Project Runway Recap: Senioritis

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   carol
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 2:12 pm

   I don’t know if I miss-heard Heidi but it sounded like she told the three-some that Patricia’s dress was actually the lowest of all the looks that night and the other two were the top two but since they were a team, it averaged into the middle. Patricia’s outfit was the worst thing walking down the runway. The poor lady looked like she had a hump in her back and was about 400lbs. Patricia really should have gone home this time around.

   But Benjamin should never have gone home. Wasn’t Amanda consistently in the bottom every time. Also, her dress was awful. It didn’t look good and the client did not seem happy.

   I also don’t understand the praise for Richard’s dress. There are dresses exactly like that for $24.99 at Target except Target’s dresses are more flattering.

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   lestermaddox
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 2:52 pm

   I have been underwhelmed by the entire season so far- the designs/designers are just so boring. I do think that Amanda had the worst dress (except that horrid thing Patricia sent her poor client down the runway in) but I wasn’t sorry to see Benjamin go. He has bugged the crap out of me from the first episode. Not sure why, but I would be smacking the hell out of him everyday if I had to work with him.

   I have actually enjoyed Zac as a judge – and Rachel this week. Kors was getting to me the past few seasons. He started out as a judge who gave witty, helpful criticism and turned into an orange hag who tried too hard to be funny and insulting to actually offer any pointers for the designers.

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   Aunt Dorsey
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 3:08 pm

   Nothing was *WOW* Stanley deserved to win. I liked Daniel’s outfit, but I’m so over all black. That ruched area on Richard’s dress, for a waistband? to gather it?–whatever the hell it was–really bugged me. None of the judges even mentioned it. Otherwise, I liked his dress.

   I hated that Michelle and Layana immediately assumed from what Heidi said that they had the *winning* looks, if Patricia had not dragged them down. That wasn’t what she said at all. She only said they’d have been in the top. Stanley still would have won. Their whining the entire damn show in their talking heads about being on her team annoyed the living shit out of me. Every show Michelle whines about how great she is and how shitty her teammates are. Layana’s skirt was see-through and neither outfit was that damn special. They were just better than the mediocrity of the rest of the poorly sewn lineup. Not liking those two whingers.

   So, just to snark, what the hell is up with her tatts of black circles? Look, Ma they go from itty bitty circles to big circles and here’s two more on my shoulder blades. If you’re her bestie, will she let you play connect the dots?

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   amandalee27
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 3:55 pm

   Michelle and Layana are bitches; their looks weren’t that good. Patricia was in the bottom because she forgot to say her frayed edges were representative of her Native American heritage. That thing looked like a sateen version of the plastic dog collar you use to keep your dog from licking their crotch stiches.

   Benjamin did get ripped off. Amanda is horrible and she bitches incessantly. If it ain’t working, shut up, crane that long ass neck around and get some new ideas!! Plus, I’m 95% sure she is actually a man. After seeing her dance in those Jesus man sandals, I’m now 97.5% sure. She can’t dance because she is a Mormon from Utah. Sister wives aren’t taught how to bust a move. Dancing will force you into marriage by age 10 instead of 15. She just lives in Nashville now. Bitch probably can’t hold her liquor like a Nashville native either.

   Stanley was my fav even if his catsuit looked like he had designed it for Amanda–penis pouch no extra charge.

   I didn’t get Richard’s dress either. The sweatpant drawstring thing was off putting.

   Great recap! Loved the clueless reference. I will have watch that again soon.

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   PacoSauce
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 3:58 pm

   I loved having Rachel Roy on the judging panel. It’s a shame she isn’t a regular judge, but I don’t think Michael could handle sharing the spotlight with someone who has the skin tone he dreams of. Drowning yourself in fake tan solution will only get you so far, Kors!

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   Aunt Dorsey
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 4:53 pm

   Awwwwwww, come on, I was just saying on the Teen Moms recap that chunky little Chelsea goes to the Michael Kors Memorial Tanning Salon and that her skin shade is the shade of those faux orange marshmallow peanuts. I am missing Michael Kors and his crotch obsession.

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   Miss Molly
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 4:54 pm

   Tu’s green Slanket dress was atroch.
   Is there anyone more boring that Melissa Rivers?????!

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   Aunt Dorsey
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 5:01 pm

   Her mother, Joan Rivers, the silicone Pekinese?

