Previously on “Project Runway”: Madeline was eliminated, because she was boring and sad. Then everyone had to make streetwear, which was not well defined and not everyone makes streetwear but fine. Ethan made a bodysuit which was basically elastic straps, but was safe for some reason. Antonio declared at the beginning of the episode he was ready to beat his brother at something, so naturally he was in the top. Belania won, though. Everyone thought Yuchen was going to win, but he was too boring and everyone is like offended. Joan had too much tailoring and ugly fabric so she's also in the bottom. (click for more)
I'm actually home tonight and I feel awake and not hating this show so much I can't face it. So let's see what happens.
I like Joan, but I also like Yuchen. Complicating the matter is Yuchen knowing his look is bad. This is apparently enough because Joan is out. She seems shocked, but then immediately tells Yuchen it's fine because he's crying and apologizing to her. Heidi does know this wasn't her week. Yeah, while they did put her in the bottom, the judges also told her she was an amazing tailor and I think they know she'll be fine when she doesn't have to do whatever bullshit. Yuchen feels personally responsible, like it's his fault. I guess since one of them has to go. Still. Everyone cries because everyone likes Joan. I mean they tried to get rid of her a couple of weeks ago but still. Everyone talks about how amazing she is. Y'all I think the Christian Save is no more.
Belania and the twins do some yoga and Antonia starts making fun of her body language and how she spoke to Law last judging. OK look. When you are getting critiques about how your outfit is bad and you're making faces, then yes, call that out. But when you are saying “this is the story behind my outfit” and you're told “no it's not” then I think you're justified in reacting negatively. Law LOVED her outfit! He said it was the best one that week! So what reason do you have for hearing Belania say “this is me” and responding “no I don't think this is you actually”? You're just saying shit knowing she'll get mad and then you can act like she's terrible for being upset you told her she doesn't know herself. Antonio is convinced he's going to win, mostly because he hasn't won yet, but also because he believes he really doesn't need his brother.
Christian is on an actual horse. Like a live horse. There's a guy there holding the reins, and like, putting a stepstool down so that Christian can get down off the horse, but still. Then Christian misses the stepstool entirely, but he's fine. Heidi was not allowed to be on the horse, I guess. Meanwhile he's wearing a leather jacket with very long fringe and not even denim jeans. Heidi has some random dress (at least it's not short, tight, and shiny) but she's got a cowboy hat on. Neither one of them has cowboy boots so they could have tried harder. Supposedly “pop culture” is “obsessed” with country. Sure. Your take on Western chic. Antonio lives in Western clothes, but as we know, Yuchen is a streetwear designer and was in the bottom last week, so it's not a guarantee. One day challenge, which is dumb at this point. Just announce all challenges will be one day and be done with it.
They do get $500 today, probably because everyone is buying leather. Veejay is elsewhere, on the logic that she will stand out because everyone else will have leather. Then she's buying clear vinyl? Maybe blue? I'm not sure how that's going to work. Antonio decides to make a white outfit because his other clothes have been colors and prints. Yuchen picks out silver sequins and Christian tells him no. Jesus talks about being Mexican and making something with an “indigenous vibe”.
Jesus announces to the room that he's placing the interfacing by the muslin, which I only care about in case it fucks someone over later. He doesn't have a ton of leather so he has to use it wisely, and be innovative. So he...irons interfacing to his leather? I looked this up, and someone correct me if I have the wrong information because I'm going off of Wikipedia. Interfacing is a fabric you use to support other fabric that you need to be stiffer or you want to reinforce it so it doesn't tear. So you might put it underneath where you're cutting buttonholes, or maybe in a shirt cuff so it's stiff. I'm not sure why he needed his leather to be stiff. Maybe he was making some volume or something? The end result is a piece of leather with a weird yellow patch in the middle. Jesus immediately freaks out. Veejay doesn't know why you would interface leather, but I'm sure she's not questioning it too closely. Antonio insists it's super cool and he can still use it, like a design element right on her chest. Ethan levels with Jesus and tells him it looks like an armpit stain. Yeah, it does have that yellow tinge to it. “It's boob sweat.” Jesus freaks out again because he trusts Ethan, but then says he will have to make it work.
Christian Time! Ethan has an evening gown in snakeskin, with very long panels and grommets all down the edges. Is it going to lace up everywhere? Belania swears her two piece look with a button down is not what she just made. We have to talk about her being called out which I don't think she should have been. Veejay has see-through red vinyl fringe, but no idea how to attach it or anything else. Antonio is making a cropped leather jacket and miniskirt with fringe. Christian points out it's been done, but supposedly the details will make it not boring. Jesus has a long coat or something made of round circles and string. Each circle is the size of a half dollar, and then they're strung together vertically. I'm not sure how this is Western. Anyway, Christian claims to like the burnt part of the leather, which isn't as terrible as Ethan thinks but which also is not interesting enough to look like it's on purpose. Yuchen bought the silver sequins anyway. He's going for a performance look (I blame Heidi because she said Beyonce earlier) and Christian is like “OK, I can see that, like Dolly Parton.” But then Yuchen doesn't know who Dolly is and Christian looks like he might pass out. Maybe he should make a cool jacket. Yuchen says he has to stick to a dress so Christian just walks away.
