Project Runway All Stars: Feed Manhattan

Recaps

By MrsMiaWallace | Saturday, January 5, 2013 | 9:34 am | 9 Comments
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The Good Old Days!

 

Hola Gasmii!!!

A Happy New Year and 2,013 apologies for totally missing the Christmas week episode of Project Runway: Patience Testers. I was under the impression that no one could stomach a quart of egg nog, their family and a show featuring the tattered dreams of a little British fairy who sold her soul to a Bridge Troll for a sack of rosette embellished dresses. Now that I think about it, those things go together just fine, if you add enough whiskey.

Mea Culpa. I will make it up with a midi-cap of that episode and push forward with the newest recap post-haste!

Onwards and Backwards! The last time I was with you, Aryan won unfairly for his 20’s flashback, although Uli had it in the flapper bag. Also Saint Pancake unfairly, but thankfully went home for designing something that showed her model’s pelvic bulge, but was still superior to the look put out by Ivy, Queen of the Translucent Blouse.

This Last week:

The Challenge –

Design something that can be produced for a profit at the sale price of $500-700 for 5th Avenue designer Elie Tahari.

She has been taking dance classes via the Goop website

The winning dress will be designed and sold by Tahari. All profits to go to the woefully needy charity for saving the Garment District. This is all ringing a terribly familiar and maudlin bell for me and I can’t help but recall getting fired up the last time they did this. Please avoid the next few paragraphs if you aren’t wearing your angry rant glasses. Also, go put them on dammit!

Basically the old garment industry in Manhattan has gone the way of the Meatpacking District or the Times Square Red Light District or Squirrel Rape Alley – high real estate prices have pushed these old NYC bastions into the surrounding boroughs or even, shudder, New Jersey. Not to say you can’t get a prostitute in Manhattan, you’re just going to pay a lot more.

I get the “keep manufacturing in the US” movement. And applaud it. The thing is, when this district did produce a huge amount of manufacturing it was during the Industrial Revolution when we had domestic sweatshops and no labor laws or workers’ rights. Lots of women spent miserable hours choking in lint-filled air for hours on end to make affordable mass-produced fashion. Let’s not glorify that or try to force the cost-challenged manufacturing industry into one of the highest priced real estate markets in the world.  Yes, it’s very charming that there is a giant button and needle on West 39th Street, but it’s also charming that I can go to Tenjune without having to shimmy between giant slabs of beef. Call me a raving capitalist, but say it after I pick up the tab.

Oh, and when they did this before, it turns out I did see at least some of Mondo’s season because I completely remember this winning travesty:

I’d rather donate my first-born (squirrel) to STGC than be seen in public in this thing

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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.

9 Comments

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    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted January 5, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Yay I’m finally out of the hospital (AGAIN) and so happy to have a PR recap :-)

    Mrs. Mia, I really really really want to say something about Anthony Ryan being set up for the win due to funny business in the episode you haven’t watched yet but you haven’t watched it!! Arg!

    Okay, I’ll try this: MAYBE SORTA NOT NECESSARILY SPOILER ALERT THAT REALLY IS A LITTLE SPOILER BUT NOT TOO BAD!!!
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    Okay, after watching the newest episode and seeing the atrocity Anthony Ryan made actually being praised for its fabric, cut, color, fit, etc. (the thing was so unflattering it doesn’t deserve to be called a “dress”, “gown” or even a “garment”).

    He’s one of my FAVorites (shit, they’re all pretty damn cool peeps – well, Emilio is a bit, um, *stoic* for my taste), and I adore him and his work almost always…but no one will ever convince me that there wasn’t some shenanigans afoot. Ever. But at least he’s still in!
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    END SORTA NOT REALLY SPOILER…

    Please watch the ep Mrs! You will be perhaps a bit surprised and I’d like to know if you (or any Gasmii) think I’m on to something.

    Three cheers for a NON “clear fluids” diet!

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 6, 2013 at 12:07 am

    ^Obviously, they’re setting him up. If it had been anyone else who presented that hideously boobalicious monstrosity, they would have gotten a one-way ticket home.
    Isaac overplayed his hand though…that spontaneous and completely unwarranted jizzfest/tantrum was too ridiculous to be real life.
    Because I like Isaac and I don’t want to believe that he actually thought that dress was cute, I’m hoping this is part of his strategy to bone A-R.
    Get him to the finale, deny him the crown, and then visit his hotel room afterwards to “console” him.

    I have more to say on the matter, but I’ll save it for the actual recap.

    Sometimes, Georgina Chapman annoys me, but then I remember that she loves her clothing line so much that she was willing to lovingly fondle old wrinkly balls every night in order to make it a reality.
    I am thoroughly disgusted by that, and every time she opens her mouth, I imagine an old, wizened penis in there, but at the same time, I have to respect that level of dedication.

    It’s good that Ivy went home.
    All her clothes have been ugly and awkward, and her niceness was starting to give me gas pains.

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    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted January 6, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    Eh, what @chaos? I am not familiar with Georgina’s story, but many thanks for the “wizened penis” visual lol.

    Oh, and I am also going to choose to use your “wants to bone” Anthony Ryan theory. It’s either that or they had to draw straws to decide which one of them had to actually “like” that heinous thing…and Isaac got the short one.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 6, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    @AmyOops, sorry about the visual. I didn’t mean to traumatize others, but I also didn’t want to suffer alone.

    Georgina is married to Harvey Weinstein, who partially owns Project Runway. His money and influence are the sole reason why anyone anywhere at any point in time gives a damn about Marchesa and their overpriced, mostly ugly dresses.

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    chooch850 chooch850
    Posted January 6, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    I have to disagree with you about Marchesa. Everytime I write a “Fashiongasm” for a Red Carpet event, a lot of the celebrities are wearing Marchesa. So someone gives a damn….

    Love the recap! I just have this feeling that A-R is the winner and there are 4 designers left. I just don’t see them letting anyone else win… except maybe Uli, but who needs a whole line of white dresses!

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 6, 2013 at 10:57 pm

    ^ Maybe now they do.

    Harvey Weinstein opened alot of doors for the label to get to that point though.

    He footed the bill and because he’s so well-connected, he was able to get folks to wear her stuff to begin with. I still think many of the folks who wear Marchesa on the red carpet are just trying to get in good with HW, because I am generally not moved by most of the stuff I see coming from Marchesa. Everything is either overwrought or underwhelming or just not done right.

    There’re so many better labels out there that without his investment, I highly doubt Marchesa would be what it is.

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    pasque
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    I think Uli’s model is also from ANTM. I think she’s Jennifer An from season 13.

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    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted January 7, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    Yeah, @chaos, uh huh…just couldn’t suffer alone! Sheesh! Lol. Oh, and I’m guessing this Harvey guy isn’t a “young buck”?

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    linnet asquith
    Posted February 1, 2013 at 5:22 am

    just a question … it seems so simple but has proved impossible for me. The dress worn by Carolyn Murphy in this ep with the industrial-looking strapping needs to be on my body. I’m assuming it’s by Tahari as she was wearing it while introducing him but I can’t find the necessary info to get it, again, on my body. Help me!

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