Posted Nov 6th 2009 1:40AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
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S06E12) It's the trend for most contestants on
Project Runway to cave during the final challenge; this season was no exception. This season's final challenge was to be inspired by the Getty museum. The contestants had two days and $300 to design the dress.
Inspiration:
Althea - Overall Architecture
Christopher - Rock Fountain
Irina - Mischief and Repose by Godward.
Gordana - Rouen Cathedral by Monet
Carol Hannah - Bed - French, Paris (circa 1775 - 1780)
There was so much to be inspired by in the Getty Center, and I feel like the show rushed its way through.
Continue reading Review: Project Runway - The Art of Design
Posted Oct 30th 2009 1:36AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
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S06E11)
Project Runway finally explained why different people won challenges this season instead of just Irina and Althea winning all of them. This week's challenge was to make a companion piece to the contestants' winning looks. Unfortunately, Logan has never won a challenge. With one day and $100, they had to make it work.
On paper, the challenge sounds like an interesting way of thinking of cohesive collections. Most of these designers have an aesthetic (Carol Hannah doesn't like pants, Christopher likes full skirts). For Gordana, Christopher, and Logan, the companion pieces that they made neither complimented, nor improved on their original outfits.
Continue reading Review: Project Runway - Best of the Best
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 2:30AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
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S06E10) This week on
Project Runway, the challenge was to become inspired by several locations that Michael Kors loves. They were given $150 and the day to make a pretty outfit. Why does it seem like there's always one contestant that gets a topic they know nothing about and makes something not even close?
There are only a few challenges left, and I have to admit that other than Irina, the rest of the competitors' outfits have become more and more boring. Production really needs to give these contestants one or two days off between challenges to recharge their batteries.
Continue reading Review: Project Runway - Around the World in Two Days
Posted Oct 16th 2009 12:51AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: Project Runway, Episode Reviews
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S06E09) This week on
Project Runway the contestants are given a very interesting challenge: design an extravagant stage look. Their inspiration has to come from world renowned Bob Mackie and pop superstar Christina Aguilera in mind. They had two days and $300 to make a sequin/feather extravaganza.
Unfortunately for us, Gordana had the last immunity of the season and couldn't be eliminated. I guess what she made was better than a sequin sweater. If I had immunity, I would have made a sequin one piece bathing suit with feather accents. It probably would have been better than Gordana's dress.
Continue reading Project Runway: Sequins, Feathers, and Fur. Oh, My!
Posted Oct 12th 2009 4:03PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway
Here's your chance to make it work.
Variety has posted that
Project Runway is becoming a video game for the Nintendo Wii made by Atari. I guess it was to no one's surprise, many TV shows become video games (
CSI,
Grey's Anatomy,
Iron Chef America) all with varying degrees of success. Even
America's Next Top Model has a video game for the Nintendo DS, but it's only available in Europe.
There is no word of when the game is releasing or any meaty details. We do know that the game will follow the show's format: design a dress, make-up and hair, runway, and judging.
Continue reading Project Runway: The video game?
Posted Oct 9th 2009 5:00AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S06E08) We finally get a challenge this season of
Project Runway that doesn't involve models. I blame
Models of the Runway for making so many model-centric challenges this season.
The designers had to make divorcee dresses out of wedding gowns. They had only one day, and the winner got the last immunity of the season. To make it worse, the contestants were only given $25 and a two yard maximum at Mood.
The designers should have remembered Steven Rosengard from season four and used the wedding gown as trim. Luckily, no one ended up making a funeral dress.
Continue reading Project Runway: A Fashionable New Beginning
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 2:08AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S06E07) Project Runway finally got down to ten contestants, a number where I could finally tell the difference between Shirin and Irina. This week we welcome the return of Michael Kors. He quickly used the term "bridesmaid," and his sharp opinions were missed. Let's hope the eliminations will be less erratic.
This week's challenge revolved around the color blue. The outfits had to be two Macy's-inspired, commercial-friendly outfits. The reward is an ability to design a dress for Macy's collection. The teams had one day, a $100 budget, and no immunity for the next challenge.
Continue reading Project Runway: The Sky's the Limit
Posted Oct 1st 2009 8:35PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Celebrities, Project Runway, Top Chef
Three stars have been born on Bravo! Well, at least three personalities from successful reality shows.
Bravo has plucked three stars for new reality shows, Bethenny Frankel,
Cristian Siriano and Fabio Viviani, giving each of them their own series.
Bethenny Frankel of
The Real Housewives of New York City has been rumored to be spinning off into her own show for a while. She'll be appearing on the upcoming season of
Real Housewives -- they're already filming in NYC -- but then she'll have her own program after that. It will be about her social life in NYC as well as her career as a natural foods chef. Bethenny has lots of personality and should do well on her own.
