project runway season 6 eps 1 & 2
I STILL HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM THIS JOB ARGH
i totally forgot about this show! i am pleased to report that it is pretty much the same, despite moving to lifetime, and the designers are by and large less annoying than the designers in season 5, but maybe of equal talent. which is to say, i cannot yet detect a fashion genius in this crop, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
EXAMPLES OF PROJECT RUNWAY COLLIDING WITH PEOPLE I KNOW:
1. kungfookimmie saw tim gunn walking around wearing madras pants.
2. a participant of ladies' night now lives with someone who used to be kenley's roommate, and apparently she was a total psycho who sewed at 3 AM and once threw a stool at him. it's so nice when real life confirms what we think we already know.
did anyone watch the (totally rigged) special? i did! has michael knight always been mychael knight, and have i been misspelling it this entire time?? santino's ego appears to have outstripped his sense of humor, tragically, meaning that he appears to have nothing better to do than accuse sweet p of looking too old. FUCKING NECK TATTOO is pretty much still an asshole with a neck tattoo (with the addition of an american-apparel-style porno mustache). and uli should have won, but i'm repeating myself.
models of the runway is boring, but i still watch it for the brief moments of drama. i mean, i am very amused that NO ONE wants to work with mitchell.
i put the contestants in alphabetical order because there are too many of these assholes. i don't really get a grip on the contestants until they get winnowed down to about 10. i am puzzled that the runway photographer apparently has issues taking pictures in focus.
ALTHEA
another designer with an impressive background, but she hasn't shown much personality yet. i do not believe althea is the age she claims to be, although she may be like rachel zoe, having spent too much time in the sun/snorting things up her nose. i did really like her maternity dress, especially the back.
ARI
i sort of wish ari had stayed, because i enjoyed her multi-colored bodysuits. what is really sad is that her geodesic dome isn't even well-sewn. it is a mess, design and construction-wise. tiffany called it EPCOT CENTER.
CAROL HANNAH
the first dress is so costume-y, i am surprised it didn't get called out by the judges. why, she could go to the gladiatorial arena in that!
CHRISTOPHER
i didn't really think christopher's winning dress in the first challenge was that great. i am a little worried about him, if only because that dress he said he made for $3 . . . really did look like he made it for $3. and he didn't know what smocking was.
EPPERSON
i do not know what epperson is going for and it disturbs me. there is something about the weird tulle trim in the first dress/funeral shroud that makes me think of the best little whorehouse in texas. and the second . . . with the jacket/vest thing, it looks like what a pregnant sheik would wear in the desert, and without it, it looks like something bianca jagger would have worn in the 70s.
GORDANA
i really like gordana. in soviet russia we don't fuck around! the 2nd outfit, however, annoys me. it is not actually true that you can just throw a cardigan on over anything. the cardigan has to be the right cardigan, and cardigans mostly look very strange over halters.
IRINA
since irina has gotten about 6 minutes of screen time overall, i can't say much about her. i like her designs so far?
JOHNNY
johnny scares the crap out of me. i cannot tell if he A) realizes he is manipulative and insane and is doing it for attention, B) realizes that he is crazy, but is still genuinely insane, or C) really is too mentally unstable to be on television. brrrr. that said, i don't really personally like either of his designs, but i can see that the first has a cool, original cut.
LOGAN
i sort of dislike logan on principle, because i dislike anyone who has to tell you how manly they are. (this also applies to people talking about their intelligence - hi, carol hannah!) also his "manliness" and fast-car-driving don't seem to help him design especially nice outfits. perhaps he was too manly to steam that first dress.
LOUISE
this is the etsy seller of the season. i like her stuff but i'm afraid she won't be innovative enough to stay on the show long. i like vintage clothing and old hollywood also, but that's certainly not the most INTERESTING design inspiration, frankly.
MALVIN
oh malvin. i wish you hadn't gone home, because you could actually sew, unlike GODDAMN MITCHELL, and because your self-delusion approaches resemble malan breton's flight from reality. i can tell you right now that no woman wants to wear pants with the words "chicken thighs" anywhere in the description.
MITCHELL
oh mitchell. i kind of hate you, with your resemblance to perez hilton and inability to make it work. have you never heard of the words "seam allowance"? i might have let it go if you had recovered from the nude model debacle and made something awesome for the pregnancy challenge, but no. you had to make a "Derelicte-shopping-on-rodeo-drive" outfit. seriously, WHAT IS WITH THE SHORTS. THE LADY IS PREGNANT, NOT A COW. that is like if forever 21 made a maternity outfit.
