Project Runway All Stars recap: Gelato gowns for Miranda Kerr?
Things took a porcine turn last episode, so I was thrilled to see the Project Runway producers go a little softer (or maybe soft serve?) on the All Stars this week, plying them with stupidly named gelato flavors before slapping them with their dubious challenge.
We chart our gelato flavoured feelings throughout the episode »
Fruits of the Forest
So it’s a bit half-and-half this round: a nice challenge with a sweet prize (dress worn by model Miranda Kerr), but the downside is that they only have six hours to complete. With a deadline like that, you can pretty much guarantee at least one model is going to be floating down the runway in a muumuu and sunglasses.
Each All Star picks a flavor of gelato to inspire their look. I don’t know why nobody wants some of that tasty treat I like to call RAMI’S GUNS. Yum +1
Did that poor kid lose or win the bet to be the official gelato scooper of Project Runway All Stars? April claims to have no idea what Fruits of the Forest are. Where’s Michael Kors when you need him! Hey-oh! –5 from myself
I wish they’d gone with Cold Stone Creamery instead of some fancy gelato cart. I’m curious to know what Mondo would do with The Pie Who Loved Me.
I love it when Diane von Furstenberg comes on Project Runway! She’s such a Positive Polly (Negative Nancy’s hot cousin). After finding out that she’s guest judging, Michael loses his shit in a pretty adorable way. Is there a classier babe than DVF? I Bet She Never Wears Sweatpants +20
As they walk around mini Mood, I notice that Austin looks like he stepped out of a particularly chaste Tom of Finland drawing. He wears it well. I like to imagine that some vengeful ex broke into Mondo’s closet and cut all his pants into short-shorts. It actually seems plausible—weirdly, weirdly plausible.
In the Workroom
Kenley is making an H&M dress circa 2008.
I’ve run out of patience with this Joanna Coles business. She doesn’t actually mentor the designer—she’d just here for the snack. Kara is forced to tell herself to make it work! What? Damn you, Coles! -7
The designers are working hard—but, with the exception of Michael, they all seem to be making some compromises that’ll allow them to finish. Austin’s glue gun (a.k.a. “liquid imagination”) might be holding his dress together, but not his resolve. Compared to last week’s accessory argument, the look of death he gives Kara at the sewing machine seems positively doleful.
Jerell knows how to deliver a line, hey? On Kara’s dress: “She had her looking like a pregnant cupcake (disgusted pause). That’s not the business.” He’s Totally Right! +3
On the Runway
Mondo’s cantaloupe kimono-sleeve kaftan is lovely and witty. Where’s he going to land this week, I wonder?
Anthony’s green-tea top/skirt combo is awful, and Rami’s kiwi-inspired look had a remarkably similar feel.
Mila’s sheer red and white tunic dress has a bit of a sleep-wear vibe. A saggy, belted pyjama top.
Michael’s dress really is beautiful. Even if it is a bit of a choir robe negligee deal—it moves beautifully, and the judges always respond to that more than they do to conceptual dresses like Kara’s. Kara does bring a certain je ne sais quoi to her descriptions, but I think the judges are giving her a little more credit than she deserves. Aw, who am I kidding. Give her all the gelato!
Isaac Mizrahi and Diane von Furstenberg are great together! I would totally watch a show about the two of them driving around the country, sort of like an American reboot of The Trip.
Unsurprisingly, Michael takes the win, followed closely by Mondo. Sad to see April go, but she did manage to stick around a bit longer than I thought she would. With only eight designers left, things are starting to get real on PRAS; Angela Lindvall’s glare is only going to get glassier. Next week looks like it’s going to be a rare “outside the workroom” episode, which is great after the claustrophobia of this one, where the designers didn’t even get to take a trip to Mood. At least give us a few shots of them giggling and hugging at the Flatotel! A girl wants to get her money’s worth! Yeesh.
Total: +12
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Things took a porcine turn last episode, so I was thrilled to see the Project Runway producers go a little softer (or maybe soft serve?) on the All Stars this week, plying them with stupidly named gelato flavors before slapping them with their dubious challenge.
We chart our gelato flavoured feelings throughout the episode »
Fruits of the Forest
So it’s a bit half-and-half this round: a nice challenge with a sweet prize (dress worn by model Miranda Kerr), but the downside is that they only have six hours to complete. With a deadline like that, you can pretty much guarantee at least one model is going to be floating down the runway in a muumuu and sunglasses.
Each All Star picks a flavor of gelato to inspire their look. I don’t know why nobody wants some of that tasty treat I like to call RAMI’S GUNS. Yum +1
Did that poor kid lose or win the bet to be the official gelato scooper of Project Runway All Stars? April claims to have no idea what Fruits of the Forest are. Where’s Michael Kors when you need him! Hey-oh! -5 from myself
I wish they’d gone with Cold Stone Creamery instead of some fancy gelato cart. I’m curious to know what Mondo would do with The Pie Who Loved Me.
I love it when Diane von Furstenberg comes on Project Runway! She’s such a Positive Polly (Negative Nancy’s hot cousin). After finding out that she’s guest judging, Michael loses his shit in a pretty adorable way. Is there a classier babe than DVF? I Bet She Never Wears Sweatpants +20
As they walk around mini Mood, I notice that Austin looks like he stepped out of a particularly chaste Tom of Finland drawing. He wears it well. I like to imagine that some vengeful ex broke into Mondo’s closet and cut all his pants into short-shorts. It actually seems plausible—weirdly, weirdly plausible.
In the Workroom
Kenley is making an H&M dress circa 2008.
I’ve run out of patience with this Joanna Coles business. She doesn’t actually mentor the designer—she’d just here for the snack. Kara is forced to tell herself to make it work! What? Damn you, Coles! -7
The designers are working hard—but, with the exception of Michael, they all seem to be making some compromises that’ll allow them to finish. Austin’s glue gun (a.k.a. “liquid imagination”) might be holding his dress together, but not his resolve. Compared to last week’s accessory argument, the look of death he gives Kara at the sewing machine seems positively doleful.
Jerell knows how to deliver a line, hey? On Kara’s dress: “She had her looking like a pregnant cupcake (disgusted pause). That’s not the business.” He’s Totally Right! +3
On the Runway
Mondo’s cantaloupe kimono-sleeve kaftan is lovely and witty. Where’s he going to land this week, I wonder?
Anthony’s green-tea top/skirt combo is awful, and Rami’s kiwi-inspired look had a remarkably similar feel.
Mila’s sheer red and white tunic dress has a bit of a sleep-wear vibe. A saggy, belted pyjama top.
Michael’s dress really is beautiful. Even if it is a bit of a choir robe negligee deal—it moves beautifully, and the judges always respond to that more than they do to conceptual dresses like Kara’s. Kara does bring a certain je ne sais quoi to her descriptions, but I think the judges are giving her a little more credit than she deserves. Aw, who am I kidding. Give her all the gelato!
Isaac Mizrahi and Diane von Furstenberg are great together! I would totally watch a show about the two of them driving around the country, sort of like an American reboot of The Trip.
Unsurprisingly, Michael takes the win, followed closely by Mondo. Sad to see April go, but she did manage to stick around a bit longer than I thought she would. With only eight designers left, things are starting to get real on PRAS; Angela Lindvall’s glare is only going to get glassier. Next week looks like it’s going to be a rare “outside the workroom” episode, which is great after the claustrophobia of this one, where the designers didn’t even get to take a trip to Mood. At least give us a few shots of them giggling and hugging at the Flatotel! A girl wants to get her money’s worth! Yeesh.
Total: +12){kind=link}