August 11, 2006
This season's designers made it clear in the "Road to the Runway" that we have a lot more Eva Perons this go round -- established designers looking for marketing and publicity. Stealing from the musical Evita (paraphrased of course), "They're hoping the Project will help them or keep them, support them, promote them, don't blame them, you're the same."
First we have a look at the designers and let me say first impressions, lasting or not; this bunch gave us an eyeful! A cocktail party on the roof at Atlas found Heidi and Tim looking gorgeous announcing the first challenge would begin immediately. The Challenge: Take materials from their stunning new digs and create dresses. The boys screamed, the girls screamed and before long the fashion locusts had left nothing in the apartments save the beds! Away the designers flew to their workshop to begin.
Immediately Stacey was in trouble, due to the fact she didn't know how to use a sewing machine. Keith stated he had never made a dress in his life but from the looks of things he was either lying or had worn enough to know his way around a hemline. After an evening of sewing, the designers returned to Atlas to discover the place still in shambles, poor things.
Runway Day: More sewing and the designers meet their models. The models are all thin and tall, that's about all you can say for them at this point. Vincent is thrilled with his idea to put an upside down basket on his model's head while his model seems more delighted she's wearing dark glasses hoping they'll make her invisible. The Judges: Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Kate Spade. The designers are seated, falling in love with themselves as their dress comes down the runway. At seeing his creation Bradley wants to cry, I want to cry that he thinks a gray comforter with armholes is a dress! Most overlooked is Michael's adorable coffee filter dress -- no one talks about it so I am -- thought it was brilliant, fun and meets the challenge perfectly. The Fashion Leaders: Keith's blue bed sheet fantasy, Robert's "I Feel Pretty" Maria from West Side Story dress and Laura's stunner of a coat that is fit for the musical Mame. The Auf'd One, Stacey, no surprise here. The Winner: Keith but I wasn't impressed I mean come on, it's a sheet so it's just material like it came off the bolt...what about Robert, Laura and Michael's ingenuity? Guess Michael Kors was won over by the impish Keith's soliloquy about Gone With The Wind but frankly my dears, I don't give a damn!











Comments
Grace wrote:
ummm... i didnt see this challenge, but thanx 4 the summary!
posted on August 22, 2006 at 10:49 AM
Cindy wrote:
Absolutely agreed on the sheet thing. No ingenuity there, I couldn't believe he won. I was more impressed with the dress Carol Burnett wore on her show with the curtain rod still in it!
posted on October 5, 2006 at 2:54 AM
Michelle wrote:
I looooooooove this show and I am Uli biggest fan!!!
posted on February 7, 2007 at 6:52 PM