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January 14, 2008

SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV

chris_sew_ep_7.jpgPreviously on "Project Runway," Chris March made the cut, while Elisa "My Skull!" Jimenez was out.

Heidi met the designers on the runway and told them they'd be making dresses for one of the most important days in a woman's life, and you could tell the designers were fearing a wedding dress challenge. We were all prepared to fast-forward through the boring choosing-of-the-models segment, but were pleased to see it wasn't the usual batch of bony women, but a bunch of teenage girls in school uniforms. Kevin had the class to say he at first thought the models were "midgets or oompa loomps." Nice. Also, it's Oompa-Loompas. If you're gonna insult these girls, at least get your references right.

Heidi then told them they'd be making prom dresses for these girls from New Jersey's St. John Vianney High School, and Christian immediately complained that he thinks prom is horrible and tacky. So, let's go on a tangent here. Is it "prom" or "the prom"? Growing up we always called it "the prom," as in "are you going to the prom?", but then we saw Pretty in Pink, and watched that scene where Andie is screaming at Blaine in the hallway, and she keeps saying, "What about prom, Blaine? WHAT ABOUT PROM?" and at first we just thought she sounded totally stupid saying it like that, but then we started hearing other people calling it "prom" and not "the prom," and we realized we might be the stupid ones. So, which is it?

OK. Back to the task at hand. All the girls had looked through the designers' portfolios, and had picked who they wanted to design their dresses. Of course, this also ended up being kind of random, because some designer was going to have to be picked last and some girl was going to have to work with them whether she wanted to or not. (That last picked turned out to be Victorya.) A girl named Krista chose Chris, and he told her not to be too scared, since his portfolio is full of his pictures of his Beach Blanket Babylon costumes, many of which, we learned later, feature him as the model. During their design consultation meeting, she told him she wanted her dress low cut in the front, and in the back. Yup. She's a Jersey girl! Christian was paired with a girl who told him she was studying fashion design herself, and she had a LOT of ideas about what she wanted, all of which Christian deemed tacky.

We gotta admit something here, and we're gonna break into first person singular for a minute to do it, because I don't want to include anyone else in the admission that I designed my prom dress, too. I've got an aunt who's a seamstress, and she pretty much did exactly what I told her to do, bless her, but I gotta admit in hindsight, it was kind of a disaster. Unfortunately (?), I've got no pictures to share--I swear--but will admit, it kinda resembled Christian's design, in that it was knee-length, and poufy, and kinda tacky. But mine had long sleeves, a kind of black and silver rose tapestry-ish top, and a black taffeta skirt with a tulle over-skirt thing. It was the late 80s. I swear it was totally in, if not totally successful. But enough about me. Feel free to share your prom dress (or tux!) stories in the comments!

christian_maddie.jpgBack to the designers. Omigod, Ricky is crying! How weird! The next day, the designers met with the girls and their mothers. Chris got along well with the mother, and they both liked the dress. Christian had a lot of trouble with his girl, and began to suffer a nervous breakdown. Kevin's dress was red, and the mother of his girl thought it made her daughter look pregnant. Which, knowing Catholic schools girls, could very well prove true by the end of prom night. We gotta mention we really hope you actually watched this episode, because they showed photos of some of the designers on their prom nights, and wow. Some of them were classic! Sweet P. basically admitted to having sex on her prom night, and Ricky made his date's dress. Ha! Chris, alas, did not go to his prom. Instead, he stayed home, drank, and watched old movies.

chris_dress_ep_7.jpgRunway time, with guest judge designer Gilles Mendel. (Warning! that link might make you sea sick!) First down the runway was Sweet P.'s dress, and it was very nice, although with its long length and satin material, it kinda reminded us of Carrie's prom dress, although it didn't make us want to dump a bucket of blood on it. Kevin's dress, however...hoo boy! Give us three buckets! It was just totally unflattering on his model, was an ugly shade of red, and just plain dumpy. Chris's dress was very glamorous, an unusual but flattering shade of green, and it looked great on his model. You can see all the designs here.

Judgement time! Chris's dress got enough points to move him on to the next round, woo! The judges liked Sweet P.'s and Victorya's dresses the most. The bottom of the pack included Kevin, Christian, Kevin, and Rami. Didn't Rami win last week? Doesn't that give him immunity? This was never mentioned during the judging, but he did move on to the next round this time around. Kevin's ugly, unhemmed dress was deemed the loser. So long Mr. Heterosexual!

The winner was Victorya. Now, when we saw her dress, we kind of thought of Andie's horrible Pretty in Pink prom dress, probably because we had that movie on our mind, but also because the neckline was kind of similar. Turns out, that's not the only dress it resembled. SCANDAL ALERT! Apparently, it resembles a dress designed by another "Project Runway" designer, who also stupidly spells his name with a "Y" where an "I" would do just fine. Check out the photos here....aaaaand, discuss!

All images from Bravo's "Project Runway" site.


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Comments (7)

Christian should have gone home for letting that piece of trash down the runway. He blamed his girl for all of the bad ideas, but she didn't even like it. Better to make something good looking and hope your client is convinced by how bad-ass it looks on her.

And I'm not wholly convinced Victorya's model liked her dress, I think she was just being kind of weak about it. It turned out cuter than I thought it would when I saw V. bringing out the bedazzler, but it's not the "hottie" dress that most teen girls would be aching to wear on prom night.

Yeah, Rami's dress -- what? I think he was inspired by Escher.

 

I always just figured "(the) prom" was regional.

 

Chris' green dress was hands down the winner.

 

I liked Sweet P's, though Chris' was nice, and better than Victorya's...totally agree that Christian should have gone home for all the reasons stated, as well as the fact that at least Kevin's model got exactly what she asked for design-wise and it didn't look *that* bad.

 

Sweet P's was lovely, but Chris' dress was beautiful, age appropriate and a great use of color. Victorya's dress was horrible, horrible, horrible.

 

Ricky should have gone home, not Kevin.

 

Agreed Megang, Ricky and his stupid little hats need to take a hike.

I thought Gillian's was as good as Chris' and his was def better than Victorya's.

 
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