Jesus and Antonio get screen time talking about who is better and how Antonio hasn't won, and then for some reason there's a hay bale in the workroom, and they stomp around and try to act out some confrontation. But it's very boring and everyone just rolls their eyes and sighs. Yuchen is still in trouble, and no one knows why he's insisting on doing a gown. Model fitting. Jesus insists that the burning is great. Yuchen has a strapless silver sequin gown, and he needs a jacket, but he doesn't have time so he's just putting hats. Belania doesn't have a story, and Christian is skeptical, but Law will just tell her she doesn't know herself so why bother. Veejay loves her dress with red vinyl fringe, which she gets yelled at for. I mean, the fringe is see-through, so she's got her model in a skin colored sheath dress, with some black fabric also for some reason, and then the fringe on top of that. The foundation dress looks really thick, like it's multiple layers or something. I don't know. You know what model I miss? DD. You remember they were the one that was Nancy's muse and they were fantastic.
Yuchen wonders how to make his dress interesting, and Ethan starts volunteering crazy ideas like “saloon girl's bustle” or “cool neck scarf”. Veejay has been cutting fringe for like eight hours, and even if she's exhausted, maybe the judges will see how much work she put in.
Then suddenly she's eyeing Ethan's dress and declaring it's “similar” to the wool dress with the cutouts she made for the third episode. Because it has cutouts? Cutouts in the bodice and your cutouts were in the skirt? Come on. You don't own cutouts. Veejay gossips to Jesus, which makes zero sense unless she is so clueless she doesn't see how Jesus hates her. Jesus decides he isn't going to say he agrees with her but instead just say it looks very Ethan. Veejay claims she doesn't want to cause drama, but she then goes to tell Ethan he copied her. Like straight up asks if he's doing “criss cross” stuff because it looks like that dress she made that time. What criss cross? What? Meanwhile Veejay is on her moral high horse like “the judges don't like it when you make things that are too inspired by your competitors” like come on. The show lets Ethan say “bullshit” uncensored which is great, and then he says a full crocodile (not snakeskin? Oops) gown is not a wool minidress. Veejay acts like she's just looking out for Ethan. Like maybe he didn't realize he was copying her and she doesn't want him to get yelled at. This is so tedious and he's not even copying you. They don't look the same. Ethan says in confessional that he doesn't want to plagiarize her “boring” dress anyways.
Runway Day. Not Day Two, SHOW, because then it would be a two day challenge. Hilariously Ethan has changed the bodice of his dress, to remove the cutouts, because he has realized that real boobs do not behave like the breastplates he is used to designing around. Heh. Honestly that sounds like a real problem he is learning to deal with. Christian likes Veejay's look, but warns her that he doesn't know what the judges will think. Yuchen has made horns out of the sequins, because he says Tibetan culture is sort of Western culture, and they decorate the bull's horns. So his dress now has two fabric horns made out of the sequined fabric, attached on the model's chest. Not directly over her nipples but at the top of the bodice. Oh and there are chains or maybe some dangly earrings at the tips. There is a really shit ad read about Ulta.
The runway has props, because fuck you. Heidi is covered from neck to ankle in a long brown dress, which I think is a sheer dress with long sleeves and tiers, over possibly a normal dress underneath, with matching shiny boots. This woman is judging a fashion competition. At least it's vaguely Western. Nina is still gone because still fuck you, but we have country music star Mickey Guyton, and actual fashion designer Zac Posen. Thank GOD. I'll take him in place of Nina.
Jesus: mini skirt and bandeau top in white leather with brown burn stains. He did take it further than it was, so it actually looks like deliberate burning. There's a fancy belt buckle but I don't think there's an actual belt. Over this is a long open coat with white leather fringe, and the coat itself is those strings of circles that I can't figure out. It ends up looking like macrame. He's put a collar or strip of the burnt leather around her neck, but crossed in the front like a necktie. Belania: the base is a shirtdress in white with a pinstripe. At least the cut is a shirtdress, with long sleeves and shirttails in the back. Then on top of this is a bolero jacket and a miniskirt in denim with leather accents. The leather is in two patches on her hips, and then the shoulders and most of the front part of the bolero. It's very dark denim, so there's a lot of contrast. I can't get a good look at it, but over her chest it looks like maybe it's sheer? The dress has a pointed button down collar, but I think there might be sheer panels over the top of her chest. It looks like there are also sheer panels in the back.
