by Kennedy, host of Reality Remix
It was all about Donna Wednesday night on the Runway. Nina Garcia hardly mentioned the guest judge, but those of us who love Barbra in an off-the-shoulda-numba were as in awe of the Donna as we were of Sarah Jessica Parker. Welcome to make it work time, believe me Donna Karan, you’ve already made it work.
Designers were given a series of pictures of outdated fashion trends like pleather, neon, big sweaters and shoulder pads and had to break into teams of three to combine the past disasters into “cohesive” and “modern” 3 piece collections. Christian, Kit and Jack paired up, and though Christian can be a disastrous over the top gossip he has some moments of interest that could equal brilliance combined with last week’s winner Jack. Victorya had the misfortune of teaming up with the two weakest designers Ricky and Elisa, and their horrendous combined trends neon, cut outs and underwear as outerwear spelled early ruin. Another weak team was Sweet P, Steve and Chris, but the strongest by far seemed to be the adults, Kevin, Jillian and Rami. Kevin has a successful denim line, Jillian designs for Ralph Lauren and Rami is one of the most sought after new designers in LA. Is this the Project Runway Season 4 trifecta, a glimpse into the future of the finale? Goosebumps, Donna!
Ricky stepped up to be the leader and instantly clashed with Victorya over their neon color block collection, and as Ricky nit-picked Victorya for being passive aggressive he neglected his own dress and it was slowly circling the drain into Snow White land. Jillian’s team was having problems of their own as Miss Ralph Lauren took issue with Kevin’s time management when he took too long sewing a pair of shorts. They looked doomed. Christian, Kit and Jack looked confident as they brought their extreme and impossible looks together and celebrated before their models stepped foot on the runway. Chris’ 3 designs only had color in common, and even after Tim warned the trio to lose the bad bolero jacket it held the critical shoulder pads and they would have been doubly doomed if they left them out.
As the teams designs made it down the runway it became obvious who worked together and who fell apart. Surprisingly Jillian, Kevin and Rami made a very cohesive and updated set of their overalls, poodle skirt and 70s flares, and it soared above the other three teams. Without a moment of deliberation the judges declared them winners, and Christian and crew were left with a less exciting second place finish for their tight and modern (though slightly less moving) collection. This left Chris and his mismatched camel costumes. He was joined in the bottom by sad Ricky who hoped he could use his feud with Victorya against her, but instead the judges complimented her on the fit of her dress and she was safe along with Sweet P. Elisa and Steve. It was down to portly drag designer Chris and feeble Ricky, but in the end the judges cast out the fatty boom-boom for his grandma shoulder pads that were distasteful, inflated and too retarded to allow him to spend another day in the graces of Germany’s finest frauline.
