Previously
on “Project Runway”: we pretended it was actually Christmas time
when they filmed and had the unconventional materials challenge! Make
a garment out of all these decorations and whatnot. Sergio, for all
his annoying cockiness, made a beautiful bell skirt out of wrapping
paper and a basket, with bells inside. I don't like Sergio but he did
make an amazing dress and won so I'm not that mad about it. Alan did
some whack-ass nonsense so he was eliminated. I'm sad because he was
entertaining, but his designs weren't that great. (click for more)
Tyler
says he's better than his bottom performances these past two weeks.
Sergio says they won't give him more chances, like, we get it. No one
asked, Sergio. Tyler says in confessional he's “Project Runway's
most popular bottom”. Ha! Christian appears and tells everyone
Karlie is waiting on the runway with “a special guest”.
Said
guest is Karla Welch, who is one of the most powerful stylists in the
industry. None of this Marni bullshit. Anyway, Karlie has a fashion
industry event in Paris and she'd like the designers to make her a
look. They all seem to react like they can't believe the honor. Like
previous seasons never designed for Heidi or anything. Also please
the stylist. The catch is that it must be upcycled. That means that
you have to use “discarded” clothes, or vintage clothes I guess,
to make new clothes. Sergio visibly celebrates because of course he
already only uses discarded clothing from like, Prada, so he's not a
“burden on the environment”. Sergio, I spent 4 hours on a plane
today and I'm not in the mood for your bullshit. Get all your
materials from Goodwill. I mean they just made outfits from wrapping
paper or whatever. This isn't that hard, except that it's the first
one day challenge. Go shopping right now with $150, which is a
fortune at Goodwill. Karla will be the mentor? Not Christian? Maybe
both of them. Karlie also hands out models, which to me says that
they've carefully assigned models to fuck with people. Actually, I
was wrong. They've hired new models so everyone has a tall skinny
blonde model. Sigh.
Everyone
has to sketch in the van while they drive, which is hilarious.
Brittany is very excited this could be her breakout moment. Sergio
makes sure to ask what Karla thinks about when dressing Karlie, which
is to make it classic and not too short. Victoria worries about
finding good materials. Chelsey is excited because both Karla and
Karlie complimented the wide-legged pants she is currently wearing,
so she's going to make them again. Melanie (I think, she's had like
30 seconds of screen time so far this season) laughs that she found a
dress she actually used to own. I don't think like, it's her actual
dress that was in her closet, but the same dress. Tyler wanders
around and says his persona both in and out of drag is super classic
First Lady. Maybe it's not fancy enough for Paris. Everyone is asking
Karla a ton of questions and opinions. Nancy especially. Shavi
learned to sew by buying things at Goodwill and putting them back
together with the help of his grandmother. She now has dementia so
it's bittersweet.
The
next morning at breakfast Sergio feigns interest in what others are
doing, especially Tyler. We all know he doesn't care. Tyler's look
sounds interesting, and someone else says something about self-taught
designers. Sergio wants to know how Tyler learned? How he's planning
to pull this off? He calls it “terrifying” which...doesn't make
sense. Sergio is so full of himself I refuse to believe he is
terrified about someone else's skill level. Also I know what happens
on this episode and I also know that people have been pointing to
this scene as some kind of shady mind games on Sergio's part. Oh, he
meant “If I came to this show without formal training like you,
Tyler, I would be terrified”. Because there's math, you see. See,
then everyone accused him of trying to throw Tyler off. First of all,
as a math teacher, stop acting like math is scary. Secondly, Tyler
knows full well that Sergio is trying to fuck with him, so it's not
as effective as it might be. “But that's just my opinion.” Oh my
God, no one cares. Tyler just launched his line, so he interviews
“Don't come for me. You made one dress for Billy Porter and you
think you're fucking God.” I love Tyler.
Lots
of tearing seams today. Delvin is doing “elevated street style”.
Chelsey has always been tall, so now she's fully used to sewing her
own clothes and making clothes for tall people. She's bought 15 pairs
of jeans to make her outfit. Dayoung comes over to measure her.
Victoria appears to be making the same deconstructed top she's made
every challenge so far. Marquise is trying to get into his zone. He's
not deconstructing anything, but tailoring his garment. I'm not sure
that's really in the spirit of the challenge. Geoffrey is really
judgy about this. Melanie tells us that she and her mom upcycled
clothes all the time. Her mom just passed, and this is more screen
time than Melanie has had all season so far put together, so I'm a
little worried.
