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Project Runway Season 5: Week 2
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Heidi Klum introduces guest judge, Natalie Portman on
"Project Runway." Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke.
Before I get into this week’s episode of Project Runway, let’s rewind back to last week’s season premiere and check out what happened with this video. (you can also check out the finer dandy for my in-depth recap).
I'll wait while you catch up.
Jerry’s slasher film couture outfit was as scary as it was hideous. His departure was a given.
This week, the remaining 15 designers tackled a “green” challenge where they had to make a garment out of eco-friendly fabrics – but there was a twist. The models had to buy the fabric.
I have to applaud the writers of the show for adding this sneaky twist into the mix.
I am going to digress just a tad bit before I give my take on the show. With every new season of Project Runway, the days leading up to the premiere, I get really excited. Then the show airs and realized that I may have hyped the show up. It’s not like I don’t love the show, it’s just that one hour is not enough time for me to pick my favorites. But it is enough time for me to pick the ones that get on my nerves (please step forward Wendy Pepper).
Plus, I think there are just so many designers that I just get overwhelmed and I can’t concentrate. Once they get down to the top 10, I start getting intrigued.
Still, that doesn’t mean I don’t like me some good ol’ fashioned Pro-Run. It just takes me two or three episodes to warm up to them.
Suede's edgy tutu stole the runway show.Bravo
Photo: Barbara Nitke.
I’m the type of person who likes to have a favorite right off the bat and each season it’s getting harder and harder to do so – which is good and bad. Good because the uncertainty of talent keeps me captivated; bad because I get impatient.
Okay, my digression is over.
With this week’s episode, I think I was most excited because Natalie Portman was guest judging. It was only appropriate since she has her own line of vegan shoes called Te Casan. For some reason, every time the word “vegan” precedes a word, I always think it’s edible.
Anyways, so the designers get to work in the work room and nothing really exciting happens except Blayne is trying to add the “-licious” suffix to every word and he isn’t realizing that it’s not cool. Suede is still speaking about himself in the third person. I still can’t distinguish Leanne from Jennifer.
Wesley's poorly fitted mess did not impress
the judges. Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke.
The fact that the models bought the fabrics is really throwing the designers for a loop. They are just disgusted with practically everything they got – especially that grotesque brown fabric that cursed the work tables of Wesley, Joe and Leanne.
The runway show commenced and there was some nastiness on the catwalk. Leanne’s dress looked like a sewing machine vomited on a fabric store, Wesley’s garment looks like a poorly fitted discount rack skanky club girl dress and poor Korto, her dress just didn’t translate into something desirable.
On the plus side – I really liked Keith’s flirty dress and I loved Kenley’s high-collared frock was magical. But it was Suede’s strap-happy modern rock tutu that ruled the runway.
In a shocker for me, Wesley was sent home. I figured, just by the soft-spoken school boy look of him and that he worked for Marc by Marc Jacobs, he would stay on for a while.
I guess that no one is safe from the wrath of the judges.
P.S. Did it look like Natalie was about to cry when Wesley was auf’d?
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