This post was gonna happen sooner or later. I laughed out loud when that model came out with the fruit basket on top of her head.

great show, but that dopey architect looks like she either stepped out of a Kraftwerk video or was a Palmer Girl at one time. i suspect she might have been a man at one time...

Well done, Smokety!

and beta, I swear to god, I was trying to place what she reminded me of. She HAD to have been a Palmer girl, that's hilarious. But she smiles too much.

I'm hoping to see that little blond girl do well. She's got quite an independant streak.

Alright I am totally on board with archinect becoming the unofficial fan site for the-architect-who-is-on-Project-Runway-this-season. Oh oops her name is Laura Bennett, here is her picture:


and here's her bio.

Good calls above, all, except for your use of the word "dopey", betadine. I say that especially because today I, yes, I, a female architect, did something totally dopey on site (check Thread Central to find out what).

vado says runaway you bugeyed freaks...

That Malan guy looks like a vampire.

michael knight !!

is my pick (davey hasselhof?)

coffee filters are near and dear to mi corazon ~

that guy from LA looks like the new santino

ok, i don't have american tv, so maybe i am missing something but my first response after seeing the above was

oh man, thank the small gods i don't gots me no american tv channels here.


why can't we just bring back the irish rovers? huh? Now THAT was television.

just cant see no unicorns...

I totally thought I wouldn't like the architect, simply based on her appearance alone, but I did! Also, that coffee filter dress was awesome--I really liked it and was kinda bummed the judges didn't comment on it at all. I was also a little bummed that the classic but boring dress won the "innovation" challenge given that it was easily the least innovative. The last 2 seasons taught me the same lesson: no matter what they SAY the challenge is about, really they just want to see something pretty and classy. ...not too far off from arch. school.

Ok tonight's show was kinda crap. I am not surprised with the winner, Ms USA chose a very typical Ms USA dress, which is not something that any of us would have been caught dead in, but I completely disagree with who they kicked off.

*Spoiler alert*

I just felt so bad for the guy, and he's obviously got some talent. He's like a cartoon character, and now I feel like he's been scorned and he's going to go off and become the Green Goblin or something. The woman should have been kicked off based on ignorance alone.

The woman should have been kicked off because she didn't even attempt to do any work. No sketches, nothing. HOWEVER: my roommate and I figured that if they kick someone off, it's going to have to be for design reasons and nothing else (like, not just based on hearsay from other people that they couldn't get along in a team or whatever) and thus legally or whatever they were in a bind to make a choice that they could defend. At least with the vampire they can point to something and say "that design wasn't good". It IS a shame though. Honestly I didn't think his dress was even that bad--the back of it over the ass was actually pretty nice. The mismatched boob ruching was pretty bad, though. But not the worst I've seen on that runway, and at least it had more personality than some of the other BORING dresses. Oh well. He was kind of an egotist. ( But I guess they all are...)

Yeah, this episode was a little disappointing. I did like the fabric the pageant dude picked though.

I understand with what you're saying and I have to agree. Unfortunately I also think they did themselves a disservice because the vampire obviously provided some character to the show whereas someone who starts off an exercise not doing what they are supposed to be doing, i.e., sketching, just shouldn't even be there.

It was so sad when he talked about his mom thinking that his stuff would never amount to anything. Then he gets kicked off. Humph.

He also reminded me a little bit of Stewie on The Family Guy.

Yeah. He definitely seemed a bit of the self-pitying type, though. How many of us have heard the same stuff over and over in crits? Maybe not that harsh, and not coming from your mom, but still--if he'd gone to fashion school, he would have heard stuff like that over and over for years. His big thing was that you don't need school to succeed--and for 99.9% of the populace that just isn't true, so in a way I'm glad he didn't get further. You need to learn how to get shit done on time and in a way that satisfies the objectives and is also pretty. That's all pretty hard to learn just on your own. I do feel sorry for him though...but then I suspect that had they needed to create pathos for any of the contestants, pretty much all of them could have come up with something equally difficult and sad about their own backgrounds to say.

