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Project Runway: Let Your Garment Do The Talking - Ranking The Remaining 11
Rankings by RTVC Senior Staff Writer Donna Emery
February 12, 2010
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This week on Project Runway, the designers showed us their interpretation of a colorful spring dress for a magazine cover.
Many of them seem to have completely disregarded those instructions.
When I think of spring dresses, I think of flowers or vibrant colors. If I were told to make a colorful spring dress, I would never choose beige, white, or black. Yet, that’s what many of these designers did.
Add the “spring” instruction to the knowledge they were designing for hostess Heidi Klum, I would have thought everyone would make a dress they could have envisioned her wearing – baby bump and all. And, although the designers had to construct these dresses with their models’ measurements in mind, most could have done a better job of remembering who their prospective model would be, if they won the challenge.
All of these models want to win the competition – or else they wouldn’t be here. To do so, they not only need to be good designers and tailors, they need a measure of confidence in their abilities. Most of them have that confidence – in spades. But, there’s a place where confidence strays into Arrogance County, and then it becomes difficult to watch and cheer for the success of the designer.
It is understandable for a designer to think their garment is the best. If they don’t, their lack of faith in themselves is going to show up in their finished outfits. Janeane is the best example of this, right now. She had a decent idea (even though her color choice was wrong), but she second-guessed herself straight into the second place from the bottom. Janeane can definitely sew, but so far none of her pieces have won much praise, from the judges.
So, though having faith in your own abilities is necessary, and thinking your garment is better than the other designers’ is natural, arrogance is both unattractive and – as Mila found out – sometimes distressingly wrong. Mila bragged that she didn’t see much competition, from the other, and wondered at the other designers’ lukewarm reception to her second-prize outfit, last week. Sorry, Mila: you may be a good designer and seamstress, but your attitude is what is keeping the others from embracing you.
Emilio disappointed me a bit, too. Although he shows consistently good construction skills, he is becoming a bit predictable (two short red dresses, in a row?) and his comments bordered on sarcastic.
On the other hand, I am growing fond of Seth Aaron and Anthony. Anthony’s humor and piquant comments are becoming more enjoyable, and seeing his gleeful reaction to his win was very enjoyable. As for Seth Aaron, he is one of a kind. When he began singing and prancing in the workroom, while almost everyone else was as sober as an undertaker, it was a really enjoyable moment.
While some of the designers are getting lots of camera time – and I wish some (Mila, Jesse, Janeane) would get less – others get very little. The quiet ones like Jay, Jonathan and Amy get very little focus – and it would be interesting to see more of them, as well.
Here are my reactions to each of the designers – and their designs. I’ve averaged their ratings from my previous scoreboard with this week’s scoreboard, in order to determine their rankings. I have no advance knowledge of how the competition comes out.
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