Project Runway

[sarahmichelef]

Ooooh, Miss USA! She's from Tennessee (oy, is she ever from Tennessee!)! She's cute! And southern! And going to wear the winner's dress at Miss Universe!

I of course immediately thought that Kayne had a massive advantage. I appreciated that he didn't start crowing - he was very reserved and actually seemed a bit ... cowed? overwhelmed? by the challenge.

• Jeffrey & Alison: Blah. Yeah, Jeffrey designs for rockstars. And this looks like it was designed for a rockstar. Which Miss USA is not.
  
• Kayne and Robert: I was thrilled when Kayne chose Robert to work with him. I just thought on an instinctive level that they would make a good team. The product was beautiful. I didn't love the fit on the model, and I wasn't big on the poufs. But that's a matter of taste. The jeweled bits were gorgeous. And Kayne is such an OklahomaFag. I love him.
  
• Keith & Bradley: Guess what. Keith may be a menswear designer, but the man can make a dress. The bodice wasn't fantastic, but the flow was gorgeous. Loved it.
  
• Laura and Michael: This dress was class personified. Definitely my favorite of all of them. Definitely more runway than pageant. I think it wasn't ... dramatic enough for a pageant. But it was stunning.
  
• Malan and Katherine: LOOK, IT'S A GIANT TURD! Enough said. Tim says in the podcast that it looks like fudge. No, Tim, it doesn't, unless you're using fudge in a pejorative way. And sadly we won't get to know if the accent is fake. *sigh*
  
• Uli and Bonnie: Also beautiful, in many of the same ways that Keith and Bradley's dress was beautiful. Love the twisting details on the halter and the belt.
  
• Vincent and Angela: Vincent and Angela. Oy. M and i were split on this whole thing. I thought the conflict was largely V's fault. M thought it was largely A's fault. I don't know. Tim's take on it on the podcast is really interesting - I recommend listening to it. I actually didn't hate the dress (though it had a lot of construction problems). The epaulets were a bit much, but I liked the simple lines, I liked the color, I liked the jeweled broach at the cleavage. But MAN is Vincent a total nutter! COMPLETELY FREAKING INSANE!
  

Comments

re: vincent = nutter

[redfishie.livejournal.com]

you know that may just mean they keep him around longer.

sigh. I missed last night, fell asleep just past 8.

Re: vincent = nutter

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

Although you could make the case (as Tim does) that Malan also had personality, and they eliminated him.

Re: vincent = nutter

[irihs.livejournal.com]

I think they allowed themselves to cut Malan so early because he turned out to be less of a nutter than they thought he'd be. I totally predicted, from the preview show, that he'd be a stuck up headcase. But he turned out to be a really nice guy, who manged to eat a huge slice of humble pie shortly after his snarky comments about materials at the beginning of the first challenge. I think he'd still be around, and that Angela would be gone instead, if he had not turned out to be so reasonable a person.

Re: vincent = nutter

[redfishie.livejournal.com]

I suspect they were sick of pretension in part (did you see the build up to the new season where they said he turned them down for season 2?)...he seemed like Tim Curry in Clue.

[irihs.livejournal.com]

At first I was convinced that it was V's fault, but later on I suspected that my earlier sentiments might have been due to clever editing, and that it was more A's fault. I think that was because, during dress construction, we were given the impression that A was trying and trying to be useful, and V was refusing her help and being all pissy for no reason. But there were a few comments later on about how A had done stuff, and not done it well. I now suspect that the earlier scenes of V being pissy were after A had screwed up, and perhaps cost him a lot of time. But who knows. I'll definitely check out that podcast, though.

Truthfully, I was kind of disappointed that both V and A weren't booted. Yeah, Malan's dress was the ugliest. But I'm still trying to figure the guy out, and didn't want to see him gone so soon.

I'm so happy for Kayne. It wasn't my favorite dress (your comments echo my thoughts pretty much exactly), but winning this challenge is a bigger deal for him than for the other designers. If he ends up continuing in the pageant design field, having designed for Miss USA has got to be huge for him.

[lisagw.livejournal.com]

Ak, I'm an addict. I waited all week for this. I have to wait a whole week more for the next one! I started watching mid-season 2, so my TiVo helped me catch up and I didn't have to actually wait long in between episodes because of it, though I watched them slightly out of order. Now I have to wait a whole week in between shows! This is totally not fair.

Anyway, I was sad for Malan, and, while I think that V is a wacko, A was coniving from the beginning of the episode. The fact that she didn't even bother to sketch something really bothered me.... :(