"Project Runway" 6.12 Recap: "The Art of Fashion"

The bad news, of course, is that Christopher is gone. I've been his biggest supporter even before the season started. Hopefully he'll carry his success going forward.

On the plus side, Dennis and I take turns recapping the show, and with the last gay designer now gone ... I DON'T HAVE TO RECAP NEXT WEEK!

I won't watch next week. Not because the last gay standing went down (frankly, he should have been gone weeks ago), but because the winner is a forgone conclusion, the designs this year have been booooorrring, and I don't really care who wins.

Congrats on your early release, snicks.

Boring people made boring dresses. Again. I seriously can't wait for the next season, at which time I can conveniently forget that this one ever happened!

"Go, or go ahead and surprise me."  -- Rufus Wainwright

Boring is probably the best word to sum all this up. I don't even care if Meana Irena wins, since she's a lot more boring than Kenley, evil bitch-wise. What a disappointing group of designers.

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I don't have much to say about this season other than it was AWFUL, probably the worst PR season ever. I don't even know where to start.. The talent hasn't been much to brag about, boring challenges, boring people. The judging has been way off, no gays to the final 3 either.. Yeah, most definitely the worst season of PR. Next year they will go back to NY, and I really hope that will make for more exciting challenges and more consistent judging.

I just finished watching Project Runway Canada, which aired back in March, but I hadn't seen it, so I decided to give it a try. Holy moly! It was sooooo good. Lots of drama, great challenges, good judging and I LOVE Iman as the host of the show. It's definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it already. I think the last season of PRC was better than this season of PR. I also loved the fact that they showed Sunny's husband as it was no big deal. I love how progressive Canada is (even though they have Harper now, ugh).

 

Harvey Milk: You gotta give 'em hope.

The final three are exactly the ones I thought would be there--and I'm completely uninterested in all of them. The judging was completely off this year. I think the rotation of judges means there was no overall vision. Also, this year there was much more focus on clothes women will want to wear than in the past (would Christian have won if that was what they focused on). There were several designers who were voted off too soon and a few who should have been voted off earlier. I really like Christopher and hope he gets some schooling in fabrics etc... because I think that's where he's fallen down--but he kind of ran out of steam 3 or 4 weeks ago.

"Arguably, Gordana had the best dress on the runway this week, so it seems a little unfair to have sent her home." I agree with this. Gordana had the prettiest dress, though I'll admit the back was a tad lackluster compared to the front. I honestly believe that Heidi has some kind of prejudice against Gordana and has not judged her fairly. I think that overall Irina is the best designer this season but that dress was hideous and if we were just going by the night's efforts (clearly not) it would be between her and Christopher as to who was going.

Generally, Heidi has been *mean* this season, one of my friends said she turned into the Asako Kishi of Runway. My theory is that at the time they were filming it was right about when she got pregnant and maybe her hormones were goofing her up. Whatever the case, I consider the decisions and really the season overall to be "brand damaging" and I think I'm about done with the show.

I only really tuned in this long because I was rooting for Christopher from the beginning. I must admit it was kind of a relief that he was eliminated because I am kinda over it. Everything was just off.

Also everyone was so bitchy and it felt like forced drama. Well everyone minus Chris. And the models, I never watched the models of the runway show, so I don't really care about them at all. Why were they at the Getty center with the designers? That part felt kinda forced.

I'm actually enjoying repeat episodes of Project Runway season 2 on Bravo right now. Ah Santino, Nick, Chloe and Andre! Now that was a good season.

I still don't get what happened to Christopher. He started out as strong and then he just all of a sudden started to create drab. Weird. I don't really care about this season. Usually my husband likes to watch with me, but now there wasn't enough innovation and creativity to keep him interested.

