Designing a floral print is a straightforward task having to do so with a designer working remotely, and in a short period of time, makes it into a challenge. Overall, the challenges aren’t overly complicated, but rather are complicated by time. How great that he had the 21-year-old winner of Project Runway season 4 to talk to in that moment. For example, there was his pep talk with Darren, who, at 27, was the youngest person on this season, and was thinking that he wasn’t right or ready for the competition. Henson was a terrific guest judge.Ĭhristian Siriano, meanwhile, has found some opportunities to have fun, and also to be a full-on mentor. Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are always fun together, and Taraji P. In the most-recent episodes, there’s been some playful editing, like when Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski were listing criteria, and the editors turned those into on-screen bullet points, including “everything” and “nothing.” Project Runway still looks good, and the Duggal Greenhouse space is beautiful and spacious. It was the first episode where I felt like we got to know more of the contestants as people the first two episodes were just black holes of drama. (Photo by Barbara Nitke/Bravo)īy episode three, the Halloween episode, the show settled into more comfortable territory. Katie Kortman, Octavio Aguilar, Kristina Kharlashkina, Coral Castillo, and Prajjé Oscar Jean-Baptiste on the runway during Project Runway 19 episode 5. During one of the shouting matches, Zayden was caught in the middle, just sitting at a sewing machine, trying to sew. There was a lot of drama, though, and the show even commented on it. How did Meg go from lecturing everyone about appropriation and saying “it’s so important to me to respect and acknowledge that he wanted to design for his own cultural” to telling Christian Siriano, “There is only one race, and it’s mankind”?Īs Chasity said, “I’m not trying to say Meg was using race to create drama, she was trying to use race to be down with different ethnicities and reassuring us that a white person had our back.” Yep. The whole scene was both uncomfortable and truly disorienting. I had whiplash from trying to figure out what was happening and whose side I should be on. Prajje called her fake, which prompted her to yell at Kenneth again. “Apparently, I can only design for white people,” Meg told her model, who gave her immediate shade: “just don’t yell at me like that, yeah,” he said, apparently thinking that models are allowed to talk on Project Runway. It’s not like he was asking to switch the day of the runway show. But for some reason, she also yelled at him: “I think it’s fucking bullshit that you’re doing this now,” she said. The season began with two rocky episodes, including the wreck that was episode two, when Meg quit.Īfter making a big show of being an ally to people of color earlier in the streetwear challenge, she agreed to swap models with Kenneth, so he could design for an Asian man. Meg Ferguson on Project Runway 19 (Photo by Greg Endries/Bravo) How does Katie remain in the competition after being repeatedly in the bottom, including for a pattern-making challenge that spoke directly to her skill-set? And how exactly was Sabrina’s work worse than Octavio’s ruffled mess? Why did Katie design a skirt when Johnny and Tara literally said that it’d only be seen from the waist up?Īnd I won’t even get into just not understanding how the designers made such bland clothes for Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinksi and how those two and the judges liked some of the least-colorful looks and how they applied criteria with stunning inconsistency, like having an issue with the neckline on one dress but not another. How does he stay in the competition after that? How does Bones not just win Project Runway 19 on the spot after creating three looks, including one for himself, all of which the judges loved? The first episode was a mess, with Darren somehow not being eliminated despite not actually making his own garment: Bones Jones made a dress in 30 minutes for Darren, and the judges loved it, and Darren almost took credit for it! (He said he made “almost all of it,” when he’d done almost none of it.) There’s a lot to like this season, but what isn’t working is less obvious.Īt first I thought it might be the contestants, who might not be up to the challenge because of their skillsets, or who are just not as sharp as they would have been, because like all of us they’ve been dealing with more than a year of pandemic fatigue and ongoing trauma. Christian Siriano at Mood on Project Runway 19.
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