Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Project Runway in Nutshell #6

Or "The Field Trip Episode".

Morning.
Kevin feeling the lack of Steven.
Christian was not.
Jillian channeled the '80's with shorts with black tights underneath.
Model Repick: 2 to go this time.
Christian went for a change.
Sweet P not picked last and almost has a conniption.
Rami made a change too.
Ricky made a "difficult" decision which he was able to do w/out crying.
Heidi said they were going on a field trip the next day and to rest up.

Next morning.
Tim is an impeccable and cheerful alarm clock.
Kit is not.
Plenty of shots promoting good dental hygiene.
Field trip was to Times Square, specifically the Hershey's store.
Challenge: create an outfit of their choice using items from the Hershey's store as raw materials.
Condition 1: 5 minutes to fill shopping bags with whatever can grab.
Condition 2: only one day to complete the design.
Chris grabbed all the pillows as "he's worked with food before" and it's more trouble than it's worth.
Jillian grabbed all the Twizzlers she could lay her hands on (she's not learned what Chris has).
Christian grabbed all the Reese's PB cups he could lay his little effeminate hands on.

Commercial: Santino in various disturbingly fakeish roles - pimpy, professorial, preachy, and B-Boy - and incongruously driving a Saturn.

Back in the workroom everyone was working on getting a sugar high.
Montage of Elise working while sitting on the floor, sitting on the table, sitting on her mannequin as her voice-over relates her car accident story (Miss Crunchy Granola was hit by a Porshe of all the materialistic things, why not a Volvo?).
Christian finished early and acted sugar drunk and ego driven for the rest of the evening.
Everyone experienced the eventual sugar crash, especially Sweet P.

Tim's visit.
Told Rami Jillian was his target customer.
Told Victorya her white was not effective.
Told Elise she needed to "wow" him.
Told Jillian to watch her time.
Told Sweet P her skirt looked like a coffee filter or a Maxi pad.

Runway Day.
Models came in, initial fittings, Jillian's model hunkered down with needle and thread in the spirit of "I sink or swim with you", hair, make-up, final fittings, Jillian's dress is on her model.

Commercial: as a nod to PR's "boys", the Levi's 501 guy pulls up his jeans and instead of a girl all gift-wrapped up in a telephone booth, it's a guy instead and they exchange languishing glances at each other. Too bad the jean-puller-upper guy's languishing glance segment is the exact same as the commercial with the girl, kinda kills the effect they were going for.

Runway and judging.
Victorya's model did this weird stick-up-her-butt-music-box-prance that was V's idea.
All the models seemed to enjoy their outfits.
Ricky, Christian, Kevin, Kit safe.
Christian peeved he wasn't in the top three or the winner.

Top three:
Rami: used York Peppermint Patties wrappers for his skirt - told his outfit had charm, spirit, and fit.
Jillian: used Twizzlers for bodice detailing and fringe on skirt - told her outfit was playful, sexy, and deliciously chic. N = "Hard work shows!" J = "She smells delicious too."
Chris: used Hershey pillow fabric - told his outfit was a smart editing choice (coz he could have given them a parade float) and had good texture.

Bottom three:
Elise: used brown velvet and silver water wings - told her outfit was boring, no joy, and a flea market find.
Victorya: (FINALLY) used white ruffles with a smidge of silver - told her outfit was also joyless, not fanciful or wearable and she was knocked for her model's stupid walk.
Sweet P: silver schmear on top of a Maxi pad - told her outfit was also boring and looked like she threw it together.

Winner: Rami
Auffed: Elise (who sat on the table to pack up her stuff and said this experience will "fortify" her work)
In: Sweet P, seriously!!??

Previews for next week's show - surprise, Ricky cries!

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