Project Runway Recap: Trashed Potato

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Onto the runway, where Heidi, Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, and guest-warlock Lauren Hutton, who is described as an "adventurer," will appraise the designs. Let's rack up the best and worst contenders.

Amy has fashioned a marvelous, voluminous gown with dyed brown and black edges. Cleverly majestic, even poetic in its awe. It reminds me a bit of Santino Rice's season-two plant dress. You can tell the materials are unconventional. but that quickly becomes what you love about the look. And Amy is adorby.

Ping needs to stop thinking in bunny languages, because this burlap box is hideous. Worse, it does not cover her model's ass, and her way back up the runway, we get an unfiltered view of her derriere. This is pretty much unforgivable. Isn't that right, Zulema Griffin?

Jesus comes up with a chocolate brown-and-olive-green dress that is largely made of ribbon and nylon. He essentially didn't do the challenge. This is pretty much unforgivable. Lauren Hutton's face warps again upon spotting this swamp thing.

Jay is declared a Top 3 candidate, even though the top on his look is unjustifiably ragged. The skirt, a frilly, feathery looking navy-blue pom-pon, is masterful.

Pamela is clearly a dyeing virtuoso, because her garment is a lovely indigo and passes as a dead-ringer for denim. It's short and tight, as Nina points out, and it does look like a cowgirl dress, but isn't that almost ingenious since the damn thing's made from burlap? It's ill-fitting, sure, but not worthy of Bottom Three status.

Mila's silvery, slinky dress looks nothing like burlap and could seriously outfit any severe-faced jailbait at a shady club of their choosing. Heidi admires it for its bustiness, but the other judges aren't so sure.

In the end, get this: Jay wins with his black, feathery forgettableness -- and Pamela, sweet, thief-eyed Pamela, is out. For the second week in a row, Jesus scored the second-to-last place gown. He or Ping should've been thrown deep into traffic by Tim Gunn himself, and I imagine next week's episodes will be make-or-break for them. Coming up: Pamela talks to Movieline about her design, and the idiocy of the judging! Throw all your worries in a burlap sack and wear it like an underpaid runway model, because we're about to trudge through this wretched manure in one big, highly journalistic cartwheel.

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