Christian
appears and tells everyone their guest judge is Laverne Cox. Who
started shopping the women's section at Goodwill when she was finding
her identity. I like her a lot. Chelsey freaks out. Tyler has wide
legged pants and a ruffled top, but Christian thinks it might be too
specific a sailor outfit. Tyler does too many “costumey” outfits
and he keeps doing it, so Christian is trying to help him. Especially
the gold buttons on navy pants. Shavi has a moto jacket and skirt,
but it's all pinstripes so maybe it's just another suit. Lots of
suits today. Brittany's made sleeves out of a pleated skirt, and a
satin bathrobe. It's certainly upcycled, seeing as how she's used
four different tops for the bodice. Chelsey only has denim.
“Committed”. She hasn't gotten any feedback yet, which isn't
necessarily great.
Shavi
talks to himself as he works. Nancy has a cute skirt but then a
backwards shirt for a top. Maybe not enough. Tyler was very thrown by
Christian. Sergio gives him advice, because what if Sergio is the
only person who knows some piece of information and then he dies?
Then no one will know! Literally this is his argument for telling
people what they should do. Sergio tells Tyler to make palazzo pants
out of the men's pants he bought, which will totally be fine and not
get him yelled at for making pants from pants. Delvin calls sabotage.
Model
fitting. They all look the same. Nancy's pleats look crazy.
Victoria's top is a wrap top with skin showing, aka every top she's
ever made. Christian is not super helpful but makes comments and
wanders off. Victoria comes to the sewing room to brag she's done
before Delvin. Hee. She talks about moving to the US, and I only
understand about half of it, because they won't subtitle her. But you
subtitled Justin and he was a native English speaker, just deaf. I
see how it is. Sergio tells Tyler to make a skirt, or something,
claiming he just is concerned. Shavi puts a hole in his skirt by
accident.
Back
at the penthouse Shavi tells everyone he fucked up and they do all
seem to have sympathy. Sergio asks him about how he's feeling,
because I guess he's decided to be that guy? He spent how many
episodes talking about how he was above this show? And then suddenly
this episode he's concerned with how everyone else is?
Runway
Day. Sergio tells Tyler not to eat dairy because of inflammation.
What. Tyler has been up all night and is now making a skirt this
morning. Shavi's skirt is very short now, since he had to trim off
the hole. He's making a band for the bottom? That sucks. Karla
appears to add her two cents about styling. Marquise is using double
sided tape because he doesn't have time to re-tailor his jacket. Are
they allowed to use tape now? Wasn't that a thing? Tyler at least
dressed his model. Although he does seem to be sewing his model into
the top. He's also shittalking everyone else, and how cutting the
shoulders out of a jacket isn't good enough for Karlie, while his
outfit is perfectly suitable for both the Hamptons and Paris.
Geoffrey:
short dress with a miniskirt, paired with a long sleeved top. The
sleeves are a little puffy, and there is a narrow keyhole slit down
the front. Her whole left arm and that side of the bodice are gray
instead of black like the rest of the outfit, so she's like one
quarter gray. Around her middle is some faux leather, like an obi,
and a big visible zipper up the back. It's fine but also I'm pretty
sure they said not to make anything too short. Victoria: short black
dress with a wrap jacket. There's a belt, and then a cutout along her
waist on one side. It's the same “deconstructed” wrap jacket with
big shoulder pads and a cutout that she's already made more than
once. Nancy: the top truly is a backwards pink dress shirt, but at
least she made it off the shoulder. The skirt is black and has some
kind of detail that I can't make out. It kind of looks like a midi
skirt that she's cut triangular holes into. I don't know.
Delvin:
black jumpsuit (or maybe pants and a fitted jacket). The pants are
shiny harem pants, and the jacket is a fitted suit jacket with lace
sleeves. Dayoung: black city shorts (long and fitted) with a brown
tunic top with a belt. The top is sleeveless and has an asymmetrical
neckline. Like, one side comes straight down from a strap, and the
other is like a diagonal wrap top with the lapel left on. I think
maybe the two sides of the top are from different garments. The back
is asymmetrical too, with one side loose and flowing. Tyler: a black
pencil skirt and a halter top with a tall collar neckline. There's a
ruffle down the front like an ascot, and then a sash I think. I mean
it fits fine, but I am sure I could go to the mall and buy this right
now.
