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Last week on "Project Runway" we had avant-garde fashion, horror, nausea, and panic. Christian won the challenge, Kitt Pistol went home, and Rami got a surprising near-loss and a warning to do something new. This week, Victorya keeps calling Sweet P "Kitt," and Ricky is wearing a relatively normal hat. Oh, and the challenge is in… Brooklyn? In a warehouse? A warehouse full of denim! Hosted by a senior VP at Levi’s!
The warehouse has a couple hundred pairs of jeans and a couple bolts of basic cotton in it. Why would you rent an entire warehouse to hold only a couple hundred pairs of jeans? This is another challenge in which Chris is at a serious disadvantage, because they make the designers run about a hundred yards, and obviously the fat guy loses at an athletic challenge.
It turns out Ricky actually makes some of his hats himself. So […]

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"So, how do you feel about yesterday, Christian?" Does Tim really need to ask? Christian feels petulant and unable to accept that any of his problems are caused by his own shortcomings. Uh, Christian, you’re the one who designed and sewed the dress (at left). You sewed it. It’s your product. And you can’t admit it.
Ricky, in contrast, feels like wearing an ugly hat. Hooray! Part one of my bet that Ricky will wear an ugly hat and cry is paying off!
Enough about last week. This week the challenge is to build an avant-garde (read: impractical runway look that nobody would wear in real life) dress. It’s supposed to be based on a hairstyle. They pick models and are divided into teams of two.
Christian is paired with Chris. This is going to make things hard to remember. Sweet P and Rami are together, which seems like a can’t-lose pairing.
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Sherri Shepherd of "The View" is still the most ignorant woman on TV. Her latest gaffe isn’t as enormous as the rest, but it’s still pretty stupid. (NY Post)
Kat Von D is a good tattoo artist, but "LA Ink" is revealing her to be terrible boss. It just goes to show you that you should never hire anyone who has tattoos, because they’re totally irresponsible. (ONTD)
Christian from "Project Runway" is so arrogant I don’t even know where to begin. He says the dress he made for tonight’s challenge is incredibly good. Drop by TV With MeeVee later tonight and find out… in the meantime, here’s a podcast interview. (Feast Of Fools)
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 With all my travel this past week I fell a bit behind on my TV watching, but nothing I missed pains me more than PROJECT RUNWAY. The fashion, the drama, Tim Gunn…I love it!! I wish I could sit here and dish with you all about this week’s prom dress challenge, but sadly I […]
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"I thought they were midgets or Oompa-loomps," says Kevin. It’s high-school girls. New Jersey high-school girls. Yes, they’re making prom dresses.
"I think prom is horrible and tacky and gross" says Christian. Yeah, I can tell you didn’t get a date. I can tell because I didn’t have a date for my senior prom either, and I think prom is horrible and tacky and gross too. The clients get to pick which designers they work with, which means someone actually chose (or got stuck with) Chris. Even Chris is shocked. Who the hell would choose him? (It turns out later that Victorya’s client was the one who got last choice… Chris’ client loves his wacky sense of humor.)
The trick for this challenge is to produce something which meets the needs and desires of the client while still expressing their designer something something. The problem is that the client is a […]

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Last week on "Project Runway" Jack went home sick, Chris came in to replace him, and Steven went home because he was too snobby to make good use of the cheap satin from a plus-sized wedding dress. This week, what could we possibly be in for?
Yes, it’s the "unconventional materials" challenge, in which designers are faced with trying to make outfits from distinctly non-clothing-related materials. Past years have seen people working with flowers and recyclables, but this year’s theme is product placement. That is, the contestants will be using the Hershey’s store in Times Square as their chocolate fountain of inspiration.
Before telling anyone what’s going on, Tim gets them all up at six in the morning. He’s in a suit, they’re in pajamas. Nice move: Really emphasizes how much he’s in control of their lives, and they can’t make any decisions on their own. Then he takes them all […]

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Unlike the other "Project Runway" alumni, who blog over at BravoTV.com, Jay McCarroll is a guest blogger at Elle. And he’s got some lovely thoughts on what it feels like to watch the show now, and to lose the poll about which past-season favorites should return. Later, he says he’ll have a recap.
Whatever, dude, you’re too slow. I had mine done before midnight last night! And Project Rungay was only minutes behind me, with screencaps to boot. Still, Jay’s incredibly funny and I love his commentary.
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If "Project Runway" gets to do a product plug every five minutes, I’m going to do a product plug every five minutes. And my products are the bottle of cheap wine I’m drinking, MeeVee.com, and schadenfreude. I looove watching people screw up. So let’s get to the recap!
(The Brother product placement on the clock has disappeared this week. The sewing machines are by Brother, though).
Within a couple of minutes, before we get to the challenge, before we even get to the models, we get the first hint that this is the rumored episode where Jack’s face explodes: He’s got a suspicious pimple.
Cut to the model selection: It’s yet another episode with special models. Special models have been featured in previous seasons, of course, such as the mom design challenge. And this this season we’ve seen buff male models. But this is a new one: Regular, non-model ladies come out wearing […]

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Earlier, we learned that "Project Runway" loser Jack Mackenroth and "Top Chef" loser Dale Levitski were dating. We knew that Jack was HIV-positive because he said so on the show, and because at some point this season (I think this week) he gets a terrible staph infection.
Today we learned on Jack’s blog that Dale is HIV-negative, but that they practice very safe sex, and that Jack has a very low viral load anyway, making HIV transmission less likely.
OK then. Nice to know. I never expected to be writing about TV stars and their HIV status or viral loads, but I suppose that’s the nature of the beast that is semi-celebrity. I’ll be sure to let you know if and when they put up photos of Jack helping Dale wax his shoulder hair, or, as Defamer says, "Dale asking Jack to taste his lamb jus as Jack measures Dale’s inseam
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"’Project Runway‘ should have a perfume," says Chris at the beginning of the show, "that smells like tears, sweat, and…." he’s not sure what else. Rami suggests Chinese food, but I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that wasn’t his first thought. What do you think the third component would really be? Chiffon? The pent-up sexual energy of designers who signed contracts promising they wouldn’t sleep with each other? (Does that even have a smell?)
Meanwhile, offline, I’ve heard the following "Project Runway" gossip: Steven is no Santino, that’s for
sure. He’s less polarizing, certainly, but his Tim Gunn impression is
way weaker. Meanwhile, OutZone says Jack is dating "Top Chef" star Dale.  Dan Savage says Christian has chosen that awful haircut to hide his premature baldness, and that Jack is a total jackass.
Anyway, tonight’s challenge is to break into groups of three and produce a collection that features three […]

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