Project Runway Comments
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shipperx A few comments on last night's project runway:
First off, squee for Austin and Tim Gunn. Love them both.
Second, "I'm addicted to tanning" guy looks as though he has the potential to be very annoying. I knew he wasn't going to be auf'd because Heidi and Kors so enthusiastically said "We're not bored" but {{hugs}} Austin for saying it was hideous. This guy is shooting for the Cristian spot, and I didn't like Cristian (although, damnit, the annoying pipsqueak had talent). This guy? He's going to have to do more than an ugly-ass tampon/maxie pad outfit (what in the hell was that?)
Knew raincoat guy had high likelihood of being auf'd when he thought it was brilliant and innovative to make a raincoat out of a shower curtain. (Really, raincoat guy? Really?). Compound that lack of imagination with one ugly-ass raincoat and I'm not at all bothered that he was auf'd.
40-something rocker chick also annoyed. Gee, using black plastic garbage bags for pleather? That was her first, best, and only idea? Has she never watched this show before? And, for all that she complained about the cheap-ass garbage bags, they weren't unworkable if she had vision enough to change her aesthetic. Instead thinking/using black plastic as pleather, that thin, sheer plastic could have stood in for black organza. It would have required a different style, but it would have been possible... not that it was advisable to go right to the black garbage bag solution. Has there ever been a incidence on this show where the black garbage bag was a good idea?
Speaking of lame ideas, a lot of the contestants must have never watched the show because so many of them went right for the table cloths. Dude, so not the point of this challenge. Good grief they had Austin there introducing the challenge telling them that he'd won by making a dress out of corn husks. And, even if someone was stuck with something as lame as garbage bags or a paper table cloth, remember that Austin wove his husks to make a bodice? At least create an interesting texture! And, no, cutting out blue squares and dotting them over a blue checked table cloth is not transforming the material.
Foxy Brown's yellow kimono with salad did look nicely constructed, and good construction skills will get one far in Project Runway, but I knew that she wouldn't win the challenge because of her use of table cloth. Still she seems like a sweet girl and looking forward to what she'll do with a more traditional (cloth-based) challenge.
It was faily obvious that vacuum cleaner bag girl was going to win (and deserved to win) the challenge. The coffee filter thing wasn't original (Michael Knight did a better job with coffee filters) and the bodice was odd, but the spiral notebook as closures and dying & bleeching the vacuum cleaner bags into a surprisingly successful pattern (it looked hideous when she was doing it, but on the final result it made a decent pattern.) She had embraced the challenge the most out of everyone and produced a nifty little skirt. She seems like a potentially likable contestant, and was a satisfying win in the first challenge.
Yay for the return of PR (because Shear Genius is not an adequate substitute for Top Chef or Project Runway, and the less said about Top Design the better. The only positive thing to say about that one is that at least it isn't HGTV's "Next Design Star".
First off, squee for Austin and Tim Gunn. Love them both.
Second, "I'm addicted to tanning" guy looks as though he has the potential to be very annoying. I knew he wasn't going to be auf'd because Heidi and Kors so enthusiastically said "We're not bored" but {{hugs}} Austin for saying it was hideous. This guy is shooting for the Cristian spot, and I didn't like Cristian (although, damnit, the annoying pipsqueak had talent). This guy? He's going to have to do more than an ugly-ass tampon/maxie pad outfit (what in the hell was that?)
Knew raincoat guy had high likelihood of being auf'd when he thought it was brilliant and innovative to make a raincoat out of a shower curtain. (Really, raincoat guy? Really?). Compound that lack of imagination with one ugly-ass raincoat and I'm not at all bothered that he was auf'd.
40-something rocker chick also annoyed. Gee, using black plastic garbage bags for pleather? That was her first, best, and only idea? Has she never watched this show before? And, for all that she complained about the cheap-ass garbage bags, they weren't unworkable if she had vision enough to change her aesthetic. Instead thinking/using black plastic as pleather, that thin, sheer plastic could have stood in for black organza. It would have required a different style, but it would have been possible... not that it was advisable to go right to the black garbage bag solution. Has there ever been a incidence on this show where the black garbage bag was a good idea?
Speaking of lame ideas, a lot of the contestants must have never watched the show because so many of them went right for the table cloths. Dude, so not the point of this challenge. Good grief they had Austin there introducing the challenge telling them that he'd won by making a dress out of corn husks. And, even if someone was stuck with something as lame as garbage bags or a paper table cloth, remember that Austin wove his husks to make a bodice? At least create an interesting texture! And, no, cutting out blue squares and dotting them over a blue checked table cloth is not transforming the material.
Foxy Brown's yellow kimono with salad did look nicely constructed, and good construction skills will get one far in Project Runway, but I knew that she wouldn't win the challenge because of her use of table cloth. Still she seems like a sweet girl and looking forward to what she'll do with a more traditional (cloth-based) challenge.
It was faily obvious that vacuum cleaner bag girl was going to win (and deserved to win) the challenge. The coffee filter thing wasn't original (Michael Knight did a better job with coffee filters) and the bodice was odd, but the spiral notebook as closures and dying & bleeching the vacuum cleaner bags into a surprisingly successful pattern (it looked hideous when she was doing it, but on the final result it made a decent pattern.) She had embraced the challenge the most out of everyone and produced a nifty little skirt. She seems like a potentially likable contestant, and was a satisfying win in the first challenge.
Yay for the return of PR (because Shear Genius is not an adequate substitute for Top Chef or Project Runway, and the less said about Top Design the better. The only positive thing to say about that one is that at least it isn't HGTV's "Next Design Star".
