Project Runway: Miz Shoes Reviews

"It's a fine line between innovation and insanity."

Yes, Heidi, and I, personally, have been treading that line since birth. Maybe that's why I have no problem with Vincent. Even though I wasn't in love with what he made, he stated his intention: "I'm going to make art...like a painting." and he did it. It was stark, and very much in the spirit of Miro.

ep6_Vincent.jpg Joan-Miro, Constellation.jpg

Ignore the color in the Miro, and just look at the lines and shapes, and then look at Vincent's ornamentation on his sheath and tell me that you can't see the influence/inspiration.
This week's challenge was to make something, anything wearable from recycled materials, hence the field trip to New Jersey. I loved Laura's comment about it was an ugly morning and New Jersey looked as ugly as it always does. You know, for a native of N'awlins, she has a totally New York attitude.

ep6_Alison.jpg
And while I am very, very sorry to see Alison go, I think the clip of Heidi saying would you rather look long and lean or lumpy was the kiss of death for Alison and her paper brioche (Oh. My. God. We have soooooooooo missed you, Michael Kors. The man has a way with the bon mot, n'est ce pas?).

The rest of the show can be summed up as follows: Laura is being given the Wendy Pepper snide bitch edit, Kayne is being portrayed (or is portraying himself) as Prissy McPrissyQueen and Jeffrey is just a whining, ugly, Shmoo-like, no-talent hack who, if he ever won a challenge, would prove to live the motto "Obnoxious in victory, bitter in defeat." He surely is bitter in defeat. He goes into every challenge with the attitude that he is clearly going to come out the victor due to his style, his vision, his talent, his genius, his glory that is Jeffrey, and comes out of every challenge dissing the winner and complaining that he should have won, and what the FUCK is wrong with the judges that they can't see to give him first prize.

Robert, bless his heart, made a charming dress out of silver mylar. It was not boring, and thankfully it was not as trashy-ho as he thought. It was enough to get him on to the next challenge, and nobody gave him shit from the judging chairs.

ep6_Robert.jpgep6_Uli.jpg

Uli made yet another dress without sleeves or a real neckline, which begs the question, does she even know how to set in a sleeve? It was yet another small bodice, full skirt and yes, of course, it had woven/braided elements. Even so, it was pretty.

ep6_Laura.jpgep6_Angela.jpg

Laura made another of her signature pieces, which is to say, witty, clean, elegant and with a plunging neckline. I loved the joke on the back of the skirt "For Nuts Only." I've always felt that I had an invisible tattoo on the center of my forehead that reads "Fucked up? Talk to me." and that anyone who can see it, is, and will. Which means that Vincent and I would probably be chatting to each other within moments of him seeing me across a crowded room. But I digress.

I'm sure that hearing the judges compliment Laura on her mylar strapping flower just made Angela's head spin, and not in a dizzy sort of way, but in an Exorcist sort of way. Angela herself did not indulge in her "signature" fleurchons (somebody please slap the pretentiousness out of her), but went back to her self-proclaimed roots and made some ugly-ass patchwork/overalls/mini-skirt thing. Woof. Can you say "dog" in French, Angela? Derriere de chien laid.*

Kayne (below on the left) made an atrocity that the magnificent Tim Gunn referred to as a high-school craft project, but he was only being kind to Kayne because he likes him so much. Kayne then got rid of the glued-on medicine bottle caps and giant paper cone pretending to be a skirt, and made a tin foil fairy dress. No, I am not making a double entendre. Even he was ashamed to send it down the runway. Which suddenly makes me wonder what Bradley could have done with trash. I think that he might have rocked the garbage.

ep6_Kayne.jpg ep6_Jeffrey.jpg

Jeffrey's dress (above, right) didn't suck. In fact, it was very nice, and, like the judges I loved the trompe l'oeil** belt. Having said that, and finding that my tongue has not shriveled up, I would also like to point out that we have seen this same silhouette from both Jeffrey and his asshat friend Satan-ino in the past. Snore. Making it out of comic strips and tempera paint rather than dip-dyed muslin makes it no hotter.

The winner (and still champion) was Michael, who utterly blew the competition away with this:

ep6_Michael.jpg

He understood the concept of the challenge, which was about transformation. He took recyclables (plastic wrap, gold mylar and plastic burlap) and seemingly without effort made them look like organza, satin and linen. He is brilliant. For Jeffrey to bitch about Michael winning this is just mean-spirited. But then, we are speaking about Jeffrey, non?

*Which, as best as I can speak French, translates to dog-butt ugly.

** For reasons I cannot explain, today seems to be French day here at the house of shoes.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/17 at 11:46 AM in Project Runway


(3) Comments
#1. Posted by Miz Shoes on August 18, 2006

Marcia, mais oui. Certainment.

#2. Posted by cary on August 18, 2006

I finally got around to watching the latest PR. I’m surpised to see Allison go, epecially over Vincent since she does seem talented and has reasonably decent taste. However I think the “hair” bow and the Angela pouffy skirt did her in.

When I heard the innovation|insanity quote, I knew immediately it would be appreciated here.

Just a couple of other comments on the contestants…Jeffery so annoying. I see now what you were saying about his neck tattoos. They bother me almost as much as seeing him sitting with his hoodie hood on his head (my 16 yr old tries to walk around with her hood up and it drives me crazy.)

And as much as I like Laura’s crisp clean style, both on her and her models, I am quickly getting tired of almost seeing (or in some cases actually seeing) her chest exposed. Deep plunging necklines do not need to be worn 24/7.

Yeah, I’m hooked. My dear, you are single handedly responsible for hooking me on PR and ANTM. And I thank you.

#3. Posted by Gigi on August 21, 2006

I was thrilled that Michael won the fashion icon challenge last week (especially after those bottom- of-the-ninth inning alterations that turned a forgettable frock into a hot little hotpantsy winner) but I swear I thought Neck Boy earned it this time out, even if he does say so himself.  It was the only number that moved like apparel, I loved the colors and that BELT ~ gorgeous.  That said, he is certainly a whining, Shmoo-like pinhead with delusions of Santino-ness, and I predict he will wind up as popular and successful as the aforementioned.

I got and liked Vincent’s concept but thought the execution was poor ~ it may be a painting but it still has to be worn and Laura was right, the girl couldn’t walk.  It’s too bad about sweet Allison, but the ‘paper brioche’ with the giant Minnie Mouse bow?  ;D Michael, we really missed ye.

Commenting is not available in this channel entry.

<< Back to main