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   Liz
   Posted March 1, 2013 at 9:52 pm

   I was glad to see Benjamin go. Amanda’s was definitely worse, but I’m sick of hearing him talk about how he works so hard to help everyone else. He acts like everyone needs his help when, aside from last challenge, he was consistently in the bottom. Amanda probably should have gone before him but still, he needed to go. I am so sick of Michelle! Sure Patricia is annoying and I don’t always like her stuff as much as the judges do, but Michelle acts like she would have won every week if not for everyone else, and I just really don’t see any evidence that that is true. Just, screw everyone this season!

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    batsinthecradle
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 1:38 am

    just got caught up on the last couple of episodes of project runway (7 hour layover) and omg!!

    i have a little bit of time to kill so…i think michelle (btw she looks like a black-haired version of macaulay culkin’s mom in \home alone\) is a c-u-n-t. excuse my french but practically every time she speaks, it’s just to talk s**t about patricia. maybe if she stopped focusing on another contestant, she would do a better job in the competition. if patricia is pleasing the judges then isn’t that the whole point??? did michelle not understand the premise of the show/competition? i’ll admit that patricia’s design this week was absolutely crappy but michelle’s been talking trash about her since the beginning. and it wasn’t fair for her to say that it’s always the other person/people on her team that bring(s) her down. if her designs were strong then she would do well regardless but they haven’t been.

    michelle just doesn’t like that patricia is so outwardly \ethnic\. let people be who they are. i don’t know why people care if someone is different or celebrates who they are. leave ‘em alone. some people may find it annoying but why should they care??? you have a life, don’t you???

    i know it’s a show and the producers of these types of shows always look for people like michelle to throw into the mix just to spice things up but it’s because of people like michelle (and layana since she was all about the mob mentality and was happy to have someone to talk s**t with) that our country and culture can’t get past this entire bullying thing. i know people like this add drama to the show but i just don’t appreciate these people with their nasty attitudes. life is too short. just worry about yourself. i mean she’s not young by any means. she’s a grown @$$ woman so she should be past this kind of high school mentality. i’d prefer to just go on about why amanda continue to be saved. she’s definitely the weakest in the entire bunch. she did fringe on a dress for a country singer. how creative.

    i just hope michelle goes home right after amanda (so in a couple of weeks??).

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    cattyfan
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 8:50 am

    Aunt Dorsey…I wondered about the black circles last week, and put forth the idea they might be for some sad, black dot only game of Twister. But maybe they’re an Ode to Crop Circles.

    Regardless, my favorite part of this entire episode was the little old lady who couldn’t hear what was being said as she stood on the runway. Which tells you how I felt about the “fashion.”

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    Aunt Dorsey
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 10:11 am

    @cattyfan–WAaaaay better than connect the dots! Twisting the night AWAaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy…… (thanks for the belly laugh)

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    Gilty Plezzur
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 10:38 am

    If the crap that was delivered on the runway is what I would have to wear in old age, then, bring on the Death Panels! Those poor old ladies looked so uncomfortable. Daniel’s dress made the poor woman look like she’d forgotten to put on her Depends and was desperately trying to hold it in. And Amanda’s dress looked like she’d built in a pouch in the back to stash some Depends in. Old age is not kind. Stanley’s outfit, while needing some perfecting, was the obvious winner, making his mature woman look classy. Of course, being slim and attractive to begin with didn’t hurt. Why is it that older people are presented on TV or in the movies as either being cutesy-funny dearies or grouchy and cantankerous? I want to be a glamorous, witty GILF not the butt of a joke in my senior years.

    I’m not a big fan of Patricia’s but I am so annoyed with Michelle and Lanai-a and their \aren’t we the cool girls and you’re not\ attitudes. Michelle has bugged me from the start, with that lopsided hairdo that looks like a blind person had at it with some dull garden shears, and with the exception of her flower dress, Lanai-a’s work has been very overrated by the judges. Daniel did most of the designing on her win and Joe’s and Hallmarq Greeting Card’s outfit should have won the ping-pong-joint challenge.

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    Laura Gill
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 10:54 am

    For challenges meant to be worn by real people, they should really give two days. Unless they were afraid the seniors would croak before then. :eyeroll:

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    This is the second time Stanley has made a jumpsuit with a crotch that hangs to the knees.
    Does he not know how to cut a jumpsuit?
    Or is he just not aware that the vast majority of women don’t need all that crotch room?

    I don’t understand Amanda’s malfunction.
    It’s not like she was trying to do some complicated dress. It was a simple A-line dress with a nipped waist. I don’t make clothes, but idk, that doesn’t seem so complicated.
    People were making jackets and shit in the time it took her to make that horrible thing. If she had just stopped moaning, put her head down, and got to work, I’m sure she would have put out something better than that garbage.
    It felt like most of the time, she was just staring at the fabric or at the dress form and crying. Pull yourself together bitch, this is not RuPaul’s Best Eeyore Race.