Continue reading Bravo spinning stars into three new shows
Posted Sep 25th 2009 12:28AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S06E06) For the first season of
Project Runway in Los Angeles, production has been trying their best to use their surroundings for themes. This week
Project Runway finally gave the opportunity to make a Hollywood based costume challenge. Unfortunately, the designers didn't realize that the challenge was just a façade for L'oreal Paris to play with the model's hair.
The designers were given a genre, $150, and a day to design a visual masterpiece representing their genres. Somewhere in that day, they lost time to consult with Collier Strong to make sure that L'oreal (and not Garnier even though they are in the same family) was represented.
Continue reading Project Runway: Lights, Camera, Sew!
Posted Sep 18th 2009 2:20AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S06E05) I have a problem with this season of
Project Runway. The contestants seem to focus on how much they hate other designs instead of being friendly and helping or saying that the outfit looks like a hot mess to their face. They hope that the clothes will sink the competitors, so they stay silent.
The drama continued this week when Tim Gunn revealed that the challenge was using newspaper as fabric. The unconventional material challenges lead to a lot of failures (fat paper Minnie Mouse from Season Three's Garbage challenge comes to mind), but overall, the contestants stepped up their game.
Continue reading Project Runway: Fashion Headliners
Posted Sep 11th 2009 1:06AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway, Episode Reviews
(S06E04) Project Runway loves messing with their designers. This week's challenge was that the models were their clients. It's not groundbreaking (season one's Wedding Dress Challenge comes to mind), but the real challenge is trying to tell these girls that they're delusional and not designers. Epperson's model Matar wanted an orange, punk, flowing, tiger dress. Thankfully, he took pieces and translated it correctly.
Tim announces that this is the first one-day challenge. This group has it easy; season five's first four challenges were all one-day. They probably wanted to make sure Johnny didn't have another mental breakdown and quit.
Continue reading Project Runway: What a Girl Wants
Posted Oct 24th 2008 5:11PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Project Runway, Reality-Free
Kelly told you recently about
NBC's legal attempt to block Project Runway from going to their Bravo channel over to Lifetime (Lifetime paid $150 million to air the show for the next five years). Now it looks like NBC is
looking for contestants for a show that sounds very similar to
Project Runway...and they're using Craigslist to find people to be on the show.
The new Bravo show is going to be called
Fashion House. The ad says that the winner will win "a large cash prize" and that the winner can use the show to "serve as the launching pad to catapult your fashion career into high gear."
Catapult your fashion career into high gear? What a horrible sentence.
Continue reading Does NBC have a Project Runway replacement in the works?
Posted Oct 16th 2008 8:20AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Project Runway
It wasn't a fierce season for
Project Runway. No
Cristian Soriano to spice things up. No Wendy Pepper either, speaking of spicy. That said, as the show wrapped up and three designers presented their collections at Fashion Week, the competitive juices were flowing and I was definitely into it. Maybe not as much as previous years, but the
Project Runway formula still worked. And most significantly, the final three were all women. As Tim Gunn pointed out, it was the year of the woman on
Project Runway.
All in all, the finale wasn't exactly up to the level of previous seasons. The personalities weren't as dramatic or defined. There was no Jeffrey to hate. No pregnant Laura to root for. And no Jay or Santino to giggle over. It's interesting that even Tim Gunn, before this season aired, had said that this group wasn't as distinctive as some other seasons. As usual, Tim was right.
Continue reading It was the "Year of the Woman" on Project Runway
Posted Sep 29th 2008 2:03PM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: Industry, Project Runway
Heidi and Tim, hold on before you pack your bags.
Variety reports that a judge has blocked
Project Runway's network move from Bravo to Lifetime, putting the sixth season's January debut in limbo. The fifth season is currently airing on Bravo.
To recap: Lifetime signed a five-year, $150 million deal to steal away the hit reality series with its production house, The Weinstein Company. NBC Universal (which owns Bravo) filed suit, claiming that it had the right to match any offer made by another network.
Continue reading Project Runway on Lifetime auf'd?
Posted Sep 21st 2008 10:06AM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: Celebrities, Project Runway, Casting
This season of
Project Runway lost some star power when Jennifer Lopez pulled out of judging the final runway shows due to a "foot injury" (which apparently didn't hamper her in a triathalon the next weekend).
But the reality show plans to make up for it.
Access Hollywood says that Lindsay Lohan will be the guest critic in the premiere of the sixth season, the first with
new producers and a new network in Lifetime.
Lohan's already in New York for her guest role on
Ugly Betty, and the cast can't believe the "mayhem" she incites everywhere she goes. Ana Ortiz told
ABC News Radio, "It really puts it into perspective the bubble that she has to live in ... people yelling at her and cussing at her. It's unbelievable."
Continue reading Lindsay Lohan brings mayhem to Betty, will guest judge Project Runway
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