Sergio:
black pants and a fitted black blazer. The neckline of the blazer has
been widened? Or pinned carefully, so that it outlines her boobs.
There is a sash or a bow that hangs over the jacket, so it gives the
impression of a white bow over her chest, on a black background.
Melanie: black dress with a wide V neckline and an asymmetric skirt.
The top is pretty wide so you can see a lot of boob, then there's a
belt and the skirt has some layering. It looks like a pink/flesh
toned pencil skirt, with the black draped over it but cut short on
one side so you can see the pencil skirt. Actually the skirt looks
like strips and not just a continuous hem. It's interesting, anyway.
Marquise: white dress that looks like a dress shirt, and a suit
jacket with the shoulders cut out. I mean she's wearing the jacket
open so I'm not sure he even tailored it. The dress has a layered
skirt, in tiers, but they're all open in the front so the front slit
is very high. When the model turns around you can see that he cut out
the shoulders and upper back, and the top part is not fitted properly
because it's gaping. The judges can see the double sided tape.
Brittany:
the top looks like it's open to her waist, with black along the
neckline and white for the rest. The sleeves are from a full pleated
skirt, and have red from the elbow down. The skirt is short on one
side but long on the other. Maybe it's supposed to look like the top
is draped over one side? Chelsey: wide legged pants and a crop top,
all in denim. The pants look great. The top is basically a bra with
long sleeves and some interesting straps in the back. These are
basically some high-waisted JNCO jeans but this woman made a top from
upside down pants (the bra strap under her boobs is the waistband).
Shavi: tight black skirt and a black motorcycle jacket with silver
zippers. It looks fine but this model is walking at a snail's pace
because that's how tight the skirt is. Both the skirt and jacket have
pinstripes, and under the jacket is a shiny draped black top.
Victoria,
Nancy, Chelsey, Shavi, Tyler, and Marquise are the top and bottom.
Chelsey heard “cool” and “American” and decided on denim.
Then she says she's from St. Louis! Woo! Anyway, they love it, and
then Nina says something about how making denim pollutes a lot or
something. It's very American, although Brandon doesn't think the fit
is perfect. Back in the Scrap Bin Delvin doesn't think anyone will
buy patchwork denim because it's been done. Marquise talks about
blazers, and how he wanted to show off Karlie's legs because she's
tall. This is in response to Elaine's question of what about Karlie's
style prompted Marquise to design this exact look? She's tall. He
does admit he used tape, but Karlie believes it implies the tape is
holding the garment together. The judges do that thing where they ask
the designer if they made the clothes they are currently wearing and
then when they did, how those clothes are so much better than the
clothes they had to construct in hours with whatever materials they
could scrounge. Not a great week this week. Victoria elevated her
outfit, and this is Karlie's aesthetic? But Victoria's “aesthetic”
also? So sometimes when the judges like a person, then when they make
the same outfit a million times it's their “aesthetic”. When they
don't like the designer, then they're a one-trick pony and it's
boring. Elaine thinks this is the only outfit up there that is a
fully conceived outfit. Victoria starts crying because her dream was
to be on this show and it's coming true. Aww.
Tyler
wanted something traditional and I guess snobby white people. He's
happy with it. Brandon hates it, because it's not cool or chic. He
says he cannot see Karlie wearing it anywhere, and Tyler says “Not
even to dinner with the Kushners?” Damn. If you didn't know,
and I didn't, Karlie is married to Josh Kushner, who is Jared
Kushner's brother. You know, the Jared Kushner who is married to
Ivanka Trump. I'm not sure where Tyler was going with this, unless it
was just “Come on, it's not even good enough to wear to dinner with
your shitty in-laws?” His weird description of “traditional,
Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard” would fit in nicely to that dinner, I
must admit. Karlie flounders for a second (as Tyler adds, “That's
your husband!”, like, stop digging) and then stammers that the
challenge was to make something for her to wear to Paris. It's not
what she asked for, the fabrics suck, the pockets suck, and it's not
about him, it's about Karlie's aesthetic and her stylist's input.
This...is probably the end of Tyler.
