Project Runway Recap: Eccentric AND Unique?!?!

Recaps

By Dashley | Friday, February 15, 2013 | 12:27 pm | 14 Comments
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The teams have 45 minutes to “caucus” and sketch, $2500 (big cheer!), and two days to design. The Dream Team follows Stanley’s lead, and they choose a theme: 1950s Dior. TeamKIR has six looks and seven designers, so immediately Kate says she would rather work on her own, as she has been paired up in the last two challenges. Amanda unilaterally decides she is now the default leader of the team and needs to pick up the slack, and her first act as leader is to sketch out a short, fringy metal dress that is not an attractive concept. Richard and Michelle are pairing off to make a high-collared dress. Richard suggests that the team keeps in mind a particular client. First he offers Bjork, which makes all kinds of sense for this challenge. But then he evolves the concept to “Ru Paul on Gilligan’s Island.” Say what? Michelle is scurred. 

And by the way, this is what Joseph’s sketch looks like. He has an odd, scary, beautiful mind.

Field trip time! The designers follow Tim to the hardware store first, where Benjamin is stumped by the inability to compute measurements that aren’t metric. Michelle and Richard (from now on, I’m calling him Dick) are excited to find black and white mini-blinds, and Michelle is horrified to realize that she needs to constantly edit his gigantic ideas. 

Next up is the flower market. Amanda is stymied, because she doesn’t “get” flowers. Your last name is Valentine, and you don’t like flowers? Who doesn’t like flowers? I understand if you don’t like to work with them, but to not like them at all? Joseph likes flowers that look like brains. Okay, then. 

Amanda is making a dress out of moss, which apparently crumbles like crazy. Daniel says it looks like alopecia. (Ha! Thanks for doing my job for me, Daniel.) Michelle and Dick’s design is falling apart at its lack of seams. Kate is be-gloved and forming chicken wire into a dress-type formation. Benjamin is weaving his own fabric, which is great and all, but it’s not the “Turn Unconventional Materials into Conventional Materials Challenge.” Michelle divulges to us that she’s pretty sure Benjamin is digging his own grave. Matthew is upset, because Benjamin is the one with all the time management issues, and this ain’t gonna help him work on that. Michelle and Dick have been sniffing a little bit too much of those smelly branches they brought in, because now they’re forming an ugly bodice out of the Venetian blinds, and they’re really excited about it.

Even though all they have, at all, is like 3 blinds, curved into an object that kinda looks like a bodice if you squint really hard. 

The next morning, Samantha likes her completely see-through, but pretty cool, latticed top, but she’s stuck. She doesn’t know what to do with the bottom of the dress. Joseph has a net. Swathed over the dress form. And that’s all he has. But he’s very serene, because he’s going to hang the flowers in it, or something. Daniel pulls Amanda aside to have a pow-wow. He likes what the team is doing, individually, but it’s not a cohesive line. As the team lunches together, they realize that Daniel has a point. But Patricia, ever the optimist, believes that it is cohesive, because everyone has hardware and floral. Uhhh… but wasn’t that was the challenge? Amanda is worried.

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14 Comments

  1. 1
    juddfan juddfan
    Posted February 15, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    I did think it was one of the best runways ever . . . Lilly Pad’s was a train wreck of dreck, and Joseph’s, although not too bad, was the right one to go. To see him argue with Amanda last week and try and to defend his awful, catholic school uniform design sketch for a Heidi challenge, based on a perfume ad, where the silhouette is nearly drawn out for you . . . I just knew . . . he’s got no clue, and probably shouldn’t have been there to begin with.

    I liked the winner, but I may have given it to Layana also . . . some really nice work up there, and a very satisfying runway and show. I even liked the Black shade Madonna look . . .

  2. 2
    Pegster
    Posted February 15, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    OMG Daniel’s pajamas were the best thing I’ve seen on TV since Jayne Cobb’s hat. It was like a giant bag of Skittles exploded all his body. I had to RR to make sure I’d seen it right.

  3. 3
    Smango
    Posted February 15, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    Daniel’s dress looked like a giant penis. If Michael Kors had been there, he definitely would have called him out for that.

    Great recap!! I’ve been hoping someone would! I look forward to your next one! Thanks for having it up so fast!!

  4. 4
    TallGirl
    Posted February 15, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    This long in the series, they FINALLY realized that flowers are not cheap, and they gave the contestants an adequate budget. I can clearly recall the budget limitations squashing great designer ideas in the very first flower unconventional challenge. One can only imagine what the first season’s designers would have done if they’d been given an equally generous budget at the flower store.

  5. 5
    featherhead
    Posted February 15, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    When Amanda picked the moss all I could think of was Andre’s ugly welcome mat dress. I liked Laylani’s dress the best. I hope I have their names correct.
    @Dashley – thank you for recapping this! I was starting to go into withdrawals!

