Previously on “Project Runway”: everyone acted like “comfy chic” was a thing aside from just going out in public in leggings or in your pajama pants like we all did last year because who cares. The designers have to do something with this aesthetic, which means basically everyone made wide-legged pants and loose clothing. Sure. Also last year's winner Geoffrey and Cyndi Lauper showed up for some reason. Kristina made a huge shapeless thing that you can wear like a flannel around your waist, or like a caftan but with multiple prints, and anyway for some reason the judges liked it and she won. Coral made harem pants and a dress, out of sequins, which was not comfy but also was not enough to send her home. Instead Octavio and his silver brocade hoodie dress and stockings were sent home. But then also Zayden's ill-fitting jumpsuit was enough for elimination. I knew a double elimination was coming, because of Shantall being saved last week, but I didn't expect it right away. (click for more)
Chasity gives Anna a hug because she's still distraught at Octavio going home. They got really close I guess. Coral actually gets more screen time and she says that she thought she was going home yesterday. She thought the judges liked Octavio more, so they'd keep him over her. I can see how she would think that, but I think Octavio has been in the bottom a lot also. It's kind of hit or miss. Randomly there is a phone on the table that Christian is texting. He says they've earned a break, go to the bar next to the house, bottomless mimosas on him. Everyone shrieks because no one except Prajje is genre savvy AT ALL. He knows Christian is not inviting them out for drinks. You will never get a day off.
Anyway the bar at least does have alcohol. They all drink “bottomless mimosas” but I notice not one of them appears to have put orange juice in their glass. Christian and Brandon come downstairs and I wish someone would have started cursing like they just realized. Anyway, Brandon tells them about the history of the cocktail dress, everyone should have one, etc. It is the unconventional material challenge! Make a cocktail dress out of the trash in the bar. This bar has carefully been filled with like, candy, raffle tickets, bowls in the kitchen, foil takeout containers, straws. There are kitchen towels which is funny because according to the websites I have read, no real kitchen has that many towels just lying around.
They get a whole twenty minutes to destroy this bar. This includes tearing the faux leather off the couch which I feel is cheating. Aaron grabs a bunch of cocktail stirrers to make fringe. Prajje takes all the doilies I think, and Chasity takes a whole blue IKEA bag full of coffee filters. No one has a really solid vision right now, but they seem to be grabbing whatever they can get their hands on just to have as much as possible to work with. Kristina takes the cornhole board. What are you going to make with a giant wood board? Anna isn't inspired, which seems like she should be. You know this challenge is coming. With a couple of minutes left Prajje pours himself a drink. Bones takes a big flat piece of glass out of the table.
The chyron says they have eight hours left on day one. Bones realizes everyone has their own table. Bones goes to break the glass he got, and it shatters with one hit. He seems surprised, but somehow he's going to use it along with some beaded fringe he got from the door. Shantall is sewing straws to a background to see what it looks like. Prajje is covering the couch fabric with doilies. It's those paper things you put under fried food, you know? Chasity melts some plastic to make petals. I mean she's just holding a lighter to it. Also she's going to cut up straws like beads, but that's going to take forever to attach. Aaron thinks he can make fringe from those short red stirrers, and some parchment paper for a jacket. Shantall is kind of worried she doesn't have enough straws to make this dress. Anna is still crying about Octavio. Prajje gives her a pep talk.
Christian Time! Shantall and Coral discover they are both using black straws. Coral kind of freaks out that maybe she shouldn't do it since so many people have straws. She acts like she didn't get anything else to use to make a dress, but magically she pulls some plastic bags from somewhere and Christian tells her she could weave something out of those. I don't mind him asking “Do you have anything else you could use?” but I think I do mind him asking “Do you have anything you could weave?” Like, ask her what she's got but don't tell her what to do with it. Anna has some kind of black fabric, or maybe plastic, covered in aluminum foil. Christian tells her a short corset dress is “not what [she] do[es]” and then pulls an exit sign from the table and tells her to do something with that. See this is what I'm saying. You're telling her “this isn't you” as if you have to make the same thing all the time and then specifically saying “do this”.
