Project Runway Designers Face Debilitating 'California Sunshine' Challenge
Wait, this is supposed to be a picture from the new, Lifetime-owned season of Project Runway? I refuse to believe it! Where's the gloomy weather of New York, or the bodacious belly of a pregnant, Kate Gosselin-competitive Heidi Klum? Yes, I know that the new season is set in Los Angeles, but I didn't realize how much that would affect the Runway tone until I saw sunlight streaming in from behind Tim Gunn in the Parsons design room (below).
This may be even harder to withstand than the unhip move to Lifetime, so permit me to engage in a bit of cognitive dissonance: these are not pictures from Project Runway at all, but instead stills from Sam Mendes's aborted first take on his upcoming road trip comedy Away We Go. Before the director brought in John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum had been cast as the bohemian young couple forced to scour the Unites States for a suitable place to raise their adopted baby, 44-year-old Latina spitfire Nina (in these stills, we see their sojourn in Los Angeles). Oh, and Heidi was cast in John Krasinski's part. Try to make sense of that.
Boy, I'm taking this much harder than I thought. Get the men in (fashionable) white coats.
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No lie -- when I went to the E! website, the "code word" enabling me to post a comment was "woman" with a charming tye-dye, rainbow background. Listen E!, I already feel totally emasculated reading Project Runway news as it is. You don't have to rub it my Gay Face, mmmkay?
perhaps the sunny new season has led them back to new york for the next one.
Tim Gunn looks much better when the occupied room has cave lighting.
I'm not wholly against this LA relocation. There's nothing wrong with, say, a Macy's Accessory Guesthouse or a L'Oreal Paris Makeup Cabana. The tough pill to swallow will be the plus-sized models we're used to seeing on LA runways -- I'm sorry, model/actresses. But even that I can deal with. However, the deal-breaker would be if every designer's collection looks like another Christian Audigier offshoot. Kill me now. . .