Project Runway

-- gabbneb (gabbne...), December 23rd, 2004. (gabbneb) (link)

whoa, like i totally did not realize this fact! was it mentioned on the show?!

seriously though, thats what makes her compelling. i mean, she's a lawyer and she cant last through a critique, which is not unlike being on trial.

austin is way too costumey and wont compromise his ideals for specific projects [his dress for #3 was too springlike for a winter collection].

i tagged jay as crashing and burning early because he wouldnt be able to adapt to the challenges at hand, but this hasnt been the case. dont count him out just yet.

kara's work is very thought out and incredibly well executed -- i could see her being the winner.

i dont know what to make of kevin. his responses to everything has been really well done. definately will be there until the end, unless something disastrous happens.

i kind of find nora's work to be too hip at times. cutting down large segments of the population is not going to help her business down the line.

robert's work is awful, just as cliched and contrived as starr's stuff, but in a different way. no wonder he divorced his wife and came back to the states -- just by the kinds of things he's put women in, the guy has no understanding of the opposite sex. men's suits? fake fur? what the fuck? i dont think he'll last much longer. by the promos ive seen for the next episode, supposedly he cracks his head open on a sidewalk after showing off how macho he is. serves him right.

vanessa, hm, another one i cant quite pin down. solid work but seems like an incredibly shitty person other wise. im sure that will bite her in the ass.

wendy could win this -- she made her mistakes early and is now being very careful about what she does. but who knows?

I like suits! If I were to seriously take the time to learn how to make anything, it'd be a really well tailored suit. Someday.. And yeah, Robert comes off as having plenty of cliched & ridiculous ideas about women. I figured there had to be a layer of irony to that, but maybe I'm just giving him wayyy too much benefit of the doubt b/c he is really good looking (and maybe that's yr layer of irony right there).

also, Tim rules it. I adore him. He should have his own show.

"Cotton is the official fabric of Project Runway"

I wonder if the ratings are any better for this episode. I was like jumping up and down, I was so excited that it was back on the air.

I still am not fond of Kevin but he behaved better this week. That singer! Ouch! Can we not have any more goth-lolita-gone-bad business ever again? Jay's outfit was the best by a mile, minus that awful skirt thing.

http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/Episode_4/Tims_Take_1.shtml

The three in turn selected their team members in a classic, wincingly painful process that all of us who were the last to be selected for softball remember all too well. (I certainly do!)

when I saw that pile of shredded fabric that would become the removable skirt, it looked like puke from Pee Wee's Playhouse and I thought, "uh-oh…", but they transformed it into something truly fabulous.

Believe me when I say that this industry responds to more garbage and bull*#!@, simply because the individual pitching the work is so passionate and artful in how the bull*#!@ is presented.

I wanna be a fashion designer. Except.. like Vanessa, I can't sew.

also, the first time i've ever wanted to watch multiple episodes of any reality show.

Austin is costumey and doesn't listen. I didn't think he had such a limited range but that was probably because the first dress was cornhusks. He's kind of doing the same thing every week and getting away with it (usually) because it is beautiful, and others have really fucked up.

I still don't know if Rob is super talented or what his style is. I think he's one of the few contestants who might be a real surprise, while with most, you kind of know what they'll do..

kevin - mistakes all around, first one being MORGAN. [why havent all of the designers put their competitiveness aside for a second, to collectively decide to oust her?] the second was designing a suit that didnt even seem like a suit. the third was letting morgan leave the party in his outfit.

alexandra - finally, stuck on the nail of her own unoriginality. it seems like she would be useful in the upcoming episode though because she's solid, no-nonsense worker.

jay - his suit was awesome but i hope he takes the comment about appearing more "serious" for the next challenge.

I didn't like Austin's suit. It made me want to barf, and so does his personality at this point. Jay rules it, but he does tend to undercut himself while Austin seems able to thoroughly inhabit the world of his own, uh, bullshit.

Rob is a peculiar personality indeed. I didn't love his suit but it wasn't terrible.

this picture is awesome.