Looking at all of Chris's designs, they were all pretty similar. That contrast of hard/soft, light/dark, etc and the muted colors... That being said, I think this worked the first few challenges, especially with his novel designs and amongst the cast of a lot of good and a lot of bad contestants, but after a while, it probably got boring and jaded. His contrasting became too forced like he HAD to find something hard to include.  It works sometimes and to varying degrees (subtle design addons/strips of changing colors) but when the contrast is blatant all the time... oy vey.  I think the competition took its toll, his lack of education limited his techniques and his inability to expand his types of work to flowy dresses, pants, silhouetted forms etc really took over. He has a great personality, and he ended up being our last gay contestant, so I was rooting for him, but I couldn't accept his last work.  As I hinted at before, that middle part definitely seemed forced (granted I haven't seen the episode yet so I don't know what his defense was). I do wish him the best though and I'm sure he's used this experience and looked back at his work and will really grow.

Like most people who posted, I'm just uninterested in the others and will not tune into the finale. This is partly of their collectively boring personalities, and the show ignoring giving us anything about them. We got a lot about Chris, Gordana (especially Gordana), but really I know nothing about Carol Hannah, Althea, or even Irina.

Anyways, here's hoping the next season will be infinitely better. Are we positively moving back to NY? We need to.

OK, she's pretty. And, she has covered her accent fairly well, and execpt for that annoying habit of saying "You can leave the runway" (Of course they can, but MAY they?) what in hell business has she got in ripping these artists to shreds. She is a freaking MODEL, folks! She needs to keep her luscious mouth shut. Contribute from time to time,yes. But a VOTE? Hell no. She needs to get over herself and quick. Watch the host of Chopped. That clever man only contriubutes to clarify. I am so over you, Miss Highandmightydi.

I really don't think it mattered what any of the designers sent down the runway, I think they had the 'final three' in mind before the challenge even started. Thus, the fact that Gordana had one of the arguably best dresses still got sent home. (Incidentally, I swear I've seen almost that exact same dress before on PR.) I mean, realistically, the three who've moved on have been the strongest performing as far as the judges have been concerned. But I'm wondering if part of Christopher's downfall was having Nina and Michael return - didn't he do the best on challenges with all guest judges (and Heidi?).

If you ask me, Christopher and Gordana made the best dresses of this week’s episode. But Gordana hasn’t taken any risks, and her work hasn’t been very good compared to the other designers; and Christopher is really talented, but he has been pretty inconsistent the whole time. So it didn’t matter that Irina and Athea sent those atrocious offences to fashion down the runway, it was still them and Carol Hannah that deserved to go to fashion week. I am still a little sad Christopher won’t be going too.

I saw the inspiration in the shape of Carol Hannah's dress, but I think anything with an 18th-century French influence should have been more ornate. However, it would have been a fine line between beautiful and overworked in this case, so I like the simpler direction she took.

Irina's looked better once they got rid of the clunky shoes and sweatband.

Althea's was hideous, but as a fellow Daytonian, I was happy to see her pull through.

Gordana's looked like a vagina. I'm not the first to say so.

Christopher's might have been better if not for those hideous random tie-dye splotches on the skirt, but overall it looked very insubstantial and cheap.

This season = mucho lame.

Does anything think that probably the attention and manpower were diluted due to the Model show? The focus was really lost... Even Tim! I didn't find him as creatively constructive and amusingly critical now.

This season has been really one-note with the constant disappearance of Nina and Michael. Perhaps LA is really NOT the place for the show.

As everyone else has said, Christopher has really been a disappointment. I remember one designer who saw the beauty in drain water and created something very very beautiful. Christopher took quite a risk and it didn't pay off. Btw, really? Rock with algae? Suppose beauty really comes from all angles, this time the angle must have really been some aquatic microorganism.

Somehow I do think that the pool of talent this time is too inexperienced. I know people are supposed to learn and grow on the show - but really? Christopher has really been dishing out some really awful colors and fabric! And Gordana too.

Will we relive the height of Season 4, ever again? There hasn't really been a piece of design from season 6 that sticks on my mind. The bigger the expectation, the longer the wait - I guess all of them can leave the runway.