That chick is gonna be out the next time she has to work in a team--she's got major maturity issues.

i was watching last week and i realized that i knew
one of them...went to school with 'the chick' i believe...
can't remember her name at the moment..but i saw in
previews that she was arguing with the guy. very strange
to see someone's face after ten years, or more, and try
to remember how you knew someone...still can't quite
remember.

Interesting... she went to my alma mater for awhile. (It had a campus in Tours?!)

Turns out the cute blonde went to massArt, too. Cool! Wonder if she was in the fashion show Pixel went to last year. She would be about the right age.

yeah...
that's her. i think i lived on the same floor as her
in the arts interest house at penn state...not sure what
year...but she's the same age as me..so it sounds right.

Yeah ... I was disappointed that the vampire was voted off. His dress was weird, but I think the panel gave too much deference to Miss USA -- what the hell does she know? Did you see her hair? She looks like she was en route to a prom in Houston, Texas circa 1986 (I can say that ... I went to high school in Texas). Wasn't she wearing acid-washed jeans and buckskin Ugg boots? Feh.

But if this was a design competition, then the Ohio girl should have been voted off. She contributed nothing, as others have said. I loved the fact that the panel liked her partner's dress, even when she indicated that she would never have her name on such a dress. And Vera Wang, Heidi Klum and Miss USA are, like, "We loooove it!!!" Boo-yah!!!!

But did anyone watch the episode of Megastrucutres on the National Geographc Channel ... the one about the Port of Rotterdam? Two words: ROBOT CARS. Awesome.

Malan's gown was inexcusable !!! And Heidi told the Ohio girl that she BARELY made it to the next round. And what the fuck did Vera Wang contribute?? All she said was that so-and-so's gown was "very modern." In depth.

The Ohio girl has to stay just for more drama in upcoming episodes. Vincent from Santa Monica is like that crazy guy in studio. Those sleeves on is gown were trekkie.

ha ha ha ha, Vincent is TOTALLY "that crazy guy"! Except less violent than ours was. Awwww... I dig him. I, too, liked the back of his dress (and it was more interesting than a lot of the "mid-range" ones, too.) I thought the architect's dress was classic Pageant-wear but from the waist up it looked awful on the moel! If you can't get something to look good on a MODEL...

And yeah, I was excited to see Vera but then totally let down as she contributed nothing of value (or whatever she did contribute, they edited out in favor of including more snippets of bitchy comments from Angela).

dude i freaking loved tonight's show! the PUPPIES! i loved the puppies!

However, what the fuck. 2 weeks in a row that bitch Angela from Ohio should have gotten kicked off, her stuff is absolute shit. It's very clear that she's a one note wonder, she was WEARING the same type of skirt that she designed for fuck's sake.

Sorry I'm a little worked up.

Who got voted off? Wait, don't tell me!

I won't tell you but it should have been Angela again.

Also I'm DYING to know what happens next week, who breaks what rule. I didn't even know there were rules. Anybody got any leads on spoiler web sites?

Ugh, I watched the preview on the Bravotv.com website, expected to learn what rule had been broken . . . no such luck. Argg.

Jay, the winner of the first season, went to my alma mater, but never graduated from there. But my old university now looks upon him as a demi god.

Angela is still in and it's a godsend! She will continue to be a divisive force which is why you watch these shows anyway. Last night's episode... the dogs... the best! Angela knows she sucks, she gets threatened with expulsion two weeks in a row and it's just like those people that pass studio and you never understand how the hell, especially when they also fail some friendlier folks. The one that was expelled last night deserved it. She has been doing blah work from the start. Angela's stuff... "streetwalker attire" I think is what they called it.

if angela were being kept on for dramedy then malan would still be there as well!

i agree taget snowboarder girl's stuff was blah, and she seemed to be a one-note, at least in comparison to some of the other competition this season.