    Lesbianiak has a very inflated sense of self, and I can’t wait until she gets sent home.
    And all her bitching about not getting to be in the top because of Patricia is useless, because this episode was definitely a best of the worst situation. Her own design was not even that great….I’m pretty sure I saw that dress in Lane Bryant. Or maybe Dress Barn. Same with Layana’s dress.

    Patricia looks like a toad. During the critique, she looked like one of those bullfrogs that is all puffed up from holding its breath.

    The seniors were cute though.

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    sagittariuskim
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    I hate it when the designers talk about how were worried they are, then say oh well I just have to *reword the challenge. That what you would have to do if you weren’t worried. Were you not listening to Tim?

    When I was on a band trip in high school, one the chaperones told me I should play the field while I was young. I’m confused were these women slutty when they were young and have no regrets. Or do they regret not being slutty while they were young?

    I think Amanda’s dress was worse than Benjamin’s dress, but they both have suck all season so it doesn’t really matter in the end.

    Why are there so many whiny designers this season? Hopefully someone will tape Michelle and Amanda’s mouth shut next week and we’ll get some peace.

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    TallGirl
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 4:26 pm

    I like Patricia as a person, but she DOES seem to Pocahantas-up every single danged outfit. We GET that you’re native American. That’s cool. We don’t need everything you send down the runway to look like it came from the rez. You can put little touches into your design that reflect your culture; you don’t have to hit everyone over the head with it.
    I thought for SURE that Michelle was going home during the country/rocknroll challenge due to a lack of taste. When Heidi says that someone lacks taste, you KNOW it’s bad. She still thought her spaghetti bib necklace was cool. Just like her hairstyle . . . back in 1985. Maybe she thinks her Twister tats give her cred in the 2010′s.
    HOPING that Amanda goes home in the next challenge as she is QUITE tiresome I agree with amandalee27 about the constant bitching and the need to shut and work!! Maybe we should call her A – MAN – da from now on. Honest to God, I knew a transsexual by that name. My cousin would always refer to her with the emphasis on the middle syllable of her name. However, I think that she probably had better rhythm than this Amanda.

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    lestermaddox
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    Just have to insert here -about Amanda struggling with her fabric/design. It all had to do with the type of fabric she chose vs the type of design she drew. She designed a very structured dress and chose a very flowy fabric; the two don’t really go together. The fabric she chose would have been great for an unstructured, easy, maxi-type dress however her design called for a type of fabric that would hold the seams and structure with minimum fuss. Think about the slouchy quality of a tee vs the structured quality of khaki’s – you wouldn’t make pants out of the tee shirt material and vice versa.

    As a designer she should have been able to rework the design to accommodate the type of material she chose without the over abundance of whining.

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    2muchbravo
    Posted March 2, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    I’m glad Stanley’s suit won. The pants weren’t perfect but it was pretty damn good for one day! I agree with whoever said ‘real people\ challenges should get 2 days. The way they were all crowing over Dick’s horrible dress I was worried they were going to give the win to him instead. That dress looked like a beach cover up or something. I can’t see anyone wearing that with leggings and boots. Someone actually said it looked chic. It’s a sack barely cinched at the waist. WTF were they smoking? I’m glad Nina criticized it.

    Patricia’s poor lady didn’t look happy at all. I think Michele’s a little twatwaffle. Maybe she feels Patricia’s a one trick pony. Her one trick represents her heritage and she thinks they won’t criticize her because of that. But, Michele really needs to rise to the occasion. She’s not really as good, or as cool, as she thinks she is.
    That hair reminds me of the girl who lived across the hall from me in college in 1982!

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    beebs
    Posted March 3, 2013 at 5:12 am

    Michelle is the example I’ll point to when my kids ask if they can get tattoos.

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    Detinha
    Posted March 3, 2013 at 10:41 am

    RE Stanley’s suit: \That crotch is insane!\ I don’t think it was the best, it was just the less bad. Helped him that his client was beautiful!

    Layana is turning out to be very annoying! And her dress was just mediocre!

    Thanks for the recap, Dasheley!

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    badgerfreak
    Posted March 4, 2013 at 8:33 am

    @2muchbraov- twatwaffle. I chortled at my desk. Awesome description.

