Minicap: Project Runway – Spreading for Fashion

Recaps

By MrsMiaWallace | Friday, August 17, 2012 | 10:25 am | 19 Comments
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Happy Friday Gasmii! This week’s Project Runway is a goldmine! I can’t wait to dive deep, but first I’ll tease you a little!  Said the Actress to the Bishop.

My favorite thing happened this week- a team challenge! I love nothing more than high-strung creative young people forced to cooperate, compromise and coalesce, it always results in a whole new c-word. As it turns out though, everyone in this season works really well with others and sacrifices their egos for cohesiveness. 

“Divide”

“Conquer”

“Kill”

The challenge is to create a collection of looks for a Marie Claire fashion spread targeting the professional woman. Considering prostitution is a profession they may have let Buffi go too soon.

Here’s a girl that knows her way around a job

The teams also have to create a fashion spread themselves including the photo shoot, styling etc that will best showcase their looks. At first I hated this because I thought we were sacrificing the runway for something that these people don’t really have to be proficient at as part of their profession and we would have a non-traditional judging segment. I hate that so much. Tyra, do you HEAR me???

“What? Hello? BEAR?”

**Sigh**

Fortunately they did a good job, the shoot was mildly entertaining and also we got a runway show, so win-meh-win!

As expected there were some uncooperative attitudes displayed in the workroom. Blorpheus bossed, Skunk skunked, Elena detonated an atom bomb and Squiggy Bangs wandered in circles, flapping his hands and wondering why he was still in the competition.

You’re not the only one, Frump-a-lump

As hoped, designers went from privately snarking to openly hating and fighting with each other. Those enmities were still fresh when everyone hit the runway and had to tear into each other for survival.

Fake Tim Gunn showed up for judging, Nina said pants a thousand times, Heidi proved she has no clue what is appropriate to wear in an office, and Kors revealed his obsession with 60 year old women. They are the last demographic who consider him fashion forward.

Or remember his original face

A lot of the looks were pretty strong, so I expect some debate on who should have won, but I was fairly satisfied with the outcome. The person who lost completely and utterly deserved it. That person also went out in one of the most vitriolic outbursts against another designer that I’ve seen. Keep it classy San Diego!

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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.

19 Comments

  1. 1
    detinha
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 11:42 am

    Can’t wait for the recap!! This mini made me laugh so much!! :D

  2. 2
    TheMiki themiki
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    The girlfriend, the roommate, and I have been calling people, “One Way Monkeys” all fucking day. God I love that little Russian weirdo.

  3. 3
    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    Yeah, his hateful outburst toward the Feral Child was really uncalled for and cruel. And I am really starting to fall in love with Dmitri. I’ll hold off more comments for the full recap. This episode was fun!!

  4. 4
    mermaidtricks
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    I don’t understand why the judges loved Melissa’s so much. That collar seems like it’d be irritating by halfway through the day.

  5. 5
    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    @mermaidtricks – I know, right?? It was such a tight dress with that huge collar up to her chin, I can’t imagine anyone who works in any office or professional field (other than fashion itself perhaps) choosing to wear that all day. It was clearly not a professional woman’s day wear by any stretch either. They just liked the dress and ignored the practicalities of the challenge itself. Of course so did most of the designers.

  6. 6
    maryedith
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    I came on here just to say “one-way monkey” but I see themiki got there first. I love how the Russian was the one to call the Ukranian out. But Dmitri’s been my favorite from the start.

  7. 7
    Polk8dot
    Posted August 17, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    @ ‘one of the most vitriolic outbursts against another designer’

    I could not believe my ears when he was spouting his hateful tirade. All I could do, to stop myself from blowing like Elena’s H-bomb was to scream at the TV: ‘You are one to talk!!!!! Look in the mirror you f-ing delusional looser! Are you by a chance talking about yourself, you douche?!’
    Holy one-way monkeys, talk about complete lack of self awareness….
    Uggggghhhhhhhh…… Hate….. Hate….. Hate….. Go play in traffic you ass, that’ll serve you right.

    As to the outfits, there is ONLY ONE conclusion that flashes in my mind (and apparently a lot of others, too) – these ‘designers’ have NEVER HAD a REAL JOB! Never SEEN a person with a real job up close and personal. Never been in an office or any other professional work environment. They are completely CLUELESS about working women, work clothes, and clearly – Work Ethic.
    What came down the runway were their ‘visions’ of working women, what they imagined real women wear to work, with no base in reality at all. Not from a single one of them.
    After watching the introduction special before this season started, I was sooooo looking forward to all the awesome clothes they could be reasonably expected to present, based on their photo-books. I was so excited… Now I just believe that they ALL lie, they all present clothes made for them by someone else, they all think that sewing is beneath them and not a required part of the skillset.
    They are AWFUL, and the season SUCKS!!!
    P.S. Heidi is sliding, with each following episode, into the streetwalker territory. I find it hilarious that she holds herself to be some authority on fashion, simply because she USED TO make a pretty nice clothes hanger. Time to retire, bitch. Better quit while you’re behind….

