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Project Runway 10/6
Anya - Hilarious that she wins with designs that look great on but lack things like zippers or other ways to put them on. It's interesting how much raw talent someone can have, without any real skill. Oh well, she is seriously gifted as a designer. The other stuff she can learn. It doesn't work the other way around. Project Runway, not Project Seamstress indeed.Victor - I guess it was very literal, but I thought it was gorgeous. The technique he used to feather the organza was really cool. The only thing I didn't like was that the underskirt was a mini, instead of full length. I didn't like how that short skirt cut the grown in half when it was back lit. Bert - I didn't like the belt, and I didn't love the bodice, but otherwise I really liked it. I favored his over Josh's. And I liked the grey. Reminded me of an African Grey parrot, with the pop of amazon in the skirt. Kimberly - Nice enough, and admirable I guess for three hours. But meh. I also thought it fit the model's left boob weird, kind of gaping.Josh - That god-damn stupid corsage. It reminds me of that episode of Friends where Phoebe gets hummus on her gown and comes up with that ugly ribbon to cover the stain. He baffles me. The rest of the dress was good. Liked the color on the runway though I don't think many people would buy a traffic cone orange dress. Laura - Awful. Those ill fitting pants were the worst. Wrote the above during the runway in order of what I liked best. Then the judging... What??? Laura stayed for that? After an entire season of nothing memorable? Bert should have stayed. At least he's had a few winners before, and like I said, I liked his gown tonight.
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Love Anya's look. I also think she is very talented and can see how it would p o the other designers who are more skilled but it is what it is.
I also really liked Josh's look. The corsage was a little much but other than that it was great.
Everyone else was just meh to me.
i don't understand why burt was so PISSED about that bird! he hated that poor parrot. and that dress looked like it was from the prom section at dillards.
why does viktor ALWAYS think everyone is copying him?? he's SUCH a drama queen, and i think he thinks he's much better than he actually is.
i get them being pissed about anya, but obviously there's nothing in the rules saying you can't sew a person into a dress, because she hasn't gotten kicked off, and they love cracking down on the rules.
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I agree with what pp said about it not being project seamstress. I also imagine if Anya wasn't doing as well as she is that they wouldn't be hating on her as much as they are.
I wasn't really in love with anyone's look this week.
I watched "After the Runway" and the designers brought up the point that with Anya the judges are always super impressed with her work because she has only been sewing for four months. They said if they had done a lot of the same pieces she had that they would not have received the same praise as Anya did. I am pretty sure when Anya came out on stage she said if she had been then SHE would have been pissed, too. (I think, I was half listening for some of it).
I enjoyed the structure of Anya's look this week. I really did say Raven.
No one else had a look that really wowed me.
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Did you guys see Joshua on the after show? He cannot take criticism. He is such an a-hole.
He bugs me. And really if he is that in debt, maybe he should get a real job because obviously fashion isn't working out for him.
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ditto ALL of this!!! when he refused to answer laura's questions...wow. like a petulant toddler.
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Also agree, and I have a feeling he's going to make it to fashion week. I'm not looking forward to it. He is such a freakin suck-up when the judges like something, and such a flippin drama queen when they don't.
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I cannot for the life of me figure out why Laura is still there, or why she thinks that sewing since she was 8 means she's a fabulous designer.
Josh's dress was ok, but not amazing. It wasn't even amazing draping. It was decent draping, but not gushworthy. I thought it would have made a great pumpkin (or tangerine) costume. Or he could bedazzle some eyes and a mouth and make it a jack o lantern. lol
I do laugh when the other designers make comments about Anja and her lack of sewing skills. There have been plenty of garments in past seasons that had people sewn into them and cut out of them. There have even been people with more experience whose clothes never look as well put together. I think with a bit more time, Anja would have figured out how to make it more functional.
She can learn all of the sewing technique, or hire people to sew for her, but you can't learn that kind of design eye. Honestly, the fact that she can get beautiful garments from vision to fruition is pretty amazing. I have worked with experienced seamstresses who couldn't make a finished costume look like the drawing that the choreographer approved, much less make it work for dance. To be able to design and make a prototype in a short amount of time, that passes muster with the judges is no small feat.
