Project Runway Season 3

[coachwife6]

^^Or Haylee (sp?) and Hilary Duff?

 

[contiguous]

Michael's dress looked like this Prada dress that is in Sept W right now, I guess from fw06 though I can't find it on style.com. Purple with a ruched-esque top, though the Prada has some brown, but it looks like the same idea.

 

[texastess]

It looks like Laura has a bit of a meltdown next week. I guess the spoiler about Vincent was wrong.

 

[ejc]

Thank god Vincent is gone--I'm sick of hearing how everything "gets him off." Jeffrey's creation--does anybody see the Statute of Liberty inspiration in his dress? Remember how he was saying that the Statute of Liberty inspired his dress? How?

 

[StyleSnob]

Nicky Hilton has already been on...I doubt they'd have her again.

 

[Lady-Penelope]

i love the plaid fabric jeffrey chose... it reminded me of vivienne westwood. like the judges said...i thought it was brilliant that he chose a bright yellow... very unexpected for him. there was some great details in the back of the dress.

I too immediately thought of Westwood when I saw the plaid cotton. Of course he could afford to be as wild as he pleased, given that he was immune for this challenge!

i was very dissappointed with michael, but hopefully he will redeem himself.

Ruching seems to be the downfall of a few people already! (Malan comes to mind) I guess it's just way too time-consuming to do it right in the 24 hours they had... I'm surprised that Michael would attempt something that ambitious, knowing full well that he's never done anything like it before.

I thought Laura's dress was unusually busy for her style - if she'd kept the ruffled collar in the front only it might have been nicer. Also, the black wool fabric was not nearly flowy enough for a couture gown.

I was cracking up every time Vincent talked about his dress getting him off, I thought of the people posting to this board cringing! :-)

 

[Papercut Crisis]

I thought maybe Paris and Nicky Hilton?

i would quit the competition immediately. lol

 

[kochie332]

they already had Nicky Hilton on the show, they wouldnt have her twice

 

[brokenenglish]

Jeffrey's dress made me happy! Just what he aimed to do.

 

[PussyLee]

Riiight.... You and I have very very different takes on this.. His piece was very complicated and smart.. It was very cute and couturesque. He won, because it was attractive on the model, and therefore designed well...

For me Kayne's Dress was the best.......Jeff's was complicated alright! It was a mess, . Not Cute at all . I don't think it was attractive on the model as well......I think if the design of Kayne or Jeff will be sold side by side, I know who will fly off the rack first. But I can see why he won, the judges are looking for Vision, not the finished product! and lastly.........You're from Colorado, right? (p*ssy's such a B*tch!)

 

[esile]

For me Kayne's Dress was the best.......Jeff's was complicated alright! It was a mess, . Not Cute at all . I don't think it was attractive on the model as well......I think if the design of Kayne or Jeff will be sold side by side, I know who will fly off the rack first. But I can see why he won, the judges are looking for Vision, not the finished product!

i only liked kayne's dress from the waist down. everything on top was gaudy and tacky. i wasn't crazy about the iridescent gold fabric for couture either. prom, anyone?

eta: i have to say... i find kayne so charming. i hate to see it when he goes... which i'm sure is inevitable.

 

[Papercut Crisis]

For me Kayne's Dress was the best.......Jeff's was complicated alright! It was a mess, . Not Cute at all . I don't think it was attractive on the model as well......I think if the design of Kayne or Jeff will be sold side by side, I know who will fly off the rack first. But I can see why he won, the judges are looking for Vision, not the finished product! and lastly.........You're from Colorado, right? (p*ssy's such a B*tch!)

Like I said we have very different takes on this. Maybe you need to get your eyes checked cus Jeffreys was very cute and organized (and must i mention im not the only one who felt so? ) Maybe your fashion pallet is a bit underdeveloped or maybe youre too old.

I would agree kaynes dress might fly off the rack in America faster, but Americans for the most part have horrible taste in fashion...Take it somewhere outside the US that is very fashion forward and innovative such as Tokyo and Im pretty sure Jeffreys would be held in high regard while kaynes would be laughed at.

I liked the back of Kaynes dress but other than that and it was a bit stale and pagenty and it had no flare at all.

And yes I am from colorado, shut up YOU have janice in your avatar.

 

[coachwife6]

Nicky Hilton has already been on...I doubt they'd have her again.

That's what I thought, since she was already on but I can't see the Olsen twins being on the show. I didn't hear the quote from Laura. What did she say and where was she?

 

[esile]

on the video bonus, there's extra footage of the next episode. looks like it might be the olsen twins. the dresses the designers are working on seem to be fit for shorter "models".... short cocktail dresses.

so, funny. kayne is saying it's destiny's child. i remember, when he thought they would be designing for tara reid for the jetsetter episode. he's hilarious.

 

[kochie332]