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 12:47 am

    One way monkey was the best part of the whole thing.
    I don’t even know where monkeys and ponies can be confused, but I love it.

    The eliminated designer’s outburst was actually hilarious. Maybe it wasn’t nice, but I can’t realllyyyy be mad. The recipient was being a real c u next tuesday, and should really learn to work with others.
    I get it, the motherland was a terrifying barren wilderness where you have to chop off and eat your own extremities to survive AND YOU DON’T EVEN GET TO COOK THEM FIRST BECAUSE THERE’S NO FIRE, but really, that’s no excuse to be such a complete and total bitch. Sheesh. I know the wolves that raised her taught her better than that.
    Wolves have manners goddamnit.

  9. 9
    circuitmonkey
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 8:35 am

    In the ukraine the living conditions are so horrible apparently you lose the capacity to blink.

  10. 10
    unwise
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 8:47 am

    I’ve never been into Twitter but I was so tempted to join Thursday night to see if one way monkey could trend.

  11. 11
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 10:24 am

    The designs are NEVER practical. Never. Ever. Even the ones that lose.

    And to hear Joanna Coles basing her ‘wearability’ decision on whether or not it could be worn to the Marie Claire offices, well, that’s really not a ‘regular’ office, now is it? Based on how she dresses, there’s nothing regular about them.

    Loving Dmitry more and more each week. Disliking Christopher more and more each week. Wanting Elena to go back to her desperately barren wilderness of a country where she is undoubtedly viewed as Little Molly Sunshine because things are so desperate there. And barren. And wild. And, based on her designs, everyone wears football uniform sized shoulder pads.

  12. 12
    See-Jay
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Supposedly Elena is in the lead for fan favorite, which is hard to believe. Maybe it’s just a ploy by Lifetime to get people to actually vote.

  13. 13
    lagitha
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    I love how Office Girl Heidi was defending the cutouts on the back of the dress as work-appropriate because the cutouts were “only” about 6 inches long. Good Lord, if I ever showed that much lower back at the office, I would be sent home.

  14. 14
    aaarrrggg
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    I heart Polk8dot. most excellent rant. and the winning “look” looked like a human condom. an eight hour day in that would leave one chafed in all kinds of unmentionable places.

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    Wasabipeas wasabipeas
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    I had to laugh when I saw what these people think is acceptable business wear for women! No one would take a woman in any of those outfits seriously. I almost choked when Heidi said the outfits looked expensive – I am pretty sure I saw Christopher’s at JC Penney’s this morning!!!

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    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    OMG! The cut-out! I almost died when I saw it. When he was making the dress I thought at first that it was some kind of blocking thing but then he didn’t fill it in! Sure Heidi, working women everywhere like to show a little bit of midriff at the office – bosses really go for that uber professional polished look. As far off as Dmitri was with that I still love him. One-way monkey, that was just so perfect. :)

    Human condom! Perfect description of the winning dress! I was thinking more of a candy wrapper pulled partway down a candy bar. Her little head sticking out of that thing, my God.

  17. 17
    maryedith
    Posted August 18, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    Ukraine used to be called the “bread basket” of the USSR. It’s a sunny, farming region. I met an electrician from there recently and he was saying how hard it was to get used to rainy Seattle after living in a country with such beautiful weather. So Elena can suck it.

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    Andyourlittledogtoo
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 1:11 am

    To be fair, I don’t think Elena is referring to the geography, she is referring to the post-Soviet atmosphere that has been plagued by major criminal gangs, human trafficking, child sex trafficking, etc. It is a place where young girls and women need to be careful and have been the subject of very sociopathic predation by international gangs. And they have had a real problem with extreme poverty in the country while it gets its post-communist economic system on track. So, yeah, I can see why she would say it was a place that you had to be on your guard and watch out for yourself, especially if your ambition was to get out of there and make a better life for yourself. So on the one hand it is a very beautiful place. But it’s a hard place in other ways if you aren’t a person of means and position already.

    That said, she is pretty emotional and volatile for someone who is so guarded and careful. I am confused by her generally. I feel sorry for her but also would hesitate to trust her as far as I could throw my shoes. And she needs to expand her design horizons. Personally I love her viewpoint, but it is not enough, at least not for this competition.

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    Amanda
    Posted August 19, 2012 at 6:03 am

    I actually thought the winning dress was the best of them all. Yes in the real world outside the fashion industry it would be not very practical but with a few tweaks it could be made to be. I feel like she designed it to be more editorial and runway ready. I mean really how often do we see whats on the runway in real life, they tweak it for the every day woman.

    And i am loving Dmitry. “one way monkey” lol…. i’m gonna use that from now on.

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