I've decided that the entire crew of designers this year suffer from what Anthony Bourdain on Top Chef called "a complete failure of the imagination". What a fug-fest last night. Nobody got it. If I were Xtine, I would have declared no winner. And maybe more than one auf. #projectrunway
@MisterHippity: I thought they were going to use the "bitch edit" (TM, MisterHippity) on Fat Kurt Cobain for the entire season but it has shifted. I still think he's snaky #projectrunway
She'd been in the Top 3 on three of the first eight weeks - and she won once. Plus, she was NEVER in the bottom 3 before last night. So her track record should have spared her.
I thought Christopher's and Logan's things were both worse. Logan should have gone for being mediocre-to-bad all season.
Bad luck charm? I beg to disagree, that thing has some sort of supernatural powers because he is still in. These idiots had a chance of a lifetime, to let it rip and roar. They could have gone bedazzler crazy instead we had nancy Kerrigan's show stoppers. It's Bob Mackie as in Cher, Vegas, Tina Turner and Dynasty. Is there ever a greater opportunity to let you sequins flag fly? #projectrunway
@MisterHippity: I also think Ra'mon got auf'ed when he perhaps didn't deserve to as a result of Tim intervening after Nina stepped in and saved him a couple of weeks before, when he DID deserve to go.
@Lizawithazee: See I am undecided on whether Ra'mon deserved to be auf'd or not. For starters, his reptile outfit was awful. But - he was "daring and imaginative" but couldn't pull off the execution vs. Louise who was "safe and boring" but nailed the execution. In all prior seasons, safe and boring was the deathnail for contestants.
His outfit was awful - but by Louise winning, they are awarding safe and boring. So....I'm on the fence. I really hated his outfit. #projectrunway
Not a single midriff or hip-high slit = all of these designers should be fired. I demand outfits that look like the "Half-Breed" video, damnit! #projectrunway
@pumpkinsoup: It's simply terrible. I mean, they even showed them visual representations of what they were expected to make, and we ended up with vaguely tacky evening gowns. Headdresses, people! #projectrunway
@allyzay: Seriously. If ever there was a challenge custom made for Chris March. And remember Kayne from Season 3? He would have had an orgasm over this challenge. (Perhaps not the best mental picture I wanted to put in my head. Um.) #projectrunway
Don't forget to mention Shirin's model's temper tantrum when she shut herself in the bathroom and almost hyperventilated to Shirin, who had to console her.
Oh wait, that's what I get for watching the first 7 minutes of Models of the Runway. #projectrunway
@missing_piece: Oh god, yes, I cringed when the episode started and she did that. She was making such a bitch face the entire time she was on the runway - of course no other designer is going to pick her after that. Who wants a model who is refusing to sell the clothes? No matter how "attacked by rabid prairie dogs" the dress looks... #projectrunway
@missing_piece: My boyfriend remarked to me watching the models get yelled at by Heidi for slouching and grouching on the runway, that this was never a thing you saw in previous seasons. The models were all consummate professionals and you'd rarely see them not "on," but this entire season the models are sloppy and openly frowny or miserable on the runway. Having some idiotic reality competition for these ladies who just want to be famous is actually kind of harming the show it spun off of! They're trying to have "personalities" on PR too, which considering that their personalities all seem to range from "vacant" to "actively mean," is a bad thing for the runway. It's kind of sad but what else am I going to watch at 11:30? #projectrunway
@allyzay: Actually, if you watch the reunions from previous seasons, they show you how insane a lot of the models were. One kept fainting on the runway, another would just not show up for work, etc.
@MissPeacock: Yes, but once they were on the runway they were not pouting and bitching out - there's no denying that half of them never show up on time, it's strictly the on-air PR time I'm talking about. The fainting girl was an anomaly (and also might not be able to help her predicament, unlike the frowny faces all over the runway this season? Tho she's obviously chosen the wrong line of work in that case). #projectrunway
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She'd been in the Top 3 on three of the first eight weeks - and she won once. Plus, she was NEVER in the bottom 3 before last night. So her track record should have spared her.
I thought Christopher's and Logan's things were both worse. Logan should have gone for being mediocre-to-bad all season.
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Have not seen the final collections, btw, and don't wish to be spoiled. #projectrunway
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Epperson didn't deserve to go, but I see that as more of a product of age-ism and perhaps anti-male-ism.
I know a lot of people loved Ra'mon, but I think his talents were overrated. He produced some pretty bad stuff along with a few decent outings.
This show does not have a track record of discriminating against minority contestants, and I can't think of any reason why they would.
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Perhaps I'm overthinking things, though. #projectrunway
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His outfit was awful - but by Louise winning, they are awarding safe and boring. So....I'm on the fence. I really hated his outfit. #projectrunway
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Oh wait, that's what I get for watching the first 7 minutes of Models of the Runway. #projectrunway
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What? Is Chinstrap bringing in the gay-club-in-the-mini-mall demographic?
No way Shirin should have been eliminated. This is truly the producers' season. #adventuresinliveblogging
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There are two options:
1. Go to your profile page, click "settings," and choose "oldest comments first." Then, when you come back here, all the comments will appear in chronological order. Just read them from the top down, and click the "Older threads" link as needed. (Note: All comments on Gawker will default to "oldest first" until you change the default back.)
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2. Keep the comments in "newest first" order, and click the "oldest first" link repeatedly until all 500+ comments appear. Then read the whole thing from the bottom up.
(I recommend Option 1 - it's much easier.)
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cute kids and dogs everyone.
sorry i missed. #adventuresinliveblogging
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Never give immunity to a smurf killer, because she will go into a funk and make a frock-o-FUG!