Project Runway Season 3
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What a great image for Uli....
i cant wait to watch the show tomorrow...
i really think that Laura is just jealous because Jeffrey is finishes...
and i think Jeffrey did do it on his own because as you can see on his workspace it is really secluded from his house so there are no distractions whatsoever... he could sink in on his work without anyone bothering him...
i really think that Laura is just jealous because Jeffrey is finishes...
and i think Jeffrey did do it on his own because as you can see on his workspace it is really secluded from his house so there are no distractions whatsoever... he could sink in on his work without anyone bothering him...
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oh cool! haven't seen this one yet - thanks for the scan!
cant wait for the show tonite!!!
cant wait for the show tonite!!!
I guess I'm weird, I like Laura, she's direct and pulls no punches. I hope Michael wins though. I think he's talented with his sportswear designs but more importantly, he's humble. I think he seems like a really great person. I like it when the "good guy" wins
Michael may be the Fan Favorite but i believe uli will take this she makes clothes that women would wear i could see her Boutique in Saks or BG selling out constantly Especially in S/S.
Michael could you use some time working for large house in europe perhaps he would add great youthful sprit to the almost extinct house of Celine he would be a good asset on that team.
Laura will sell many clothes in New york and eastern europe he evening wear will do very well in those markets.
Jeff will stay in LA ive known about Cosa Nostra for a while i dont see his base really Expanding much outside of the LA market even if he wins his clothes dont really work anywhere but LA and maybe London.
so for ULI wins
Laura Second place
Jeff 3rd
and Mike Chokes in 4th.
Michael could you use some time working for large house in europe perhaps he would add great youthful sprit to the almost extinct house of Celine he would be a good asset on that team.
Laura will sell many clothes in New york and eastern europe he evening wear will do very well in those markets.
Jeff will stay in LA ive known about Cosa Nostra for a while i dont see his base really Expanding much outside of the LA market even if he wins his clothes dont really work anywhere but LA and maybe London.
so for ULI wins
Laura Second place
Jeff 3rd
and Mike Chokes in 4th.
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I might have believed jefferey didn't get help, if he didn't mention the fact that he was working on his seperate collection to pay the bills at the same time!
He didn't even go through his clothes to make sure it was all done, he knew it was all done!!!, meaning he must have finished his clothes a couple of days earlier, and gone through his work before the trip to newyork.
These clothes are made to be "Olympus fashion week ready" not "project runway ready" Some of outfits are seperates, intricate and just too well-detailed and All under two months with time to pair. I like Jefferey's work as a designer but I won't put him above that kind of behaviour.
He didn't even go through his clothes to make sure it was all done, he knew it was all done!!!, meaning he must have finished his clothes a couple of days earlier, and gone through his work before the trip to newyork.
These clothes are made to be "Olympus fashion week ready" not "project runway ready" Some of outfits are seperates, intricate and just too well-detailed and All under two months with time to pair. I like Jefferey's work as a designer but I won't put him above that kind of behaviour.
Just read this from New York Magazine. I love the fug girls and think they are dead on!
The Fug Girls Play Bookie, Make 'Project Runway' Odds
We're not really betting women — well, except for all those days at the track, and those weekends in Vegas, and that football pool. Oh! And March Madness. Okay, so we are really betting women. With the finale of Project Runway mere hours away, here's a highly unreliable, knee-jerk handicapping of the four designers left. Our incredibly unscientific odds-making methods include weighing the snippets of finished outfits and works-in-progress that we saw in last week's episode; combing through the photo galleries of Laura, Michael, Jeffrey, and Uli's respective runway shows; and using our finely honed psychic abilities to read Michael Kors's mind. (Oh, he's not going to send us any dresses, but he does like your hair like that. So good job, you).
So what odds are we giving?
