So there has been murmurs of Project Runway moving to a different network for a while. With it's popularity, one would think it made sense to move it to a larger network. It's current home is Bravo, which is owned by NBC, so wouldn't a logical move be to move to... NBC? But oh no, the owners of Project Runway think THIS is a good idea??!
Project Runway moves to Lifetime
I have spent the past few days incredibly drugged up on Nyquil and Dayquil - boy, I never realized how potent that stuff was! And so tv watching has been difficult since my head's been in a fog, but tonight I watched last night's Project Runway and it was prom week! Clients were a bunch of high school girls needing dresses for prom and how mad am I that apparently it ran a minute or two over this week because my dvr cut it off literally RIGHT before Heidi announced who was out. Agh! I mean, that's just rude. And so I had to go and research it on my own - turns out Kevin got the auf wiedersehen even though Christian had the crazy girl who tried to take over his project and made him design a tacky dress.
...9:30's not too early for bed is it? Because I just took my Nyquil for the evening and will likely be knocked out in the next 5 minutes!
I am tragically behind in tv, but finally tonight just watched Project Runway from a week ago, where the task was to raid the Hershey Store in Times Square, and then make an outfit out of it, and oh what fun it was to see the candy wrapper dresses! There were some crowd pleasers for sure, and Rami's winning outfit was well deserved:
I adore Rami as a designer. I hope he goes all the way!
I haven't been able to bring myself to leave the apartment at all today. It's just been one of those days. Actually, I sense it's going to be one of those weekends. And so I've been alternating between napping, catching up on tv and watching football.
This week's Project Runway featured making an outfit for Tiki Barber! The man has has crazy shiny white teeth, btw. Most of the contestants didn't have a clue who he was and Tim Gunn trying to explain that he used to play football for the NY Giants didn't really help much. This challenge turns out to be somewhat of a debacle since many of the designers have never done menswear before, and this is the first time there's ever been a menswear challenge on this show. The further into the task it gets, the more of a trainwreck some of the designers' creations are. Tiki's wife Ginny shows up to give some critique and advice, and I find her personality to be just a tad underwhelming, but who am I to judge - she's married to Tiki Barber.
Jack ends up creating the winning look, a nicely done contrasting striped shirt with pinstripe pants. Supposedly Tiki agrees to wear this winning outfit on the Today Show. I'll have to investigate that one.
In the bottom three are Sweet P, who creates a super messy looking shirt because she couldn't quite get the proportions right in her patterns, Ricky, who makes a very boring suit that is not only dull, but unfinished as well and has pins hanging everywhere, and Carmen, whose outfit doesn't have a shirt! No joke, she ends up taking the fabric that was supposed to be the shirt and draping it around his neck. What a disaster, and alas, it's bye bye to Carmen. What did she think she was doing, trying to put this outfit on Tiki?!
How embarrassing.
I was two episodes behind on Project Runway. So tonight I watched last week's episode, and the challenge was designing a two-piece outfit for Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing line. There are fourteen contestants, but only 7 design concepts are chosen by SJP, and then teams of two are formed.
The winning outfit, designed by Asian designer Victorya:
And of course, one day you're in, the next... you're out:
It was a bit of a potato sack, don't you think?
I now need to watch this week's episode 3, but that will be for another day.
Season 4 of Project Runway is underway and I have finally gotten around to watching the premiere. We've got 15 new designers ready to roll, and while I usually try to introduce the designers one by one up front (like I do with the Amazing Race teams), I'm just not going to bother this time because... well, I'm too lazy to. So we will meet them as the season goes along, okay?
The new designers are summoned to home of Fashion Week - Bryant Park, where they are greeted by champagne and a very empty park in the middle of the day - as if that EVER happens. Tim and Heidi show up, looking fabulous as usual and making everyone swoon just a bit. With no time to waste, the designers are presented with challenge #1: Grab fabric from three tents set up across the park, lots of it, and then make an outfit that expresses "who you are as a designer." They all ransack the tents, and I feel terribly bad for the big fat guy Chris who can't really run and is the last one to reach the tents, but he turns out to get what he needs and wants out of the fabric choices, so it's all good.
Back to Parsons they go and they've got 13 hours to make it work! Seems like a lot of time (relatively speaking), but next thing you know there's only 4 hours left and here comes Tim to check out the progress. He's not really amused with Simone's progress, and that turns out to be a bad omen of things to come. Rami's making a lovely gray dress with lots of draping and Ricky's making a super cute sparkly babydoll dress. Elisa decides she's done with her dress even though there are still four hours left, and this is a problem because a) her dress has unfinished edges, b) its "pooping fabric" on the backside and c) she makes everyone hate her because she decides to take a nap while everyone else is hard at work. I'd also like to point out that we first met Eliza at Bryant Park grinding her silk chiffon into the ground to cover it with grass stains. Lovely. She isn't using using her grass stained chiffon as far as I can tell though, but I can't really quite figure out if that is a good thing or a bad thing, given the state of her dress.
