This Week’s “Project Runway:” How Thick Can They Be?
This season’s contestants on “Project Runway” are the most thick headed ever. It’s one thing if you get auf’d because you did a design the judges didn’t like, but quite another if you get auf’d because you didn’t do what the challenge asked you to do. If you do that, you deserve to have your butt kicked out.
That was evident once again last night when Joe got bumped off because he thought a recent college graduate who aspires to be a graphic designer wanted to go around wearing a dowdy, black pin striped skirt, and ugly, badly fitting, black jacket and blouse.
Just like Keith, Daniel, Kelli and Jennifer, he didn’t do what was asked of him: create an outfit that was professional but which also represented the job that his young client aspired to. Suede was extremely lucky not to get his butt kicked out with that hideous jacket he made for his photographer.
I swear this group of designers have such bad cases of tunnel vision, it’s a wonder they can get through life without preaching to whoever will listen about their “design aesthetic” and “their vision.” If you’re asked to create sportswear, you create sportswear. If you’re asked to create an over the top outfit for a drag queen, you create an over the top outfit for a drag queen. It doesn’t matter that most of the time you design panty waist dresses. You do what the challenge requires.
And if Kenley doesn’t get tossed out next week, I’m going to end up going through the TV set to rip up one of those ghastly print dresses she keeps making.