Uli Herzner: 2-1. Her dresses are always immaculately made, but there are times when Uli's flowing, splashy prints veer a tiny bit too far in the Chico's direction — you know, loud, billowy, perfect for commercials in which sneering women lean against a tree and stare out at the ocean. Indeed, the judges were similarly impatient with pattern after beachy pattern, each rendered in a similar halter style. So, our joy at seeing Uli turn to solid fabrics, especially in some pieces we'd actually like to wear, is really what vaults her to the head of the pack. Uli's experiment was both smart and cohesive: That surprising metallic-silver material, which lent itself to two dresses and some well-draped tops, also appears along the necklines of her more familiar flowing pieces.
Jeffrey Sebelia: 5-1. Photos prove he made it to the Bryant Park tent, but the question is, was it just as a decoy? In this season of delicious rule-breaking scandals, it would be tremendous stupidity to think you can duck Tim Gunn's eagle eye; we're going to give Jeffrey more credit than that and assume his intriguing collection wasn't disqualified, because underneath our crotchety tar-hearted demeanors, we are actually big softies. (Also, we had some bonus Diet Cokes today and the world just looks rosier.) And the fact is, he's talented. Jeffrey poured an interesting mix of punk and romanticism into his clothes, and with a few exceptions — including a vaguely p*rn*gr*ph*c slit in one gown — everything tied together well without being boring or one-note. Let's just hope it wasn't all for naught.
Laura Bennett: 10-1. While we freely admit to wanting to be Laura Bennett when we grow up (the fantastic cocktail dresses! the huge apartment! the vintage Louis Vuitton suitcases!), we were somewhat disappointed in her line. Although Tim Gunn and the judges have been consistently concerned about Laura's designs appearing too old, we sort of wish she'd gone balls to the wall with her own cleavage-and-jodhpurs aesthetic, because her attempt to go younger seems to have led to a slightly awkward-looking collection, like the Project Runway equivalent of Oscar de la Renta designing a line of juniors clothing. Also: seriously, formal sequined shorts? That's not the Laura Bennett we know.
Michael Knight: 25-1. If you'd asked us six weeks ago, we would have told you to put money on Michael Knight taking this whole thing home. His thoughtful, well-put-together pieces were consistently some of the best in show. But then he hit a plateau. And now, this: his final collection, which managed to be both underwhelming (what happened to the kid who made white seersucker cargo pants?) and overwhelming (how many different fabrics can he use in one show?). Instead of playing to his considerable strengths and producing a line of sharply tailored, classy, creative sportswear, when it came time to bring out the big guns, he went for "sexy," which we've already seen him fail to produce successfully. And unfortunately, he struck out again. His hemlines were too high, his fabrics and colors were too loud, and, frankly, the whole thing was a little bit tacky. Even worse, it felt tacky in a derivative way: like baby Baby Phat.
The Fug Girls Play Bookie, Make 'Project Runway' Odds
We're not really betting women — well, except for all those days at the track, and those weekends in Vegas, and that football pool. Oh! And March Madness. Okay, so we are really betting women. With the finale of Project Runway mere hours away, here's a highly unreliable, knee-jerk handicapping of the four designers left. Our incredibly unscientific odds-making methods include weighing the snippets of finished outfits and works-in-progress that we saw in last week's episode; combing through the photo galleries of Laura, Michael, Jeffrey, and Uli's respective runway shows; and using our finely honed psychic abilities to read Michael Kors's mind. (Oh, he's not going to send us any dresses, but he does like your hair like that. So good job, you).
So what odds are we giving?
Uli Herzner: 2-1. Her dresses are always immaculately made, but there are times when Uli's flowing, splashy prints veer a tiny bit too far in the Chico's direction — you know, loud, billowy, perfect for commercials in which sneering women lean against a tree and stare out at the ocean. Indeed, the judges were similarly impatient with pattern after beachy pattern, each rendered in a similar halter style. So, our joy at seeing Uli turn to solid fabrics, especially in some pieces we'd actually like to wear, is really what vaults her to the head of the pack. Uli's experiment was both smart and cohesive: That surprising metallic-silver material, which lent itself to two dresses and some well-draped tops, also appears along the necklines of her more familiar flowing pieces.
