Project Runway: The end is near
Posted by Dan
February 14th, 2008 at 11:13am
In Project Runway
I’m getting ready to talk about Project Runway.
Avert your eyes.
Go behind the jump to hear what I have to say about the winning outfit, the losing outfit and the shenanigans pulled by the powers-that-be. You know the ones I’m talking about.
First of all, this whole process is snowballing toward an anti-climax, because Christian is most certainly going to walk away with this whole competition. It’s hard to feel happy for them, because he’s a mere tadpole among fashion frogs. Plus, if he didn’t have an incredible imagination and eye for fashion, he’d be your most annoying friend of a friend who you try to avoid at parties. That said, his outfit was really interesting. Even though the model looked like she was about to escape on horseback.
I can’t imagine it’s surprising for you to hear how sad I am to see Sweet P go. It’s moments like the beginning at the art museum where she said “I could’ve touched a painting, but I didn’t” (and then looked around impishly) that make/made me love her. So, even though I saw it coming the whole time, I was hoping it wouldn’t happen.
Meanwhile, I thought that the judges’ tie-breaker solution was a bit of a cop-out at first, but I can understand where they came from. Rami should have known better with his fercockta draping every five minutes — he saw the train coming yet still decided to set up a picnic on the tracks. On the other hand, Chris (I keep forgetting) already got cut once, so he’s designing on borrowed time.
Other observations this episode:
- Jillian’s one tone is pretty grating after a while.
- I keep forgetting that Rami is gay (strike that, no, I never really forget that), but it gets a lot more obvious when he says things like “let’s go ladies” to Chris and Christian as they are going out the door.
Christian’s model looked like she was in the very best Thanksgiving pageant of all time. I’m really tired of him and the enormous sleeves, already. And I would like to take a hypodermic of adrenaline and shoot it into Jillian, just to see if she might alter her inflection one tiny bit.
As for Rami, I think he falls into that Daniel Vosovic role of gay men that delusional straight women can kind of pretend might be into ladies. Until he’s on his knees measuring the WWE diva’s ass and all he says is “You’re so much more toned than me.” I really liked his dress this week; I thought it was different enough from what he’s done in the past (meaning it didn’t look like that Brooke Shields dress on all the bus shelters) that I was expecting him to beat Chris. As much as I love Chris, I wasn’t impressed with what he made. I thought it looked like muslin.