Project Runway Season 6

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Project Runway: Smells Like Low Tide
By Brian Moylan, 12:03 PM on Fri Sep 4 2009, 9,776 views (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

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Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to craft an episode around surf wear, the delusion it won't be the worst episode ever. The vision of picking a strong teammate , the delusion that it will save you.

Yes, that's right, last night's episode might have been the worst single episode in Project Runway history. Yes, that's right, even worse than season four menswear debacle. Nothing about this episode made sense, from the challenge to the judging to the way teams were picked. It's almost like new team Bunim/Murray Productions is a first year teacher in an inner city school: the new season starts and everyone's fresh and full of ideas, but around three weeks in, they realize they're in an impossible situation and they just start doing anything they can just to make it through the day. Wait until episode nine!

Anyway, because we're now in California, we had to go to the beach. Not a bad idea, but calling in the extras from Blue Crush to give a half *** tutorial on surf wear just wasn't cutting it. And then the big twist! A second look! Oh, we've never seen that trick before. And the look has to be avant-garde. What the **** does the cutting edge have to do with clothes that are usually found at Pacific Sunwear in the mall. Absolutely nothing. When they did a couture/wearable challenge in season four, at least the two made sense together. Also, the picking of the teams was totally ludicrous. A "team leader" was selected arbitrarily and then each designer picked a mate. Stupid! So you had "leaders" like Mitchell, perhaps the most ill-equipped designer in Runway history as a "leader" for no good reason. It makes no sense. And we just used scare quotes. We hate this ****ing challenge.

What We Hate:

* The challenge: See above.
* Ms. Kors MIA: Where is the great orange lady? Does he have some more important work designing dress shirts that are going to end up at Marshalls? Max Azria was a good replacement though, but he could have ratcheted up the bitchy a little.
* Rachel Bilson: Thanks for your whole two line contribution to the episode. And what was she even doing there. She has nothing to do with surfing or fashion and she's not even that famous. Come on, Runway. If you're just going to pick people at random, have Heidi haul Seal in. He's just as qualified.
* Getting Ready Montages: Only one shot of Logan shirtless and his back is to the camera? What a waste.
* Models of the Runway: While we promised to never mention this show again, we realized that it is totally ****ing up the way they do challenges. In past seasons, they would have had a team and they would have made one outfit and the model not being used would just cool her heels back stage. Now, we have to make sure that every model gets used every week, hence why every pair had to make two looks rather than focus on one. Now we hate the show even more.

What We Love:

* Heidi's Outfit at Judging: The navy-and-black-striped knit dress was a stunner. So nice to see her pull off some fashion while she's not pregnant for a brief spell.
* The Georgia O'Keefe Movie Commercials: It's so Lifetime.

This week judging got really sticky when the judges learned that Mitchell and Ra'Mon's outfits were pretty much designed and made exclusively by Ra'Mon. Ra'Mon won and Mitchell, in the bottom for the third time in a row, finally got the boot. While we like Ra'Mon's first flowing brown, blue, and teal creation, we were not a fan of the "gored by a squid" ink blot neon thing that was his avant garde look. In our opinion, the three best duos of the night were Althea and Kenley Jr. with a cute beach wrap and a magnificent glittery flapper number, boyfriend Logan and Christopher with a wearable gold-inflected top and pants and a stunningly huge gold-inflected dress, and Carol Hannah and Shirin with a giant sarong and bikini combo and green gem-toned gown. Of course, none of those would be on top.

For more Runway injustice and total suckitude—to the videos!

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My favourite line from that article;

* Getting Ready Montages: Only one shot of Logan shirtless and his back is to the camera? What a waste.

 

[STYLEOClDE]

I wanted Chris and Logan to win this challenge.

 

[Katie123]

this season has been pretty disappointing so far. i've not seen anyone i should be watching out for. the winning looks (particularly in this challenge) are straight out of design school and nothing special

 

[Flashbang]

Dang, I can't watch the new episode. Youtube's staff are so fast banning their user

 

[waxy]

Finally, Mitchell's out. I think he's nice and funny, but his work ethics sucked big time.

 

[waxy]

this season has been pretty disappointing so far. i've not seen anyone i should be watching out for. the winning looks (particularly in this challenge) are straight out of design school and nothing special

so true. everything and everyone seem so amateurish.

and one more thing, project runway is better off in NYC.

 

[honeycombchild]

^ I agree. I'm not a fan of the LA move personally.

 

[Belowen]

I agree with who went home this week, but the top two and bottom two were definitely not who I would have chosen! But to be honest all of the outfits were ugly this week.

 

[meganleigh]

in this episode it was easy to predict who would be in the bottom, and i had a feeling all along that just because ra'mon 'did all the work himself' would win, just to prove a point

i hope the designs get better as the season goes on, i mean i see where some people can do amazing things they just havent proven themselves yet

 

[papa_levante]

Friggin' loved the winning look.

mylifetime.com

 

[Geostud]

^Me too. But I hated this challenge... a lot.

 

[papa_levante]

Yup, I hated the challenge too. Sure, the idea was to get two opposite ends of the fashion spectrum, but it was too messy.

 

[silk skin paws]

This episode's challenge was better. The eliminated designer was no lost. She was boring and I never found any of her outfits interesting.

 

[from: sophia]

What an awful season I feel like this show has lost all of its ambition on the producers part and also the designers feel a little lack luster.

 

[Gainsbourg]

What an awful season I feel like this show has lost all of its ambition on the producers part and also the designers feel a little lack luster.

I think the exact same thing! lo This season doesn't have any oomf, it's not capturing my attention that well either which is odd for me. And there are a few designers I like but I don't even remember their names, just when I see their faces. And honestly some of them this season don't seem to be anywhere near the caliber of past contestants, I've been wondering how some of them even got through auditions because I know they used to be pretty tough to get accepted into

 

[Jujuritinha]

I don't know if i should post this here but here are the finalists collections!!
I have no idea who the finalists are and you won't find either so i don't think there's a problem!! so here it goes....

Collection #1
Collection #2
Collection #3

 

[December_25th]

I agree with the previous posts... none of the designers so far have been that remarkable or memorable for me. I loved Althea's design this week though, simple but chic. I would totally take it home!

 

[MissMagAddict]

What an awful season I feel like this show has lost all of its ambition on the producers part and also the designers feel a little lack luster.

I agree & I didn't even bothering watching it this week. I suppose I'll catch up w/it on demand later in the week.

I'd rather watch Top Chef. This season is really good

 

[MyNameIs]

Yeah, I have to join in with the complain. There don't seem to be any interesting designers. Take this past week for example. I didn't think there was anything truly atrocious, but there was nothing really amazing either. I did like the winning design, a lot, but I wouldn't call it amazing and besides that, there was nothing special at all. Same with last week too. Actually, same has been every week (save for pregnancy challenge, the winning look was stunning). I wonder if there just aren't any talented designers left who would want to be on the show? Or maybe it's the boring challenges, I don't know. But at this point, I think even The Fashion Show had more interesting creations.

 

[Belowen]

Another so-so episode...

I thought Carol Hannah's dress was way over-rated... Althea's was my favourite outfit but it looked poorly constructed to me...

The bes part of the episode was either "I can't even compete with your hotness right now Logan" when he was walking around without a shirt on Or Heidi saying model years are like dog years, or when she was complaining about the boobs and saying she's obsessed with boobs