Jeffrey Sebelia: 5-1. Photos prove he made it to the Bryant Park tent, but the question is, was it just as a decoy? In this season of delicious rule-breaking scandals, it would be tremendous stupidity to think you can duck Tim Gunn's eagle eye; we're going to give Jeffrey more credit than that and assume his intriguing collection wasn't disqualified, because underneath our crotchety tar-hearted demeanors, we are actually big softies. (Also, we had some bonus Diet Cokes today and the world just looks rosier.) And the fact is, he's talented. Jeffrey poured an interesting mix of punk and romanticism into his clothes, and with a few exceptions — including a vaguely p*rn*gr*ph*c slit in one gown — everything tied together well without being boring or one-note. Let's just hope it wasn't all for naught.
Laura Bennett: 10-1. While we freely admit to wanting to be Laura Bennett when we grow up (the fantastic cocktail dresses! the huge apartment! the vintage Louis Vuitton suitcases!), we were somewhat disappointed in her line. Although Tim Gunn and the judges have been consistently concerned about Laura's designs appearing too old, we sort of wish she'd gone balls to the wall with her own cleavage-and-jodhpurs aesthetic, because her attempt to go younger seems to have led to a slightly awkward-looking collection, like the Project Runway equivalent of Oscar de la Renta designing a line of juniors clothing. Also: seriously, formal sequined shorts? That's not the Laura Bennett we know.
Michael Knight: 25-1. If you'd asked us six weeks ago, we would have told you to put money on Michael Knight taking this whole thing home. His thoughtful, well-put-together pieces were consistently some of the best in show. But then he hit a plateau. And now, this: his final collection, which managed to be both underwhelming (what happened to the kid who made white seersucker cargo pants?) and overwhelming (how many different fabrics can he use in one show?). Instead of playing to his considerable strengths and producing a line of sharply tailored, classy, creative sportswear, when it came time to bring out the big guns, he went for "sexy," which we've already seen him fail to produce successfully. And unfortunately, he struck out again. His hemlines were too high, his fabrics and colors were too loud, and, frankly, the whole thing was a little bit tacky. Even worse, it felt tacky in a derivative way: like baby Baby Phat.
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Here is another article from NY Magazine.
Smarty Pants
How Project Runway flatters New Yorkers’ sense of self.
[FONT=Georgia,Garamond,Times]Illustration by Anooj Khan & Sons [FONT=Georgia,Garamond,Times](Photo: Virginia Sherwood/Courtesy of Bravo)[/FONT]
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A t the taping of the season finale of Project Runway in September during Fashion Week, the favorite game among the crowd was playing Who Got the Boot? Each season, Project Runway sends four contestants to the taping of the finale, but only three are still in contention—the fourth is a decoy, already eliminated in an episode that hasn’t yet aired.
After watching the four runway shows, I was sure I’d cracked it: Uli, the elfin, pattern-fixated German, had been axed (the judges having finally wearied of her Miami Beach repetitions), and Jeffrey, the bad boy with the unfortunate scrolling neck tattoo but the surprisingly sophisticated collection, would take the crown. A friend, though, came to the opposite conclusion: Jeffrey’s toast and Uli triumphs. We were both wrong. So was everyone else in the tent. In a twist revealed on-air in a subsequent episode, all four contestants had made it to the finals, so no one had been eliminated, thanks to an uncharacteristic, last-minute act of clemency from the judges.
Overheard
What Cynthia Rowley, Chloe Dao, Robert Verdi, and Others Thought About the 'Project Runway' Bryant Park Finale.
Damn you, Project Runway. You outsmarted us again.
