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'Project Runway' makes some car couture
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The episodes are getting better. This week the designers had to create an outfit using car parts courtesy of Saturn (if this isn’t a shameless product placement scheme, I don’t know what is).
The designers get their challenge! Pictured: (l-r) Joe, Leanne, Keith, Korto, Terri, Blayne, Suede, Kenley, Jerell, Stella, Chris Webb, Head of Design at Saturn, Tim Gunn. Bravo Photo: Virginia Sherwood.
This was VERY exciting. I loved the concept of this challenge, but I was hoping that the designers had to disassemble the car themselves. But alas, they didn’t. They had four minutes to rummage through the interior of the cars to get all the materials they needed for their outfits.
The hot commodity? Seatbelts! That’s not a surprise, but what was pretty cool was Kenley’s hand-drawn zebra print on her air filter skirt. Do you know what else was cool? Jerell’s rip on Terri: “She got two faces and four patterns – that’s it! Don’t trust the bitch!”
I have finally figured out a simple formula to the shows and how they hint on who’s going to get eliminated and who’s going to win. (You may have noticed this a long time ago, but I am kind of slow). They usually focus on two or three designers on each show, focusing more on them via back stories, intense interviews and their reality show “character.”
Even so, this episode, they barely focused on Leanne and she won the darn thing!
Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke
Bravo Leanne! This is avant-gorgeous! I swear, I thought that the detailing on the bust line were actually feathers, but guess what? They’re frayed seatbelts! You’re just FULL of surprises, aren’t you Leanne?
In this episode there was lots of focus on Stella and Keith. Stella was having trouble creating something outside her comfort zone while Keith was acting like a whiny biatch and giving people attitude. He kept on obsessing over what the judges were going to think of him. As a result, the they were in the bottom two and it was Keith that got the “auf”.
Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke
As much trash I talk about Keith, it was good to see him crying when he got eliminated. It showed that he actually had a heart. That's what he gets for blaming the lameness in his design on his model. Actually, I kind of felt sorry for him. But he always has Utah. And as we all know, Utah is the fashion capital of the world.
Honorable mentions of this episode:
Jerell’s Star Wars/Mad Max prostitute pole dancing femme fatale outfit. Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke
Korto’s woven Swingin’ ‘60s seatbelt coat. Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke
P.S. I only caught Blayne’s use of “licious” once. The annoyance of that was eclipsed by Suede’s excessive use of the third person in this episode.
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