Project Runway All Stars: Fairy DragFather

Recaps

By MrsMiaWallace | Sunday, January 6, 2013 | 10:12 pm | 11 Comments
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Isaac’s next line at Target

Hola Gasmii!!!!

I am finally caught up on Project Runway Allstars: The Race for Aryan Supremacy. And boy do I have a lot to say about it. Last time Elie Tahari proved that he is adorable, even if the Garment District is not. Uli and Aryan were in the top two and once again, Uli should have won and yet Aryan was the victor. And for something that was pretty blah. I think even DeadMauth was robbed. The upside was that Ivy was finally, finally, finally! sent home, with Joshua escaping by the fuchsia skin of his teeth.

On to the new!

I will say here that I greatly enjoy the intro to this show. Only because they doggedly retain the intros of the people who have long since gone. It is a sort of marking of the passage of time and I am always astonished at both how long this season has been running and how quickly and completely the eliminated players are forgotten.

Who?

This time it really is Fleet Week and the designers meet NotHeidi on the deck of the Intrepid, which is a boat that did great things and defended our freedom and such.

…And now regrets it

Oh and I think people hate it when you call a ship a boat. Or is it the other way around? Anyway, it’s a boat and it’s really big and kills stuff like other boats. Just like fashion!

Four female veterans are brought to the deck representing the four branches of the armed forces which means a “real women” challenge!!! Huzzah! There aren’t any fatties though but they are all dressed in tee shirts and look less than feminine, so maybe that will be the tough part. And one of them has a dog. Uh oh. This one’s going to be a tear-jerker. Sure enough, it’s a service dog and she has a prosthetic leg.

Still more original parts than her designer

First up is Captain Leslie Smith of the US Army. She sits down with Joshua to describe her backstory and I’m ready for the worst. Turns out she was stationed in Bosnia and developed a blood clot and subsequent infection in her leg. She went through a lot of trauma and sounds like she cheated death but also… a blood clot!?! Lady Gaga had a blood clot for wearing leather chaps on a transatlantic flight! Call off the waterworks, folks, this is not the hero’s story I was bracing for. She’s really pretty and spunky though and I’m so glad she made it through her ordeal. Cap’n Smith admits her first fear was if she would ever be able to wear high heels again – an officer after my own heart! She should just call Real Housewife Aviva Drescher to get the number of a good high-heel prosthetic maker, but she better thank Reid for allowing Aviva to use a telephone.

Still a hero

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MrsMiaWallace is an east coast girl with a  penchant for travel, libations and great cuisine. She is not known to turn down a mimosa or a martini and finds the transition between the two a good way to mark the passing of time since she can never remember to wear a watch. Her secret love for reality tv and addiction to Bravo have drawn her like a moth to the glittering snark of TVGasm,  where she finds there are others like her... hopefully also nursing Bloody Marys.

11 Comments

  1. 1
    Dashley Dashley
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 1:05 am

    Oh God, the matching pillowcase line literally made me snort! Only way I could be more embarrassed was if I was wearing the dress A-R designed.

  2. 2
    Detinha
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 5:48 am

    ” Please lady, you’re very pretty and you are not fat, the Tshirt you wore on the boat was more flattering, burn this dress.” – That’s exactly what Kors would have said! Boy, I’ll miss him!

  3. 3
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 5:54 am

    I wish they would let Georgina go all out with the snark. Maybe she is going to take over for Kors. I wish she was the host of PRAS too. She can be so nasty and you can hear it bubbling inside her brain but they won’t let her.

    I pray Uli wins. She was robbed her season.

    Great recap!!

  4. 4
    badgerfreak
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 6:10 am

    I’ll say it loud and proud, I love Aryan’s designs. I will also say his look this week was a travesty to fashion. As a big boobed girl myself, I can appreciate her wanting to cover it up more than flaunt it. A certain level of boob flaunting is appropriate, but what she was rocking would have been way too much. Also, she said that right now she’s much heavier than she normally is due to an injury, so of course she doesn’t want to celebrate those curves.
    I couldn’t believe they had the balls to say, “for the first time on PR All Stars, we’re keeping everyone!” This is not new. This has been happening since about season 3 or 4. Instead of 3 people in the finale, we get 4.
    I understand your frustration MrsMia, with Uli always being the bridesmaid. She has rocked some amazing designs, that have all been so very different from her previous beach dresses. Maybe the whiteness has been blinding the judges a little too much. We shall see what she presents for her runway show.

  5. 5
    crayondrawn crayondrawn
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 6:12 am

    That poor bedsheet draped woman is tugging at the fabric around her boobs in pretty much every shot she’s in the background of.

  6. 6
    kels
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 8:04 am

    I usually like Aryan’s designs too, but Uli has been kicking ass all season. She’s not getting all the wins she deserves.

