Week 2 - Suedehead rules

Suede likes his mohawks blue and his facial hair weirdly maintained. Suede is going to slash and sew up the weirdest winning outfit ever on this show. Suede will take his strawberry margarita now.

Well, maybe not the weirdest, but it's certainly up there. One of the guys on Projectrungay said it looked like frozen pizza... which I kind of agree with. It did come out looking kind of neat though given the time and all. I am sure up close it was sort of a hot mess, but from the distance we saw it on camera it looked pretty innovative. The toile skirt actually was my favorite part of it... it made something cheap and overdone (toile) into something fun and elegant. My favorite of the night though was the navy blue dress done by Terry (she had done the mop sweater and skirt combo from week 1). To me, it was the most polished and the most beautiful. But Natalie Portman (who has a vegan shoe line coming out) I think likes it a little more wacky than that. BTW, what the hell is a vegan shoe line? And was I the only one who missed the whole eco/enviro aspect to this episode? It seemed as though the models just stumbled into the organic fabric section of the store and all looked at each other and said "that would be sooo great if we went for oh-ganic stuff" (toss of the hair). I just don't recall Tim ever saying "use organic materials"... but maybe I should watch it again to make sure.

Losing dress was the worst to me. The little WASP-y, sweater vesty guy (Wesley) did a really awful job. He definitely should have used that minty green fabric instead of the brown satin. Mostly because it seemed as though 3 or 4 of the designers used that same exact fabric. Leanne's had potential I thought. She just needed to remove about 60% of her circles or tags. But I guess you can say that about any dress.

Overall I liked the challenge, it was a nice update to have the models pick the fabric.

But I am seriously confused by a number of the women designers, they all seem to be stamped out of the same Mary Alice I work at a cake store in Baltimore mold (especially the runner up this week, Kenley). But I guess that's what's in... Kenley=Emily=Leanne=Bettie Page. It's like a new mathematical proof for Runway. BP^3 = K*E*L. I don't know, I think I just dorked out there pretty hard. Looking forward to next week!

Season 5 Episodes

Bravo has posted the summary of all episodes plus the guest judges. I can't wait for the episode with RuPaul as the guest judge , it's about time they dressed some drag queens! BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THEY GIVE AWAY A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THESE SUMMARIES. If you want to be surprised, like I do, then a quick skim of the list won't give it away. But clicking on each episode will give a lot more away. Anyone else get the sense that this is a kind of F*ck you to the show that is leaving?
http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/5/episodes/index.php

And you can read more about the cast here:
http://projectrungay.blogpsot.com

It's baaack.

New season starts this Wednesday, July 16. Ironically, it's the same day as my birthday. The stars are all in alignment I guess.
This is the last time for PRW on Bravo. The Weintseins have arm wrestled Lifetime into taking the show, as long as they play (and pay for) their B-list movies. I am really really worried about the transition to Lifetime. I feel that the production value of the show (which makes it so interesting to me) is going to drop quite a bit. I am afraid of typical tv set lighting and vaseline on the lens. Just please don't have a challenge where we have to make a dress for Vivica A. Fox at the premiere of Army Wives Season 14. No thank you.
There has been very little press about the new season, they haven't even introduced the designers on the promos like in years past. All this says to me that they don't care about it and it's not going to be very good. I also heard a little rumor that they were actually filming up to this past Friday. Rush, rush, rush I guess.