  6. 6
    beebs
    Posted February 15, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    I can understand the contestants gasping before Miss M came out because I recognized her from her profile, as well. Although, I wish we’d hear more from her.

  7. 7
    amandalee27
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 6:55 am

    Thanks for calling out the lame-o team names. Obviously, these people were not popular in high school. These are names that left out kids pick thinking that’s what the cool kiss would choose. High school sucks; the experience can haunt you the rest of life, even if you get a cool reality tv show.

    I want Tim and Daniel to be caught in the workroom having HBNS. That’s hot butt baked sex…high school note writing coding flashback.

    I can’t remember the foreign accent highlighter head loomer’s name, but he was not the leader. He should have let the klassy hipster eyeglass guy present his 50′s Dior theme. Not the lame color palette theme he stuttered out to make sure the judges liked him.

  8. 8
    2muchbravo
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    LOL @ Amandalee27 They stole Stanley (hipster glasses guy) from the other team because of his leadership qualities but ignore his Dior suggestion. What the?

    I totally thought “Midsummer Night’s Dream” fairies when I saw Layana’s dress. It was really cool.

    Gotta love their gay gasp over Bette!

  9. 9
    AmyOops AmyOops
    Posted February 16, 2013 at 6:31 pm

    “I do find it disappointing, though, that the most unconventional designer was the one Auf’d in the Unconventional Materials Challenge.” (I do, as well – sadhorns)

    I also totally loved Layana’s creation. Magical for sure!

    Oh, and I, too, miss Kors. His brand of straight up snark was always so much fun.

  10. 10
    Dashley Dashley
    Posted February 17, 2013 at 1:39 am

    THANKS FOR THE LOVE, EVERYONE!
    TallGirl- you know, I always hypothesized that the producers knew perfectly well what flowers cost, and they made the budget difficult to work with on purpose. And wasn’t the $2500 for the whole team? So… maybe because some needed more and some needed less, they were able to work it out a little easier than past seasons. ::shrug::
    Featherhead – everytime I think of Andrae, I think of Santino doing his Tim Gunn impression, and saying, “AAAHN-draaay!” It makes me laugh EVERY time. Because of that, I was so sad when he got kicked off of all-stars. Thank you for putting his face back in my head now.
    AmandaLee- Tim and DANIEL? You see THAT in your head? That’s a crazy circus going on in there, girl… maybe you should see a shrink. I think Matthew is more Tim’s type, not sure why.
    AmyOops- Joseph 2016, right?!?! No? Oh, well… anyway, no way on EARTH would I ever be interested in buying anything he would or could ever design, but I was NOT done with his loopy brand of fashion yet. Bummer. :-(

  11. 11
    NouveauPoor
    Posted February 17, 2013 at 10:42 am

    I’m so happy you’re taking this over! You did such an awesome job with BuckWILD; it’s not a show I would ever watch because I’m old but I read every single recap!

    I totally don’t get why Tu wasn’t the winner, but I agree that this was the best runway maybe ever. This should be a great season, as long as the product placement doesn’t start to go way overboard a la Top Chef. I get worried when I read things like this:

    “Actually, ‘our friends at Glade’ have provided a bunch of candles, because fashion.”

    Yes, what better combination could there be than oodles of fabric and flammable plant materials around open flame. (Hilarious, btw.)

    Looking forward to this season!

  12. 12
    Detinha
    Posted February 17, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    @AmandaLee, baked ou naked?! Anyway that’s funny!!

    Loved the recap, can I just beg for more pics?! Please!! I love the pics and the captions the recappers come up with!

    I’m calling the Brazilian girl, Layana, for the final 3!! Girlfriend has talent!

  13. 13
    amandalee27
    Posted February 18, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    @Detinha–Getting used to my surface keyboard :) It was Christian high school; so one sin at a time–hot butt NAKED sex. We got baked after we repented for the HBNS.

  14. 14
    badgerfreak
    Posted February 20, 2013 at 6:57 am

    @Pegster-BROWNCOATS UNITE!!! :) Love the Jayne comment.

    I was actually very impressed with everyone. I thought that the pieces were all pretty amazing. As much as the decade theme was a brilliant pulled-out-of-my-ass-at-the-very-last-second idea, it didn’t hold water. Also, am I the only one that thought Water Lily’s look seemed like she just drizzled glue on her model and rolled her on the floor with some hardware and floral elements? It was AWFUL! But, what do I know, I guess. I also think Water Lily as a person sucks.

    I thought the switching of the teams was interesting, especially since both teams had to make some trades. As much as I don’t like Michelle as a person, she’s had some winning looks in the past, and has been kept from winning by the losers on her team.

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