Previously on Project Runway: the “make your own
print” challenge happened, supposedly inspired by various people who do good
things. The inspiration was a little fuzzy, but that’s what always happens with
these things. Dom won, finally, which was nice. Randomly Heidi/whoever decided
they would have a double elimination, so both Kate and Alexander were sent
home. Kate declared that they had done it just to get rid of her. On the one
hand, they had the “Tim’s Save” thing so of course they would need a double
elimination at some point to get back on track. On the other hand, the
producers would totally make up something like that to get rid of a designer
they were tired of. On the third hand, Kate’s dress was pretty fugly so she
might still have gone home. She and Helen spent all of the episode
live-tweeting about what a bitch Alexandria was and how she sucked so much and
should have gone home. Then Helen took offense to people saying the fabrics
were ugly and suddenly everyone was a horrible person because the designers
work so hard and it’s so terrible to say anything bad about their work. Yeah! I
know! (click for more)
Justin thought he was going home. He’s never won,
but he is ready to. Alexandria states the obvious, that there are five people
left. Heidi and Tim are both on the runway today. Tim says “Most Important
Challenge Yet” because it “determines” who will go to Fashion Week, as if they
didn’t all go and so did the last like, 5 people eliminated. I don’t know if
that’s right, I don’t feel like counting. Heidi says “the sausage is dangling
in front of your nose right now. Or is it a carrot?” Heidi likes sausages
better. Yes. Field trip to the nature center!
This is the “be inspired by nature and do couture
but don’t play it safe or we’ll all yell at you” challenge. Right? That’s what
always seems to happen. They are at the butterfly house, with Billy B. and NOT
hot makeup guy Scott which is still terrible and I’m still going to complain
about it every time. Somehow butterflies have inspired mascara. Tim says “avant
garde” which means experimental and daring and cutting edge. Sometimes people
do that and sometimes they are boring in fear they’ll be eliminated right
before the finale as if it matters. Two days for this look. The designers
wander around and sketch and take pictures with their tablets which must be
unwieldy. Justin looks around and the camera catches him standing there with a
butterfly on his hat. It’s cute. Tim gives them a suggested dollar amount of
$500 but are the collections coming from this money too? Because if it’s right
before the finale, shouldn’t they blow whatever money they have left? Dom goes
for prints. Helen has a ton of oranges. “Luxe as hell”. She and Bradon are
spending all their money. Actually everyone spends more than their $500, most
spending double that.
Workroom. Justin says avant-garde is about
material manipulation and fabric manipulation. Yeah…that would be pretty close?
He wants big chunky piping to layer and make a new textile. Bradon is rolling
his fabric, so somehow it will bounce and be buoyant. Helen tells the room
she’s going to focus on the base of things today. Dom and Bradon joke about how
he’s spending so much time rolling silk noodles. And hand sewing them. He has
no idea what the silhouette’s going to be.
Tim comes in the next day (Day 2) and says soon
they’re going to have their makeup consults AND! Nail consults too! Whatever.
Does anyone care about the models’ nails? No. I barely care about their makeup
and that’s only because of hot makeup guy Scott. Bradon says he’s out of his
mind today. He’s decided to have a tank top and miniskirt in front, that
somehow becomes a gown in the back.
Tim Time! It was a trick before. It’s really Tim
Time now. Dom is talking about cross-breeding and she’s got several prints
she’s mixing somehow. Under the multiple prints she is making a jumpsuit and
asks Tim if she should make it in ivory or another print and is that overkill?
I feel like Tim gives them much more advice than he used to. He cautions her
against costumes. She has one print that is black with small flowers, another
hot pink and black almost tie-dye design, and a blue and green that looks like
painted lines. That’s a lot of print. Helen has a cape, or a burqa,
essentially. Only her face will be showing. The cape is black with cutouts, and
an orange dress underneath (she was looking at monarch butterflies). It’s not
working. The dress will be great, but the cape is covering it. So now that Tim
hates it, Helen declares she doesn’t know what she’s doing and starts crying.
Why are you worrying about going to Fashion Week? Don’t you watch this show?
There are only five of you left, OF COURSE you are ALL going.
After the commercial Tim tells her to come to!
Right now! Tough love! I love that Tim is not being his generally cheerleader
self but is also tired of Helen always freaking out. Alexandria appears to have
a black dress with strips? In more black? It looks shredded and unfinished. I
guess that’s what she was going for. Alexandria says she needed Tim’s approval.
Bradon is doing his lumpy wavy thing that he did for the shoe challenge. The
one that makes me want to smooth out the fabric. The back is spectacular, says
Tim. The front is simple because Bradon wants to put the noodles on. Tim hates
the noodles. Bradon makes a passive-aggressive comment about how he spent all
day yesterday hand sewing a hundred noodles and maybe he won’t use one. Not
one! But then he waves them near the waist and Tim likes them suddenly. Sigh.
