Last night’s premiere of Project Runway attempted to breathe new life in the aging series by featuring a new style of introductions. Plus: Tim and Heidi announced that one — or more — designers would be eliminated right away.
Um, doesn’t someone go home every first episode?
Tim and Hedi told the contestants that they were “still auditioning” to be on the show, AND YET: we were watching them on the show. So. Instead of sixteen designers, there were SEVENTEEN designers. Mind-blowing, guys. Truly. Fetch the smelling salts.
Anyway. The challenge involved choosing something from your suitcase you’d want to design with — and then, in a ProjRun twist, passing it to the person to your right. Casanova, who had chosen $1,070 Dolce & Gabbana pants from his suitcase, and realized that they would be sliced up to create someone’s crappy runway ensemble summed up the situation thusly: “shit happens.”
Actually, “shit happens” is what the runway presentation should have been called. With only 5 hours to whip up something — and fabric from the “Mood Annex” (WTF) — the outfits reached new levels of hideosity.
Highlights and lowlights from the runway:
It wasn’t discussed, and he was “safe,” but I thought A.J.’s frothy little frock was supercute.
Gretchen’s slinky little dress with beaded details seemed actually wearable, and she was named the “winner” of the challenge.
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