    As much as I’m over M ichelle bitching about Water Lily, I don’t think she’s wrong. I’ve hated everything (except for her first piece) that she’s presented. It’s awful. Show us something other than Native American wear. I’m wondering if, like Ven and his flower design, it will take the judges way too long to figure it out that she’s a one-way-monkey.

    Amanda’s was terrible. Benjamin’s was terrible. I wasn’t overly impressed with anyone’s to be honest. I did laugh out loud when Benjamin’s Granny goosed Not-From-The-Office Stanley Hudson on the butt. Adorable.

    I can’t wait for the reunion, when Michelle gets exposed as the Mean Girl she really is.

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    MyrnaTyrna
    Posted March 5, 2013 at 6:18 am

    As crappy as Amanda’s dress was (and yes, it was supercrappy), I have always been irritated by Benjamin’s “I’m the star here/let me guide you all” attitude. With a few minor exceptions, he has proven to be nothing more than a bunch of big ideas – with poor time management skills and not a whole lot of innovation. His arrogance upon being auffed just topped it for me. Did he not step back even once and LOOK (!) at what that horrible, disproportionate bluebell dress was doing to that sweet (misguided) little elderly lady? I think Benjamin needed a reality check, and nothing is more real than being sent packing.

    And as much as I would like to support her Native roots, Patricia really is a one-note. She has skill within her own niche (beading, texture, trim, etc.) and that she does well, but there is no variety in the shape and I don’t see “fashion” in her vision.

    Is anyone else having trouble figuring out what designers to get behind this season?

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    Dashley
    Posted March 5, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    Sooooo I’m gathering from the comments that you guys agree that this was definitely the WORST week of design so far. LOL…

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    VelocityBird
    Posted March 6, 2013 at 5:54 am

    Agreed, Dash, this was an epically awful week of design. It’s so disappointing how freaked out the designers get whenever they have to work with REAL people (aka, not-size-zero-human-mannequins).

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    LAC
    Posted March 7, 2013 at 12:40 pm

    Yes, Dashley, it was! I was so disappointed and annoyed with yet another set of designers who freak out everytime they have to design clothes for someone who weighs more than a water cracker. Oddly enough, I liked the leopard skirt – with another style of shirt, it could have worked better.

    Michelle gets on my nerves with her relentless “I’m better than this, but the fates are working against me” shit. Rock on and rock out of my TV already.

    I appreciate Patricia’s native american perspective, but I do not think that woman wanted to look like a satin teepee. You got to come up with a stronger, more fashion forward perspective, other than “bead, bead, dream catcher, bead”.

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    Dashley
    Posted March 7, 2013 at 12:52 pm

    Don’t forget the fringe, LAC – there’s fringe among all those beads.
    LOL @ making a reference to a model weighing as much as a water cracker. It’s frustrating to me as a viewer to see these designers look completely lost trying to design a silhouette for non-models. They just don’t know how to flatter regular body types, and if they can’t do that, what’s the point in fashion at all?

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    timgunnssister
    Posted March 8, 2013 at 9:29 am

    Love the recap, dashley!

    The teams…THE TEAMS! Okay, I get that if your teamate is in the bottom, you cannot win and will only get sent home if yours is worse (or even equally bad). Check. And I get that if your team is responsible for a single garment, you could get sent home. But since most challenges have each designer ceating their own look that does NOT have to be cohesive with their teamate, what’s the point? Methinks this is just PR trying to stay fresh.

    I love Patricia’s textile work, but that won’t get her the win, especially since her designs aren’t particularly good. I don’t get Amanda. What kind of a designer designs a garment then runs out and buys the exact type of fabric that will not work for her design? Was their only one print at Mood that day? She really seems to have no idea what she’s doing.

    And talk about needing some confidence, geez, Ben. I get that his former partner belittled him and his designs but get over it. His inconsistency was bound to send him packing sooner or later – apparently it was sooner.

    Michelle is a major mean girl and Layana’s whiney voice is rocking my nerves. I do like Stanley, Richard (he’s a make it work kinda guy and I love that) and yes, Daniel. Self taught and mad skills – love that as well.

    And if Samatha would simply make designs that mirror her own personal fashion choices, I think she’d win this. She’s like homeless guy from last season. Tu seems sweet but I suspect English is more than second language distant for him, hence the inappropriate laughing and smiling while confusion creases his brow. And Kate puts me to sleep. And if I left anyone out they must be incredibly boring.

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    MsJoeCool
    Posted March 10, 2013 at 9:08 am

    I figure Michelle’s ugly tattoos are buttons, because she’s such an awesome designer.