Project Runway Season 13: The Posen-ing/The Klum-ening/etc (Premieres July 24)

LET'S DO THIS

fuck it, i'm like 3-4 seasons out of the loop, but if ILE is down to ride and I can stream episodes online, I'm in.

Lifetime site lets you stream 24 hours after broadcast, if you're in the US!

nice

The level of contestant looks like the most mediocre ever. Even the villain candidates are a low-rent version of Alyssa Edwards and Josh McKinley's love child.

http://mylt.ltcdn.com/d6/sites/mylifetime.com/files/images/show_contestant/2014/06/04/pr13-MP-biomain.png

that dude was 100% shade/zero talent. his romper looked like he assembled it with scotch tape & a stapler

what is with all the blue hair

and is a dude's name really FÄDE?

I liked him because he looked so stereotypically artsy German.

yeah, very 'would u like to touch my monkey'

man yea that guy is unfrozen directly from berlin circa 1984

I was wrong about the villains, it looks like we're getting a new one every episode. What an unlikable cast this season.

A+ to the judges for trolling Korina by giving the win to Sandhya's horrible look.

Speaking of Korina, I loved how she was flabbergasted that the unconventional materials challenge comes so early in the competition.

this season is super boring

yeah it really is

what the fuck was that florida kid's scuba jumpsuit. and

CAN WE PLEASE BE DONE WITH AMANDA WHYYYYYYYY IS SHE EVEN HERE

hey

i like Amanda

I say just bring back Ping

I say just do Project Runway Loser Nobodies where they have a whole season of the person who went home first from each previous season

that would be awesome

I like Amanda personality wise, but she's just so...idk. it's like her personality disguises the fact that she is not good and all her clothes end up looking like a 90's teen cosmo photoshoot

^^ totally, of the three designers they polled fans, she's easily the most likable, but Alexander Pope was the one with the best designs.

Never fails: the designer I find the cutest is always terrible. However, I wish that one of the two skinny white guys with shaved temples got sent home, because apparently I can't tell them apart.

right!?

is it bad that I liked the aunt beru blanket dress

angela, the gal that got sent home...i felt horrible for her from day 1.

the judges love giving their quippy commentaries on all the designs but with her it was like watching her get whipped.

like she's annoying & i didnt see her staying even as long as she did but when she says so quietly at the end "heidi said i was a good designer" it was like oh fuck

Yeah like Tim said, she was absolutely not cut out for a narcissism-incubating tv show like this. It was realllly uncomfortable seeing her realize how out of place she was -- not a judgment on her skills, but just her temperament.

Surviving Blue Hair: she's one crying parent away from becoming the female Neck Tattoo, but she was robbed this challenge.

i love her! whatever her name is. and I think i like fäde too

her ewok business was TITE

"This needs to be euthanized!!!"

that was kinda O_o

omfg Sandhya those fucking mustaches what the hell

also I don't really have anything to say about Baby Win Butler yet but I hope to soon so that I have an opportunity to continue to refer to him as Baby Win Butler

sandyha's mustaches omg i forgot

sooooooo facepalm

it was kind of adorably naive, like "omg you have never been to Urban Outfitters or talked to a 13 year old white girl and you have no idea what this actually signifies"

ABORT ABORT

was loling @ this, A++ timing

heidi talks abt that green color as bcuz of the german hunters

tim "that's why it's hunter green!"
…
heidi "and i'm worried abt faux snake…"

"it's real snake"

heidi " that's even worse"

^^^^ OTM. Loved the back-and-forth between Fade and Heidi in German.

The reaction shots were so priceless! Zac aghast at Mitchell's runway! The three bottom models during the up-close inspection like they were going to the principal's office for crimes against fashion! Kini getting robbed two challenges in a row!

During the eliminations, when Mitchell and then Kristine get aufed, I actually thought Korina Dimples would make it 3 for 3.

I was getting REALLY bored with this season, but the disasters upped the watchability an order of magnitude.

I'm still digging Fade because DEUTSCH, and I'm hoping Emily Bluehair is a finale contender too.

Also, I understand the attention that the producers are making the judges give to Amanda, but COME ON, no way she should've been one of the top 3 this or last week.

Some of Tim Gunn's jackets this season have had very O_o shoulders.

I thought the top/bottom teams were exactly reversed.

Looks like Kini is going to get the bitter bridesmaid villain edit now.

I like how Korina basically admitted that she's not creative.

Zac was cosplaying as the 11th Doctor, no?

