It seems by about the 5th episode it’s pretty easy to determine who will go to Bryant Park on Project Runway based on the fact that there are always three strong designers whose ideals and aesthetics are far superior. The show at the tents always manages to annoy because it’s so early, usually on a Friday, during fashion week. There was a bit of an upset as J. Lo was supposed to be the guest judge but called in injured saying she hurt her foot. P.S.- this became somewhat suspect after the next day when she completed that triathalon thingy she’s been bitching about for months now. I don’t think sitting front row at a runway show is as taxing on the foot as running, biking and swimming I don’t care to find out how many miles. Anyfaker, Tim Gunn sat in and I actually find that more suitable anyway. I’m sure the designers were pissed to have missed an opportunity to get their looks in front of J.Lo’s eyes. We won’t spoil it all for you but if you want to see all the runway shows you can click HERE. Another PR finale show annoyance is having to sit through the absolute shite collections of the designers you know didn’t make it but have to show so as to not spoil the subsequent episodes. Here’s an idea: Start the season’s earlier!! I absolutely cannot stand Kenley -her attitude sucks and Michael Kors was right -she will never make it in fashion because of her unwillingness to even hear opposing remarks. It bothered me that she got to show. Joe’s collection was this vomitous paisley nightmare that had absolutely no cohesion with the random last two looks. And Suede, oh, third person Suede -this annoyed the crap out of me too. As I said upon the first episode, Suede is the Kayne of this season -bad taste mixed with over, unconfounded, confidence. It’s been pretty obvious based on talent alone who the final three are -Korto, Jerrell and Leanne they’ve stood out for so long and based on what I saw on the runway, the winner is….you’ll have to watch and find out.
The fashion weeks continue in Europe -where we tend to prefer them- so our London bunkers will be contributing coverage of their favortie looks. In wrapping up NY fashion week -it was your usual symphony of drama and crowds -drunken, sweaty, over-capacity events and such. One refreshing thing we found was something more uncomfortable than our aching feet stomping the pavement in 4″ heels at the end of each day -those insane animated opinions in the StyleFile section of Style.com. What the EFF is that about?! Creeeepy. Their eyes follow your cursor! How disturbing. If any of you actually clicked on one of them, do let us know what you found.
Since we’re on the subject, we found some fun quotes from fashion week that StyleFile collected. Also, if you missed Matt Damon’s comments on Palin, the video is below. Source of all written quotes is Style.com whose brave writers dare drop a question about a Republican during fashion week. Although I agree with everyone here, how can people be shocked?! We’re coming off an 8 year term with a monkey as our president. The man can’t even put together a bloody sentence and people are surprised about an under-qualified hockey mom on the republican ticket?! And Matt D. needs to go online because he said he “can’t believe people aren’t talking more about this” and from what I see it’s all anyone is talking about. I’m even finding a place for it on a site dedicated to style.
“Being the mayor of 9,000 people qualifies a person to be vice president of the United States? Are you kidding me? 9,000 people live on my block. In New York, if you’re waiting for an elevator and there’s only 9,000 people in it, you say, ‘it’s not too bad, I can get in.’ I cannot express strongly enough my contempt for this.” -Fran Lebowitz at the Diane von Furstenberg post-show dinner.
“Minus the feathered hair, she looks exactly like the really smiley, chubby-cheeked girl eating a gyro on that poster that’s been in all the Greek restaurants for, like, the last 15 years. That said, my mom looooves her”. -John Cameron Mitchell at the Marc Jacobs after-party
“She’s a female George Bush as far as I’m concerned.” -Peter Brant at the Marc Jacobs show
“She’s a Republican and she shoots wolves from helicopter, so right away I’m not going to like her.” -Bernadette Peters at the Zac Posen dinner
If you missed Saturday Night Live, like we did, click below. We absolutely knew Tina Fey would be making a cameo appearance as Sarah Palin and we figured it would be in the opening skit…
Since Nicole Colovos had something to do with my foray as a stylist at Harper’s Bazaar, I’ve always been cheering her and her husband since taking over the Helmut Lang label. It’s obviously a challenge to fill an aesthetic such as that of Lang but I’d say this show has been my favorite thus far…
I love Zac Posen, even after seeing this show. I must admit I really hated some of the looks (see the whole show at Style.com). Firstly, I hate people dressing like it’s 1982 and the Blanche Deverough peach colored hues of some of these looks just recalled the worst of the ’80’s -in a really bad way. This was the positive I could extract:
3.1 Phillip Lim -another collection with some wonderful pieces and a subtle Spanish inspiration…really hate those bow-tied belts though, they are a huge distraction.
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