TIP! search best week ever blog for the best guess i've heard so far at the scandal.

i miss malan.

i love the cute blonde alison.

i like that laura is an architect. but some of her clothes look more cheap than elegant, and i was mildly offended by her reaction to the doggies.

and i was a little suprised that bradly's architect's/structured outfit was one of the favorites last night. but i did think it was unique, good to see him pull it off after watching him struggle for 35 minutes.

what's up with that girl bonnie who they hardly show any footage of, and whipped out the cute black mod dress with the big white jacket!!!

and does kaynes hair color and general aire bother anyone else?

stephanie you are so resourceful. thanks for that.

I agree that Kayne is a bit odd but he's gay and from Oklahoma so you have to give him the benefit of the doubt on that one.

I also really like alison. She seems really nice and chic, and definitely inspired. I like her DIY attitude. Speaking of DIY:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/07/27/project.runway/index.html

In case anyone wants to do the full tour!

I am watching a re-run of last night's show right now because I love the doggies so much.

Malan has a web presence

Thanks for the wrap-up, stephanie. I just watched the runway portion of the show (I never see the beginning as I'm usually gettin' the kid to bed), so I didn't see Laura's reaction to the doggies - but I loved what tiny glimpse I got of her outfit, the neckline looked so cool!

My biggest problem with the show is they spend too much camera time on Heidi and not enough on the outifts - I've never enjoyed watching runways because the panning and movement and all never lets you (or me, at least) get a good look at what the outfit is: how it is structured, the silhouette, the interraction of fabrics, the details...I'm just not quick enough to get all that in a split-second moving shot. Oh well.

I, also, was afraid that Bradley's outfit would fail miserably - I like him, he reminds me of my best man - but happy that he did well. The skirt pleating was very nice.

LB- I have the same problem. I see something on TV and think, "ooh, that's great", but then when I see a still pic in a magazine, I find three different details that make it horrible.

whenever i feel like i don't have a life, i visit this thread and feel better about myself. thanks archinect. i will be able to make it through another day.

ouch vado.

did you know that this season's garments are up for auction on the project runway site?

i used to think malan's "everyone is beautiful" stance was charming, but after skimming his blog all i hear in my head is that creepy motherfucking laugh. thanks SMcSS

is anyone else disturbed by the frequent appearance of laura's chest?

anorexic birdcage + plunging necklines does not equal sexy...

it seems that all of her designs have that same plunging neckline too...

architphil, that low neckline on a woman with little/no cleavage is what I would call "style". Remembering that style isn't always traditionally "pretty".

I think ochona posted here once the saying "Style is taking what you got and putting it where you don't." I think it's appropriate here.

vado, I know too much about your TV viewing habits to be offended by your post above ;-)

Jeeeezus kee-rist! I just followed stephanie's link to the auction site above - I would seriously consider wearing Laura's last outfit but it's tailored to size 0 to 2 for a woman who is 5'-10" to 6' tall!!!!

Holy crap do I feel tubby now. No wonder people hate the fashion industry so much!

i dont watch tv i watch dvd's. big difference. the king has just dissolved parliament and oliver cromwell is pissed!

I'm like the opposite of that sized person. If you took that size woman and squished her down to 5'-4" and gave her boobs, you might have me. I don't hate the fashion industry for designing for that sized person, I understand that we all design to a certain set of limits and that those are established norms in that industry. However, I would really be awed by a designer if they could take someone like me and design an outfit that would make me look good in pictures.

I wish PR would make that into a challenge...."design an outfit for your model wearing a fat suit" or something. I won't hold my breath :o/

vado, as you pointed out here your DVD viewing isn't always educational - so how was 'Dorm Life 4', anyway?

(Sorry, vado, just teasing you sweetie)

vado,
you can watch project runway on dvd.

lb, downfall was a very educational film and well dorm life 4 was probably educational for somebody. however, it was given to me by mistake. cromwell wins by the way.

like myriam, i can only imagine laura the architect saw the ep1 coffee filter dress Michael made and decided he's her guy. I think any architect that saw the coffee filter dress was probably as impressed as i, myriam and Laura were. I like to think that dress was the impetus of their partnership.