Also the way the non-Dita guest judge kept putting an extra syllable after every sentence.

Korina needs to be fired out of a cannon into the sun, I am so tired of her.

Sandyha is maybe 1 or 2 eps away from losertown usa. Wheels are falling off.

Fade is awesome, and I dig Emily for making Lydia from Beetlejuice a wedding dress. Though too goth for Nina might be a bridge too far lol

Dita is always so bored-seeming, idg the big deal with her

I think you need to see her in person, so that you can the full effect of her boobs, or something.

they would have to be astonishing boobs for my impression to change

"Also the way the non-Dita guest judge kept putting an extra syllable after every sentence."

THIS WAS CLASSIC

"Dita is always so bored-seeming, idg the big deal with her"

She's about 10 years past her prime celebrityhood and she's also botoxed her face into mannequin state so she's now complete expressionless.

as a native I'm happy to see any indians make it anywhere, but Korina came in overly confident and smug. nice tattoos though. her mouth reminds me of the joker.

i feel like this show is just trolling me now. Tell me I wasn't imagining that nina said Amanda's could be an 'Instagram Moment'. TELL ME THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

Amanda's looked like Catwoman ran through some old woman's bedroom and got tangled up in her negligee. It was fucking stupid, I don't get it and I have no idea why the judges keep falling over themselves over her.

Korina's material was gross. tbh I thought that on the runway her look didn't really showcase the necklace that well at all because a) the dress and the necklace were the same color, and b) all you could see was the damn jacket. It wasn't in keeping with the challenge. The dress looked fine without the jacket and up close it looked good with the necklace but the Chopard lady said she would put Sean's on the cover of the catalog! Isn't that what the challenge is about? I don't get it.

I mean, I think Sean's kind of a passive agressive weasel, and the dress overall was kind of expected but it was really beautifully made and did pretty much everything they asked for IN A DAY.

I have no idea why Kini didn't just rework the bodice of that dress when the cups wouldn't work...and neoprene. really dude. cmon.

and why do they keep doing 1-day red carpet/evening wear challenges. They're never going to get anything good out of those designers for something like that until they get at least 2 days.

The producers are probably making the judges plotz over Amanda, I was kind of loling at Nina's noncommittal praise, seeing how long she could go without offering an actual critical opinion and basically having to lie.

The producers also probably have longer-term plans for Korina Dimples -- they make troll her for the beginning of the season before making her an outright punching bag before she gets to redeem herself. I actually didn't hate the jacket, but goddamn I was surprised the judges only mentioned how heavy it looked when they were able to see it up close.

If this were a real design competition, they'd be giving them multiple days for more of these challenges, but I think the producers are hooked on the adrenaline and ~tearz~ and mad rushes at the end because EXCITING! TV needs beat out design needs.

I was thinking it was kind of gauche of Tim last episode to say to Char that he would've saved her if this were later in the season -- like, "Gee, thanks Tim, rmde" -- but good on him to admit the mistake. All the same, he seems to use his save for designers who seem well-liked in the workroom rather than designers who've shown a positive track record (thought maybe that's the point -- they need to find their pace before they start finding success).

And lol Zac was wearing boots with a heel this time.

I really don't mind Amanda/think she's pretty good! I am FLABBERGASTED that they kept whats his name around AGAIN

Alexander is p terrible

I just felt embarrassed for him; it seems particularly cruel to keep him around at this point when he clearly will not come close to winning

for real. he is drowning

Love Tim's sideways look during Emily's critique re: her look being too fetishy ("Then we know what's on their mind").

I just watched this myself! V happy @ Sean's garment and Kini's win

p cool challenge!

sean & kini did such great stuff this week. sad to see fade go but that dress was even sadder

korina's whatever it was just looked like those metal rings magicians use, so stupid. haaaated Amanda's stupid cleopatra tragedy, and i dont even know what the judges liked about sandhya's.

I don't know if "greatest runway ever" works, because it was definitely carried by Kini and Sean. If there were only one winner, I'd have given it to Kini, I think the reason being that his model didn't wear a bra, but also because of the flashier construction. Still, Sean's definitely earned the wow.

I liked Fade's (leaving aside the construction), but there was nothing avant-garde about it. With Veg on that tacky vinyl offense of Amanda's. I think Sandhya is getting the Patricia treatment (maybe she'll call Nina a Republican?): the producers are trolling us with the weird craft-worker (kraftwerker!) who's getting positioned as the undeserving and insensitive finalist.

