Saturday, October 24, 2009

a comment on Project Runway this season

I was trying to come up with a big summary-so-far post with the top ten best outfits and the top ten worst outfits, except... I couldn't really come up with ten I liked enough. Sad. That list, though, would include Irina and Christopher's Week 1 dresses, Shirin's maternity dress, and Gordana, Irina, and Carol Hannah's dresses from this week for sure. Irina's dress from the first week is still #1 with a bullet to me. She may be bitchy, but she is unbelievably talented.

As far as the other remaining contenders...

Althea - I don't think she should still be here. Then again, what better alternatives do we have? (SHIRIN! Come back!!!!) At least she had two pretty awesome outfits in the weeks with maternity wear and making dresses out of newspaper. She didn't deserve that one win she got, and lately she's been making cheap-looking, frumpy, ill-fitting outfits.

Carol Hannah - At the beginning, she made outfits that were generally too busy and ugly. Lately, though, she's really been a standout. She's actually improved and made some really nice outfits. She's not great, but nobody except Irina is.

Christopher - Sadly, Week 1 was his peak. He hasn't been terrible since then, but I don't remember him having a standout since then either. He seems like a nice guy and he seemed to have so much promise at the beginning, but he's slowly devolving into the suck. That said, he is years better than Logan and probably better than Althea, but he needs to step it up to deserve a finale spot (and the judges hate him now, so I don't think he's getting there).

Gordana - Quietly, she's been doing pretty well. A lot of the time, her work is only good and she has a few big EHs mixed in there, but she's got some really nice pieces, too. She seems like a lovely person to boot. The judges weirdly hate her, but I have a gut feeling she makes it to the finale, either that or she's the one eliminated right before it. It could go either way.

Irina - See what I said above. She's the most talented one there and nobody else even comes close. That Week 1 dress is still one of my favorites in Project Runway history, and IIRC, she hasn't had a real bomb of an outfit yet, either. Unless she screws the pooch really, really, really badly in the next couple of episodes, she should have a signed, sealed, delivered ticket to Bryant Park.

Logan - God, he is so awful, and he's been awful for a while. He really needs to go home, but I still think him being ZOMG SEW KYUTE!!!! will keep him around for a little bit more, though I don't think he makes the finale. Ugh...


Elimination predictions:
6. Christopher
5. Althea
4. Logan
3. Gordana
2. Irina
1. Carol Hannah

At least Nicholas isn't still here.