Make It Work

MAKE IT WORK, CARRY ON, HOLLA AT CHA BOY

This week the designers were taken atop a double decker tour bus for a tour of The Big Apple. They each were given a camera and an hour to capture a bit of inspiration from the city for a "night out on the town" look.

What they came up with was interesting to say the least. A lot of surprises in the mix, including the winning dress by Kenley. To me, it looked like a retarded tulip. The judges (which including very-bored looking Sandra Bernhardt) said that it reminded them of an 80s Dynasty Joan Collins look. Big shoulder pads and a weird puff of tulle popping out of the right hip. The judges said it would be great to hide a ... It was a surprise because Kenley says she's so inspired by the 40s and 50s but this was straight out of the 80s. In a bad way. The print on the fabric was absolutely hideous, and I don't think anyone but a model could pull off the look. As Joe so aptly put it, it was a bit "Fort Lauderdale lawn cushiony."

Tanlicious Blayne came up with a neon getup that I thought was the worst of the bunch. The fact that he picked flourescent colors was not a surprise considering his hot pink dress last week and the neon pink sweatshirt he had on during this episode. He taught Tim a new catch phrase: "Holla at cha, boy." It was funny watching Tim try to say it. He said, "Hollar at your boy? Hollar? Hello?" Classic Tim.

No surprise that Blayne had to make his presence known to the camera by visually stalking Kenley while she was working on her dress. He kept saying to her, "I'm gonna eeeat you" and giving her a look like he was a demented bobble head. He's probably hoping Bravo will start selling a Blayne bobble head on their website. Organic Leanne decided to scale back her hyper-creativity and organic-ness and wound up making a gorgeous black layered skirt. I didn't like the finished look all that much because I wasn't crazy about the top, but the skirt was so pretty. Heidi loved it and said she'd wear it in a heartbeat.

We now come to Stella. Oh, Stella. You make me laugh the way Christian made me laugh. Your comments are quickly becoming classics. This week as you banged grommets into your leathah with a hammah, annoying the other desingers, you said, "What a gay little grommet" to the uncooperative remnant and I nearly spit out my dinner. You then followed up with a warning to the other nearly-deaf designers, "If you don't like it, get the fuck outta heeya." But not before you said, "I am rock and roll and I'm gonna die rock and roll." Your finished look was impressive. As someone who knows a little about sewing, I know how hard it is to make a pair of pants, especially ones out of leathah.

I absolutely loved Terri's outfit. She was inspired by graffitti and stret culture, and made a gorgeous open-back dress with black pants underneath. I wasn't crazy about the print of the dress, but overall the look worked beautifuly.

Keith was inspired by a delapitated magazine he found on the ground and made something that Michael Korrs referred to as looking like "toilet paper caught in a wind storm." If it had been more fitted and accentuated his model's shape, I believe he could have made something really pretty. Emily's dress got her awffed. She said she was inspired by "the movement and energy" of New York but she made, as Tim put it, "a black dress with a great big oversized corsage." Tim warned her, but she didn't listen and let her big rainbow-brite prom dress go down the runway. She kept saying how underground she is, but this is something that could be easily sold as a prom dress in JCPenny circa 1989. I also thought it looked a lot like Blayne's blinding dress.


As far as everyone else goes, I loved Daniel's dress (again), and Suede "rocked it" as usual.

Next week we get to see the designers go on a big field trip that will cause what looks like fabric stealing, Beatles-inspired fashion, and slurs against the gay community. Carry on. . .

Make It Work

GREEN COCKTAIL HOUR AT PARSON'S

Last night on Project Runway, the designers were challenged to make a "green" cocktail dress for their models. Of course there was a snag: They had to let the models choose the environmentally-responsible fabric and notions.Most of the models admitted to not knowing what they were looking for. This caused Jerell to say, "My biggest fear is that she will come back with remnants of nonsense." It also caused three of the models to choose the same brown satin and three to choose the same champagne-colored silk.

As the models returned with their fabric, the designers' weren't pleased to say the least. All except Jarell, surprisingly, who hugged his model in delight. Rocker chick, Stella, was not happy with what her model wanted, which was something flowy and beachy. Like she said, I"m very urban. I like tough-looking stuff." I think she used the words "urban" and "tough" a few times. Let's hope for her sake that they never have a challenge that involves making something for can can dancers.

"I'll sew Blayne's face up like leathah."

Annoyingly tan Blaynlicious got to work with a bright fuchsia, which he said was "so Britney." He then referred to Heidi Klum as Darth Vader (and later as "Darthlicious", of course). His reasoning for the comparison? "On the outside she's all like shiny and put together, but on the inside she's like curaaaaazy." Uh huh, Blayne.

He then started on Stella who was celebrating her love of leather: "I just want to stick to my leather. Burn it up, dye it up, grommet it, pyramid it, stud it, spike it. . . " This caused Blayne to imitate her: "I watch leathah tv, my husband's leathah, my kids came out of me leathah..." Okay, I admit I laughed but when Stella found out what he was saying, she said, "What, Blayne? He's twelve years old! " She then said, "Remove that piece of leather from between the center of your teeth - you got a gap tooth." As they hugged and made up Blayne said, "Ohh, Leather Face." Look in the mirror lately, Blayne?

As the designers went to work, Suede decided to start referring to himself in the third person and said "Suede's a bi-sexual Sagittarius and loves long walks on the beach and really loves working with small pieces of fabric." Despite his annoying banter, Suede won the challenge with his darling and very imaginative dress. In fact, when they presented Natalie Portman (tada!!) as the guest judge of the week, she gushed over the dress, which made him Suede gush over Suede. Love!!

"Darthlicious" and Natalie Portman

Stella, who despite ignoring her model's request, came up with a one sleeved, champagne, lace-up-the-side dress, and wound up in the top three. The judges felt that her dress captured her aesthetic and was classy enough to wear to a fete. Likewise, the judges also loved Kenley's champagne dress with a stiff neck that went up around the model's ears like an Elizabethan collar.


Korto wound up in the bottom three this week for making a dress that looked like it was inside-out and had fins coming out of the ass . It was a nice idea gone wrong. If you can make a six-foot tall size two model look chunky, you know it's not good. Luckily, she was let off the hook.

This left Wesley and Leanne in the bottom two. Both made short, tight shiny brown dresses. As Nina so delicately put it: "I think tight, shiny, and short is the quickest way to look cheap." Leanne decorated her dress with one too many loops and straps, which made her model look a bit like a wilted flower. Wesley's dress was ill-fitting and looked unfinished to me. In fact, from the back, it looked like the zipper didn't fit right as if he couldn't get the zipper zipped up. This got him sent home. Unfortunately, he was one of those quiet designers that I forgot was even there until this episode.

Surprisingly the only designer to use black was Daniel. And his dress was AMAZING. Wow! If I were rich and I could convince him to add a couple inches to the hem, I'd hire him to make me that dress. Absolutely stunning!


Okay, that's it for this week. But before I go, let me reveal the latest dish from Bravo: Wes and Daniel are an item. They look sew cute together!