Justin has three pieces and his piping too. Tim looks concerned, because his
main fabric looks cheap. He switches to some lace and it seems much better.
Helen is in “shambles” and she says to Dom she
needs to stop being a baby and get with it. You think? Model fitting. Bradon’s
look is weird. It’s lumpy because of the waves in the fabric but then the
noodles are spiky. Helen’s model has to reassure her about her design. She’s
going to tear edges, like that one guy used to do all the time? Christopher, I
think? So you get a garment that looks pleated but the edges are raw. It was
someone that did it all the time and then he did it and won for some challenge
and irritated everyone.
Runway day. Everyone walks in the workroom and
stops dramatically to stare and curse. Once the commercials are over we
discover that someone has put a row of mannequins along one wall with all the
losing designs on them. What for? Ugh, I smell a twist. Tim comes in and
smiles, but it’s a closed-mouth smile and he looks irritated. He probably agrees
with me that this is dumb. Today is not runway day! The “judges” decided to
present them with ANOTHER challenge, so they’ll have two looks for two
different challenges. Everyone will pick one of the failed designs and fix it.
WHYYYY. Why do they always do this shit? Just let them make one dress. You know
they’ll get up there and the judges will complain that they didn’t do enough
work or it’s not finished enough or some bullshit that could be avoided if you
just gave them one challenge at a time. Anyway. They have until tomorrow.
Dom takes Jeremy’s outfit from the Belk
challenge, with the jacket. Alexandria wants Miranda’s plaid pants from the
shoe challenge. Bradon picks out Sue’s garment, which is from one of the
unconventional materials challenges and is made out of placemats. Hee. Helen
takes Kate’s fugly dress from last week, because she and Kate are BFFs or
whatever. (Side note: they taped the reunion last week so expect everyone to
have watched part of the season for maximum drama.) Justin thinks for a while about
what to pick, and whether or not he wants to pick out the dress that eliminated
him. In the end he takes it. I smell a win for redemption.
So: more working and cutting up of old garments
and whatnot. Alexandria spends time making a feather Mohawk. It looks like they
didn’t go to Mood so they are just stuck with whatever they can salvage from
the actual garments. Bradon is screwed. Dom has taken Jeremy’s jacket and used
the sleeves as a collar. Nice. Justin still has a gown. With 20 minutes to go
until the day is over Alexandria is sighing or something and she is freaking
out now. So apparently when you start freaking out you can get a phone call
home. The timing always seems to work out like this. Also there are a ton of
kids on this Skype call and supposedly it’s 10:40 PM. Alexandria works for a
camp that teaches kids to sew? Sure.
OK, now it’s REALLY Runway Day. Helen has to make
her whole bodice. Oh, Billy is here today. That’s new. Where is Scott? It’s his
last chance to flirt with Bradon. Everyone talks about how much they want to go
to Fashion Week. They all went, so whatever.
Heidi! What in the hell are you wearing? It’s
like a weird sheer shirt in a brown knit pattern. Boo. Guest judge is Emmy
Rossum. So first up are the avant-garde looks. Dom: short dress with a very full
skirt like a tutu, in the black floral print. There are elbow length sleeves
that bell out slightly, and a high collar. The front is slashed across her
chest so it’s open a little bit. Then there are palazzo pants in hot pink and
black. It is crazy but certainly creative. Alexandria: long black dress with
two tails of sheer fabric that the model is holding up like wings. Eh. It’s
either shredded or layered all through the bodice and the top of the skirt.
It’s hard to see dark on dark. I think the very bottom of the skirt is sheer.
Helen: long orange dress with horizontal strips of silk, sleeveless with a high
neck. The strips are all raw edged and the whole thing looks kind of pleated.
It’s nice but avant-garde? Justin: when the girl comes out she has an ivory
dress that is knee-length with a full skirt, and then over that a black piece.
There seem to be armholes so maybe it’s not a cape? Then at the end of the
runway she takes off the black and the top has a ton of sculpture to it. Like
he took thick rope and coiled it over the bodice. It’s cool. Bradon: ivory
dress with a mullet hem, short in front and a train in back. The top is cropped
too. He did the wavy treatment, so the fabric is lumpy, plus there are the
noodles sticking out everywhere so she looks spiky too. The back of the skirt
has a bunch of noodles stuck on vertically.
OK. Fixing old looks. Dom: the jacket now has
different sleeves, in another print, and it has a big collar so it’s more
interesting. The dress fabric went into the sleeves, so there’s just a black
pencil skirt. I think it looks better, but then I didn’t think Jeremy’s outfit
was so horrible to begin with. Alexandria: the pants look the same. They do,
she just put them with a longer top so the high waist wasn’t so obvious.
