Previously on Project Runway: the designers were told they were going to work on their own, and
then were given eliminated contestants to sew for them. The challenge was to
make a celebrity editorial look for Nina, who specifically told them not to
just make a T-shirt and pants. So of course Michelle made a T-shirt and pants.
They were well-made though. Stanley got really bossy, which seemed out of
nowhere and I think was put in just so you could hate someone other than
Michelle or Layana. He won, and Daniel did well also. And Layana, I guess.
Patricia got stuck with Richard, which was unnecessary because I think they
have enough eliminated contestants to not use him. He never knew what she was
talking about, and so she kept complaining that she had to change her design,
and some of that I’m pretty sure was Richard and some was Patricia. Her design
was ugly, but she followed the challenge. Unlike Michelle and her well-made T-shirt
and pants. So the producers decided to string Michelle along and not eliminate
her, for…stupid reasons, I’m sure. So no one was eliminated and we drag out
this show for another week. (click for more)
Oh, and also every show from now until the end is
TWO HOURS. Why? Who knows why. Probably because the producers wanted another 20
minutes of ads. Certainly not because they have any quality programming. I hate
this show.
Everyone sits around the Scrap Bin and stares at
each other. Michelle says she can’t really get excited about her second chance
because she thinks maybe her second chance won’t be good enough. I’m not a big
fan of Michelle, but I kind of agree with her here and I think they should have
just eliminated her. Don’t string her along when there’s no way you’ll let her
redeem herself. Now she’s all self-doubting because she had convinced herself
she really was great, it’s just that her team sucked. Tim comes in and pretends
the judges thought Michelle was just SO talented they gave her another chance.
Can we just get on with it already?
Back on the runway Heidi and Tim tell them it’s
time for the final challenge. They carefully do not say how many people will be
at Fashion Week. Tim says this is the biggest challenge of the season. Heidi
drops some hints and then says they’re each going to a different European
country to be inspired. Well that’s impressive. Daniel hasn’t left the country
before so he’s kind of freaking out. They will get inspired and also buy their
fabrics. Layana is going to Barcelona, Patricia to Paris, Daniel to Berlin, and
Stanley to London. There is no envelope for Michelle. That is because they were
going to get rid of her, but couldn’t because she did such a good job, I guess.
Think about it. Either you knew who the final four would be some time ago, so
you could get plane tickets with the proper names on them, or you bought all
these last minute, and just didn’t feel like spending the money on Michelle.
That is crap. So she’s supposed to get inspired by New York. They’re also
getting sewing assistants again, although different ones and they’ve been
assigned already because they are also going to Europe. Layana gets Samantha,
Patricia and Kate, Daniel and Amanda, Stanley and Richard, and Michelle and Tu.
Everyone has to make a “high end runway look” with $1000. They’ll have all day
tomorrow wherever they are to look around and buy fabric before they come back
to New York.
Everyone celebrates and uses flip cams or
whatever they gave them. I guess they don’t want to pay for cameramen. No,
wait, there they are in London and there are regular cameras. Who knows. Lots
of scenery. Everyone looks at buildings, because everyone is always inspired by
buildings. Daniel takes a bunch of pictures of the Berlin Wall. He is seriously
moved. Back in New York Michelle sits around in the apartment and mopes. I
can’t blame her too much, although can’t they pay for cabs so she can drive
around and be inspired? I think Kate and Patricia are taking pictures of torn
up paper. Like, there is paper that is torn and then someone drew on top of it?
Patricia wants “gritty Paris”. Layana takes pictures of buildings and patterns.
Stanley also takes pictures of buildings. He’s going dark and slinky. Daniel
takes pictures of buildings. Do you sense a theme? At least he finds a cool
looking building and isn’t just using the Eiffel Tower. Oh, they do pay for
Michelle to take a double decker bus tour so she can see the sights and try to
move forward. Guess what she takes pictures of? OK, buildings, but also weirdly
soot stains from chimneys. Daniel wants to do something different. He and
Layana both seem to be making jackets. Daniel is also making a bias-cut dress
which is not like him. Michelle is going for cashmere.
