Well, Project Runway got hung up on lawsuits, so Bravo created a veeeeery veeeeery similar show called "The Fashion Show." Ha!
Downside, and it's a big one: No Tim Gunn.
Upside: Has the charming Isaac Mizrahi, plus two likable other judges (Kelly, a model, and Fern Maliss, a designer.) Strongly resembles "Project Runway."
Has some hilariously over-the-top contestants, like Merlin (who wears a red jumpsuit and looks like a Keebler elf) and Jean-Paul, whose work is supposedly based on "post-colonialist theory and rectangles" and who was so horrified at the thought of having to design for "real women" (as opposed to models, who I guess are either androids or men!) that he spent the entire episode looking like someone had hit him over the head with a brick and he saw another brick out of the corner of his eye.
Current favorites to actually win: temperamental but talented Daniella and deservedly confident Reco, the latter of whom pointed out that he designs dresses for "real women" all the time: namely, his Mom and his sisters.
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Fri, Jun. 5th, 2009 06:57 pm (UTC)Downside, and it's a big one: No Tim Gunn.
Upside: Has the charming Isaac Mizrahi, plus two likable other judges (Kelly, a model, and Fern Maliss, a designer.) Strongly resembles "Project Runway."
Has some hilariously over-the-top contestants, like Merlin (who wears a red jumpsuit and looks like a Keebler elf) and Jean-Paul, whose work is supposedly based on "post-colonialist theory and rectangles" and who was so horrified at the thought of having to design for "real women" (as opposed to models, who I guess are either androids or men!) that he spent the entire episode looking like someone had hit him over the head with a brick and he saw another brick out of the corner of his eye.
Current favorites to actually win: temperamental but talented Daniella and deservedly confident Reco, the latter of whom pointed out that he designs dresses for "real women" all the time: namely, his Mom and his sisters.