Is this what happened to Andrae? http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ggqdi/i_am_model_andreja_pejic_ask_me_anything/ckixc9y

On one hand, FINALLY, Sandhya is gone.

OTOH, OUCH. Maybe it was the editing but when she announced that she was eliminated and like, two designers out of eight got up to hug her, that was so harsh. Was she that bad of a person?

was mildly skeeved out @ posen manhandling the girl in the sweater to make sure the lines lined up but hey shes gotta learn abt hi fashion eventually

That garment was HOORRRRRIBLE but tbh I really did like Sandhya as a person

oh sandhya that pink. it made me sad
pepto bismol ahoy

i like her a lot. i think where she tripped herself up was her continual expectation that everyone was going to throw a parade over her designs every time. her confidence was so dependent on everyone around her, and when that wasn't given back to her it just started to seem more like delusional stubborness. idk

but i think it's also endemic of this kind of show. soft hearts are just skewers for the stiletto heel of fashion :)

sean's peace sign

ahaha you twit

i really don't like him
fking smug kiwis bring out the worst in me :)

Guys he was just stealth branding for Mercedes!

loool

OMG VegemiteGrrl, you watch PR too?
You really are my twin.

I just started watching it again after boycotting it when it moved to Lifetime.
Nobody knocks me out although I miss Fade's little Sprockets persona.

Season 2 will always always be the best and they will never ever top it.

it's definitely not as good these days

Sandhya's wasn't the only designer with a onesie (ahem Sean "jumpsuit"), but gods, the peplums (pepla?) and the pink and the snaps in the back??

I personally didn't like her, but I do think that she was ostracized partly for cultural reasons. I also wonder how much of Tim's "I don't get you at all" comment dug at her.

Bothered more than a bit about some of the girls getting super-glammed up hair -- a real uncomfortable child pageant vibe.

amanda + alexander both had srs probs w/ non-model models

major upset in no judges saying 'taste-level' re sharquita

amanda & alexander had more problems with tailoring & construction than anything their models brought to the table

amanda's proportions were terrible
alexander's was just generally poorly made all over

i

hate

korina

soooooo muuuuuuuch

I just came here to post about how much I hate Korina lol

Also I think Emily was robbed, her dress was awesome

If this was one of the early seasons, she would have been the clear winner, or Kini

i am starting to deeply resent what this show has become, and what the judges are holding up as good design now

zac seems the lone holdout for finishing & construction, and even he can be wishy washy week to week

Karina is such a snotty brat!! But honestly not as bad as many villains of past

it's just her attitude, she's sucky

i am starting to deeply resent what this show has become, and what the judges are holding up as good design now

So very, very OTM.

Those first couple of seasons were so fabulous. Santino! Jeffrey Sebelia! My pretend boyfriend Daniel Vosovic!

It's really pretty crappy now, I remember why I haven't watched it since they moved from Bravo. UGH that they think that they have to pander to the Lifetime demographic. I WANT TO SEE SPECTACULAR CREATIONS, not crappy outfits that I could make myself.

I do really like Emily and Kini, I thought Fade was pretty cool, and Sean has come up with a few good things. And Sandhya's stuff was at least interesting and thoughtful until she made that onesie.

After Season Three, Tim Gunn and Angela Keslar did a promo tour of Macy's and they displayed a bunch of the winning designs from that season. Remember that striped green dress with zippers that Jeffrey made? OMG, you should have seen that thing up close. It was a work of art. It was SO masterfully constructed. It's a shame what they're doing now.

I always think of Jay's knitwear collection from S1, there's no way we'd see anything like that now

LOL @ the designers who had trouble finding muses on the street. Stop asking people with blurry faces you idjits! (I wonder if they could've dragged Tim along, or promised the muses the chance to meet him, I'm sure loads of fangirls would've jumped at the opportunity.)

There were a couple of other lulzy moments that now completely escape me.

I appreciated Nina's disclaimer at the beginning of the judging -- I always feel so terrible when non-models are up there wearing things that are torn to shreds and/or having their taste levels ridiculed. Same thing with Tim's decision to give Char another 10 minutes to fix the zipper: when you bring in non-models, really, they're doing the show a favor and should be treated with respect.

Anyway, is it any surprise that the designer with the skinniest, prettiest model won it?

I've watched a zillion reality shows and they all seem to follow a similar trajectory: if they last long enough, their aims start drifting away from their representative industries and develop their own insular cultures, and the judging begins to cater to the show's values, not the industry's.