Stanley is discovering fabric is very expensive
and he may spend $850 on four yards of fabric. Daniel gets totally screwed and
is sent to a store with no leather or silk. Patricia completely overspends and
gets pissed when the shopkeeper takes fabrics off the pile. She wants to have
all the control over what goes and what stays. Somehow she does it. Stanley
buys his expensive fabric anyway and says he is cutting it so close (…ha) that
he isn’t even going to use this fabric for the model fitting. As in, he’ll fit
the model in muslin and then cut the fabric, because he can’t afford to make it
and then adjust it. Daniel has to buy vinyl. He says it looks like leather,
which maybe it does but not really. But a better question is why are Stanley
and Patricia at high end stores and Daniel says he’s at some corner fabric
store? Layana has also been sent to a store with no leather. She ends up buying
two different patterns of black lace, because those are the patterns she wanted
anyway. Mood is great for Michelle, who spends $500 on her cashmere and the
rest on some leather. Patricia and Kate go to the Louvre and she starts talking
about how everything was worth it and maybe she really is good enough to be
here and so forth. Patricia kind of turned out to be a crier. I’m a crier too,
though, so I won’t be mean about it. It seems genuine.
In the morning Michelle and Tu get to the
workroom first and start working. Patricia appears all giggly and as everyone
comes in they’re all loud and huggy and distracting. Michelle is PISSED.
Finally they all get to work. Lots of muslin. Layana knows Michelle is pissed
but she has the nerve to interview that SHE wouldn’t be pissed, SHE would be
thinking about how she was going to defeat them. Bitch please. You would be
crying some fake tears and force everyone to stop working to say how sorry they
were that you didn’t get to go. Don’t pretend you’re better than that.
Then all of a sudden it says “Workroom Day 2”. So
that’s all we get to see of Day 1? What? Shut up, show. Samantha calls Patricia
a “fly bitch” for her layering of a million things. Michelle seems in a better
mood today. She says as she’s creating she’s getting out of her funk. Daniel
has taken some of his vinyl and is making boots out of tubes of vinyl and some
wedges. Sigh.
Tim time! Daniel shows off his jacket, which is
white on white so it’s hard to see the details. It’s not his usual jacket
design, anyway. Stanley has a capelet, and Tim likes the reveal. Patricia has a
giant bag of fabric to layer and whatever. It might be good but it also might
be crazy. She has three pieces, but they don’t seem to go together. Tim doesn’t
get it, and he tells her she’s not getting it either, he can tell. I think he talks
her into making a top and not a jacket? Or not calling it a jacket? I’m not
sure. Tim really likes Michelle’s leather breastplate, and she’s making an
ombre skirt to go with her soot pictures. Actually…that’s not a bad
interpretation. Tim says to go for it. Layana is making a coat and a top but
she wants the model to keep the coat closed. Tim doesn’t think she has time to
do everything. She basically blows him off, and eventually Tim just shrugs.
Michelle starts painting her skirt, which does
look like smoke and soot stains but also looks dirty. I mean, it looks like
it’s supposed to. Model fittings. Richard claims you can see their trip in
Stanley’s dress. Right. Layana is not ready, naturally. Samantha tells her to
put the jacket together, and she’s like “I cannot!” but she’s not really clear
on why.
Day of the show. This two hour monstrosity is
only half over, which means they spent about half an hour on the trips, and
then half an hour on the construction. And most of an hour on the runway.
Anyway, Tim tells everyone they get two hours for prep today, probably because
Layana is so far behind. Daniel’s fake boots look like exactly what they are:
cheap vinyl tubes. Hot makeup guy Scott. Michelle wants her model to look
“expensive and clean”. Like a high class call girl. Layana manages to finish.
Everyone talks about how great it would be to go to Fashion Week, because every
season this show thinks we don’t know how many people were at Fashion Week.
Heidi rubs it in that Michelle didn’t get to go
anywhere and asks everyone else if they had fun. Guest judge today is John
Legend. Eventually Heidi says “some of you” will go to Fashion Week and “one of
you” will be out. I was trying to analyze if that meant they were always going
to have a final four, or if they really like everyone, or what, but then I
realized they have so many decoys that they’re paying for like eight
collections no matter what they do. So they probably just decide last minute.
Layana: black and white coat that hits at about mid-thigh. The background is
white, and then there is the black lace over the top. Black strips make an
abstract geometric pattern over the lace. The sleeves are tight black ¾ length
sleeves, and then the sleeves on the top (flowy pink silk) stick out. The top
of the coat and the white is cut so it looks like a V-neck with a black
turtleneck underneath. Also black pants. Michelle: gray cashmere dress with a
mullet hem. The hem is about tea length in front. It’s very full and then over
her bodice is the brown leather breastplate, which is shiny and embossed. The
soot isn’t really super obvious which is nice. I like it.
Stanley: black dress with a capelet. The dress is
long and slinky, with a high halter neck and collar. And then the exposed
zipper in the back ruins it! GAH! I hate exposed zippers. Patricia: black
pants, and then a jacket with her million layers or however many. The sleeves
are very full, almost a leg-of-mutton shape, and there’s a cowl collar across
her shoulders in a darker fabric. The layers look cool, but kind of puffy and shapeless.
