Thursday, July 24, 2008

PR: Farewell Short Shorts

Week 2 of project runway, and still none of the designers stand out so much at me. But we'll see...
The challenge this week to make a cocktail dress, which seems kind of lame. The twist is that they can only use 'green' fabrics (environmentally green, not the color as I originally though, which would have made it a little more interesting). The other twist is that the models get to go shopping and pick out the fabrics themselves.
Lots of skinny models run around mood apparently choosing all the same fabric, and also not really know how much to get. They kinda say ok cut it for me and lets go.
Back at the design room the designers kind of freak about the models lack of originality/taste and amount of fabric. Lots of mini dresses ensue. I see around 3 brown silky dress, 2 champagne colored ones and a few other colors thrown in. Stella is blabbing on about how much she loves leather and her 'urban' style. She's like 50, and has pigtails. Apparently she wants to make everything always out of leather. This leads to a funny scene where tanorexic Blayne starts making fun of her and she doesn't get it and he ends up saying "I love you leatherface" which was great, even though they are both annoying.
On the runway, the guest judge is Natalie Portman (who I saw last week!) cause she has her own line of Vegan shoes. And she's really cute.
The top 3 designers are Kenly, with a champagne silk straight dress with a giant collar, shockingly Stella, who used the same fabric but made a tight mini one-sleeved dress with lace up detail on the sleeves and side (fugly to me) and Suede, who made a crazy ribbon weaved top and little pouffy skirt, but its pretty cute and Natalie says she would definately wear it and Heidi would have to, if she was 10 years younger. Yeah like Heidi looks old, right. Anyway Suede is declared the winner and his prize is that his dress is going to be sold on bluefly.com.
The bottom three is Korto, who made a yellow tube dress that looks like the outside should be the inside and has weird fin things, Leanne, who used the shiny brown stuff to make a loopy dress with circles everywhere, and Wesley, who is so freaking cute, but made a fug dress with the same brown silk. According to Nina it was too short, too tight and not made well. Wesley gets auf'ed, and while his dress sucked, I wanted him to stay around a little longer cause he's so cute. And that's that. I thought there were dresses a lot nice and a lot worse than the ones the judges picked, but hey what can you do. I still want to know who the couple is...

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