Korina's model said she was from Louisiana but I swear she has the German accent that Heidi's managed to lose.

She DID have a German accent! She said she lives in Germany now.

Lol at how much bitching they milked out of Char's extra ten minutes. They could have just stated that they all wanted an extra ten minutes. But then they wouldn't have anything to bitch about.

Season One Jay's knitwear collection was so so fabulous.

Alexander should have ignored Tim and went with that crazy assed combination of prints, it was bizarre but he should have just went with it and defended the shit out of it to Posen. Sean almost got the auf last week for taking Tim's advice and dropping the fringe. Char went with her gut, ignored Tim, and was in the top.

Also did I mention that I really really hate Korina?

I agree with Tim. alexander's obsession with the polkadot needed to be stopped, the whole thing just made me sad

Also - rewatching on On Demand and I just figured out who Amanda looks like. Exactly. Harry Connick Jr.

lol

Can't unsee it.

Harry Connick Amanda

oh holy shit

What is it with the designers this season and peplums (pepla?)? They're ugly as sin, stop it!

yeah char especially needs a peplum intervention

looooool Korina
Was that the most ungracious exit from PR ever or what?

And according to the preview for next week, we've got more Korina drama coming because those bastards at Bunim/Murray apparently decides to pair current designers with eliminated ones, Char's being Korina, of course

Anyway, I almost fell off my couch w/:

Korina: You shouldn't be here! You got eliminated!
Char: Don't point your finger at me! I'm still here!
K: This isn't about you, okay?

I mean, that had to be creative editing, no one is that awful, right

lol i didn't watch the preview, that is too much

god she is the WORST

if you want to show what a good designer you are maybe show how well you can use an hour by being efficient & not do a 16 piece pattern jfc

i wish emily had bailed on her in disgust

Here I was convinced that she was getting the redemption arc! lol whoops. TBH I liked her and Emily's mini-collection, but then I guess the producers wanted to inject MOAR DRAMA and got what they wanted.

Korina: You shouldn't be here! You got eliminated!
Char: Don't point your finger at me! I'm still here!
K: This isn't about you, okay?

LOVED THIS. I pray that it was real because it's just too rich.

The soccer ball dress was overpraised IMO -- the triangular bits that were glued(?) on cheapened the look. I liked the Frank top on Amanda's, though.

Kornina's freak out should be required viewing for Kindergarteners not wanting to grow up to be unsympathetic egomaniacs.

Kornina's freak out should be required viewing for Kindergarteners not wanting to grow up to be unsympathetic egomaniacs.

omfg loooooololol

Heavens, I mean this is beyond producer trolling (Tim Gunn save PLUS extra 10 minutes that one time PLUS going back to make another dress) I mean come onnnn they really do NOT want to send Char home and it's at the point where it's really kind of hysterically funny how ridiculous and obvious they're being about it and also how hard they're really digging into Korina.

As much as I'm delighted w/ the outcome bcz it made such great television (and also PR has not-all-that-much to do w/ rewarding ppl for making the best clothes), does Korina not kind of have a point that it's sort of insane for Char to still be here when her shit really is pretty inferior to Korina's?

She has a point that's relevant to a competition where contestants advance on merits rather than dramatic potential. Of course, that's not what Project Runway is.

all of this is way otm

http://tomandlorenzo.com/2014/10/project-runway-storage-whores/

100% of my problem with Korina is/was her level of trashtalking/attitude measured against her output

She never had nearly the level of talent she said she had, she was nowhere near Kini or Sean for repeated wins. Every other week she wrote checks her mouth could not cash, and we're still waiting to see the ~amazing~ designer she's supposed to be

If you are going to come in with your ego on blast you better be pulling blowing judges minds every time a you're up there or else stow the verbal touchdown celebrations & smacktalk until you *actually* win

I mean she's bringing Jeffrey-levels shade & she's barely up to the standard of christing Daniel Franco

Ok now that Char is at Fashion Week, the judges can stop pretending thet love her stuff, right?

the last 9 designers or something go to fashion week anyway, so the whole thing seems kind of pointless (ie: Korina showed at Fashion Week. And everyone shows anonymously).

i am so close to hating this show now

If you (and I) came back after Anya won, we will come back after this season, and we'll probably even watch All Stars after this, too.

sigh

true

but i want to go on the record as saying fuck this stupid show & the three ring circus it's become

With you there!

