PROJECT RUNWAY: Episode 8, Captain Planet

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PROJECT RUNWAY: Episode 8, Captain Planet

POSTED: Friday, March 12, 2010, 9:45 PM

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(l-r) Amy, Anthony, Ben
Emilio, Jay, Johnathon
Maya, Mila and Seth Aaron

Has it really been a week already? Yep, and now we're down to only nine cuddly designers, fighting for Fashion Week in Bryant Park.

Jay had immunity for this go round, but Heidi informed everyone that this would be the last time since the competition is (finally) heating up. The crew were taken to the rooftop of their posh apartment to meet all drug deal-style with Timmy and Garnier Fructis stylist Philip Carreon. The designers learned that they'd be getting down with a little Earth, Wind, and Fire ... and Water: Each contestant was given an element to draw inspiration from. Because Jay won last week's challenge with his chic dumpster-ass trash bag pants he was allowed to choose his element — air. The others had to follow Tim's orders and pick from a hat. Seth Aaron and Jonathan were also given air, while earth was doled out to Mila the Crone and Emilio the Hater. Water went to Maya and Ben, leaving Amy and Anthony with fire.

One Mood trip and $150 later the cast was back in the studio dreaming up visions of minerals, laughter, sirens and, apparently bowls of fire. Maya channeled sultry sirens of the deep when she made her slate colored long sleeve mini, which was just okay. Emilio produced a boring little greenish-brown number for the earth card. Wow, how original. Seth Aaron, that hobo rocker poetess, made a black leather suit that was inspired by "midnight air in New York." How deep. He mentioned the stars, too. Uh, Seth Aaron? You can't see stars at night in New York City, bub. Not in the sky at least. His design was futuristic with a Barbed Wire throwback, only with less skin showing. A lot less skin. In fact, only the model's face and neck were showing under the layers of black.

Amy went with all things black, too, despite the fact that she was dealt fire. She was hoping to embody "contained chaos" through a sad, sad jumper thing that swooped up around the model's shoulder. As if this wasn't clumsy enough, she stuffed the floppy top with hair extensions. I'm so not even kidding right now. An Amazon with a hairy chest and stiff, wobbly shoulder is somehow supposed to represent fire?

Amy's design, inexplicably, was not the loser of the night. Water designer Ben confessed that his first thought was sharks, so you knew this was going to be bad. But nothing could prepare you for the disproportionate suit that looked like a heavy (read: wet) diaper in the crotch and had shark's teeth details on the cuff. Ben, honey, this shit just won't fly on Project Runway. Ben was sent home last night, which is a shame because while his design was poor, he's proved himself in weeks past whereas Amy ... not so much.

After hearing Jonathan say that he wanted his air dress to be "a swirl of uncontrollable laughter," it seemed likely that he was going to let things get hot mess-y, too. Somehow, though, he managed to translate this funny idea into a luscious and romantic mini with a wispy shoulder that enveloped the model. It was obvious (or coincidental) that Jonathan considered his model's skin tone when he made a dress that complimented her perfectly. "Pale understands pale," he said. Congratulations, Jonathan, for finally getting approval from the judges and winning this week's challenge. This win proves that, as he says, he is a threat as a designer.

As happy for Jonathan as I am, my favorite ProjRun moment this week came when Mila was dumped down to the bottom three. And take a good hard look at the bottom two, they were pretty godawful. You're in with that crowd, Mila, and don't you forget it. For her earth design she looked to minerals. Ok, at least it's a more original color pallet than Emilio's. She wanted to show the judges that she could work with textures, but they weren't sold. With a vest that hinted at color blocking, paired with a plain old Gap-looking long sleeve top and blah trousers, her outfit showed that, oh! maybe she can't do anything but black and white color blocking. How did the judges not see this sooner? Maybe she would be best suited to make a few choice black and white color blocked pieces for a Target line. God I'm so sick of typing black and white color blocking. Mila, make it end.

Sossy

Posted 2010-03-27 09:24:31

I'm posting this two weeks after the show, but since I need a place to scream over crap Mila produces, what the heck. The 'mineral' look resembled something you'd find in WalMart that was put on the discount rack because it was so ugly and senseless that it didn't even sell to in that fashion pit. Julie has this woman pegged.  Well, I don't agree with the crone comment if it's totally age-based (she's not that old, just terribly boring). Enough already, please put her out of our misery!

Okay, I feel better now.  Thanks.

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