Don't call me Wednesday nights or you'll see just how bitchy I can be when robbed of my fashion reality TV. Bravo has brought back Project Runway. I may be the only straight man in America who loves Project Runway. (No, really, I'm straight, not that there's anything wrong with that.) There's just something about watching a competition almost entirely based upon the contestant's creativity and skill. Instead of a battle of personalities and backstabbing like we see on so many "reality TV" shows, this is about design, art, culture.
That crybaby Andrae has got to go.
I'm sure as the show goes on I'll quickly acquire favorites, just as I'll learn to despise some of them. Last season I kept yelling at the TV set, "Why won't that bitch just die?" (Wendy Pepper.) I'm sure I wasn't the only one. In the end, they picked the designer my wife and I both thought should win.
This year the designers look like they have more skill. They also look like they have stronger personalities. Should be fun.
I'm not sure who should've won this week's challenge. The theme of the challenge was, "How far are you willing to go for fashion?" It was "The Clothes Off Your Back": the designers could only use for material what they wore to the welcoming party.
My wife thinks Santino should have won, since he was willing to live up to the theme and sacrifice his favorite leather jacket without a thought. Too...fascist, too totalitarian for me.
I agreed with the one judge who said Chloe (the winner) designed an outfit that looked like there wasn't a challenge at all. I think you gotta give her points for that.
I think my wife and I both agree with Bravo's website fans that Daniel's outfit was the best. I think that maybe the producers might have used a heavy hand here to discourage that choice (the show's disclaimer admits the producers have an influence on the judging) as they already had enough of a storyline with Daniel's return from season one. Winning would've been "over the top" as Michael Kors would say.
Bravo has added a blog, and even a podcast, from Tim Gunn, giving us the ultimate insider look to the program. His observations (while corporate) are pretty interesting, too, and they should, given his biography.
