Project Runway

Another team challenge....ugh...it is SO HARD to get excited about a team challenge. Either it ends up being about who's the bigger bully (Elena) -- or everybody on the team tries so hard to compromise and get along that the end result is a big old bowl of tasteless beige oatmeal...

My biggest problem with a "team challenge" for a design show is that they are forced to think strategically. So they are more worried about how to play the game than about what they might actually CREATE.

It becomes all about covering your own butt and who you can blame if things go badly.

The show actually started off hot for me. The designers were given some t-shirts and told they have to sell them on the street.

AWESOME....

You know how much I love t-shirts!! And they can do whatever they want, right? Paint them, dye them, sew them together, braid them, fringe them...

THERE IS NO FABRIC MORE VERSATILE than t-shirt fabric. Universal. Indestructible... It will NOT wrinkle...it makes for a very forgiving fit...awesome...

And -- wait -- there's more. They can actually SELL their own design services to make money.

I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EXCITED...

Here's the plan, people.

1. Make some kick-ass t-shirt dresses...fringe them, write pithy words in the front...or create a team "logo"or cartoon...sign them with your names -- you are the PROJECT RUNWAY contestants for crying out loud...
2. Then make a BIG ASS SIGN -- saying, "THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE ON Season Ten PROJECT RUNWAY" -- and set up a make-shift table on the corner OUTSIDE OF MOOD FABRICS...(where all the fans go to shop when they are in the city)...let's remember -- you ARE BEING FOLLOWED BY A CAMERA CREW for crying out loud...
3. Every member of the team should be WEARING one of the shirts -- DUH!!
4. If you can't get $50 per shirt -- throw in a free "fashion consultation"...

Call me if you need ideas about the words to write on the shirts (just use a marker, people!)...

Of course -- nobody did ANY OF THAT!! From the little bit we saw of the t-shirts they supposedly sold "on the streets"-- they were not modified even a little bit -- they were completely butt-ugly -- yet they sold hundreds of dollars??

WHA??

Their amounts made no sense and it all felt totally bogus....and who's to say they didn't throw their own money into the bucket at the end of the day?

That t-shirt challenge SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE CHALLENGE. But NO0OOOO. Instead -- the money they raised ended up being their fabric budget for the REAL challenge -- to create two "looks" for Fall...(somebody -- please bring me a NoDoze)...

It all felt so disconnected and random....

Best line of the night was when Christopher said Dmitry and Elena were like Boris and Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon...

I KNEW THEY REMINDED ME OF SOMEBODY...

No surprise that dreadlock girl went home. Her name was Alicia and she obviously WANTED to go home. What else could possibly explain that horrible outfit she herself wore on the runway. She can't blame Boris and Natasha for that faded, worn out shapeless mechanic's jumpsuit with the rolled up pants...

Hey -- maybe we haven't seen the last of dreadlock girl in coveralls...

"Pimp My Ride" could be looking for a mechanic..