However, laura is not a fashion designer. She continues to make clothes that she would wear herself. Rudolph Schindler made his own silk shirts, Michael Rotondi makes his own lapelless jackets. Not a fashion designer do these things make, but rather reinforce the perception of our overbearing concern for design at all levels, our "supermaker" mentality.

blackman gets no camera time. See what happens when you're soft-spoken and a niceguy?

project runway now being torrented to YouTube. I dont have cable, either.

the last time i saw you
you seemed so much older
your famous blue raincoat
was torn at the shoulder...

by the way, heidi klumb's nose does not look real. i doubt it's her own.

WELL,
she does have seal babies.

lb... i don't dispute that the whole plunging neckline thing is a style... or that it can be quite nice... i've actually liked some of her clothes... but her first design and last design both had the plunging neckline with poofy fringes... seems like it might be a one-liner sorta thing for her... i'd just like to see her try something a little different.

Agreed, architphil, most of her work that we've seen looks quite similar.

Ummm, stephanie, am I embarassing myself by asking what 'seal babies' means? Oh dear...

Aaaah, yes, thank you for clarifying: being with Seal is the only thing about Heidi that makes her bearable for me.

Assistant Director of a British private school at an art camp in Paris (??!?)

i think she meant 'prostitute'
and the judges said the top and bottom were 'well constructed'
is that a similar compliment to 'she's nice' in the fashion
industry. i felt bad for the other girl, since she seemed to
be more down to earth and went with her more plausible story.
i think she may have not been chosen for that final group either way if
she'd finished her jacket and they'd have had no excuse to
keep angela on any longer.

thanks for that torrent link btw marlin...got a chance to
watch the whole show last night.

My favorite part was when Heidi goes, "It looks cheap, no?"

Speaking of looking cheap, what the hell was Heidi herself wearing tonight?!? Those bubble shorts? Jeez.

They seriously need to show some more Michael Knight. His outfit for the puppy challenge was AWESOME. I loved the neckline.

Yeah he's getting the shaft. Also I hold the following opinions:

Aside from the whole "rule-breaking thing", which was a just decision, I think they made another poor choice for who went home tonight. I think the loser should have been the other loser, and the winner should have been the other winner (mainly out of spite as I really loathe the person that won). The only reason she won is that she had a great support group. If left to her own design, she would have lost for sure.

Speaking of, screw this team shite. That really screws things up.

Yes, Angela's group saved her. here's how I bet it went down, from countless similar group work situations:

Laura's maturity and experience helped her pull the good bits out of Angela's idea and massage it into something better, while manipulating Angela so Angela felt like she was being the leader, when really it was Laura leading; (hello, client management in architecture!!!)

and Michael's sense of style and structure put the outfilt together (with Laura's classy toning.)

Laura and Michael would make a very good team. In fact, they do.

baby seals love this thread!

Bonnie was boring and her design BLEW MASSIVE CHUNKS. The other dude was better overall even though his design sucked this week.

Robert's design, sorry, was HORRIBLE. It was composed of elements that I could go out and buy right now and put together if I wanted to look like ass: a trip to NY & Company and a trip to REI and voila, there you have it. I'm sure it was good on paper but the execution was completely unoriginal.

As for Bonnie's design, it looked exactly like her sketch so if the guy thought it was bad then he shouldn't have picked it to begin with.

I think my problem is that it seems like the stronger designers are going home before the obvious gimps of the bunch. Speaking of, it's only a matter of time before Bradley hangs himself with his lack of time management skills. We all like to procrastinate but come on.....

THere aren't really any obvious standouts this year like there have been in the last two years.

newsflash: there are enough clothing designers there are enough architects there are enough interior designers there are not enough nurses. become a nurse save a life wear cool scrubs.

'Cool scrubs'?!?! The 80s are indeed back in style!!!! When do you start nursing school, vado?

Agree about Robert's design, DubK. And with myriam's overall assessment of how the team dynamic played out.

michael knight, gettin' hott (pants) just in time for the second half o' the sho' !!



oh yeah !!



perhaps 'twas because michael kors was back on the scene .. michael x2 woo hoo ~ (bad designer/good critic) "it's fashion, lighten up"

Yeah I really like Michael Knight. I am also going to go out on a limb and call favorites now....Alison, Uli, Jeffrey, Michael, Laura, Kayne....although I think Laura needs to shed her specific genre design aesthetic if she wants to win.

