasn't inspired by her piece; she was forced to use it, so she turned it into rather inappropriate trim. A cute, wearable dress, but not high on the creativity scale.
3. McKell created a halter dress from AJ's button-down shirt.
The blue button-down shirt became a pretty simple blue button-down halter top for a baby-doll dress. The skirt was an overly-full blue floral-metallic mini that didn't do the model's figure any favors. The hair was sort of an incongruous modified Sanjaya-style fauxhawk. I'm not sure I