Nancy
is also crying, because she's 64 and on this show. The top is still
recognizable as a shirt, but just under the collar in the front are a
couple of pleats that are not overworked, and the skirt is eight
pairs of jeans, with the ruffle being all of the back pockets. It's
light and comfortable. Brandon congratulates Nancy and then offers
her a hug. He offers everyone else a hug but no one seems to take him
up on it. Shavi explains how his skirt is too short because of the
hole. Laverne says “dystopian bargain basement office party”.
Wow. It's not inspiring and it clearly has fit issues.
In
the Scrap Bin Tyler claims his comment did not come out like he meant
it, but he doesn't explain how he meant it. Chelsey's look was fresh
and different, but Brandon doesn't want her to be in the top two. He
likes Nancy's look, as does Nina. It would be a good representation
for American fashion. Laverne says that Victoria was very inventive,
and Elaine argues that it's cooler than Nancy's. I think she's also
trying to argue that Nancy's look is too covered up for a supermodel.
Time
for the bottom. Marquise's jacket was terrible. Shavi's skirt
problems were unrelated to having to make it shorter. Tyler didn't
make an outfit for Paris, and it was boring and outdated.
Victoria
is the winner. It's very interesting they made a big deal about
representing American fashion and they picked the non-American. She
wins immunity also. Nancy and Chelsey are also in. Tyler is out. Aww.
I mean, he made something boring, but I'm assuming this was not 100%
fashion based. Before he leaves, he asks to speak, and he apologizes
to Karlie, saying his comment had no hidden agenda or meaning or
whatever. Actually, I take it back, he never actually apologizes. He
says he will stand by his look so much he's going to go to Goodwill
and make himself this same outfit. Then he starts talking about
Christian's Save and how he hopes he can be saved, and then Christian
appears and tells him to go clean up his space. You can watch his
face fall.
Next
time: Cyndi Lauper, teams, so of course arguing and chaos.
First
of all, on the aftershow, Tyler's shirt is open all the way down to
his waist. I'm not complaining. Christian once again bitches about
the garnishes in his drink. Tyler insists you could see his outfit on
a bougie white lady, which is true, but not exactly what they're
going for here. Tyler is 1000% in love with his outfit, and it
certainly was more interesting than a backwards shirt. His goal was
to finish, which he did, so that's something. Also he loves his model
Deedee, who is awesome. Now Christian wants to hear all of Tyler's
shade. First, though, when Tyler says he plays to win, Christian
makes a “well...you didn't” face, just to prove he's the
shadiest. So now we're going to shade other designers. Victoria has
made this dress four times. It's true and he should say it. Then he
says Chelsey's jeans are JNCO jeans! I knew I liked you, Tyler. Then
they put up a picture of Tyler in drag and he says this is fashion.
Hee. Christian tells him he should have made that, and Tyler says if
they'd had stretchy sequins at Goodwill he would have, so Christian
fires back that Delvin found some stretchy sequins. Mm-hmm. Then
Christian makes Nick appear. Yay! I love Nick. I'm not sure why he's
here but sure. Nick immediately asks what country Kim Onassis
(Tyler's drag persona) is the first lady of. Tyler's response is to
ask how he spelled “country”. Is there an O? Then he says Kim is
an “Americunt”. I'm pretty sure that's what was bleeped. Kim Ono
for Drag Race. Nick chokes and then asks if he gets a drink or what.
Nick is supposed to be there for advice on what to do after you get
eliminated. Tyler should be inspired by these challenges and grow.
Tyler does admit he was there to learn too, because he didn't go to
design school. Create your brand. He hopes Brittany will win. Because
she has big dick energy. Nick doesn't even know what that means.
4 comments:
Toyouke, I really enjoyed your recap - it was definitely worth waiting for to bring us a belated Christmas present! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas!
Although Tyler was funny, his work wasn't creative enough to match the other designers. He seemed to have a different agenda? Don't know about his comment about the Kushners - I didn't even know Karlie was married - so I didn't get the reference.
The after show with Nick was fun - good to see him again. He certainly is a good person to explain about life after Project Runway. He's been everywhere - even to the Olympics - so Tyler could use his input.
Christian always has good input for the designers and I really appreciate his humor. Wish some of the designers would pay more attention to him and stop putting their egos first - that's you Sergio.abe
Recap title is incorrect.
You were right, thanks for letting me know.
Tyler is now selling "dinner with the Kushners" merch. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_hJLQh2sp/?igshid=bcb296gimgjb
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