Project Runway, the reality show of the moment, is lucky it wasn’t an instant hit like its Bravo cousin, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Instead, Runway has taken three seasons to break out, but now it’s drawing the largest audiences in Bravo’s history, and it will no doubt top itself with the airing this week of the second part of the season finale. (Queer Eye, meanwhile, flared then fizzled out; seeing the Queer Eye guys at the Project Runway show felt like spotting the doddering monarchs of a past dynasty at the coronation of a new regime.) When it premiered, Runway lacked not only Queer Eye’s catchy conceptual hook but also every known successful trait of the reality genre—it seemed more like an anti-reality show. Instead of friction-friendly characters from all walks of life, we got a roomful of fashion students. Instead of TV-friendly spectacle, we got people at sewing machines. It seemed like Bravo’s sad attempt to niche-market its own reality show, the way channels were doing up and down the dial: Humili-date! Project NASCAR! America’s Next Top Golfer!
As it turns out, Runway is the anti-reality show, but not in the way it first appeared. In fact, the show’s formula now seems, in hindsight, like a no-duh recipe for success: contestants with demonstrable talents pitted in a competition based on skill; each week’s episode climaxing in a satisfying showdown; survivors selected by expert judges, not text-messaging teens. And all of this comes wrapped in a running commentary by contestants who also happen to be witty and (mostly) gay men. It’s the reality show that roasts itself, in real time.
As a result, the show that started as American Idol for fashion designers has inspired its own mini-brood of imitators, from Bravo’s Top Chef (Runway for gourmands) to the forthcoming Top Designer (Runway for fancy chairs). Runway, meanwhile, has been essentially adopted as the official reality show of New York, mostly because it’s the first one that gets this city right. The Apprentice sells a vision of New York, but it’s packaged to appeal to outsiders—that is, exactly the kind of people who think Donald Trump has impeccable business sense and who consider the Trump Plaza an icon of architectural glamour. If Laura Bennett, Runway’s resident New Yorker, were ever a contestant on The Apprentice, she’d cut down the Donald with a withering quip while nursing a baby in one hand and a gimlet in the other.
It’s been suggested that Runway’s success represents the democratization of fashion, part of a new widespread fascination with design, all of which is usually tied in with Michael Graves at Target and the slender beauty of iPods and the metastasizing of home-renovation shows. These are all, no doubt, factors in its larger success, but I think the reason New Yorkers like Runway is because, unlike The Apprentice, with its play-school business challenges, Runway is all about work. Hard work, and the people who are willing to do it, in exchange for a faint promise of rewards but a weekly guarantee of weariness. At its core, Runway fetishizes drudgery, and as we’ve seen this season, there’s no more damning accusation than you didn’t do all the work yourself. The designers, locked away in that harshly lit Parsons dungeon, toil under that damned, remorseless clock as it mocks them with each sweep of its time-lapsed hands. Tim Gunn is the genial jailer, always tut-tutting and tapping his watch. Two more hours, people! Make it work!
That’s why Runway’s October Surprise—everyone made it through to Fashion Week! Hooray! Group hug!—wasn’t just tricky, but felt like a bit of a betrayal. Sure, no one wanted to see the irascible Jeffrey bounced, or the lovable Michael ousted. But what’s made Project Runway so good thus far is that it’s not about forgiveness, or even fairness—it’s about results. It’s about a fantasy world where skilled people work hard against impossible deadlines, while other people make bitchy asides. (And we make bitchy asides about them.) Talent, toil, nasty comments—that’s New York, baby! Who asked Heidi Klum to step in like the governor with a last-minute stay of execution?
So enjoy this week’s finale—my money’s still on Jeffrey—but remember, we might look back at this season as the one when Runway went off the rails. Having a final foursome is heartwarming, but it cuts against the show’s essential ethos, as articulated every week by the Teutonic Klum: “One day you’re in. The next day you’re out.” The same holds true for reality shows.
Smarty Pants
How Project Runway flatters New Yorkers’ sense of self.
[FONT=Georgia,Garamond,Times]Illustration by Anooj Khan & Sons [FONT=Georgia,Garamond,Times](Photo: Virginia Sherwood/Courtesy of Bravo)[/FONT]
[/FONT]
A t the taping of the season finale of Project Runway in September during Fashion Week, the favorite game among the crowd was playing Who Got the Boot? Each season, Project Runway sends four contestants to the taping of the finale, but only three are still in contention—the fourth is a decoy, already eliminated in an episode that hasn’t yet aired.