Ethan, long gown in snakeskin. Or maybe crocodile, I don't think it actually matters. There is a sleeveless bodice, and the straps are set close to her neck but it's not quite a halter top. Her boobs do look weird, like the bra cups are not in the right place. Down the sides the whole dress has lacing between every panel. It looks like two openings on her sides, that end at the hip, and then two more closer to the middle of her body. The skirt is in panels, and those panels are laced from right under her bra line down to just above her crotch. Since there's a center panel she's not flashing anyone. Antonio: miniskirt, bandeau top, and cropped leather jacket, all in white leather. There is of course fringe along the arms of the jacket, and the hem of the skirt. He has those round silver decorations that you thread the fringe through so there's one piece of fringe coming out of the middle. I'm not sure how this is radically different from what his brother made. At least make the top different.
Veejay: So the foundation of this dress is a body-con dress in black and skin tone (she at least matched her model's skin tone. Mostly). Then the whole front and back of the dress is covered in red transparent vinyl fringe. The sides are exposed, so you can see some kind of design where the black and skin panels make a chevron pattern down the sides of the dress. Also there's a mock turtleneck in the black. Yuchen: first of all, poor Liris has been subjected to this. But because Liris is a Goddamn professional, she WILL fondle the horns on her dress when she first arrives on the runway. So this is a floor length strapless gown with a high slit, in silver sequins. It fits perfectly, so he should have left it, but instead there are two fabric horns, in the same sequined fabric, over her boobs. Not like, extending from her nipples, thank God, but just above. Then there is a big necklace, which from here looks Egyptian, and a silver cowboy hat with fringe on the rim. These horns have like, bracelets or something at the base, like silver cuffs with big black stones as decoration, and then little dangly bits at the tips. Law comments “oh she's definitely gonna sell the garment” and I choose to believe he's clocked Liris as someone who will work the shit out of literally anything.
Antonio, Jesus, and Belania are the top three. Yeah that tracks. The bottom three go back to the Scrap Bin and look sad while they each interview that at least they did something interesting. That is fair. When Jesus and Antonio are next to each other you can see how similar their looks are. They all think Antonio's look is stunning and amazing and one day and the price and blah blah. It is, but also it's a cropped leather jacket with fringe. OK because the runway is so dumb, I did not see that Antonio's bandeau top is actually a giant belt with a giant buckle that he wrapped in the white leather. OK that's cool. They praise him for representing Latinos. Law loves his styling, which is fine. Belania has a strong point of view and it's authentic. The leather patches have points and are not just rectangles, which Zac loves. Heidi thinks Belania puts things together in interesting ways, and then Law doesn't talk to her that we see. Jesus made a spectacular coat that Law thinks looks very vintage. Then they all praise him for the mistake that made the burnt leather design. Anyway, the winner is Jesus. Antonio looks pissed. He says he is the cowboy, not Jesus, and he wanted his first win. I mean first of all, you're not entitled to a win. Second of all, while both of you made bandeau tops and miniskirts, your leather jacket was more basic than whatever that weird macrame coat was. Also they're Janning you, which is where you keep passing over someone for the win until they have a mental breakdown and you can get some good content out of it. Jesus claims he wanted Antonio to win, which I'm sure is bullshit.
Ethan describes his dress as “snake in the grass”. Zac thinks he's seen it, but he does say it's impeccably made. The lacing is part of the problem; maybe if it was closer to the color of the dress or to her skin tone. I can see that. Also her boobs don't look right. Law says that's what pushed him out of the top three. But there is drama and it's country. No one says anything about copying. Yuchen talks about “excitement” on the runway. It's just not authentic. Law doesn't get how Yuchen is a streetwear designer and he gave them an evening dress. Because you all hated his streetwear last week. Also he can't make streetwear for a Western challenge, can he? Zac doesn't think it fits, but I think it does actually. He does say that if Yuchen's going to be weird, he has to be really weird and this isn't far enough. Heidi says the taste level is beyond bad and they all hate the dress. Veejay wanted to go in a different direction, more futuristic. As she talks, you can see how thick the dress is at the shoulder. It seriously looks like the skin colored part is like an inch thick. Law praises Veejay for knowing how to cut the black and skin colored panels to make her model look curvier and nip in her waist, but then says everything else is bad. It's not Western and the vinyl is not futuristic.
Clearly it's between Veejay and Yuchen. Yuchen put horns on the dress, and then bedazzled everything, but it wasn't far enough. It's too weird for normal and not weird enough for weird. There's a necklace on the hat? I can't tell because they're not showing things properly of course. Heidi says she has that hat from Etsy, and Law is like I know because everyone who went to Beyonce's tour has that hat. Heh. Veejay was not chic, and not “authentic” which is the worst I guess. “Authentic” is not defined at all, but I guess the logic is either you are “authentic” like the twins and your look is amazing, or you are not “authentic” and you're just making fun of everything.
They call the bottom three out, and I thought the episode was over, but they tell Ethan he's in before the episode ends so he can leave. Then we have the usual interviews of “I'm not ready to leave” and then it does end.
Next week: make an outfit for both men and women who have eczema? What? Anyway, it's the “real person” challenge. Jesus's client flirts with him a lot, someone doesn't do print, Jesus thinks people are stealing his ideas.
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