Goodbye to Malvin and his model.
“Project Runway” (Season 6) and “Models of the Runway” (Season 1) episode(s) 2, Air Date 8/27/09
This is going to be a short one, because… if you love it, you saw it. If you want to see the outfits, they’re on the website. Right? Right. Just a few observations here.
The challenge was that the designers had to create a maternity outfit for Rebecca Romijn. (I always have to stop myself from saying Romijn-Stamos.) (I guess she learned her lesson, because she’s not Romijn-O’Connell.) Of course, this show was filmed a year ago, and currently Rebecca Romijn is not pregnant. (And Heidi Klum IS pregnant… it’s Upside-Down Day!)
So… once again adorable Shirin designs something amazing, and she wins. Her outfit is this gorgeous red dress with criss-cross stitching under the bosoms (ha, why did I say that?) AND a brown jacket with a fun print lining.
The designer named Nicolas reminds me of Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie. He’s kind of a Leanne this season, in the sense that they cut to him doing snarky interviews all the time. But I don’t like him as much as Leanne.
Somebody bangs some studs into leather, and Ra’mon (I think) says they’ve got another Stella on their hands, and suddenly I realize that I don’t really care about these people. I just want to go back to the All-Star Challenge, where I know everybody’s name!
Also, after watching the All-Star Challenge last weekend (I love you, Daniel Vosovic), it feels kind of lame to watch them design one normal dress in one hour. I want to see four pieces in two hours. If not that, at the very least I want to see a dress made out of the goop from the inside of a lava lamp. Something like that.
“There’s no vocabulary to describe” Malvin designs a conceptual maternity outfit where the pregnant stomach is supposed to look like an egg, but instead it looks like a sling. He uses feathers and wants to make the pants look like chicken legs. Luckily Tim convinces Malvin to drop the chicken leg concept, by reminding him that he is going to have to defend this to Rebecca Romijn.
When Malvin is eliminated, he interviews, “I’m too conceptual for America.” He claims that what he learned is that he’s grounded as a designer and “as a philosopher.” Sure, exactly. What came first, Malvin: The chicken or the egg?
But Malvin doesn’t care what we think. “My voice gets stronger with every struggle that I encounter.”
Mitchell was in the bottom two again, and probably should have lost. Ah well, there’s always next week.
Also, watching wafer-thin models model maternity clothes is hilarious. The stomach-pillows look ridiculous, and don’t seem to sit right. (One of the models actually had a two-year-old, which… wow, doesn’t she wish she could go home at night? Instead of living in the stupid Model House?)
Oh, and also, guest judge Monique Lhuillier was super-cute and had a fascinating accent (I thought it was French, but it turns out she’s from the Philippines). Love your gowns, Monique!
On “Models of the Runway,” Fatma (ironic name for a model!) loves her designer, Logan (who?). She’s like, he told me he bought the fabric with my skin color in mind! I’m not just a hanger to him! But, um… of course he would do that. He wants the outfit to look good on her. Because she’s his hanger. Er, his model. (Looking back, the fabric was just plain white.)
Of course model-abuser Mitchell (all of the models wanted him to be eliminated) picks Fatma, and she fumes and bitches about it, and that’s probably going to come back to bite her in the backside next week when she actually has to work with him.
Erika, who looks twelve (and got a walking lesson last week), gets put on hold for an Arby’s commercial. The other girls bitch that she doesn’t try to make friends with them. She’s not here to make friends! But still, it’s pretty funny how pumped she is about an Arby’s commercial.
And we see some of the girls go to workout boot camp (save your energy for not eating!), while others sit on a blanket, eat, and laugh at them. Ha!
Shirin goes back to her previous model and drops Israeli Matar (so much for cross-cultural relations). And Malvin’s model gets eliminated. But who cares?
Next week on “Project Runway,” they work in teams. Let the drama begin! (Please!)
xoxo…
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