Not watching finale tonight having just caught up with the penultimate episode, but Sean's going to win this walking away and backwards.

unless we all get mega trolled & char wins the whole kaboodle

Right, but that's a pretty remote chance IMO because they'd never go so far as to reward someone with such obvious design deficiencies and

http://gearsandshifts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/anya-ayoung-chee-wins-project-runway-showing-lack-confidence.jpg

ahhhh nm.

allstars starts next week tho
:D

amanda's collection was p gross imo

I didn't like Amanda's collection at all, either. Ugh.
I loved Sean's collection, and I'm glad he won, but then, I love fringe, and I love orange, and I love cute young boys with accents so there ya go.
His final look (the long orange dress) was just beautiful.
There were things in both Kini's and Char's collections that I liked very much and that I would wear.

E! is showing a marathon of Season 4 today, apparently as a tie-in to their upcoming new series "House of DVF"!!!!!!

yea im fine w sean winning just off his last orange 1 m/l
i liked a lot of kinis, id of put him > amanda def

i liked kini's but it wasn't enough. i wish it was more fanciful & fashiony, he's SO good., sean's was p amaze tho, that orange dress was a showstopper.

amanda's even looked poorly made, all the puckering with that color blocking ... and the color choices were just yuk

char's was good but I felt bad for her, that they dragged her all the way tp that stage only to tell her what we already knew, that she's not ready for primetime. it felt kinda cruel imo
but she is p boss as a person & i love her style

i am just annoyed that the quality of the collections seems to dwindle each year

they've pushed out almost any possible chance for high fashion/major creativity to show it's head now, like jay or siriano would have been sent home by ep 6

Yawn.

allstars starts next week tho

Seriously?? Are they just bringing back this season's cast and calling them All-Stars? I'm more excited for the Reunion.

My favorite part of this season was Tim Gunn and Kini standing in front of the Coliseum and Tim saying "So, how inspiring is this??" and Kini in flatly responding in complete monotone with "Oh my gosh, it's so inspiring."

looolotm

cant see Project Runway: Threads w/o thinking of http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Threadsmoviecover.jpg

allstars is cool but

helen

uuuuuughhhhhhhh god i almost forgot can't stand her

crushing on fabio tho

ben is still a twit, good to know

Do I want to watch All-Stars? So burned out this show.

idk

it's not terrible. plus isaac & alyssa are kinda good

Have I been missing out on All-Stars?

yes and no

i'm actually enjoying it, and pregnant alyssa milano is supercute... but it's not exactly must-watch tv

idk, aside from Sanijay and Dmitry there's not really anyone who I'm like 'oh I can't wait to see what they make', and for the most part they're kind of trotting out the designs they're all expected to make

helen makes gown
kate makes bridal fairy party
fabio makes some kind of tunic/pant deal that's meant to be worn without shoes
etc

Oh hay Michelle and Chris March are back, maybe I'll give it a whirl after all.

do it!

God really Kate again?

Anyway apparently there's a former ANTMer on there too, so now I have an excuse to ignore everyone during TGiving.

lol

its v boring, tho i do still watch

dmitri is the best designer and its not close

he's so awesome

I only just watched the season 13 reunion and completely forgot that Sean won.

um i totally forgot too

this show doesn't even deserve new threads anymore but this new season is just absurd garbage

hahaha im still watching it!

ps HI STEVIE

oh me too, but it's like... one-day challenges, stupid pressure, letting bad people stay, sending good people home, like who gives a shit

pps HI DUDER!!

i really liked the season from a few years back where sean won. also he was extremely cute and i used to see him at the grocery store all the time. the season where ashley won was pretty good too even if her win felt a little fake.

i caught one episode of this most recent season tho and i didn't like it at all. the episodes are so fuckin long now which is cool when the judges get closer looks at the garments but very bad when it means that there's 10 mins of unnecessary product placement.

the product placement is def out of hand the last couple of years

sean was the nzer right?? <3 <3

my friends were all 'oh this season is soooo much better than last year' and i bailed on last year halfway through so I figured ok i'll check it out
but it doesn't seem much better? it's so shitty now

i feel like i'm trapped in an endless neoprene nightmare with this fucking show now

maybe I'm just a crabby old grandma now but I think back to season 1 with Jay's incredible knitwear and i just think, every single contestant now would cry actual tears if they were asked to create something even remotely approaching what he did

everyone's so fucking neon and precious and irritating. I can't think of the last time I actually LIKED someone on this show

yeah the switch to bunim murray led to the cast being a lot more real world like in their "quirks"

Was Bunim Murray at the same time as lifetime or before or after?

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