Who did that? Crazy.

i think being a two-faced bitch ranks pretty high in my book. for a while, i was into her but after all her "this is my last chance" speeches and stuff, i dont think she has what it takes to win.

Maybe I'm indulging my contrarian impulses here; I was reading the Television Without Pity board on Project Runway and there are all these smug women ripping "the Pepper" up one side and down the other for being bitchy, frumpy, and overweight - all while these same people are being incredibly bitchy themselves and complaining that Banana Republic doesn't make plus sizes (ie larger than a 16!).

I'm just catching up on this show after watching a marathon of reruns the other night, but now it's my favorite show ever.

I'm wondering how much influence the producers have in who gets the boot. There's a blurb about that in the credits. Do the Weinsteins really make the choices? I'm guessing they'll keep the 2 flamboyant guys to the end for their TV appeal.

That one who compared women to sports cars is not a very good designer and not all that TVgenic. I'm surprised he hasn't gone yet.

they are but the main problem is that they keep liking stuff by absolutely shitty designers, they brought back Marquise and his TERRIBLE boring aesthetic because Dayoung dropped out and now he has OUTLASTED Delvin I am fucking outraged also Sergio is the biggest cunt they've ever had on the show and Nancy is starting to irritate me and I have some time for Victoria but she should have gone instead of Delvin and basically Delvin is the best and if the winner isn't one of Geoffrey or Brittany then frankly I am dead

it is *outrageous* that on this season of extremely mediocre designers, Delvin has finished 7th

have you ever watched the old project runways from australia or canada? they are so much better than the new season.

no...but let alone that, S17 was so much better than this season! and it had goddamn Hester in it the whole way!

oh wow i loved the australia one. it was so campy.

lol Australia does a few things better tbf (Married At First Sight being the pinnacle)

Delvin is the only person to have been eliminated in the past 3 episodes. This is NONSENSE

Delvin and Chelsey the only two to have been eliminated for 5 episodes!

i kind of want to say you could just skip to the end. because it was not a great season at al.

ding ding ding

the show went from awful to amazing during the final elimination for some reason and a great final, so um...otm :)

we had to wade through an awful lot of NONSENSE to get there though!

if this isn't too great a spoiler, was *amazed* by how good Nancy was by the end

Watching Making the Cut finally. Saw the winner's collection on Amazon. I am horrified about how trash it is. It is sooooooo bad. Most things about the actual show are pretty good though, otm posts about it above.

I never finished it, I just couldnt get down with the bizarre & arbitrary judging, it really bugged me

when i saw who won i had doubts that i would be able to finish it. but i am more in it for the scenic views now. They are just heading to Tokyo.

Making The Cut Season 2 on July 16th!

No Naomi Campbell though - she's not willing to gamble catching covid-19 and risk losing her career. And we're getting Jeremy Scott and Winnie Harlow who I think will make up for it. I didn't finish her season of ANTM but I remember Harlow being fantastically rich in personality on ANTM.

Season 2 of Making The Cut has started, first two episodes available. The pandemic is real and apparent - there's no travelling to amazing locations, but the "ranch" they're filming in looks incredible and expensive. It's a very well-cast line-up. There's a mix of exciting clothes and talent, and personalities you want to see win or really hate, which sounds really obvious for this kind of show but it's actually hard to do well. There's been some great looks already, especially Andrea's bridal trousers, and I don't disagree with any of the eliminations yet.

bridal trousers?

yes, trousers that a bride could wear, bridal trousers

Ah, bridal trousers.

gonna trust leading trouser expert boxedjoy on this one tbh

this week's episodes were hilarious. Tim's critiques! Jeremy's speech! The poor management! The modelling! The judges' decisions!

Im sure we all love Gary, right? My wife texted a friend of hers and mentioned she was watching and discovered her friend is college buddies with him. He was, surprise, completely goth in college.

Holy shit the cast of PR this season is insufferable and I’m only 20 minutes into the premier