Project Runway - finale
I have to confess that I didn't see the actual judging.
I'm not kidding - I was fighting sleep while the collections walked and at the end I kept thinking, why didn't Amanda's collection walk? ...and then I realized it had and I didn't remember. Now, that COULD be a result of age (okay, it probably is) but something tells me it's no coincidence that I also fell right asleep during the commercial break and didn't even find out who won until this morning when I looked it up online.
I have little to say about pre-show blah blah blah, except for when Tim told the designers they were THE MOST TALENTED BUNCH EVER ON THE SHOW OMG NO NO NO. Especially given that E! is currently marathoning S4 (with Christian) and OMG the difference; I'm weeping for all that once was.
Anyway, let's just get right to the looks. I'm skipping some of the clothes because I just can't be bothered. My second favorite is not what I think was the second best, but I'll explain when I get there.
But there's really no question that Kini really fell on his ass on this one, no matter what the judges and Tim told him.
It's really remarkable that Kini managed to come out with this, given what he came to New York with. Some of what he managed to present was pretty good but it's all so drab. He decided on lux denim, which is, I'm sorry, a total oxymoron. And he didn't help it at all. As in this:
That is insanely ugly. I can't imagine anyone wearing that ever. Can you picture someone walking around in Central Park in that? God, no. What is that, a bed ruffle bodice?
And he did it again!
In the shoulders! This is his finale dress - I have this labeled "Kardashian nightmare" in my pic folder.
Granted, he did have some cool pieces; this jacket was nice:
And the pants - besides needing to be all the way to the ankle and tailored - are the same drab ocean-in-winter blue color. There is NO COLOR in this entire collection.
I like the ruffles he used:
But that top is drab and cinched for why? with that plunging neck line which isn't right for that skirt.
Anyway, I'll be forgetting that collection as soon as I can. It's bad, and the individual pieces that are good don't make up for the bad.
SECOND COLLECTION in my preferences!
Amanda. Okay, now, I do think she had the second best in terms of cohesiveness and general design, but my pic labels kept turning up the word "cow" in their description.
To wit:
"Maxi brown cow dress."
I liked her individual aesthetic patterns but I got the feeling that she had two or three ideas and she kept putting them together in different ways just because she had to, not that there was much reason for it.
Etcetera.
She loved this final look:
It probably would have been really nice in another collection. If she hadn't played so much mix-n-match with the different patterns, but had come up with maybe two cross-overs that brought the audience from one place, such as the black-and-white pattern (which I loved), gone through the brown and arrived at the blue, it would have been a lot less confusing.
All right, I'm going to have to put this into two posts. Part II will appear above this one.
I'm not kidding - I was fighting sleep while the collections walked and at the end I kept thinking, why didn't Amanda's collection walk? ...and then I realized it had and I didn't remember. Now, that COULD be a result of age (okay, it probably is) but something tells me it's no coincidence that I also fell right asleep during the commercial break and didn't even find out who won until this morning when I looked it up online.
I have little to say about pre-show blah blah blah, except for when Tim told the designers they were THE MOST TALENTED BUNCH EVER ON THE SHOW OMG NO NO NO. Especially given that E! is currently marathoning S4 (with Christian) and OMG the difference; I'm weeping for all that once was.
Anyway, let's just get right to the looks. I'm skipping some of the clothes because I just can't be bothered. My second favorite is not what I think was the second best, but I'll explain when I get there.
But there's really no question that Kini really fell on his ass on this one, no matter what the judges and Tim told him.
It's really remarkable that Kini managed to come out with this, given what he came to New York with. Some of what he managed to present was pretty good but it's all so drab. He decided on lux denim, which is, I'm sorry, a total oxymoron. And he didn't help it at all. As in this:
That is insanely ugly. I can't imagine anyone wearing that ever. Can you picture someone walking around in Central Park in that? God, no. What is that, a bed ruffle bodice?
And he did it again!
In the shoulders! This is his finale dress - I have this labeled "Kardashian nightmare" in my pic folder.
Granted, he did have some cool pieces; this jacket was nice:
And the pants - besides needing to be all the way to the ankle and tailored - are the same drab ocean-in-winter blue color. There is NO COLOR in this entire collection.
I like the ruffles he used:
But that top is drab and cinched for why? with that plunging neck line which isn't right for that skirt.
Anyway, I'll be forgetting that collection as soon as I can. It's bad, and the individual pieces that are good don't make up for the bad.
SECOND COLLECTION in my preferences!
Amanda. Okay, now, I do think she had the second best in terms of cohesiveness and general design, but my pic labels kept turning up the word "cow" in their description.
To wit:
"Maxi brown cow dress."
I liked her individual aesthetic patterns but I got the feeling that she had two or three ideas and she kept putting them together in different ways just because she had to, not that there was much reason for it.
Etcetera.
She loved this final look:
It probably would have been really nice in another collection. If she hadn't played so much mix-n-match with the different patterns, but had come up with maybe two cross-overs that brought the audience from one place, such as the black-and-white pattern (which I loved), gone through the brown and arrived at the blue, it would have been a lot less confusing.
All right, I'm going to have to put this into two posts. Part II will appear above this one.