Project Runway

Vanessa Riley interview! http://www.popgurls.com/article_show.php3?id=529

And yeah, OK, Austin is talented, but the clothes make me want to barf. For me, Austin Scarlett is kind of like the Amélie movie - all these people are like "oohlala! I just love love love my happy fairy tale with the pretty foofy princess!" and I'm like "OMG THIS IS TEH SUCK" and then people hate me.

The producers are keeping the evil Pepper around, it's too obvious. Her outfit was the worst by far. arrrgh.

I bet ya 100 bucks that Kevin is the one who drew on Wendy's photo.

Tim on Austin: Little Lord Fauntleroy 2005

Hahaha. I wish they hadn't ditched Rob. He makes me laugh, dammit! Oh well. "Reality" TV. Wendy's outfit was teh suck. Don't get me wrong, Austin's and Robert's were plenty lame too, but not as lame.

What I noticed in the not knowing how to act.. when Karasaun set up a meeting so they'd all be able to explain themselves well on the runway, Wendy disrupted things continually laughing at the 'pseudo-intellectual crap' everyone was saying. But it's part of the game. I think, at the end of the day, she hates the fashion world and all the pretty people who live there, and yet is fascinated by it and seeks some kind of validation.

Austin Scarlett revealed

jay is totally cool and has been my fave personality-wise for many episodes, but karasaun wins hands down design-wise tho. austin's a hoot in a cariacature sort of way. rob seems vacant on skills, but manages to charm them with a pitch that seems pretty empty too... "penis envy"? "a woman is like a sport car?" ... let me see if i can try... "a designer is like a bad cologne commercial?"

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ugh...
robert may have skirted by week after week on finite talent, but his reaction to being eliminated was totally classic (and classy). he actually did enjoy himself, i think, and realized his own inadequacies.
i imagine wendy will just be ungrateful and ugly when she loses next week, and she will have wasted this entire time with her negativity and poison.

I realized in the last episode that Rob reminds me of an old friend who I haven't seen in a while and miss quite a lot - a bright, good-looking, utterly charming guy who nevertheless provoked plenty of OMGWTFLOL reactions & wondering what planet he lived on. I still think he's not untalented, just scatterbrained and too willing to coast as far as possible on charm. Also, yeah, I think it has been clear for a while who the top 3 designers really are - and it was better to be positive and enjoy the opportunity instead of (a la Wendy) taking it as a signal to manipulate and backstab your way to the finals in order to compensate for a lesser talent. It's really nice to see somebody who isn't all complexé about not being the best.

The goofy camraderie among four of the last five, the whole dynamic is a lot like this house where I lived a couple years ago. Awww. We threw some great parties.

otm on wendy you two. maybe i was giving her the benefit of the doubt, but i think you guys prove a good point. you'd think she would salvage her image a little and go out gracefully. hello reruns! who wants to be known for even 15 minutes as a freak?
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ten years and they are all married with kids and buying houses in the suburbs, right?

i also like that even though there were bad decisions made along the way - some of the eliminations made little sense - i feel like the final three are the proper final three. i thought alexandra's elimination was dumb, because really, duh, art is imitative, and it's really okay to draw inspiration from prior art (whereas it's not okay to make a bathing suit with no bottom!). and wendy only passed this week for the drama of it, right? but the final three are the right finalists, i believe it in my heart of hearts.

god... yeah... and trying to convince themselves that somehow they aren't doing that the bad way!

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it's like when little kids dress up like grown-ups, or people with baby faces smoke cigarettes. they don't wear it well.

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DONT OPEN IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED.

Maybe I should go to art school. That would break my "no more school for the rest of my life" rule, but..

On another wire service (Getty?) there are larger images of some of the outfits. KS just blows everyone out of the water.

Karasaun would've won that challenge if she ditched the trousers, I bet.

Kors was right about the dress-over-pants being kind of played.. And yet, though I do love love love Jay, his look always makes me think it's too heavily inspired by what I've seen the RISD kids and film studies crowds wearing in the past two years. It's also incredibly closed-off from other people, which is odd for a dude like him but makes some kind of paradoxical sense.. to me, his clothes are all like "yeah, I kinda want to be noticed for looking fantastic, but I just can't handle talking to anyone right now, so bring me my headphones and my iPod stocked with robot disco."

The thing about KS is that she was the only one who chose to stay in professional mode the whole way through, so we never got to know her too well. Seems that she has been in the industry long enough to be more hesitant to take major risks (a la the fantastic Envy dress) as the show progressed, or to let down her personal guard. I think Wendy's Wendyness threw KS off her game a little, although on the site Tim attributes everyone's lackluster stuff to not taking a risk because they just wanted NOT to be out. Although.. I also think Jay just can't and won't do that fake-tan-Hollywood-sexy thing that Nancy whats-her-face seemed to expect. Jay's stuff is really all wrapped up and kind of shy, which again, is odd when you consider he used to work in the porn industry!