 | Project Runway: Off With The Hats!posted by RF Club, Group AdministratorFriday, August 20th 2010 @ 11:46 AM (not yet rated) |
Project Runway!
I am going to start with divulging a secret, I love hats!! Unfortunately, those hats didn't speak to me but from what the designers and Heidi Klum claimed we are suppose to believe Philip Treacy is renowned for his hats! Okay! Which leads me to question Project Runway,yet again. The hats by Philip Treacy are clearly Runway hats. Honestly, how many of those hats are wearable? You can see were I am going with this can't you? What is with Project Runway? Another week and another SAFE WIN!!
Now, I am totally doing cartwheels, flips and high fives that Miss Gretchen Jones wasn't even in the top three. Her outfit sucked! If I hear her say one more time, "I would totally wear that" I am going to puke. We get it Gretchen. You design for YOU! And you think that YOU are quite HOT!
So, Michael Costello wins!! His dress, the safe dress was nice. Isn't sad when you are saying a NICE dress won on Project Runway? Please what is up with Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia? Is this what happens when you do something for too long? You lose your edge? You become safe and traditional? I mean they seemed to like the dress but I didn't hear them say things like, "It was new, fresh and different." The judges are into different things this year. It doesn't seem to be all about the garment. They were impressed with his styling and his choice of color. Yes, I know this all makes a difference but the dress seemed like something I could find in the stores already. It just didn't seem new to me. Beautiful, yes. New and fresh, not so much.
Okay, let's look at Valarie Mayen's near miss again. I found it interesting Philip Treacy didn't care for it at all. He clearly felt his mask was meant for a beautiful, masquerade, ball dress. The designer of the hat was looking for glamorous. The other three judges liked what? Her CUTE little red dress?? Oh, and she added an edgy zipper in the back?
I wish I understood what Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia liked in this outfit and how it connected to the mask. Isn't there a contradiction? Michael Costello was harmonious and Valarie Mayen was not but they claimed it still worked, how?
The other Michael, Michael Drummond rounded out the top! I thought he should have won!! His was different. Michael Drummond's outfit was a runway creation. You know what was funny? The judges went on and on about the skirt. The wearable skirt that you can find in stores. The top was his CREATION and it went beautifully with the hat. I think he scored on all points. Harmonious, a creation with a hint of wearable!
Onto to the bottom. I cannot disagree with the bottom a lot. Although, I think it could have been a toss up with a few. I bet some scores were close. I think the designers struggled with this challenge.
Oh, poor April. April Johnston headed in the right direction with the hat but she needed to take it upscale resort. I know upscale is not her thing but you can do edgy and upscale. April needed a beautiful flowy skirt and she would have been good to go. She needs to figure out the judges. Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia are not going outside the box this year and no way were they going to go for hot pants. Then April didn't make them fit! She was dead in the water! Her top saved her from going home. Period!!!
Christopher Collins, oh my! He had the one hat I liked. Unfortunately, Christopher lost the hat in the outfit. I don't usually agree with the judges totally but I do about poor Christopher. His dress was styled beautifully and I do think that saved him. He should count his blessings!
Kristin Haskin Simms the loser this week. Didn't we all know it? She struggled the entire time just like Sarah did the week before. In a cut throat competition you can't send something out that you don't love yourself. I thought at one point Kristin might get back on track when she connected with the orchard;reminding her of her wedding. She even talked about the flower as being sexual. Kristin then moved into the idea of romance and the design being flowing and romantic. We all heard the work room conversation, right?
Therefore, how many of you were floored by her architecture mumbo jumbo explanation? Did she say that because she heard Philip Treacy just say hats are architectural? Then, Michael Kors says, "the orchard is a sexual flower and romance should be used and we see none of that." I was thinking, was that her problem she switched gears and we missed that? You know, maybe Kristin tried to add architecture or did she just miss the flowing part of the dress? I think Nina Garcia said it best, "It looked like the dress had no plan". Kristin Haskin Simms would not admit that but we did see her in the work room and deep down that dress had no plan. Although, I think part of the problem is that is typically the way she designs, on the fly! This time her 'on the fly' design did not work.
Onto the good stuff!!
The designers are getting more and more catty with each other. Definitely, getting more serious and not as much 'love' for each other. A little more willing to critique each other.
Gretchen was still "I'm all that" and it was good she was not in the top three this week. She needed a reality check. A better reality check will be when she faces a bottom three and has some criticism thrown her way.
Gosh, she just goes back and mouths constantly in the waiting room. She got it all wrong this week. Loved it!! Miss Gretchen thought Michael C. and Valarie would be in the bottom. Yeah, Gretchen you are not reading the judges minds as well as you thought!
Some funny comments! Peaches trying to inform Tim Gunn that she wasn't going super short, "Not going to show the good china." Casanova and how many lives he has left. " I'm not a cat with seven lives." Do you think he knew the saying is nine lives but he knew he had lost two lives because he was in the bottom twice already? I am not sure when Casanova is messing up or when he is on the ball!
Ivy being inspired by her hospital stay, alrighty! Mondo and the "So many fabrics they were talking to me." Mondo, he is special.
This episode in general!
In my opinion one thing the designers should not have done was pick according to their model. I understand they like working with a model but many of them struggled with the hat. I believe Kristin Haskin Simms went home because she had a hat that did not 'speak to her'. Designing is art and you have to be inspired. I think many of the designers fell short this week because they didn't look at the beautiful hats and choose the one that inspired them. No, they worried about keeping their model because they had the size down and they felt they could easily design anything.
I don't know about you guys but I was not impressed with anyone this week. I thought they all fell short!
If you noticed, Tim Gunn was not giving any glowing remarks in the work room. He even noticed the "worried looks". I think Tim could feel their lack of inspiration.
Overall, this show was a little tame. Not bad but not anything great. The judging was blah. The judges didn't seem impressed. I actually think they weren't impressed either way. Meaning, I didn't get the impression Heidi Klum, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Philip Treacy loved a design or absolutely hated a design. Which should not have surprised us because Tim Gunn didn't seem all that impressed while mentoring for this challenge. The judges seemed like they just had to come up with winner and a loser. It was the first time I think Heidi was pretty quiet in her judging and the guest judge, Philip Treacy didn't contribute a lot to the episode or judging. He just provided the hats!!! The most he seemed to chime in was on Valarie Mayen's design. Philip Treacy really disagreed with the judging on that design.
Overall,It was an odd episode.
Lucy
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