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GlasgowRose
11/22/09

In reply to Project Runway: Fashion Weak
Check out the video for Irina's Spring 2010 collection - still stealing from Madonna (Love Profusion video) with rolling blond model & butterflies. Ugh.

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joutfit
11/20/09

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am i taking crazy pills, or were irina's "warrior woman" hat-helmets a BLATANT rip-off of jillian lewis's from season 4?

and i realized how much i hated this season when it felt like a chore to watch the judges' deliberations...and even the collections themselves.
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heywhat
11/20/09

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So is New York Magazine going to let Irina's thieving ass slide by this time? Or will they be taking legal action?
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VioletViolet
11/20/09

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I really liked Irena's collection. Maybe she's a bitch, but her collection was just as good as any of the previous winners' and I'm glad she won.
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TriedandTrue
11/20/09

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I absolutely hate it that every finale, M. Kors wears those damn sunglasses. A. It's dark in there - sunglasses are so silly. B. Why the Diva attitude? It really, really irks me!
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MisterHippity
11/20/09

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Ok, so here's the scoop on how they came up with "designer introductions" during the runway show, when in reality the designers were hidden backstage during fashion week.

Missy Schartz at Entertainment Weekly (who was at the Bryant Park show last February) says they filmed the segments where you see designers on the runway separately, on the same day they had the real show in front of the public. (See her recap where she mentions this here: [www.ew.com]) They had to stick a bunch of extras in some seats to fill up the front rows for those shots. Schwartz surmises that they are probably all employees of Lifetime. (I'm guessing also Bunim-Murray.)

So they basically held two shows: One for the public, in which the designers' identities were hidden, and then a second one in front of just the judges and a few extra seat-fillers, where they had the designers come out and introduce themselves - and then appear later to walk with the models at the end of their shows.

Then they spliced the two together to create the illusion that the public got to see who the designers were. (Which, as Brian points out, is totally stupid, because the whole world knows that didn't really happen.)
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Zira
11/20/09

@MisterHippity:

Do you know if they did something similar when Project Runway was on Bravo or was this one of Lifetime's brilliant innovations?
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scouts honor
11/20/09

@Zira: I don't think so. In those seasons, they just had decoy collections from designers who didn't make the finals but whose auf'ing had not yet aired.
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MisterHippity
11/20/09

@Zira: They never had to do that before, because usually everybody knew who the final four, five or six designers were by the time the final runway show happened. So they'd have every designer left (as of the last show aired before fashion week) do a runway show. One to three of these were "decoy" shows and the others were real.

They couldn't do that for this season, because none of the episodes had aired when Fashion Week happened. So they had to keep every designer's identity a secret.

They'll probably go back to the old model next season. That season starts Jan. 14, and fashion week will likely be in late February. So they'll probably do the "decoy" thing and show six or seven collections at Fashion Week again.
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MisterHippity
11/20/09

@scouts honor: Or ... what scouts honor said (much more succinctly).

#tips
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Zira
11/20/09

@MisterHippity:

There was a fascinating article in one of the rags about how the Bryant Park fashion shows for each season are too far in advance of the actual season.....what is actually shown in the fashion shows doesn't reflect what will actually be in stores because its too far in advance. Its a throwback to an earlier time when it took much longer to produce and ship clothes.

There's been a lot of talk about changing the dates for the Bryant Park shows.
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Brian Moylan
11/20/09

@MisterHippity: That's going to be interesting, because Fashion Week is February 11th-18th. If the season starts January 14, only four designers will have gotten the boot before the finale is filmed. If they use 12 designers, that means 8 will have to show. If they do 16 designers (as they did for season six), that means 12 will have to show. That would be pretty crazy, either way.
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MisterHippity
11/20/09

@Brian Moylan: Well, I see your point ... there would have to be more decoys than usual. But not quite as many as your counts, I don't think.

The P.R. show is always the last day of Fashion Week, which is a Friday. So that means they'll hold the final on Friday, Feb. 19.

Now the show starts on Thursday, Jan. 14th, so that means they'll actually have time to air six episodes before the final runway show (1/14/ 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 and 2/18). So that means, if they have 16 designers again, they'll be left with 10 still standing by the time the runway show happens.

But I think they'll do a double-elimination just before the runway show (as they did in the last season in 2008). So there will be 9 left. And then maybe they'll show nine collections (where five or six will be decoys).

But that's still alot of decoy shows. The most they did before, I think, was six shows (three decoys) in 2008.

Obviously, if they have fewer than 16 contestants, the number of decoys needed would fall accordingly.

This is why I'm really surprised they waited in until 1/14 to air the premiere. I thought they' do it on 1/7, to squeeze in that extra week before the final show.
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MissPeacock
11/20/09

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I missed the entire show due to a phone call and I'm not sure if I even care to watch the rerun. THAT's how bad the season was for me. Any other time I would have killed someone if I'd missed it.

Thanks to Hippity for the great Live Blogs! And Brian for his always amazing recaps.
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MisterHippity
11/20/09

@MissPeacock: Thanks for coming to the live blogs! We'll be doing it again in less than two months ...
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Cunning_Linguist
11/20/09

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I can't stop thinking about Althea's mom running up and handing her flowers. How did they do that? Why are they trying so hard to trick us?
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angelospagnolo13
11/20/09

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Did we ever talk about Bravo's replacement "Fashion Show" It's first season was 463 times better than this shit season.
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Brian Moylan
11/20/09

@angelospagnolo13: I don't know that we ever discussed it, but, yes, it was better than this season of Runway. That said, I still wasn't a huge fan of it.
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GoRo
11/20/09

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Suzy Menkes "I left a curler on top of my head" look was distracting.
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lafleur
11/20/09

@GoRo: That IS her look. Always. It's her thang.
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elinorwhyme
11/21/09

@lafleur: Exactly, Suzy Menkes without the quiff is no Suzy Menkes. It's reassuring--styles change, but year after year, she remains the same. And it's easy to spot her at runway shows.
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katekate is squared
11/20/09

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The only garment--literally the only one--that I liked was the knee-length gold dress that Carol Hannah made. And of course, it was on a model with the worst walk in the universe.
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TriedandTrue
11/20/09

@katekate is squared: Also another clue this was a fake show.....there was a lot of diversity in the runway models!
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dearcatastrophecarlos
11/20/09

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<- Cha Cha diva from East LA who's wondering why Jaslene's name isn't in bold. Her name deserves to be in bold everytime. Love her.
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Zira
11/20/09

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Irina's collection looked to me like Goth Moscow Call Girl goes horseback riding.
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Maryscary
11/20/09

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If only Carol Hannah had vomited all over all of the collections, it would have been a fitting end to the season.
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youngmarblegiant
11/20/09

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This season was so horrible, but still I wish I could have been there with you all at the end. You light up my life. I cannot wait to watch the Top Chef Finale with all of you. I already requested off from work.
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