At 1AM the designers head back to Gotham City for a rest, and the next morning they go back to Parsons to put in their finishing touches, meet and fit their models, get the models' hair and makeup done and make use of the glorious Bluefly Accessories Wall! I loooove the Bluefly accessories wall and this officially becomes my favorite show entity.
It's runway time, Heidi looks awesome as usual and we get to see the designers' first set of creations. Nina and Michael are seated and ready to judge, joined by designer Monique Lhuillier, whose work I don't know very well, BUT who I know makes lovely wedding gowns.
There are some of the usual disasters, and some outfits that are lovely. Actually, I was quite pleasantly surprised at just how lovely many of the outfits came out - pretty impressive for the first week. The winning outfit:
Made by Rami, and most definitely one of my favorites this week.
One day you're in, the next you're out:
Bye bye Simone. You didn't really stick around long enough for me to decide if I actually cared you were leaving. I was surprised Elisa the puppet maker didn't go home, given that her creation was quite awful, but I guess she got the creativity points.
All things considered, we're off to a good start for season four, and I can't wait to see more of the Bluefly Accessories Wall!
This made me laugh and laugh and laugh. It looks so sweet and innocent at first glance, doesn't it? And is just especially funny to me considering my recent shoe investment (see below post). It's a pin being sold by a Paris-based website called Locher's and there is all kinds of cute and funny stuff on the site. Seriously, if you get a chance, browse the site. It's quite entertaining.
Project Runway 4 starts tonight! Hope those DVRs are set! Bluefly.com is in cohorts with the show this year - every week the winning design will be available for sale on Bluefly the next day. Imagine that!
I am currently watching a show on Discovery HD called Build It Bigger. In this particular episode, it shows the construction of the new upscale hotel and casino the Palazzo, a 53-story extension my very favorite venue in Vegas, The Venetian. The Palazzo boasts to be the biggest, tallest, newest and most glam hotel in Vegas. Can't say that I can argue with them, and watching it get constructed is super cool! I must see it in person! I'm feeling the need for a Vegas fix soon...
Oh and by the way, new season of Project Runway starts next week on Wednesday, November 14th @ 10PM on Bravo. Set your DVRs!
There was an abundance of sports to be watched this weekend, between college football saturday (yay for Penn State!), a HUGE win for the Giants over the Eagles on Sunday, and two straight days of Red Sox-Yankees doubleheaders on top of all that. Whew! Still one last game of baseball left to be played, but while I'm waiting for that, thought I'd catch up on some tv, so I watched last week's Project Runway. Angela and Vincent are back! Good grief, we were ALL so glad to get rid of the them, how ridiculous is it that they got LUCKY and won a challenge each earlier on that they didn't necessarily deserve, and for that they get to come back and compete again? Ugh. BUT, because there is a fashion God, they're gone again as quickly as they came back! And it's a lovely challenge because it features ONLY black and white colors and Michael makes an awesome dress (again) and Laura finally wins one! And bye bye we have to say to Kayne who has provided endless entertainment to us. And so we have the Final Four: Michael, Uli, Laura and Jeffrey. Next Stop: Olympus Fashion Week!
Regarding Laguna Beach: That Cameron sure does get around! Could Jessica be ANY MORE annoying? I like Tessa and Cameron together way better!
Okay, maybe it's just me (and the rest of the world) but... is Suri Cruise an ASIAN baby?! Hot off the press from the latest issue of Vanity Fair. I contemplated posting the picture here but decided against it because I couldn't the bear the thought of having a controversial baby's face on my blog. So after all the hooplah about whether or not Suri Cruise actually exists and what she looks like blah blah blah, I was expecting... not that. Never mind the fact that this baby was supposedly born in April of 2006 and yet looks to be at LEAST a year old. I'm just saying.
Anyway, a new season of The Ellen DeGeneres Show premiered this week in Central Park and I'm just gonna put it out there right now - I like Justin Timberlake. I still think it's super weird that he's dating Cameron Diaz, but I like him, okay? There, I said it. Whew, another thing I had to get out of my system.
Back to reality tv - I have discovered a fabulous new blog called Blogging Project Runway and have added it to my list of Blogs and Stuff over on the right. Very entertaining read for those of you out there who are Project Runway fans, and quite frankly, I don't see why you wouldn't be! And speaking of, thank goodness Angela and her crazy "signature rosettes" are finally out. I also happen to think Michael should have won again and NOT Jeffrey. Hmph.