NICOLAS
nicolas' little bob haircut scares me. he has an impressive background (dress on the cover of vogue), but he doesn't excite me much. see, there are too many of these fuckers - designers who make nice enough stuff but who don't get much camera time, so you can't figure out exactly what you think about them.
QRISTYL
qristyl is the marla/wendy pepper of the season - i.e. the one the other designers will probably refer to derisively as a "dressmaker". her taste level is certainly hovering around wendy pepper levels, but she appears to have better technical skills than poor sad marla. i have still not forgiven her for referring to plus-size as "plus-sexy". that first dress looks like something you'd find in those mall stores that sell super cheap miami-style prom dresses for 14-year-old girls. her maternity dress is perfectly fine and makes me wonder if she's maybe just better at fitting clothes on larger sizes.
RA'MON
i keep writing his name as ramen, which is unkind. mm, ramen is delicious. ra'mon better be planning on winning this, if he ever wants to pay off his unfinished med school bills. damn. it's not quite as bad as Crazy Vincent cashing in his 401K, but it's pretty bad. anyway, ra'mon's first dress was perfectly lovely, if a bit staid (and also possibly a chanel ripoff), but the second . . . i don't see how he missed the bowling bag resemblance. there was this period in the '90s when bowling bags and similar color-blocked jackets in horrible pleather and 70s colors were really trendy and the minute i saw this dress, i experienced a completely unnecessary flashback to the days when i owned polyester button-down shirts and ironic gas station attendant jackets. when did the '90s become the new '80s?
SHIRIN
shirin is basically a farsi-speaking version of emmy rossum. by the way, should you ever find yourself watching the schumacher version of the phantom of the opera, BEGIN DRINKING RIGHT AWAY. personally i like to drink every time emmy rossum's mouth hangs open or when she makes an orgasm face, which is about 75% of the movie. anyway, shirin is similarly chirpy and precious, but she makes really nice clothes. her "gimmick" is making convertible clothes or clothes with hidden compartments, which could get really annoying. the first dress shown here has a capelet that can be let down to be the train of the skirt - it's quite lovely. and she definitely deserved to win the pregnancy challenge. i'd wear that outfit, pregnant or not.
did anyone quit watching this show when it moved to lifetime?
are there any new fall shows you'll be watching?
i totally forgot about this show! i am pleased to report that it is pretty much the same, despite moving to lifetime, and the designers are by and large less annoying than the designers in season 5, but maybe of equal talent. which is to say, i cannot yet detect a fashion genius in this crop, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
EXAMPLES OF PROJECT RUNWAY COLLIDING WITH PEOPLE I KNOW:
1. kungfookimmie saw tim gunn walking around wearing madras pants.
2. a participant of ladies' night now lives with someone who used to be kenley's roommate, and apparently she was a total psycho who sewed at 3 AM and once threw a stool at him. it's so nice when real life confirms what we think we already know.
did anyone watch the (totally rigged) special? i did! has michael knight always been mychael knight, and have i been misspelling it this entire time?? santino's ego appears to have outstripped his sense of humor, tragically, meaning that he appears to have nothing better to do than accuse sweet p of looking too old. FUCKING NECK TATTOO is pretty much still an asshole with a neck tattoo (with the addition of an american-apparel-style porno mustache). and uli should have won, but i'm repeating myself.
models of the runway is boring, but i still watch it for the brief moments of drama. i mean, i am very amused that NO ONE wants to work with mitchell.
i put the contestants in alphabetical order because there are too many of these assholes. i don't really get a grip on the contestants until they get winnowed down to about 10. i am puzzled that the runway photographer apparently has issues taking pictures in focus.
ALTHEA
another designer with an impressive background, but she hasn't shown much personality yet. i do not believe althea is the age she claims to be, although she may be like rachel zoe, having spent too much time in the sun/snorting things up her nose. i did really like her maternity dress, especially the back.
ARI
i sort of wish ari had stayed, because i enjoyed her multi-colored bodysuits. what is really sad is that her geodesic dome isn't even well-sewn. it is a mess, design and construction-wise. tiffany called it EPCOT CENTER.
CAROL HANNAH
the first dress is so costume-y, i am surprised it didn't get called out by the judges. why, she could go to the gladiatorial arena in that!
CHRISTOPHER
i didn't really think christopher's winning dress in the first challenge was that great. i am a little worried about him, if only because that dress he said he made for $3 . . . really did look like he made it for $3. and he didn't know what smocking was.