Aaron spray paints his straw fringe silver, which doesn't look half bad. In confessional he bitches that he's never won yet. Christian tells Kristina to make sequins out of the foil takeout containers? Somehow she's going to use the lids. It's those containers that are a foil cylinder and a cardboard round that has foil on one side, where you put the cardboard on and then fold the rim of the foil down over it. Chasity is spraying her straw beads now, but Christian tells her to just do it after she makes the dress. But wouldn't that make the dress stiff? Chasity loves it but I'm not so sure. Kristina is melting little circles of clear plastic. Bones has a pretty specific plan for his construction. Christian loves the broken glass, which Bones is thrilled about. Prajje is painting paper doilies and also the couch leather so they're very colorful. Christian only tells him not to look crafty, he does not get a warning that he's just using fabric in the unconventional materials challenge. Then Christian plays cornhole with Kristina which is hilarious. He loses of course. Chasity is realizing she is going to have to attach a million beads to her dress and this maybe was a dumb plan. Shantall wants to prove Christian's Save was worth it.
Day Two. Anna has now sewn a whole big piece that is just those plastic bags that say “Thank You For Shopping” or whatever, like a print. Bones tells a story about how he calls wigs “Patties” because of Patti LaBelle and Chasity sings. It's weird. Christian shows up with the models. Shantall has a bustier and a pencil skirt already, which is pretty impressive. She wants sleeves too, but she's waited to make them since they aren't absolutely necessary. Prajje's dress does not fit at all. Christian thinks it's too much volume because Prajje has one of the plus-sized models and God forbid you ever put them in something that isn't tight and slutty. I mean it looks a little lumpy but also she doesn't have to have a ton of skin showing or else you aren't “embracing her curves” or whatever euphemism. Chasity has the dress done, but in terms of beading it's like, one lapel. She's going to be in trouble. Anna has her trash bag fabric on her model and then she pulls out this giant thing of exit signs. Like she's just glued them together randomly into a flat mass. That's what you deserve, Christian, with your extra advice. Somehow it's being attached to the skirt. But he's too bored with the dress now. It needs to be more expensive looking.
The models leave and everyone has to get to work. Prajje decides to leave the doilies white instead of painting them all. Shantall is really trying to finish the sleeves. Kristina's melted plastic does look cool. It doesn't look as much like trash as it could. Aaron is running scissors through something to make “a feather jacket” and saying something is going to have to get done tomorrow. Bones and Chasity are still singing.
Back at the house Anna says she's feeling better. She's glad she's still got the other designers. She really bonded with the others because she was an only child. Aaron talks about how close they are and how fortunate he is to be involved. There is a giant ruckus outside and they go out to see a big fireworks display. Is it the Fourth of July? Weird.
Runway Day. Chasity is just throwing bottle caps on the dress because she still has to spray paint. I was going to yell about how Christian's advice was terrible, but then again, if she had painted everything yesterday, would it have dried in time for her to have anything on there right now? Aaron is now making a cape instead of a jacket, because he's out of time. Of course he has also decided that people in the 20s totally wore capes so it's accurate. Shantall only had time for one sleeve, so there's just one sleeve. Chasity is so behind her model is working on the dress and she's just gluing popcorn or whatever she can find. Prajje isn't painting the doilies and Christian just says “Doily dress” and shrugs. Prajje likes it, but now he's spraying a little bit. Christian also yells at Chasity to start spray painting because it has to dry. She does, then the dress is too short, so she has to paint coffee filters and glue them so she doesn't flash everyone. Anna has made a cheongsam and Christian thinks somehow it's going to bust open as she walks. Right before they get to the runway Chasity is really freaking out because it's not what she imagined and things are falling off. She doesn't want to go home on a challenge that fits her so well.
Guest judge is fashion designer Christopher John Rogers. Shantall: the dress has a strapless sweetheart neckline, and the pencil skirt has a high slit but hits just below the knee. There is one long sleeve, and some straps across her chest that look like they're holding the sleeve on her arm. The whole thing is rows of black cocktail straws so it looks like armor. They're all lined up in rows. Anna: a cheongsam that hits at the knee, made out of those white plastic bags that say “Thank You For Shopping”. She's layered them thickly enough that the pattern isn't super obvious. There are frog closures down one side of the dress, and a keyhole at one shoulder and a high slit. Then it looks like she cut out the letters in the exit signs and glued them on the dress vertically, making diagonal lines.
