Project Runway

I was really glad to see the "follow your bliss" guy eliminated, though I thought Starr's garish dress was worse. And I can barely understand anything Heidi Klum says.

Anyway, I'll be rooting for Austin, of course, due to my one degree of separation.

Austin's dress was super. I was convinced he was going to whiff it completely when I saw him trying to weave that stuff together, and then poof! next scene he's got this amazing design. I liked the lawnchair thing too.

watching project runway reminds me of the crits i had when i was a graphic design program, except with scary ugly germans and no background music.

lastly: doesnt the closing music of the show sound like "stay dont go" by spoon? im totally convinced they sampled the beatboxing part of it.

poor Starr. I sympathize in a way w/what happens when you drop someone in a totally new environment w/entirely different rules & start ratcheting up the pressure. if she works really hard on the craft she may eventually produce some good designs.

as long as Austin, Kara, and Robert make the last rounds I am content. Jay is one of those people that looks out for lines you should never cross in social situations & soon enough he'll start barging right across them. Kevin is a rockist.

-- 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..

the "Hungry 4 Success" messaging and cutlery print (!) was probably the fastest I have ever been drained of goodwill to a reality show contestant ever, what a truly awful direction to go in

Sander showing versatility, high-fashion looks, commercial appeal, a USP to his pop-up and a willingness to adapt over the season, all made me think this was a set-up. I've seen clothes that were like Johnny's but nicer in the Zara sale.

I did laugh when the woman from Amazon turned up in that bright floral print though - Esther had no chance!

i'm interested in how egregious this was compared to, say, Gretchen beating Mondo on PR, then a few years later turning out to be grifting a living as a life-coach charging $800/h

also we're watching the first Siriano series from last year no spoilers plsss it's good tho

"i'm interested in how egregious this was compared to, say, Gretchen beating Mondo on PR, then a few years later turning out to be grifting a living as a life-coach charging $800/h" I didn't know about that!

I finally watched this. I see why they didn't go with Esther but I disagree with it. It was purely a commercial choice. They were worried she wouldn't want to dilute her aesthetic for mass production.

anyway, in general I still liked this more than recent PR but they have got to turn to the fucking music down next time.

xpost looking online the PR episodes from season 8 onward are a little over 60 minutes as opposed to ~40 minutes. That is way too much filler.

grr last year's PR (only halfway through!) is starting to severely overrate the one designer I'm kind of aesthetically opposed to. they did a video game character challenge and just handed her the win even though the other two at the top were entirely and demonstrably better. why did they have to keep Nina around lol

oh yeah Hester's thing was super tiresome.

thank GOD she did not win (although her final runway contained arguably her best work of the series), still would have preferred to see Bishme's runway

anyway

the winner was ordained from the second episode of the series onward. tt and i looked at each other. he was the one

onto the 2019/2020 season next I guess! no spoilers pretty please. keep spoilering how ghastly Making The Cut was though, I'm enjoying it

omfg both the winner and the elimination in Episode 2 of the latest PR season are so awful I'd almost call it a shark-jump. yeah they can redeem themselves when Devlin hopefully wins the series but Marquise was I so not kid probably my least favourite look and he took the damn thing, and Veronica is a better designer than at least half the room. absolutely insane taste-level fail from the entire judging panel

again, please no spoilers, but omg

lol I guess those were spoilers from me tho. uh-oh

what is the JUDGING in this season wtf

delvin and brittany sitting there 'safe' open-mouthed while the horrifyingly-restored marquise is, somehow, one of the TOP looks is kind of iconic tbf but really, what absolute trash

this series is solid-gold cast-iron bullshit

yeah, i wasn't a fan. and aren't the episodes entirely too long?

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