PROJECT RUNWAY: Episode 10, Fabric-a-brac

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PROJECT RUNWAY: Episode 10, Fabric-a-brac

POSTED: Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:08 PM

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Anthony, Emilio, Jay, Johnathon, Maya, Mila, Seth Aaron

This was by far the saddest week in a mediocre season of ProjRun. Even the judges shunning Mila's hideous, too tight dress wasn't enough to make me crack a smile in this bastardized funeral-isode. New York's most dapper, Tim Gunn, introduced the remaining — and certainly by now, exhausted — designers to some shnazzy technology that allowed the kids to design their own fabric. The high-tech "from desk to design" color me bad screen was incredibly fancy to say the least. The textiles created, however, were mostly lackluster.

Seth Aaron designed some ridiculous cartoon face grid sequence that he referred to as a British take on pop punk. He took that fabric and made a sharply tailored jacket and pants. It was a bust, yet the judges loved it, as per usual. Yawn, Seth Aaron, yawn. Maya's print was red and orange marks on black fabric. It looked like she closed her eyes and played around on MS Paint. And guess what? The judges loved this one as well. She put together a boring paneled dress that would have been hopeless if it weren't for the ruffly collar she attached. It was somewhere between an hoity toity Elizabethan collar and a roll of papery garland from the dollar store. Then there's was Mila's steaming pile of shit: a floor legnth dress that was so tight and restricting that the model had to take little baby model steps down the runway so as not to fall over. It was mostly white, with a diagonal panel of the fabric she designed. All she did was make different colored vertical lines on a white background. How painterly, Mila, you insufferable idiot. Go home already.

The winner of this challenge was the man who made a print that no one quite understood. Emilio Sosa made a blue, graffiti-inspired fabric that sloppily repeated ESOSA over and over. In place of the "O" was a heart. Each person who looked at it didn't understand that it said E. Sosa. The greatest moment came when TG came in and said he saw it as Seth Aaron, heart, Emilio Sosa. Take that, Em. Your torrid love affair with Seth Aaron was just exposed by none other than Tim Gunn. All that matters is that Emilio, at least in that very moment, felt stupid. It was a passing moment, though, since he won again, making it the second week in a row and his third win of the season. His '40s style dress was interesting enough with the solid black upper back that came around to a black V in the front. Meh.

While it was wonderful to see Mila in the bottom three, the two that accompanied her set things in motion for an unhappy ending. Elimination came down to Anthony and Jonathan. The latter did his usual thing and made something pale with a design that was barely visible, paired with a reverse (meaning worn backwards — Criss Cross-style) gold shrug. What? Yeah, for real. This is where things get really, really upsetting. Like some miserable, fat, pockmark-riddled bully on the playground, Michael Kors starts picking on Jonathan's design. Rather than be constructive and tell him what he can do to improve it, Kors just said that the dress looked like a dirty tablecloth. To further insult the man in front of his peers, Kors then called the weird shrug a "disco straitjacket." The model took the shrug off to show the entire dress and when Jonathan helped her get it back on Kors, that meanie, chuckled and said, "Oh, your husband helps you into your straitjacket," and the judges all laugh edabout it. They were like hyenas, all of them, with Michael Kors' jiggly face leading the pack. It was painful to watch. Thankfully Jonathan stood up for himself (which Heidi later commented on, in a negative way) and said that the "dirty tablecloth" comment was "preposterous." Unfortunately, that word was too big for Kors to understand. Jonathan stood strong and made it through one more week, though.

My favorite Sassy Southerner made an uninspired black and purple dress with a peculiar sleeveless shrug-something-or-other. It looked like he was inching away from his flowy femme dresses with this, a piece that was slightly more graphic and edgy with the print. We all knew the day would come when Anthony would need to pack up his bags and head back to Atlanta. It was clear from the beginning that he wasn't going to make it to Bryant Park, but we love him regardless. He left with such tact that you would think he was going back home to teach etiquette school. Anthony left saying, "You don't need to have the crown to be the queen!"

You tell it, sister.

Sossy

Posted 2010-03-27 09:07:04

Oh, PLEASE! Somebody on the sane side tell us why MILA has not yet been eliminated????  Okay, here's an assignment for the judges (who apparently haven't reviewed fashion history beyond the late 80s or old B&W movies).  Check out the designs of the late 60s and early 70s, and you'll see what Mila is producing. Problem is, she is not 'inspired' by those looks, she's stuck in the era and coming up with really, really BAD mimics. Her dress was clearly the worst in this competition, and it's not the first time she's been on the downside of bad. Her technical ability might be okay (heck, after Ping, anyone who can halfway use a stapler and glue gun looks skilled), but as Michael Kors said a week or two ago, she's a one-trick pony.  

I'm so sorry our sweet Anthony got nuked instead of Mila. Props to him for the graceful and positive way he bowed out.

rosie

Posted 2010-03-27 14:49:46

It was a shame they let Anthony go.  He was, by far, the most entertaining designer on this season's shows.

The judges should stop the snarky comments.  Not pleasant for anyone and they are making a lot of money from the show.

Nina Garcia should buy some scarves to cover her neck.

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