Bones: long skirt that I think is maybe placemats, with long beaded fringe (made from beaded curtains) over it. The bodice is more fringe that is twisted and carefully laid over the chest. Then over this is a wide corset belt covered in bits of broken glass glued to the placemats. The straps have two swaths of fringe down the back, and Bones made a purse out of a small disco ball and a cage. You know a cage like you'd put bingo numbers in. Coral: black dress made out of floor mats. It's a bodice that leaves her midriff exposed, with two pieces hanging down the back like tabs. Then a skirt that is slit up to her hip, but I think it has straws? Once again Coral has become invisible because I don't remember this dress at all. I don't think we saw it until now.
Chasity: hot pink short dress with a wide ruffled skirt and a V neck sleeveless top. The skirt has a lot of volume and the big ruffle made of coffee filters. The pink spray paint is not really even at the bottom, but I guess you could pass it off as a design choice. It's hard to tell what is going on, because she covered the whole thing in paint, but apparently the uneven paint job is because she had put popcorn and it all fell off. The cameraperson gets a great shot of something falling off on the runway. So it's supposed to be all pink but she's lost a good chunk of stuff. Aaron: short silver dress with no sleeves and a ton of silver fringe. It's all straws, but he's sewn layers in so each layer can be short enough to have some movement. Over this is a big cape made out of some kind of paper that he's shredded to make “feathers”. The bodice is also silver but it looks like metal. I'm not sure what it is but he's put a zipper into it. The patterns of whatever the bodice is look kind of art deco.
Prajje: sleeveless dress covered in paper doilies. He's layered them so they look like lace, all fringe. The bottom of the dress is spray painted pink, but it ends in a weird place at her ankle. And it's just a straight skirt. The fabric underneath the paper is colored, which you can see bits off. There's no back to the dress, just strips around her arms to hold the front on. Kristina: this dress is some plastic mesh with clear plastic bits attached to it. It's basically sheer, and she's got a lot of plastic on the skirt but the top doesn't have nearly enough. At the bottom of the skirt, the plastic ends at the knee but the mesh part goes down another six inches or so. The plastic makes an interesting texture.
Nina claims this is one of the best unconventional materials challenges she's ever seen. I guess it was pretty good, comparatively. Bones and Coral are safe. Of course Coral is safe, we've gone back to not talking to her. Aaron is in the top. The metal looking stuff in the top is actually that puffy shelf liner stuff. It's beautiful and complex. Nina loves the geometry. The guest judge feels the cape takes away from the “metallic world” of the dress. Pff. Elaine gasses him up about how it's nice to see him confident and so he can talk about how he's coming out of his shell. Aaron can be really annoying sometimes. Chasity is in the bottom. There are spots where the popcorn fell off, and some places where the paint was so rushed you can still see the green popcorn. The judges seem to like the idea of the dress but know the execution is not great. Nina makes a snarky comment about glue guns, and Chasity is like, well I can't sew through bottle caps. She starts to cry, and says she spent too much time on the top. Brandon knows she just ran out of time and it happens.
Anna is in the bottom, which I find interesting because I feel like Christian had so much influence on the materials she ended up using. Putting “exit” vertically means sometimes people read “excite” because of where you put the letters. According to the guest judge this means your outfit is too confusing. Nina does say she's the only one who made a print. Anna claims her message is “Thank you! Exit!” Elaine says something about taste level, which I don't understand. Shantall is in the top of course. Brandon is shocked that she didn't glue anything. She has no fear and it's sensational. Elaine gets emotional about her comeback and how this competition is about finding people like her and whatever. Nina loves how precise the concept is. They love that it's all sewn on.
OK there's a commercial here saying the next new episode is January 6th and they show a bunch of workroom footage. Did you just spoil a new episode with fifteen minutes left?!?!?! COME ON. AND stupid Andy Cohen is a guest judge.