The fabric just sits weirdly. Actually the sleeves look almost like pods, slit
up the inside for her arms. Daniel: long black skirt, that is very short in
front and floor length in the back, but it’s cut asymmetrically. Also her
“boots” come up higher than the hem of the skirt. The jacket is white, closely
fitted, and a simple black top. I know there is detail on the jacket but you can’t
really see it. It’s very simple but not very exciting.
The details in Daniel’s jacket are pretty cool.
Nina says he’s captured the underground feeling of Berlin, and it’s edgy. She
also likes the “boots”, which I think are lame but it does look better to have
her legs covered. The top of the dress fits perfectly and has a racerback.
Everyone really likes it. It’s actually modern. Stanley actually put the sequins
on the inside of his dress. Why? You can hardly see them. Nina likes the hint
of luxury. It’s very simple, but also super elegant. Layana did get some
Barcelona in her lace and the black shapes that look kind of like tiles, but
everyone hates the pink sleeves. Nina says it’s just so old-fashioned it’s
tragic. It’s not Layana. Aww, too bad. Layana meekly says she likes it, and
everyone tells her that what she herself is wearing (black long sleeved scoop
neck top and red mullet skirt) is much better than what her model has on.
Layana takes the coat off and of course the judges love the random pink blouse
with big bell sleeves. She refuses to apologize for the jacket. Patricia talks
about her layers of fabric. Zac wrote “trash couture”. He likes the idea of
what she was talking about but he doesn’t see it in what she did. Nina thinks
she wasted her inspiration city of Paris. Also the pants are boring and a weird
length. The shape of the top is unusual, though. So why are Layana’s black
pants just fine but Patricia’s are stupid? Michelle talks about how much her
fabrics cost. Just talk about your outfit. They don’t care. Nina says it is a
comeback and she loves the leather. Heidi of course is obstinate and hates on
the fabric, although the skirt moves really well. That skirt isn’t that dirty
looking. The dress without the leather is really A-line, like a band at her
breasts and just hanging down from that.
Now is the part where everyone talks about why
they should get to the finals and who should go with them. Heidi has them pick
out two others, for a final three, but she already told them one person will be
out so there is a break in communication somewhere. Not really surprising.
Everyone always talks about how great they are here. It all blends together
after a while. Everyone wants to take Michelle to fashion week. Huh. Patricia,
Layana, and Daniel all pick Stanley and Michelle to go to Fashion Week,
actually. Stanley picks Daniel and Michelle. They all say those two are the
best and that they have great visions and especially that Michelle has strong
convictions. Michelle wants to bring Stanley and Layana. Pff, Layana. Whatever.
But very interesting, no one wants to bring Patricia.
Back in the Scrap Bin everyone sits around and Michelle
actually babbles about craft and inspiration which is kind of lame. Layana
cries about how the judges hated her jacket that was so awesome. Whatever.
Stanley created something beautiful. Zac thinks he has the most experience, and
he is polished and confident. They are impressed that everyone wants him to go
to the finals. Michelle surprised everyone by not making sportswear and did
really well. Nina says she’s a fighter. They know she will work really hard to
impress them. Daniel’s taste level worries the judges, but he did a really
great job with this challenge. Heidi would like to wear that outfit. Layana is
the most commercial, so when she has to be creative she struggles. Nina says
there is nothing wrong with being commercial. Remember when being commercial
was the kiss of death on this show? John says based on today he doesn’t think
she belongs, and they do worry about how stubborn she was about the jacket. Patricia
always does weird things so she would surprise them. Nina says she is a great
textile designer, but she is not ready to put on a show. Yes. I love Nina. “Fashion
is not art. Stores are not museums.” Zac, of all people, tries to defend her,
but Heidi agrees and says it could be super crazy. Maybe great? No, Nina shouts
“ARTS AND CRAFTS HORROR.” Heh.
Stanley is in. Daniel is in. Michelle is in. Was I
wrong about that whole thing? Was the last minute save not to save Patricia but
Michelle? Did they think they had to get rid of her because she didn’t listen
to Nina? I’m confused. Whatever. Layana is out. Interesting, I thought maybe
they’d keep her around to talk about how great she is. Patricia is in. I bet
they are hoping for some crazy from her. Layana stands behind her jacket and
says at least she didn’t get sent home for something she’s ashamed of. That’s true,
at least. Plus there’s going to be a reunion show so let’s hope for some
conflict there.
Next week: $10,000 for 12 looks, Daniel’s hair is
big, Stanley is really not done with anything.
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