Project Runway: the Who is Daniel blowing edition?


Am I the only one who saw muslin peeking out everywhere?

Hey I'm not arguing about talent, and I'm not saying I would have sent him home, but shouldn't it be mentioned that it didn't look like Daniel even finished? He used flowers? Big whoop, those straps looked like plain old muslin hanging out, and so did part of the bodice. I'm outraged, outraged I tell you!

But let's back up.

The designers were taken to the flower district, told to make an outfit for a garden party, but using only supplies from three flower/plant supply stores. (And although it was unstated, it seemed that they were allowed to use muslin as a foundation for their garments too.)

All of the designers seemed stunned at first, but it actually ended up bringing out more creativity in most of them.

Kara, for once stepped up, and IMHO should have won this week's challenge. Her bodice was just beautiful, both the rattan back (or whatever that material was) and the textured dried flower front. She was also way kind enough to help Chloe with her over-ambitious leaf-gluing process. I thought Kara's dress had the most sass and the most visual interest by a quite a large amount.

Speaking of Chloe: she's very talented, no doubt, but her style of minimalism is going to be hard-pressed to drive her to victory in this kind of competition. I mean, if that dress wasn't one-note, I don't know what is. A little sprig of lavender at the waist-band really doesn't wow me. It was lovely, but sedate...yes it looked wearable, but by a fairly staid person.

I thought Nick's dress was certainly NOT vulgar, I don't get that judge's comment that he's always a little vulgar at all! I quite liked the design, but I agree that the fit didn't seem quite right. He visualized something beautiful but had trouble executing to that vision.

Santino's dress was the usual over-done, over-cooked piece of whatever. OK, they keep telling me how creative and talented he is, but I just don't get it. He has toned his attitude way down, so that's nice, but whenever his models walk out my first reaction is usually "yuk." This week I wrote down one word: "hideous." Just a bunch of waxy leaves all mish-mashed together. Sure, there were layers and textures, but unlike Kara's effort, they didn't seem to have a point or plan...just thrown up there (somewhat like Guadalupe's hideous snap-on fabric flowers from the week she lost.)

Lastly, the winner and loser:

Andrae's loss is understandable because his dress was the least creative. It's a lovely Jackie-O silhouette, which pretty much defines that it's not original, and it was all made of this moss. It really did look like a door mat. I still would have sent Santino home, because Andrae SO deserved to win last week, butit's hard to argue with this decision.

Daniel's win is a bit more mystifying. As a side note: I finally figured out what last week's Daniel dress reminded me of: that blousy ivory top reminded me of a big bulb of garlic, not an orchid. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest. This week? It just didn't look finished to me. I saw muslin peeking out, plus the straps looked like plain old muslin too, I just don't get why no one mentioned it. I too like the flower effect trailing down past the waistline.But honestly, it's not like he cured cancer by including those flowers. And you might have thought so from the way the judges were talking about it.

Anyway, interesting challenge.

Maybe Kara is coming on strong in the end, but that was probably just a fluke.

With Daniel's 4 wins now, it seems likely he'll win, and I'm betting he'll be joined in the top 3 by Chloe and Santino...because the judges seem t allow Santino to get away with crap work and crap vision because he's so "talented and creative", meanwhile they get on Nick's case for every little thing. They probably secretly believe that those who teach can't do. (Except Tim Gunn, who's a teacher, so he likes Nick a lot!)

That's it...see you next week.

Posted: Fri - February 3, 2006 at 02:02 PM       EmailFeedback

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