And although I didn't mind Angela's dress this week, I still don't really like her.


PS. Just out of curiosity, do you think Michael and Jeffrey are gay? I can't tell.

Michael and Jeffery aren't gay.

I like Michael and Kayne's designs best most consistently; I like Laura but I agree, all her stuff is the same genre and needs to break free badly; Uli is good; and i have a feeling Alison is good but I haven't seen anything amazing from her yet to prove that. I don't like Jeffrey. Probably partly because he's that jackass in studio who always buts into other people's shit. Argh. Plus he hasn't wowed me once yet.

michael and jeffrey are gay. in fact, anyone who watches this show is gay. in fact, me even visiting this thread may mean that i am gay. now, for all you travellers, get through those tedious security checks with not only your see through bag for your carry on items, get yerself a see through outfit. you'll never have to wait on queue again.

Jeffrey finally did something I liked. Laura's suffocating gestalt is beginning to irritate me. And Michael? I love Michael. I think I'm embarking on a serious crush of Michael. He conceptualizes everything!

laura is such a bitch....boring and stupid too

[capslock]OMG ALISON OUT WTF[/capslock]

and vincent loves everything he does .. creepy 'i was turned on' huh?

michael k. x2 + 2 wins ina row go go !!

actually, alison's early design was looking very pretty, i thought. too bad she changed her mind .. c'est la vie ~



i thought the color and repetition would be fantastique though 'twas a bit boxy but c'mon, she was a good one !! (they seemed to bypass kayne for his past performance ..)

I liked the "paper brioche" on her dresser's dummy! But it looked horrid on her model. I would have much rather seen that dull dude whose name escapes me get kicked off--his "cocktail dress!" was bad and they didn't even say anything about it. I didn't like Angela's either.

rockstar supernova has much better costumes (and cosmetics)!

Go luke!

treekiller, congrats on 300...way to go!

i liked allison's piece, but i swore they were going to call it Gehry-esque....

WHY THE HELL IS VINCENT STILL ON?

stephanie

i think it's because he has 'personality'...allison was too nice
and did add anything to the story line. and that factors into
who gets eliminated...it even says so at the end of the show.

but i thought he was the weakest of the bunch this week.

I hate that they kept Vincent just because he adds conflict. Alison actually won a challenge and they axed her, when Vincent hasn't won shit.

Jeffrey is a complete tool, but his design was my favorite this week.

why the hell does that architect woman (Laura) think she is super righteous and always correct? That 'only for nuts' dress was so bad. As an architect she could have played with surfaces, geometries etc...the possibilities were endless. I hope she gets capped soon.

I totally agree, she's a bitch and her designs are all totally 2-dimensional. Classy, but 2-dimensional.

I DON'T buy the "personality" business in keeping people on...if this were true malan would not be gone nor would keith.

laura it totally a bith and totally BORING!

malan is gone because he snubbed project runway for season 2. the producers looked for the slightest bit of weakness from him, then told the judges to 'out' him. it didn't help that miss america fell for kayne's unwalkable evening gown (sad sad, so sad.)



malan :'(

Malan is gone because he sucked. Victor is still in because a) he works hard and stands up for his stuff and b) Allison's design made her model look fat, the unforgiveable in fashion design. The end.

I am 4000 miles away from home and this is the only thread I wanted to check!

I can't believe Alison got kicked off! Granted I didn't see it but I will reiterate my earlier statement that they seem to have kicked off stronger designers eariler in favor of the weaker ones. It seems to me that the great injustice is that Vincent, Robert and especially Angela are still there. I'm sorry but their designs are weak and honestly, can you imagine a final 3 with the three of them? No, that would be pathetic. I don't even think Laura should be in the final 3 and I do like her stuff.

