by WindUpDoll
Project Runway always starts with the longest episode recaps ever. It’s great to get your bearings and make sure you’ve got a glass of water or a beer, but it sure is a lot of screen time for something we’ve already seen. We’ve only got one hour people, give me something new.
Sweet P is missing Kit, and others in the apartment keep calling her Kit, which doesn’t help. Ricky is feeling inadequate, but he doesn’t cry. We fly through the model selection, thankfully. Heidi once again ducks actually telling contestants what they’re doing and leaves that to Tim and a field trip.
So over the Brooklyn Bridge they go. Christian is thrilled to be going ‘borough.’ He’s thinking he’s going to have to design something for Linda Richman. They’re at the river and have to look inside a warehouse for their raw materials. This week, their challenge is to create an iconic denim look with hundreds of jeans and white cotton. Of course, they have to run to get their raw materials. Sorry, Chris. Sweet P loses a shoe in the process. A representative from Levi’s actually tells the contestants what the challenge is. She’s a little bit better than the Hershey’s woman, but not much.
Tim tells contestants that Levi’s also supplied a bunch of notions. Notions!
Ricky sometimes makes hats out of denim. Of course he does. He’s going corset for his iconic look. Jillian is going for a military jacket look. Rami is emphasizing his non-Americanness by being fashion-forward.
Chris and Christian have a mini-argument about how to clean denim. Chris revels in Christian’s youth. We get a mini-montage of Christian whining. Can someone come up with a reality show just featuring Chris and Christian as they open up a couture house for drag queens? I would so totally watch that.
Victorya is creating a coat. Again. Jillian is surprised, and annoyed, that Victorya is making a coat after the last challenge that just about killed both of them.
We’re starting to see nicey-nice veneer crack a bit. This is probably due to the extreme lack of sleep contestants are subjected to. I know that would make me cranky. Cranky people always make for better TV.
Back from commercial, Sweet P is making a denim wedding dress. Christian is making a biker/trucker outfit for a woman. He also gives Ricky a dirty look. Ricky is confident in his designing ability and gives a mini-rundown of his fashion career.
We get to find out that Chris has a habit of talking to his garment. In this case, he’s making a denim version of a little black dress.
It’s time for Tim’s first evaluation. He likes what he sees from Ricky. He’s got concerns about a detail on Chris’ dress, not sure if it’s the ‘unfinished’ aspect of it, or what. Tim thinks Jillian has a lot of work and fawns over Rami. Victorya’s trenchcoat is looking ‘patchworky’ to Tim, which concerns both of them. Sweet P’s wedding dress is looking too hippie to Tim, and they’re both horrified at the term. She’s got to make it work in two hours.
Jillian is venting in the sewing room about the time constraints. Chris slaps her down for taking on really complicated construction when they know that they’ve only got 10 hours. She’s having a breakdown because she keeps stabbing her fingers and bleeding everywhere. Other designers are trying to be nice to her, but she probably just needs a good cry and 24 hours sleep to truly be better.
It’s Runway day!
Jillian is hoping that they’ve got 2 hours with the models and the Tresemme salon. Ooops, so sorry, Tim only gives them one hour.
There’s varying levels of confidence and dismay. Sweet P is confident she won’t be eliminated, which isn’t a good sign. I don’t know if Sweet P has noticed, but the number of designers is dwindling.
Christian is very impressed with himself because he made jeans and a jacket, whereas other folks only made a jacket or a dress. Jillian is, once again, working until the very last second and freaking out. Even Rami is having a mini-freakout because he’s got to glue buttons on his dress. Rami is not used to such things. Living through a world conflict in Jerusalem he can handle, but gluing buttons is outside of his realm.
Heidi is very sparkly for this runway show. Heidi also announces that there is no more immunity going forward, so savor it while you can, Christian.
The designers love their outfits, although Jillian is still beating herself up. We’re at the point, too, where no one gets out of the runway grilling.
Christian gets a lot of praise, and deservedly so — he made jeans out of a jacket and jacket out of jeans. Chris gets called on the detail that Tim had warned him about, and I was right! It was the lack of finish around the pocket. Ricky gets a lot of praise, and of course he gets misty. He confesses his lack of confidence and Michael Kors tells him, essentially, that people will tell him he sucks for the rest of his career, so he better get used to it.
Sweet P also gets praise — Michael Kors says Sweet P has used slimming voodoo to her advantage. Work that voodoo, girl.
Victorya gets slammed for making a ‘trenchcoat’ that looks like a jean jacket with a skirt glued on. Hooray! She’s finally getting slammed. Sorry, that was mean. I’ll admit it, she bugs me. Flare should not begin under one’s armpits, I’ll say it again.
The strong this week are the weak and the weak are the strong. Except for Rami. He’s got the weight of the Israeli army behind him and the fact that you can’t really drape denim helped him.
Who will be Auf’ed next? The winner doesn’t really matter, since you don’t get immunity and I don’t remember a prize involved with this one.
Rami is in. Ricky is the challenge winner and Levi.com will sell a limited quantity of his creation. Good boy — go make a denim hat to celebrate. Sweet P is also in. Christian is in, and annoyed he didn’t win. Chris is in! Hooray! It’s down to Jillian and Victorya. The b**** vibes coming off these two are intense — these two would be mud wrestling if given half a chance. Jillian was confused and Victorya was dull, which means Victorya is out. Auf Wederhesen, Victorya. I liked some of the stuff you did, but you also drove me nuts.
Next week, yet another field trip, and odd noises emanating from a room. We’re given a preview that Michael Kors thinks he’s the Pope in a sex club. You know next week is going to be good.