After watching the four runway shows, I was sure I’d cracked it: Uli, the elfin, pattern-fixated German, had been axed (the judges having finally wearied of her Miami Beach repetitions), and Jeffrey, the bad boy with the unfortunate scrolling neck tattoo but the surprisingly sophisticated collection, would take the crown. A friend, though, came to the opposite conclusion: Jeffrey’s toast and Uli triumphs. We were both wrong. So was everyone else in the tent. In a twist revealed on-air in a subsequent episode, all four contestants had made it to the finals, so no one had been eliminated, thanks to an uncharacteristic, last-minute act of clemency from the judges.
Overheard
What Cynthia Rowley, Chloe Dao, Robert Verdi, and Others Thought About the 'Project Runway' Bryant Park Finale.
Damn you, Project Runway. You outsmarted us again.
Project Runway, the reality show of the moment, is lucky it wasn’t an instant hit like its Bravo cousin, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Instead, Runway has taken three seasons to break out, but now it’s drawing the largest audiences in Bravo’s history, and it will no doubt top itself with the airing this week of the second part of the season finale. (Queer Eye, meanwhile, flared then fizzled out; seeing the Queer Eye guys at the Project Runway show felt like spotting the doddering monarchs of a past dynasty at the coronation of a new regime.) When it premiered, Runway lacked not only Queer Eye’s catchy conceptual hook but also every known successful trait of the reality genre—it seemed more like an anti-reality show. Instead of friction-friendly characters from all walks of life, we got a roomful of fashion students. Instead of TV-friendly spectacle, we got people at sewing machines. It seemed like Bravo’s sad attempt to niche-market its own reality show, the way channels were doing up and down the dial: Humili-date! Project NASCAR! America’s Next Top Golfer!
As it turns out, Runway is the anti-reality show, but not in the way it first appeared. In fact, the show’s formula now seems, in hindsight, like a no-duh recipe for success: contestants with demonstrable talents pitted in a competition based on skill; each week’s episode climaxing in a satisfying showdown; survivors selected by expert judges, not text-messaging teens. And all of this comes wrapped in a running commentary by contestants who also happen to be witty and (mostly) gay men. It’s the reality show that roasts itself, in real time.
As a result, the show that started as American Idol for fashion designers has inspired its own mini-brood of imitators, from Bravo’s Top Chef (Runway for gourmands) to the forthcoming Top Designer (Runway for fancy chairs). Runway, meanwhile, has been essentially adopted as the official reality show of New York, mostly because it’s the first one that gets this city right. The Apprentice sells a vision of New York, but it’s packaged to appeal to outsiders—that is, exactly the kind of people who think Donald Trump has impeccable business sense and who consider the Trump Plaza an icon of architectural glamour. If Laura Bennett, Runway’s resident New Yorker, were ever a contestant on The Apprentice, she’d cut down the Donald with a withering quip while nursing a baby in one hand and a gimlet in the other.
It’s been suggested that Runway’s success represents the democratization of fashion, part of a new widespread fascination with design, all of which is usually tied in with Michael Graves at Target and the slender beauty of iPods and the metastasizing of home-renovation shows. These are all, no doubt, factors in its larger success, but I think the reason New Yorkers like Runway is because, unlike The Apprentice, with its play-school business challenges, Runway is all about work. Hard work, and the people who are willing to do it, in exchange for a faint promise of rewards but a weekly guarantee of weariness. At its core, Runway fetishizes drudgery, and as we’ve seen this season, there’s no more damning accusation than you didn’t do all the work yourself. The designers, locked away in that harshly lit Parsons dungeon, toil under that damned, remorseless clock as it mocks them with each sweep of its time-lapsed hands. Tim Gunn is the genial jailer, always tut-tutting and tapping his watch. Two more hours, people! Make it work!