Prajje is in the bottom. He talks about how he put the pink at the last minute. Brandon likes the lightness of the dress, but the pleather underneath is the issue because it causes some fit issues. The skirt is too narrow? If the skirt is so narrow her boobs should be out? Look, I agree the dress isn't flattering but Elaine's argument of “the skirt is too straight so you should have had a V neck to flatter her body” is not a good argument. If it's too long then that's one thing, but she said “straight”. Prajje says he's from a conservative country so it's backless and therefore she's covered up in the front. Nina likes the lacy doilies but it's too many. I don't like the argument that she has to be exposed. Kristina talks about melting the plastic circles and putting “feathers” made out of foil. The plastic is glued on. The guest judge loves the noise it makes. Now Nina is talking about confidence. They really just want to talk about how amazing it is.
The judges can't get enough of Shantall's look, and the construction is perfect. Elaine out of nowhere says Shantall is a frontrunner, which is stupid. She had one good look. She's not about to win. Kristina also delivered something modern and creative. Elaine loves the silhouette even though it's largely the exact same silhouette that Prajje used, just sheer instead of opaque. But this model is skinny, so it's fine. Aaron was very clever, and Nina claims they've seen it. Just maybe not out of straws. Brandon didn't know what it was made out of.
Chasity's look was nice from a distance, and it had some kind of story, but it had some construction issues. Brandon thought it was nice and Elaine yells at him. Prajje had some fit issues. The top of the dress was nice, but the pleather made the dress stiff and of course Elaine says it fit like a paper bag. At least she didn't bring up having her chest exposed again. Elaine then says she doesn't get what Anna was trying to say with her dress, but Nina disagrees because Anna made a whole print. Nina and Brandon argue about if Brandon lied to the bottom three about how their only problem is nuance and if that's so then who would Nina send home. And then Elaine is all “I am loving this Fashion Family Feud moment we're having right now” and now I know why people dislike Elaine so much. First of all, have you ever watched Family Feud. Secondly, I would rather listen to Nina and Brandon snipe at each other than your lame joke and how in response they have to laugh.
Shantall is the winner. I get that Aaron is constantly in the top without winning, but there was no way he was beating what Shantall made. Aaron and Kristina are in. Brandon has decided that the bottom three didn't manage their time. No, Anna managed her time just fine. Her dress “didn't have a clear message”. Whatever. Prajje's look was incomplete and didn't fit. Chasity's execution fell short. Prajje is out. Bullshit. I would be sad to see any of them go, but the harping on how her dress didn't expose enough skin has really pissed me off. The judges tell him how great he will be. Chasity and Anna are in. He's pretty upset. Christian shows up and says he really loved working with Prajje and he's an artist. He's glad to have represented Haiti. He tells everyone to keep at it and not give up.
In three weeks: the “real women” challenge, which is a reunion look for Real Housewives. Sigh. Some people are crying. Stupid Andy Cohen is here.
On the after show, first of all Bravo's garbage website rears its ugly head and won't play videos properly. The front page for Project Runway the top link is to watch the clip with Prajje. But when you click on it, it plays Octavio's episode. This may be related to the part where Bravo forgot they pushed the episode back so it started 15 minutes after it usually does and posted that video too early. So if you want to see it you have to go to YouTube. Good job, idiots.
Anyway. Some smartass PA put a paper doily in the drinks today. Prajje thinks Chasity should have gone home over him. Christian wants to talk about Shantall's look, and they both agree that she should have won. Prajje's Top Three “now that I'm gone” are Shantall, Anna, and Aaron. Christian reads a very long list of things Prajje got from the bar, almost all of which he didn't use. He was going to do a lot of colors, but he thought it would be a parade float. He won twice, so it's not that he wasn't successful. Now there is a montage because apparently everyone sang all the time. Christian tells Prajje that yeah, he can't sing, and Prajje is like “I can sing better than you” and Christian is all “do you want to have a singoff right now?” and Prajje's all “you don't want to know the songs we sang about you”. Ha! Prajje never used his fabric from home. He was going to use it for avant garde, but it was a team challenge and he didn't want to push it. And then there was unconventional materials. He wanted people to understand Haitian culture and people.
Christian takes Prajje to another area and there are two producers and the hairstylist person. They are going to do hair with unconventional materials and Prajje is judging. Heh. Christian used to be a hairstylist. When they start this man has to get a stool. He sneaks over to cheat and look and gets caught. For absolutely no reason, Christian asks a question so there can be product placement. Accusations of cheating and hairspray attacks. Both models have messy buns with straws and cocktail umbrellas stuck in them. Prajje is extremely sassy and gives Christian the win.
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