I will now propose a theory for the purpose of causing an argument: do you think that there is ANY chance that they favor gay men over women on this show? Almost a reverse discrimination? Discuss.

whoops, Vincent* , not Victor.

I actually thought Robert should have gotten kicked off this week. His design was absolutely my least favorite. I definitely see their argument with Allison's, but his blew, and they let him go with the middling batch!

I don't buy the argument that they keep people on for personal drama, because a) Vincent is hardly dramatic, b) They've barely shown Angela "off-runway" for the last two weeks (like, you don't even see her making her dresses anymore) and c) Allison is *beautiful*. Her looks are absolutely made for TV!

allison was kinda humdrum though..

the guy that got knocked off could've been knocked off weeks
ago. i guess he didn't really have a personality either though..
but he also never had a design that was interesting.

i think in general talent wins...but there is always a lot of drama...
so i think that does play into how things go.

for instance...angela is back at it because of this mother challenge..
and what's up with her saying 'it's embarrassing' to the judges..
it's one thing to critique someone elses work..it's another thing
to throw someone under the bus. she was trying to get her mother
to get in on it too. very unprofessional imo.

and vincent has been involved in his share of drama...but he's
also a freak which keeps things intersting. and he actually won
this week...so who knows he may actually have talent.

you malan sucks??? i just ordered my entire fall wardrobe from malan. you are way off base myriam!

As glad as I am that crazy lady finally got sacked tonight - let's face it, that crap was the last straw - I think it was very wasteful of them to fly her all the way to Paris to kick her off. Flaunting and irresponsible, especially in a time where we need to be more conscious of energy and fuel consumption, not more extravagant. Hella good advertising for Delta though, who's likely to face lots and lots of litigation after this past weekend's crash. Skymiles tickets, here I come....

I love Michael more and more every week. He just keeps getting better and better--really coming into himself as a designer. I say it's Michael, Uli, and... Laura(?) in the final three. It'll be tough between Laura and Jeffrey for the 3rd spot. Maybe Kayne can get back on track... that shirt wouldn't have been so Elvisy had he not specifically chosen to go with a) the belt and b) the flared-leg pant as accoutrements! Ack.

kanye should feel lucky that angela was just a *little* more tacky than him. What was she thinking with those flowers on her butt? She looked like she got her outfit off a clearance rack at Ross's.

I want it to come down to Michael, jeffrey (even though I hate him), and and Laura. I think Uli showed that she doesn't have much range tonight.

Angela has always been more tacky than Kayne. At least he designs stuff. She just makes a garment and then stickes rosettes all over it. It's just sad that it took a French woman to send her home!

I feel like this season, it's less about people designing things and more about a personal style that's being replicated and iterated. It's disappointing.

Yeah it's a disappointing season. For the most part they all just keep doing their thang. Laura's dress this time around though was a very elegant surprise. I loved the way one of the wrapped pieces went over one boob and into the other.

after missing watching 3 or 4 weeks of the show live last night's episode totally restored my love for project runway.

how great was it hearing in a french accent "you look like a bad pop star"

kayne annoys me, but i think his tackiness is hilarious, and i am thankful that angela is gone, because she was just hands down annoying.

i'm excited to see what happens next. paris design challenge and trot around town and back to the states for elimination?

T-35 minutes to showtime ~

go michael + jeffrey + lauruli (can't decide on the third)

vincent gets himself off for the last time .. au revoir !!

and laura's startin' to show (that her big fur collar stylee won't cut the mussed turd) architects should do couture best but we haven't seen much form this season what gives? where's the issey miyake or alexander mcqueen? bah! maybe jeffrey was the mcqueenest tonight ..

the passion went outta fashion!

WTF with laura?! i wonder how long it takes to film this show, because it doesn't seem long ago that she found out she was pregnant, and all of the sudden she's definately showing.

i thought she was outsky this week, but there was a harmonious sigh of relief when it was vincent.

i didn't like the way jeffrey's american model looked in the dress. i liked it on the french lady though.

and i loved the back of kayne's dress. even though i think he is mostly tacky, i liked his showing last night.