Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Project Runway in Nutshell #8

or Reject Runaway as I'd like to refer to this season.

Whine Whine Whine Argue Argue Argue Cry Cry Cry Ego Ego Ego

Boooooorrrrrriinngggg.

Challenge: design an avaunt garde outfit to match the "just been fucked" hairdo's on the models of their choice. 2 days to complete and they will be put into teams of 2. Tim's input: the design "doesn't have to be practical or even particularly wearable".

Challenge within a challenge: Designers are told by Tim on the 2nd day that they also need to design a garment that embodies the avaunt garde but translates into ready-to-wear. 1 day to complete and this was a complete surprise sprung on our hardy whiners, I mean, designers. Deswhigners "make it work"!

Teams: leaders named first
Kit and Ricky - sounds kinda Kicky but is actually quite sickly. Do = Flat-topped flipado, team dubbed it the birdnest
Rami and Sweet P - Control Freak versus Rebel Without a Clue. Do= Long red waves
Christian and Chris - dubbed themselves "Team Fierce". Do = Big ass bun (sort of like dog turds piled onto the back of the head)
Victorya and Jillian - or as I dubbed them "Team Vahjayjay". Do = Ponytail faux-hawk

As expected the soft voiced "Team Vahjayjay" spent the ENTIRE creative part of the show whining about time managment issues while they s.....l......o.....w.....l....y made a big long coat with tartan lining (J), riding pants (V), a top with bows over the butt (V), and Jillian scraped the ready-to-wear "little black" dress together in 2 hours on the last day while their models were haired and make-upped.

"Team Fierce" went all out with a flesh colored chiffon layer upon layer upon layer cake with a ruff the size of Chris and little ruffled ready-to-wear top the size of Christian aka "Fierosh". Hard to tell where one left off and the other began, they giggled so much.

Kit and Ricky were in ecstasies over creating a hoop-skirted dress with a barely there top to match their model's barely there breasts with a little ready-to-wear apron dress complete with pockets.

Rami and Sweet P spent the ENTIRE creation part of the show in a power struggle. Rami insisted on Sweet P not messing with his been-there-done-that draped number (R) over black Depends-accomodating pants (SP) for the avaunt garde look and made her cry with his overbearing ways, but she got her own back by taking complete charge of the little ready-to-wear pleaty grey number.

Highest were Teams "Fierce" and "Vahjayjay" - both were praised excessively and Victorya pointed out her team should win as they actually made 3 looks. Eye rolls of disgust all around I'm sure, as their ready-to-wear dress was totally pulled out of Jillian's butt at the VERY last minute.

Lowest were Teams "Kicky but Sickly" and "Conflict" - Sweet P actually was kudoed for her little dress, Rami totally knocked for being a one-note designer (yet he stays, like a bad rash), Ricky once again knocked for being disappointing and amateurish, and Kit knocked for execution and cheapiness.

Winner: Christian
Team "Fierce" aka, C&C Design Factory were featured with their dresses in a Tresemme ad in Elle magazine.
Auffed: Kit, surely for her execution issues which Nina and the guest judge spent a lot of time pointing out.
Ricky in again by the skin of his teeth and his teariness was edited out but shown in the preview of this episode. I hate when they do that.

1 comment:

Madpuppy said...

Ricky is turning into this season's Wendy Pepper- always in the bottom two, but never seemingly bad enough to win.

Rami started OK, but he does the same exact dress over and over again. I like how he said his design was avante garde because there were pants under the toga.

Granted team sickly's design was the worst, but Ricky should have gotten auffed before Kit.

Worst. Season. Ever.