Aghast

[coulrophobe]

I was watching Top Design last night, and the challenge was for the contestants to create window dressing for 5 past Project Runway designers. Jeffrey Sibella instructed his team that the feeling for his creation was very Blade Runner. And neither contestant understood - one thought he meant Blades of Glory (*cringe*), the other didn't even have

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[stryper666]

Yeah, that was fairly horrible. How can you strive to be an interior designer, and not know what Blade Runner is?

[coulrophobe]

I think what was even sadder was that, once their client mentioned a source of inspiration they weren't familiar with, they didn't bother finding out. I don't know if they're prohibited from consulting the intarwebs or not, but you'd think with a little discussion with the client they would have seized on something other than "kaleidescope." Maybe a tiny portion of the blame lies with Jeffrey for not explaining in more detail - maybe key descriptors "gritty," "film noir meets sci-fi," and "see, there's this chick, she thinks she's human but she's actually a robot, in this dark futuristic dystopia..." But he chose to say "kaleidescope," and his silly little designers said "wheeeeee, sparkly!" And apparently, "Rococo."

[stryper666]

"I don't know if they're prohibited from consulting the intarwebs or not,"

If it's anything like Project Runway, then they are prohibited from using any outside sources.

[coulrophobe]

That's kind of what I was assuming, though I'm not sure what they consider "outside sources." I'd always assumed that on PR pattern-making/design books were verboten, but some sort of generalized art book might not be... but I have no clue, maybe anything that could serve as any source of inspiration is out. Regardless... what a shame they butchered poor Jeffrey's Rachel-esque vision!

[sistawendy]

How sad.

[coulrophobe]

I fear for the future of mankind. :(

[faintheart]

Did they get kicked off for it?

[coulrophobe]

One of them. Sadly, the Rococo-obsessed one survived.

[lazyangel]

What was weird to me is that they are both old enough to have seen Blade Runner, or at least lived through the 1980s punk thing. Granted, it's kind of a cult flick and neither of them are the goth-punk-apocolypse type, but c'mon.

[coulrophobe]

Yeah... I have a hard time even considering it a cult film, but that's probably a product of my environment!

[randomdreams]

Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... Blade Runner.
Leon: Blade Runner?
Holden: Yeah.
Leon: Let me tell you about Blade Runner. (Shoots Holden.)