That’s why Runway’s October Surprise—everyone made it through to Fashion Week! Hooray! Group hug!—wasn’t just tricky, but felt like a bit of a betrayal. Sure, no one wanted to see the irascible Jeffrey bounced, or the lovable Michael ousted. But what’s made Project Runway so good thus far is that it’s not about forgiveness, or even fairness—it’s about results. It’s about a fantasy world where skilled people work hard against impossible deadlines, while other people make bitchy asides. (And we make bitchy asides about them.) Talent, toil, nasty comments—that’s New York, baby! Who asked Heidi Klum to step in like the governor with a last-minute stay of execution?
So enjoy this week’s finale—my money’s still on Jeffrey—but remember, we might look back at this season as the one when Runway went off the rails. Having a final foursome is heartwarming, but it cuts against the show’s essential ethos, as articulated every week by the Teutonic Klum: “One day you’re in. The next day you’re out.” The same holds true for reality shows.
I think this is my favorite quote!
"If Laura Bennett, Runway’s resident New Yorker, were ever a contestant on The Apprentice, she’d cut down the Donald with a withering quip while nursing a baby in one hand and a gimlet in the other."
"If Laura Bennett, Runway’s resident New Yorker, were ever a contestant on The Apprentice, she’d cut down the Donald with a withering quip while nursing a baby in one hand and a gimlet in the other."
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i was there cant wait to see it,,,
i cant wait ti see it tonight because i was there,,,,
edgy models..
and i know who won...http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=247604&stc=1&d=1161196257
i cant wait ti see it tonight because i was there,,,,
edgy models..
and i know who won...http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=247604&stc=1&d=1161196257
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this has probably been said but I just don't see how a good collection is proof of outside help. Lots to say so I'll put it like this:
1) Jeffrey has professional-grade equipment and that alone makes a big difference; even Tim was impressed by it.
2) Some of them got a later start or perhaps just spent more time coming up with ideas than Jeffrey did, and therefore had less time to actually create the pieces. I think Laura was especially shocked because so many of her pieces are more time-consuming (v. intricate beading, etc.), not to mention she had a late start.
3) The other designers were actually pointing out flaws in his work! Uli was saying, "See, it's not that perfect!" and rifling through, noting all that was wrong.
4) Working for two months is different than working for one day. Laura said that he had never shown that workmanship before, and Jeff said that having more time as well as a more demanding audience (fashion week-ers) made the difference. I think it sounds plausible.
5) He was working on his other line, sure, but does he not have employees? Maybe he was just overseeing their work.
1) Jeffrey has professional-grade equipment and that alone makes a big difference; even Tim was impressed by it.
2) Some of them got a later start or perhaps just spent more time coming up with ideas than Jeffrey did, and therefore had less time to actually create the pieces. I think Laura was especially shocked because so many of her pieces are more time-consuming (v. intricate beading, etc.), not to mention she had a late start.
3) The other designers were actually pointing out flaws in his work! Uli was saying, "See, it's not that perfect!" and rifling through, noting all that was wrong.
4) Working for two months is different than working for one day. Laura said that he had never shown that workmanship before, and Jeff said that having more time as well as a more demanding audience (fashion week-ers) made the difference. I think it sounds plausible.
5) He was working on his other line, sure, but does he not have employees? Maybe he was just overseeing their work.
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Well put cestmagique. I agree with everything you said. Also, (and this is a gross gernalization) my best friend's father is a recovering alcoholic and addict and she always talks about his "addictive personality" He has been clean for 15 years now, but you can see those "addictive personality" traits the way he approaches life. When we all go skiing together he is this first one on the lift and the last one down, and skis like crazy all day long, same thing with his work and golf. When he is ensconced in an activity you practically have to drag him away to break him from it.
I could see Jeffery approaching his collection the same way. Being a workaholic instead of an alcoholic or junkie. You still have those addictive tendencies, you just channel them elsewhere. JMO
I could see Jeffery approaching his collection the same way. Being a workaholic instead of an alcoholic or junkie. You still have those addictive tendencies, you just channel them elsewhere. JMO
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