![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenProject Runway might benefit for being off the air a bit longer because that finale? Bee-yatch, please. They did this last year, and the farce is showing. At this point, all of them have shown anyway, the last two who were eliminated, too. So the prize--Bryant Park!--is less of a privilege than ever before. It's like how anyone in the top six on American Idol has a shot at a record deal--it makes the final prize seem less important. Sure, $100K is still really nice, but a lot of the runners-up on Project Runway are doing as well or better than the winners.
What sucks is that the show has only one way to punish the bad designers who still get to show and that's "not" letting them show, or at least making it seem so on TV. But by including Kenley (or Chris March from last season) in the typically contestants-only circle--the visits from Tim, the collections, etc.--that's being whittled down. For shame.
Plus, Kenley is a bitch. SHE DID NOT WANT TO HUG TIM GUNN. I WANT TO HUG TIM GUNN, WHY DOES SHE GET TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND NOT DO IT!!????
From the last episode: how much do I love this thread at Project RunGay? The biggest issue here is that you have two white girls designing/modeling a look that is meant to be idiomatic for a predominantly black music culture. Kenley doesn't know shit about hip-hop culture, she's a goddamned hipster. The best she could do would be an "ironic" take on hip-hop, which, by dint of it being a mocking sort of thing would be overtly racist. Instead, she chose to just willfully misunderstand hip-hop and then abuse people whiter than her by tarring them as the ones who were being ignorant of black culture. She poked fun at hip-hop culture and the "baggy, oversized look" which, actually, since fashion is cyclical in its trends, is partially back right now. Someone isn't on trend, but that was no surprise in Kenley's case. She prefers prints stolen from old beach chairs.
Then there's Leanne. She tried to do the hip-hop "thing" with her outfit because holy shit it was not hip-hop. And she failed. She looked a tad clownish as a result, but if she'd gone all the way gangsta, she'd have been treading close to that mockery again, which is a no-no. So, no, Leanne didn't sabotage shit. She was hamstringed by an ugly outfit that did not flatter her or fit the aesthetic and had to sell it in front of a guest judge who is very necessarily on trend for that look. She played a little, but she couldn't have done more and doing less would have let Kenley's outfit die entirely. As was, Leanne at least amused the judges. If they're laughing, they're not hating quiet as much.
Except in Kenley's case because they hate her. With good reason. Heidi's face tonight...it was priceless. I've come to call it the "Stupid American cow!" face after the Project RunGay guys started up a meme. Awesome.
What sucks is that the show has only one way to punish the bad designers who still get to show and that's "not" letting them show, or at least making it seem so on TV. But by including Kenley (or Chris March from last season) in the typically contestants-only circle--the visits from Tim, the collections, etc.--that's being whittled down. For shame.
Plus, Kenley is a bitch. SHE DID NOT WANT TO HUG TIM GUNN. I WANT TO HUG TIM GUNN, WHY DOES SHE GET TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND NOT DO IT!!????
From the last episode: how much do I love this thread at Project RunGay? The biggest issue here is that you have two white girls designing/modeling a look that is meant to be idiomatic for a predominantly black music culture. Kenley doesn't know shit about hip-hop culture, she's a goddamned hipster. The best she could do would be an "ironic" take on hip-hop, which, by dint of it being a mocking sort of thing would be overtly racist. Instead, she chose to just willfully misunderstand hip-hop and then abuse people whiter than her by tarring them as the ones who were being ignorant of black culture. She poked fun at hip-hop culture and the "baggy, oversized look" which, actually, since fashion is cyclical in its trends, is partially back right now. Someone isn't on trend, but that was no surprise in Kenley's case. She prefers prints stolen from old beach chairs.
Then there's Leanne. She tried to do the hip-hop "thing" with her outfit because holy shit it was not hip-hop. And she failed. She looked a tad clownish as a result, but if she'd gone all the way gangsta, she'd have been treading close to that mockery again, which is a no-no. So, no, Leanne didn't sabotage shit. She was hamstringed by an ugly outfit that did not flatter her or fit the aesthetic and had to sell it in front of a guest judge who is very necessarily on trend for that look. She played a little, but she couldn't have done more and doing less would have let Kenley's outfit die entirely. As was, Leanne at least amused the judges. If they're laughing, they're not hating quiet as much.
Except in Kenley's case because they hate her. With good reason. Heidi's face tonight...it was priceless. I've come to call it the "Stupid American cow!" face after the Project RunGay guys started up a meme. Awesome.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 02:56 pm (UTC)You should watch it--there are fabulous clothes and fabulous wrecks that come off that show. But isn't there a PR Australia? I thought there was?
no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 05:18 pm (UTC)This ending is bullshit. It's producer meddling to keep the villainess on the show, pure and simple. I hope Kenley doesn't show, but I'm sure a piece or two out of her collection could score the spot for her. Which is a shame. Yes, the other designers closed ranks on her, but she spurned them first. And Tim Gunn. Let us never forget nor forgive her spurning of Tim Gunn.
It's like my life's ambition to get a hug from Tim Gunn, and she blew him off. KILL KILL KILL.
no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 07:03 pm (UTC)