Instead of a weirdly cut white crop top and strange vest, the look has a dark
tank top and a silver vest, and the random feather Mohawk Alexandria made. Eh.
Well I guess the pants fit better. Helen: white crop top with short sleeves, and
a dark blue tight skirt that hits below the knee. It has nothing to do with
Kate’s old look and is fairly boring on top of it. Justin: his gown is now a
short dress in a darker color, with some gray pieces at the top. Much better.
Bradon: still a short dress, but now the black is most of the dress while the
placemats are placed like an apron. It’s a cute one-shouldered dress.
Heidi claims this was one of the best final
runway shows or something. Justin liked an albino butterfly which is why his
dress is white. Then he transformed his old dress and it’s very emotional and a
triumph of spirit and stuff. They do like both looks, Nina telling him that his
avant-garde look is the best work she’s seen from him this season. It’s weird,
clearly they liked it but they didn’t rave about it. Helen is up next. The back
of the look that’s based on Kate’s dress has weird car wash strips. Heidi likes
the avant-garde look, and Zac likes the reworked look. No one mentions how it’s
not like Kate’s look at all. Nina agrees with Zac about the avant-garde look.
Too much orange.
Alexandria doesn’t really talk about how she made
her dress. Heidi loves it, of course, because what do I know? They don’t
particularly like the reworked look, although the pants are much better than
before. Nina is like, you’re all idiots, the plaid pants are really great but
the avant-garde looks like a dead butterfly. Hee. Zac seems to hate them both.
Bradon’s silk noodles are risky but Nina raves and raves about how the whole
dress is interesting from every angle. It’s art. It’s certainly more out there
than we usually get on this show. Dom’s avant-garde look is exuberant (I think
Nina has been listening to Tim). She takes off the top part, because they
didn’t realize it was a jumpsuit. Nina gasps in ecstasy. Hee! She gave herself
a challenge in Jeremy’s look but it’s so much better.
Now is the time where everyone begs for their
spot and then says who is worthy of the finale and who sucks. Justin says he’s
a role model and he would pick Bradon and Dom to come with him. Dom tries not
to cry but fails. She really wants this. Helen and Justin should come.
Alexandria says she is ready to “handle the pressures” of Fashion Week and she
wants the validation. She says Dom and Justin should come. Bradon found his
second love which is fashion, I hope. Unless he’s talking about hot makeup guy
Scott. He also picks Dom and Justin. Helen wants to show the world a new look.
She will take Bradon and Dom. So you’ll notice that everyone said they would
take Dom with them, while no one said Alexandria.
They are tired of Helen’s pleating/strips
(they’ve seen it before a lot), but Tim says they should be happy there’s a
dress at all. They still love the remade look. Nina still doesn’t like
Alexandria’s look but she does admit it’s very Alexandria. Zac says the cliché
“but I don’t know who she is as a designer”. Heidi, salability is not required
for avant-garde. They call her “modern” a bunch of times. Justin’s piping is
messy but a big risk so they respect that. The judges all have an emotional
moment about Justin’s remade look. Emmy puts on Dom’s jacket which is really
entertaining for some reason. So the remade look is not a jacket and skirt, but
a sleeveless jacket, a top in the print with a boatneck and long sleeves, and
then the skirt. The top looks cool. Lots of raving about Bradon’s noodles. Nina
is verklempt about the remade look. It’s not that great, Nina.
Heidi declares Bradon and Dom the top two. Nina
would eliminate Alexandria, because not one person chose her and why is that? I
think Nina’s not impressed. You guys. Stop talking like she won’t show. Sigh,
I’m talking to the TV again.
Bradon wins which is lame. I mean, it’s creative,
sure. But is it really better than Dom’s? I don’t think so. Both Bradon and Dom
are in. Heidi tells the bottom three that they suck, but since they all seem to
suck equally, they ALL get to come to Fashion Week and compete for the last
spot or whatever because OF COURSE. Why do you always pretend this isn’t going to
happen? I guess shame on me because I thought they’d get rid of at least one
person and that was stupid of me. Heidi carefully does not say how many spots
are available for these three. Final three? Final four? Some number that
doesn’t matter because they all showed? The bottom three talk about proving
themselves. Tim pretends he’d rather jump in front of a bus than tell someone
they’re out. Sigh.
Next week: home visit time, tears, weird clothes.
Heidi smells something.
1 comment:
Thanks for another great season of postings, Toyouke, with your nicely snarky and pointed comments.
You're right - Christopher was the designer who did the raw-edge stitched dresses. He's back on Project Runway All Stars, so maybe we'll see a lot more of his technique?!?
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