I think that the judges love Anja's designs, and still would even if they didn't know that she has only been sewing for such a short time....they have called her out when there have been problems with her construction. The guest judges don't know that ahead of time, and they seem to agree with the other judges about her designs.
I know Viktor sews beautifully and will be in the final 3, but I was glad that Kimberly beat him with her simple dress that was draped beautifully. I loved what he did with his dress, but he should have self edited and done less of it. He is great, and knows it, but should take his own advice about stepping outside of yourself and critiquing your garment. He is too busy telling himself how wonderful he is, that he is losing the balance that has kept him in the top.
Victor can be a bit of a pouty petulant child, but I do sympathize with him. I think he's been shafted on the win more than once, and that would irritate anyone. I'd probably feel the same way in his position.
In the team challenge where he did that gorgeous Rorschach inspired gown Anya won on his team instead. And in the Piperlime challenge both Anya and Bert had designs chosen to sell, when clearly he had the best two outfits on the runway (just not the most easily reproducible outfits). I think it's frustrating to be in teacher's pet Anya's shadow all competition. And then have to stand there during judging and listen to them rave about her some more when he knows there is major issues with Anya's dress in that it's not actually a functional piece of clothing.
I like Anya and Victor and think both of them will be in the finale and things will sort themselves out on who really deserves to win. I'm just saying I can understand why it would be frustrating to be Victor right now.
maybe I'm the only one that saw that Anya's dress looked like it had a giant...um...ladypart right over her ladyparts?
I was sort of rooting for Laura to stay in based solely on her being from my hometown but...I think she deserved to be the one to go home this week.
Anya: Let's not forget how many past designers sent stuff down the runway that was glued or hand-stitched together, even when they had the skill level to put in a zipper or other fastener. I genuinely liked her design and the styling was fantastic. She's got an eye for style, that's for sure.
Laura needs to stop loving herself so much and start realizing that she's got competition.
Viktor is fantastic but needs to be humbled a bit.
Bert, I sort of thought he threw himself under the bus when he talked about much he hated the bird. I knew he would go home as soon as he said that. If you can't stand by your own design, how can you expect the judges to?
Kim, good for her for getting over her funk and putting a worthy design on the runway. Wasn't my fave, but wasn't a snooze either.
I just caught up on the DVR.
How awkwardly did Joshua's model walk? I've never noticed an issue with her before, but she could have strutted in that dress and she basically minced down the runway. Maybe the shoes were really difficult? I'm wondering if he gave her some weird instructions.
I can kind of see Viktor's point, but it's not like he invented the one-shouldered gown. Half the stuff on the red carpet over the last few years has been one-shouldered. I did like his gown, but I think he made a big mistake by having that odd miniskirt lining. It created such an awkward visual line, and Kimberly's gown really did have a wow factor coming down the runway. It just looked liquid and beautiful.
I did not understand the drama with Kimberly's burnt gown at all. She threw it on her own glue gun on her own worktable, right? That's what they said during all the drama about it, but on the runway when they talked about it she basically accused Viktor and he said, "I didn't do it on purpose!" and there was something about an iron. That was just odd.
I think Anya deserved the win. She took a big chance, well outside her comfort zone, and it paid off. I don't think it's a big deal that the neck didn't stretch enough -- that's something that can always get fixed with more time. I would be very interested to see the final look of her other gown...it was shaping up to be very grandmotherly-crochet-project, but with a bodysuit underneath...I wonder how it would have come together (or not).
I am so tired of Joshua's bitching. (I didn't watch the after-show). He is so damn entitled, and always has some stupid excuse for why he should have won and other people shouldn't have one. They're just better designers, stupid!
I'm glad Bert's out. His dress actually came out much better then I thought it would, but I am sick to death of his whiny personality. If he had even stood up for his design a little, I think he might have stayed.
Laura's outfit was a big misstep, I think. I didn't mind the ruffles or the literality of it, but the proportions were really odd. The high waist on the jacket, and the length of the jacket, and those pants.
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