  7. 7
    stumblebum
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:18 am

    Badgerfreak
    I couldn’t believe they had the balls to say, “for the first time on PR All Stars, we’re keeping everyone!” This is not new. This has been happening since about season 3 or 4. Instead of 3 people in the finale, we get 4.

    I thought the same as you, but then I realized what she was talking about. You’re right about REGULAR Project Runway, but this is All Stars. So in the history (2 WHOLE seasons) of PR All Stars, they’re keeping everyone. How exciting!!

  8. 8
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    “Georgina is used to bloated blowhards spouting off and wisely claps her mouth shut.”

    Yes, clapping her mouth shut would generally be the wisest thing to do.
    But I’m sure when it comes to one bloated and spouting blowhard in particular, she’s learned that it’s actually worth her while to keep it wide open.
    This is a lesson that Anthony Ryan will also be learning in due time, if Isaac has his way.
    Oh, and Isaac WILL have his way.
    Clothing lines don’t pay for themselves, after all.

    And sorry about the wizened penis remark…I didn’t know folks would be so disturbed lol.
    If it helps, it probably isn’t wizened.
    HW not that old.
    I’m sure it’s still perfectly normal.

    Okay, I’m done being vulgar and mean to Georgina.
    I really do think she’s quite pretty and nice, and a reasonably good judge.

    Uli’s dress was pretty, but I’m glad that she didn’t win this one.
    Granted the dress was lovely, but it wasn’t really a challenge…she just had to make the same thing she made every day on her season. The one thing she could have done to really customize it for her client (get a purple print) she didn’t do. And I took issue with the black and white, because to me, that’s not the best thing for a wedding….no white for obvious reasons, and I always feel like black is bad luck at a wedding. That dress really should have been in color.

    And I’m irritated at the shenanigans because it’s so insulting to the viewers, but part of me is glad too, because honestly, I didn’t reallyyy want anyone to go home. A-Ryan surely deserved to go for making his girl look like a depressing big top circus tent, but I would have been sad if he had been eliminated, because I am fond of his sassy southern queen personality. His clothes has also been pretty good.
    I really like everyone else left as well, and I think they each bring something cool to the table.

    Maybe the editors are playing with us though…ya’ll remember how Chris got the winner’s edit all season long, only to bomb horrifically and tragically (BUT HILARIOUSLY) at fashion week?
    Maybe that’s what’s gonna happen with A-Ryan.

  9. 9
    Sugarbush Sugarbush
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    I just now got to see this, but this season has me so frustrated I have to get on here to say something. And, because I know my opinions are sooo important to everyone here…

    What the holy hell??? Is it in the judges’ contracts to like Anthony Ryan’s designs??? The dress this week is the moldy cherry on top of a cake made out of knock-offs and fug. His designs have been mediocre copies of the other designers (and his own), at best, and this week he decides a strapless mumu was the only way to hide this poor woman’s massive mammaries? As a booby girl, myself, there’s no better way to display the dramatically dis-proportionally-sized tits than to place tight straps just above and just below them. And nothing says, “Hey! I’ve put on weight and I’m severely uncomfortable with it!” than to put on your old maternity clothes. I would know. I’ve been wearing Motherhood t-shirts and sweatpants lately and “accidentally” broke the bathroom scale.

  10. 10
    Sugarbush Sugarbush
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 3:33 pm

    @MrsMiaWallace – In my anger, I forgot to also say that this was a badass recap, as always, and I love you if not just for agreeing that the judges have some satanic pact to love Aryan.

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    juddfan juddfan
    Posted January 8, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    no matter what the producers said or think, Isaac just destroyed any creditability he’s ever had . . . To defend AR on the basis of past work would have been one thing, but that dress was disaster from the get go. Any dress, with a shrug or jacket would have suited her much better , and been just as hiding, even with a little cleavage, which, call me crazy, was needed to help give her shape more shape, and not block it off. Imagine the Uli dress on her, with a jacket . . . anyway ugh! I hope they got the new prosthetic for the winning girl, that would be nice. Her look was definitely the best for the challenge, as it suited her to a T. The Uli dress had a wisp of “wearing someone else’s clothes to it”. Nice and all, and I loved the embellishment, phooey judges!!!, but there was something off.

    Can’t wait for the finale. not. But I do think it was right not to eliminate anyone, as this was not the challenge to determine the top three from . . . a nice challenge, but not a career defining moment.

    I also have no idea what happened to emilioth . . . that seemed easy enough . . . did he need to dart it all over. The first top seemed to have all this extra fabric . . . couldn’t he have added a new back to the front to make it fit . . . esp. since the back was a strap . . . oh well.

    Thanks Mrs. Mia!!!!

    xoxo

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