Project Runway Episode 6: Lifeï¿½s A Dragï¿½

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Project Runway Episode 6: Lifeï¿½s A Dragï¿½

POSTED: Friday, August 22, 2008, 5:11 PM

Filed Under: Critical Mass | TV ProjRun

The Episode 6 winning design

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… but only for Daniel.

On perhaps one of the best challenges Project Runway has ever aired, designers faced the biggest (and I mean biggest) models they’d ever have to style and Season 4’s Chris March came back to reveal their task at hand — designing for drag queens. All a little flabbergasted, some disgusted and others — mainly Terri — thrilled with this week’s challenge, they all dug deep and found their inner showgirl.

Keith’s toilet paper aesthetic is one I’ll never understand, and Joe agrees. The PR Papa started the show off with a sucker-punch to Keith’s design style. Regarding his win last week: “I don’t know … are the judges blind?” Ouch. But, the truth hurts and Keith faced said reality as he fell from number one to the bottom two because of his messy, ugly, uneven and unglammy design. Lucky for him, Daniel’s was worse. We FINALLY said farewell to the snot-nosed pretty boy whose delusions of design grandeur were making our tummies churn.

As for the reigning royalty, Korto’s fire-inspired, sequin, mini dress with tear-away crinoline skirt was more than hot, and Terri turned her queen into a Samauri Jane with a punk rock edge. Oh, and Terri was wrongfully deemed second best again. Joe took the win with his pink, all-over sequin, sailor-style, jump suit with a bulky-buckle belt, which guest judge RuPaul gushed over because it “hid the candy.”

And if I got nothing else out of this whopper of a runway show, I did finally learn that it is Blayne’s drag dress that covets the Tim Gunn title as “a pterodactyl out of a gay Jurassic Park.” All in all, this challenge was unexpected, fun and, most importantly, the designers delivered. It’s gonna be a wild ride next week, as unconventional materials are sure to stress creative engines.

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