Jewelry & Beading

Trash Into Treasure on Project Runway

by Tammy Powley on August 17th, 2006

Project Runway fans have been wondering since last week where in N.J. they were taking our designers. Finally, this was disclosed to us last night as Tim pulled open a large garage door to reveal mountains of recycled materials - boxes, bags, metal, foam, newspapers and the like. You guessed it, they were to take the recylced trash and turn it into a treasured garment.

Most of the designers were pretty good natured about the adventure. Kayne even mentioned that he used to go dumpster diving with his sister, which right away was an alarm bell to me. Seems like any time a designer is a little too confident after being told about the next challenge, well, things don’t go so well. But more on this later. Now for the winner and loser.

In back-to-back victories, our beloved Michael wins again! The judges were very impressed with his use of a garbage bag as a wrap and the sophistication of a gold corset-style top and white pencil skirt.

 Sadly, our sweet Alison loses this one. Alison really struggled almost the entire time on her outfit. At first, she had an idea to use strips of paper, but when she went to the machine to sew them together, they started giving her problems and things went down hill for her from there. The judges thought her outfit was very unflattering for her model, who had no real waist, and thus the poofy skirt (normally ala Angela) and thick waistband made her look fat. The weird hair bow thing didn’t help either.

Now for our other designers.

Angela is still in, but I was surprised she was not on the cat walk with her freaky jumper thing, whatever you want to call it. The only thing good about it was the color.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Jeffery really should have won. I love Michael, but Jeffery actually made a pretty and interesting dress from paper that he also painted complete with faux belt.

And then there is poor Kayne! Oh I knew he was going to be in trouble and he was and he knew it and he was man enough to admit when he was called out onto the cat walk for his wacked-out outfit.

Laura was in the running to win with her short, white, V neck dress, but I’m getting a little tired of the same ‘ol same ‘ol from her. But the judges love her. Oh, and just between you and me, I think she is now in the running for our show’s villain. She sure made enough snarky comments, and used the F word a few million times. Does she use that potty mouth with her kids? “Junior, put your F-ing crayons away for mommy now!”

Robert made a good showing using silver mylar that really did look like a dress. Still, he didn’t impress the judges but he didn’t get called out either, so he’s safe another week. Yeah!

Uli again impressed Tim and myself, but for some reasons, not the judges so much, but she is safe and her garment, I think, should have been in the running to win, more so than Laura’s. Uli actually braided mylar and  paper, weaving her own fabric so to speak, which I thought was very innovative.

Finally, Vincent is safe yet again, but it was either him or Ailson this week and some how he managed to stay another week. He made a long dress that was so straight the poor model could barely walk in it. His designs on the dress looked like someone barfed up trash on her. Also, it didn’t seem to fit her very well in the top, sticking way out so she had to wear a black bra type top under it.

We are now getting down to the wire on Project Runway and I know more and more it’s going to hurt fans to see each designer leave until there are just three. But, that is one thing that makes the show so exciting as well, isn’t it?

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