EW.com



Let's begin with the good news: He's gone! Vincent, a man so aroused by his own work on Project Runway over the last several weeks that he was threatening to become a walking manifestation of the Eiffel Tower (but smaller), was finally auf'd — or, more precisely, given this week's Paris-to-New York transition, au revoired. Among his last words to the camera: ''It got me off.'' And so, appropriately, the show got him off. And that got me off. And now we're all off — including the judges, who, with the predictable perversity of long-term guardians of the fashion demimonde, picked the single most wretched gown on the runway — Jeffrey's — as the winner. That's right: No immunity, but Jeffrey now has two wins in a row.
How did this happen? This week's blessedly ungimmicky challenge — take $375 and two days in Paris to make a hand-sewn couture gown — was a level-playing-field opportunity for the six remaining designers to show their strengths without having to make a pantsuit for a chihuahua or a pullover out of chemical waste. First we had to endure lots of location-shoot-justifying blahblahblah about how inspiring and gorgeous and sophisticated Paris is. (Yeah, yeah, we heard it already from Carmela Soprano and Rosalie Aprile, and the only thing all that sightseeing and accordion music seemed to inspire this week was Kayne's tragically un-fun moment in a beret with a little drawn-on Pepe Le Pew mustache. Kayne, don't be that guy.) But then the six players got down to work, in an episode carefully shaped to show each contestant struggling to overcome an inherent weakness (Kayne battling pageant tackiness, Uli trying to show she can work without vibrant prints, Laura pushing to overcome dull same-iness and swollen ankles, and so on).
Who deserved to win? Some of you (and all of me) would say Uli, who seems headed straight for Fashion Week given the consistent sophistication of her choices; her dress this week, despite its slightly drab monochrome, was sexy, intriguing, original, and Oscar-night-ready. Some of you might pick Kayne, whose dress was more Golden Globes; as always, he couldn't find the brakes, but at least he was headed in the direction of lavish fun. And some of you might say Michael, who didn't think much of his own work, but come on, the dress got egged and still looked more than decent, especially after the judges fixed it on the spot by getting him to tuck in those peculiar hooter hubcaps.
But Jeffrey? I don't get it. I just don't. This has nothing to do with his meanness or bad behavior or arrogance — let's just talk about the dress itself, which I'm sure was well made and representative of some sort of demented confidence (which is, I think, what the phrase ''fashion-forward'' means), but really, it looked like something that a slightly sl*tty and inebriated six-foot-tall human Thermos would wear to a hoedown. Jeffrey wanted his dress to be ''happy, joyous, and free'' and said the fabric ''just jumped out at me.'' Of course it jumped out: It's the color of a plaid warning sign! It's what you would wear if you were told to take a kilt and turn it into a terror alert! And then you finish it off by sewing an off-center welcome mat to the back! (On the bright side, Jeffrey, I'm writing this from Provincetown, Mass., and there are several drag queens here who would like to have a word with you.)
If I'm belaboring Jeffrey's dress, it's because it now seems almost certain that he's going to the final three, since Laura's narrow range (note upcoming weepy pregnancy meltdown in scenes from next week) and Kayne's unfortunate taste deficiency are both being played up by the judges as potential game enders. But it's also because, frankly, for all the jet-setting, this episode didn't have all that much else going on. That is, unless you count Tim Gunn's priceless remark to Kayne about his shiny gold bodice: ''This is not working for me. Seeing all this boning underneath — it's not pretty.'' (That's right: Tim Gunn said ''boning.'') Or Vincent's complete ankle-licking, heinie-smooching stalker routine in front of the formidable Catherine Malandrino on the Seine (which he pronounced ''sane,'' which is...ironic). Or Laura getting ruffled when her ruffles lost their ruffliness and the chest-baring neckline proved profoundly unflattering to her American model. Or the always frosty Uli remarking that Vincent's dress looked like a ''sofa.'' Or the completely unexpected reincarnation of Angela, in the form of an unwelcome fleur de butt that helped doom Vincent's dress to exile.
Let me close with a thought that has long troubled me: Why is it that, on reality shows, nobody knows how to make a bed? Every time we see someone waking up in the morning, their feet are sticking out from under the sheets, and the bedclothes look like an angry badger was trapped underneath them. The Real World, The Apprentice, Project Runway...do real people sleep like this, or just ''reality'' people?
And while we're asking questions, who'll be the next to go? What did Heidi mean by ''there are benefits to winning that will be revealed in a later challenge''? And what was I missing in Jeffrey's dress? Don't answer that last one: It'll come to me tonight in a dream — just before I wake up screaming.

 

[xmodel citizen]

I don't get the judges. I thought that Kayne's dress was amazing! I didn't see it as "gaudy" at all. It was so well constructed. Both of his models looked like they had the tiniest waists on the planet, and the assymetrical corsetry was gorgeous.

I also loved Jeff's and think that he should have won. His dress was very cool and funky.

Thank goodness Vincent's gone! That dress was awful! Glue? Couture? NO.

 

[Jacque Marcel]

Jeffrey's dress was just ugly. Why do you guys have to insult the great Vivienne Westwood like that? His couture dress looks like student work. Something you see at a student fashion show. He only won because all the other dresses were so bad or has been done before(Uli's countless halter dresses). That's not modern couture and it does look like it was done it 2 days.

 

[StyleSnob]

Jeffrey's dress was just ugly. Why do you guys have to insult the great Vivienne Westwood like that? His couture dress looks like student work. Something you see at a student fashion show. He only won because all the other dresses were so bad or has been done before(Uli's countless halter dresses). That's not modern couture and it does look like it was done it 2 days.

THANK YOU! my thoughts exactly.

 

[esile]

listen to tim's podcast. lot's of behind the scene info for this episode.

tim discusses the basic element of couture.... which is hand sewing. couture dresses are not made to bought off the rack and worn on the red carpet. they are conceptual in design.... usually the idea and concept is then copied and trickled down to regular fashion. real couture dresses can cost over $100,000.

of all the dresses, jeffrey's was the most couture-like. for those who didn't understand why jeffrey's dress won, maybe a clear understanding of what true couture is may help.

 

[Papercut Crisis]

listen to tim's podcast. lot's of behind the scene info for this episode.

tim discusses the basic element of couture.... which is hand sewing. couture dresses are not made to bought off the rack and worn on the red carpet. they are conceptual in design.... usually the idea and concept is then copied and trickled down to regular fashion. real couture dresses can cost over $100,000.

of all the dresses, jeffrey's was the most couture-like. for those who didn't understand why jeffrey's dress won, maybe a clear understanding of what true couture is may help.

exactly. they are like concept designs whos styling cue's (sp?) make appearances in less flashy ways in ready to wear.