EPPERSON
i do not know what epperson is going for and it disturbs me. there is something about the weird tulle trim in the first dress/funeral shroud that makes me think of the best little whorehouse in texas. and the second . . . with the jacket/vest thing, it looks like what a pregnant sheik would wear in the desert, and without it, it looks like something bianca jagger would have worn in the 70s.
GORDANA
i really like gordana. in soviet russia we don't fuck around! the 2nd outfit, however, annoys me. it is not actually true that you can just throw a cardigan on over anything. the cardigan has to be the right cardigan, and cardigans mostly look very strange over halters.
IRINA
since irina has gotten about 6 minutes of screen time overall, i can't say much about her. i like her designs so far?
JOHNNY
johnny scares the crap out of me. i cannot tell if he A) realizes he is manipulative and insane and is doing it for attention, B) realizes that he is crazy, but is still genuinely insane, or C) really is too mentally unstable to be on television. brrrr. that said, i don't really personally like either of his designs, but i can see that the first has a cool, original cut.
LOGAN
i sort of dislike logan on principle, because i dislike anyone who has to tell you how manly they are. (this also applies to people talking about their intelligence - hi, carol hannah!) also his "manliness" and fast-car-driving don't seem to help him design especially nice outfits. perhaps he was too manly to steam that first dress.
LOUISE
this is the etsy seller of the season. i like her stuff but i'm afraid she won't be innovative enough to stay on the show long. i like vintage clothing and old hollywood also, but that's certainly not the most INTERESTING design inspiration, frankly.
MALVIN
oh malvin. i wish you hadn't gone home, because you could actually sew, unlike GODDAMN MITCHELL, and because your self-delusion approaches resemble malan breton's flight from reality. i can tell you right now that no woman wants to wear pants with the words "chicken thighs" anywhere in the description.
MITCHELL
oh mitchell. i kind of hate you, with your resemblance to perez hilton and inability to make it work. have you never heard of the words "seam allowance"? i might have let it go if you had recovered from the nude model debacle and made something awesome for the pregnancy challenge, but no. you had to make a "Derelicte-shopping-on-rodeo-drive" outfit. seriously, WHAT IS WITH THE SHORTS. THE LADY IS PREGNANT, NOT A COW. that is like if forever 21 made a maternity outfit.
NICOLAS
nicolas' little bob haircut scares me. he has an impressive background (dress on the cover of vogue), but he doesn't excite me much. see, there are too many of these fuckers - designers who make nice enough stuff but who don't get much camera time, so you can't figure out exactly what you think about them.
QRISTYL
qristyl is the marla/wendy pepper of the season - i.e. the one the other designers will probably refer to derisively as a "dressmaker". her taste level is certainly hovering around wendy pepper levels, but she appears to have better technical skills than poor sad marla. i have still not forgiven her for referring to plus-size as "plus-sexy". that first dress looks like something you'd find in those mall stores that sell super cheap miami-style prom dresses for 14-year-old girls. her maternity dress is perfectly fine and makes me wonder if she's maybe just better at fitting clothes on larger sizes.
RA'MON
i keep writing his name as ramen, which is unkind. mm, ramen is delicious. ra'mon better be planning on winning this, if he ever wants to pay off his unfinished med school bills. damn. it's not quite as bad as Crazy Vincent cashing in his 401K, but it's pretty bad. anyway, ra'mon's first dress was perfectly lovely, if a bit staid (and also possibly a chanel ripoff), but the second . . . i don't see how he missed the bowling bag resemblance. there was this period in the '90s when bowling bags and similar color-blocked jackets in horrible pleather and 70s colors were really trendy and the minute i saw this dress, i experienced a completely unnecessary flashback to the days when i owned polyester button-down shirts and ironic gas station attendant jackets. when did the '90s become the new '80s?
SHIRIN
shirin is basically a farsi-speaking version of emmy rossum. by the way, should you ever find yourself watching the schumacher version of the phantom of the opera, BEGIN DRINKING RIGHT AWAY. personally i like to drink every time emmy rossum's mouth hangs open or when she makes an orgasm face, which is about 75% of the movie. anyway, shirin is similarly chirpy and precious, but she makes really nice clothes. her "gimmick" is making convertible clothes or clothes with hidden compartments, which could get really annoying. the first dress shown here has a capelet that can be let down to be the train of the skirt - it's quite lovely. and she definitely deserved to win the pregnancy challenge. i'd wear that outfit, pregnant or not.
did anyone quit watching this show when it moved to lifetime?
are there any new fall shows you'll be watching?