Sunday, July 20, 2008

Project Runway Season 5-Grocery Shopping

While on my short hiatus, I did manage to watch Project Runway in my hotel room, gee is it that time already? Seems like each season comes so quickly. This season it's the usual suspects with quirky personalities. Here they meet up with Tim Gunn and Project Runway, season's one Miss Thing with more makeup than your Elizabeth Arden makeup artist. He makes his grand entrance by sashaying across a busy NY street, traffic stopping and not because of the red light! Tim announces that it's the grocery challenge, which our Miss Thing won, and the rest is history dahling! I'm like what, make fashion out of melons and pasta? Some of the designers did take it literally like Kroto buying kale and cherry tomatoes? Nothing like rotten vegetables on your dress, ok maybe a mid morning snack. Mostly everyone ran to the plastic tablecloth section and the housewares. Daniel used blue plastic cups for his dress which he melded into a bustiere cocktail dress. I wouldn't know whether to drink from it or wear it. Stella, dominatrix from Queens, immediately headed for the garbage bag section. Yep, she definitely is the garbage bag queen except when she opens the bags at the studio, they were the thin cheap type, she shoulda bought the Glad. Instead she got junk or in this case garbage. Then there is Suede, with his mohawk of royal blue states in his bio a good hoodie is a must and I agree. Suede designed a rather demure blue tablecloth dress something I would wear to work, except plastic might be too hot in Vegas in the summer. Terri took mop heads and braided a top out of it which seemed to work that is if you can resist the urge to stop, drop and roll. In the end, it was Jerry that was auf with his white on white trench coat which the judges said looked like some kind of serial killer out fit. Granted the yellow gloves were a bit much, but at least he sewed something, unlike dominatrix's draped garbage bag disaster. Wrong wrong wrong judges!! In this case it was garbage in and Jerry out, too bad we didn't get to see more of your talent! -Single D
This season we have a diverse group of designers half are hard edge, all are cut-throat and a few look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, personality wise anyway. This should be good. We have Stella who is down right scary and designs for rock stars or pimps, OK. Blayne has an obsession with tanning, can you say skin cancer waiting to happen?
Tim Gunn wakes the designers at 4am to go to Gristedes grocery store. Austin Scarlett from season one greets the designers. You think that was a name change? All that was missing was the hoop skirt and lacy umbrella. The designers have to design an outfit from what they can find in the grocery store for $75.00. Everyone pretty much avoids the produce section. Did they learn nothing from Scarlett, I mean Austin, who won that challenge with a corn husk dress? I was thinking Romaine lettuce bodice, with cardboard backing when it wilted, with maybe a Pepsi carton skirt.
Stella buys trash bags, which is right up her alley, and says her "fabric" is garbage. Need I say more? Almost everyone else bought table clothes for their material and are called out by Tim who says the judges will think they are slackers. That seemed to kick them into gear. Leann started covering her table cloth dress in candies and Stella started sewing her garbage bags. Blayne's model had more curves than he thought and had to hand sew his "girlicious" outfit.
After the runway show, Jerry got a bashing from the judges when they said his outfit was freaky and looked like a handy wipe gone wrong. Blayne's outfit looked like something out of a bad ScFi movie. I loved Kelly's vacuum cleaner bag dress from the start. I thought it was one of the most original creations. Daniel's plastic cup dress was also very cute. Kelly's vacuum cleaner bag dress is the winner with Jerry being Auf'ed. I guess the judges wanted to see if Stella could actually do something. Double D

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