One veteran (Carlos Casanova) and one rookie (Kelly Dempsey) have been eliminated thus far, and additionally one rookie (Merline Labissiere) and one vet (Anthony Williams) have won design challenges. But all of them have at least competed in one season of the original “Project Runway” series, so they all have experience.Īnd so far the designers have been evenly matched. The veterans have competed in a previous season of “All Stars,” while the rookies are competing for the first time. " Season six of “All Stars” pits veterans against rookies. Who benefited the most from this arrangement? Who struggled? And who went home in the dreaded double elimination? Scroll down for our live minute-by-minute recap of episode three, “Perfect Pairings,” to find out. This week “Runway” continued to keep its contestants off balance by pairing them off. Then episode two, “Damsels in Distress,” had the designers competing as individuals. The Fashion Show made no mention of this shiteous garment inspiring disordered eating among the models, but it already has a head start, should they choose to develop that story line.“Project Runway All Stars” season six began with a team challenge. We’ve watched plenty of model- and fashion-reality shows, and usually the eating-disorder stuff doesn’t breach until at least episode three or four. One team came up with a pencil skirt that was supposed to double as a tube top (ew) and was so tight the models could hardly squeeze into it. The main challenge was to design a must-have piece and show it with five different looks. One team managed to make the models feel fat, which is truly a feat. Reco, the contestant who used to design stripper clothes. He’s Lady Gaga meets circus performer, but with a real foreign accent.ĥ. Back at the apartment, he relaxes on the couch with the group with a glass of wine, wearing only underpants and a shirt. The clothes he designs are as horrendous as his own style, which is more entertaining than looking at decent work. The first day, he wore a hat with a feather that extended eight feet behind him with a marching-band uniform and knee-high white leather (pleather?) high-heeled boots. In fact, he might be the most out-there contestant to land on a fashion-design-competition show in history. This contestant wins the award for most ridiculous. We’re curious to see what else he comes up with.Ĥ. He says he makes patterns with squares and rectangles, and he won the first challenge with a dress that really wasn’t half bad. This contestant used to work for Vivienne Westwood, and you can tell by looking at his clothes. Why is Destiny’s Child’s Rowland on a show about fashion? Producers must have realized the audience would need an explanation, so in the opening she tells us she has “sat front-row to many fashion shows all around the world.” Her awkwardness peaks when she growl-yells at the designers “ NOOOOSo that’s how Destiny’s Child did it!ģ. He’s the Michael Kors element, the nasty version of Tim Gunn, but there’s something so real about that.Ģ. “I thought to myself, if any of these people worked for me, they’d be fired immediately,” he says during judging, and understandably so, since the clothes were not cute. Clearly, his standards for the designer contestants are too high. And while we’d be more than content catching a rerun of it on a hung-over weekend morning, we still plan on watching the second episode (at least). Sure, something about the production values makes it feel like a Stylista– Project Runway hybrid, but it was entertaining. And really, it’s not like The Fashion Show is the worst show ever made. And The Fashion Show - even though it’s not the most fabulous reality-TV program in history - is a threat, in a way, because it’s unclear what Lifetime will do to our beloved Runway when season six airs in August. But that could be why the reviews of The Fashion Show were so scathing - reviewers are so attached to Project Runway and its pioneering ways that it’s hard to support a potential threat. Don’t get us wrong - Project Runway will always hold a special place on our hearts. We watched the premiere episode and didn’t find it that offensive. Yesterday, a slew of reviewers concluded that Bravo’s new reality-competition program The Fashion Show was a terrible Project Runway knockoff.
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