Project Runway

sadly, i didn't really like her dress.

actually, uli's dress wasn't my taste but i could definitely see it on a paris hilton type and lord knows she likes to jetset and get vase-ted.

laura is so BORING. that dress was pretty though, even if it was peach. bleck.

i think the calvin klein fellow saved poor vincent.

ok, i love kayne. he's ridiculous. the problem i had with the entire assignment was that they were desinging clothes for THEMSELVES, and freaking nina garcia and michael kors gets to judge if that look is for them? they told kayne he looked tacky. come on! that's him in a nutshell! the boy designs PROM DRESSES, for crying out loud. what do you expect? he likes it! he would wear it!

was vincent's top even hemmed at the neck or just cut out with scissors? i thought for sure he was out when i saw him on the runway. i guess the judges are impressed enough whenever they see he hasnt added a wacky hat.

I wanted to reach into the TV and give Kayne a huge hug when that French woman said he looked ridiculous. Poor baby! I mean, he totally did, but that was just way too harsh.

i was surprised they got rid of her that early, and i think vincent is probably still around due to the influence of the producers. but she wasn't one of the best designers, it seemed, and he arguably has better taste and a more distinctive (if subtle) point of view than she does.

why dont they tell laura she makes the same dress every week?

because she doesn't, especially this week?

this was (finally) a really good episode, focused on the clothes. maybe it helped to change the scenery, including the judges. maybe it helped to separate Kayne and Robert too.

1. Michael (beautiful)
2. Jeffrey (rocked enough to match the attitude, and i think it was entirely reasonable for him to think that angela was trying to sabotage him via her mom, but while the jacket was great and probably pretty hard to do, hanging it over some stock Lip Service stuff wasn't nearly as creative to my mind as what Jeffrey did)
3. Laura (beautiful dress, but didn't seem very jetset to me, sorry. though maybe it would have on a different (younger?) model; the color wasn't right for her.)
4. Uli (so she's supposed to design for herself, but she's not allowed to design for herself? admittedly, it was the same note once again, in an especially florid performance.)
5. Vincent (where was the jacket? and the other tone(s)? when are you gonna, you know, design something?)
6. Kayne (I actually feel bad for him now, getting lumped in with the awful Angela as a set of ugly midwesterners in paris, but that thing was pretty awful, though i did think the design on his back, by itself, had a pleasant sort of jet age esprit)

(xp: otm, otm, otm)

I was hoping the French judge would rip Angela a new one over her bastardized French FLEURCHONS.

Michael, I meant.

Also, when will poor Vincent get the boot already? He's way out of his league, as made evident by this last challenge.

Dude with the full neck tattoo needs to go if he hasn't already.

Wednesday night I got a call at work from the new guy's mom saying 'There's something that M******' has to watch tonight? I'm calling to let you know that he won't be able too."

Uhhhhh.

I suspect Laura's managed to dodge a "same thing every week" bullet in part because of the revolving cast of judges - maybe just as Vera Wang was starting to recognize a pattern, Michael Kors stepped in.

Uli...Uli I've loved almost the whole time but I think she missed the memo on this challenge. It really was not jet-setter in any way. Thankfully, Angela's also wasn't jet-setter and was also spectacularly dumpy and stupid. I said a long time ago (back when it was all group challenges) that Angela wasn't going to go until she could really do HER style on her OWN and thus fail spectacularly. I left out the part about designing for HERSELF - as bad as some of her challenge work has been, it's never been as bad as the stuff she herself wears. This challenge gave her a chance to make the two meet in the middle with brutal results.

Granted, after the Jeffrey/Mom debacle I mustered some sympathy for her, and really, the woman is quite talented if not terribly tasteful. I'd long since run out of much to say about her, and her departure was anticlimactic. I expect Kayne to go next week in a similar non-event ...just like Robert LAST week.... this is a weird show for me because I look forward to watching it and enjoy every episode, but I don't have much invested into the characters compared to Top Chef. I would, I think, be MUCH more excited about next episode if we were down to Michael, Uli, Alison, Bradley, Keith, and Malan. A shame Keith cheated and the rest fizzled out - from the audition episode, when we seemed to have a bountiful surplus of very solid and distinctive designers, we've somehow ended up with two far and away leaders followed distantly by one-trick ponies and mediocre (though sometimes entertaining) half-wits.

(Contrast once again to Top Chef, which despite a couple of hiccups really did have the no-talents there just to buy time - the final six were almost exactly the six you would have expected after the first episode, and though there was some bullshitting going on, they were all clearly on a higher plane of cooking than the rest.)