Rule #1: Never make someone's little midwestern mom cry on national tv. So not cool. I don't give a rat's behind about your dumb excuses of being a recovering alcoholic/druggie. And I don't care that I happen to agree with you that Angela is a pain in the butt. You still have no right to make her mom cry! Yeah Jeffrey, you're a JERK.
Yeah, so for the record - not a fan of the idiots on Project Runway that seem to think it is okay to make other contestants' moms cry and then not even apologize for their behavior! Totally distacted me from the fact that crazy Vincent actually won the challenge and that boring Robery got sent home. Seriously - Vincent actually WON!
Yes, they used garbage to make clothes on Project Runway! To their defense though, it was recyclable garbage, not like nasty, people's-leftover-dinner-mixed-with-diapers garbage. So peanut sacks, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and mylar strips. Considering the quality of the materials they have to use this week, I am mildly impressed that everyone came up with anything at all that would stay put on the model. Sadly though, Vincent's is a stretch as far as impressiveness goes, since his model looks like she's trying to navigate down the runway with a cardboard tube wrapped around her - a mighty ugly tube at that. But even more sadly, cute little Alison gets Auf Wiedersen'ed and crazy Vincent gets to stay. WTF?!
Season premiere of Laguna Beach: I already hate Kyndra and Cami, and am mildy amused by the fact that Jessica and company are still ever present on the show, especially knowing the drama that will ensue with the Kyndra-Cameron-Jessica love triangle. Gotta love high school drama. The boys are cute but could be cuter. Especially Chase - he reminds me of scruffy Jason. Breanna is nowhere as cute as her big sister, but I'll let her slide because quite frankly, a lot of the girls leave something to be desired this season as far as I'm concerned. blah.
The Canadians have gone back to Canadia. And now it's back to my regular routine. Well, as regular as it can be while trying to get a grip on the insanity at work and doing this real estate thing. BUT, that doesn't mean there isn't time for tv!
The Season Finale of The Hills: I canNOT believe Lauren did not go to Paris!!! wtf! And for a douchebag like Jason?! Unacceptable. Although, I suppose if she didn't stay, there wouldn't be a season two of The Hills, and oh yeah there is going to be a season two! Filiming is underway.
Project Runway: Scandalous. Good riddance to Keith. And Angela winning the challenge - wtf? No seriously. You DID see the space outfit she made the week before, right? The one with the poufy silver skirt with her "signature rosettes"? Oye.
And... that's it. Is there anything else on?
This weather is insane. My days have been insane as well. Last week ended with a tumultuous journey to and from St. Louis, and I felt like I had been hit by a truck at the end of it all. Ask yourself this question: How long does it take to get from St. Louis to New York via plane? The correct canswer is 13. Yes, THIRTEEN hours was my journey home. Fabulous. Arrived home past 3am on thursday night/friday morning after heading to the airport in St. Louis around 2pm on thursday afternoon. Good times. Friday I slept until about 11am due to the drama of traveling, and tried to squeeze in as much sleep as possible given the upcoming weekend.
Spent the weekend up in New England: Friday night at Mohegan Sun, Saturday at Six Flags, Saturday Night at Foxwoods (wampum wampum!) and Sunday back to NY. Talk about major exhaustion, but the Six Flags water park was super fun! And what's not to love about dippin' dots and fried dough?
And now...it's just hot. HOT. Hot like I think I am going to melt into the sidewalk everytime I go outside. It's the Canadians' final week in the States, so once they are gone I can catch up on life and tv again. Though I did make them watch last week's Project Runway with me last night, which was super fun with the puppies! Tonight is the scandal episode where someone gets booted without even making a garment. It's also the season finale of The Hills! Another show lost for the rest of the summer, as if I have any other shows to watch in it's place. Summer tv, not so good.
We love frozen yogurts, luxury boxes, camera phones and chevrolets. Yeah, can't get that commercial out of my head to save my life. awesome. On top of that, I think I'm in love with David Wright. Could the boy be any more f-ing adorable?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SANFcm10KhU&search=david%20wright
I LOVE HIM. Aside from watching that clip on YouTube, I had DVRed the actual episode of Letterman that he was on, watched that on my tv as well, and realized that I had a HUGE grin on my face while watching him -- does anyone have any idea when the last time just the SIGHT of a guy made me smile the way David Wright does (aside from Melky)? Yea, neither do I.
Okay, so anyway, caught up on my week's tv, and here's the report:
Entourage - This show isn't nearly as good as it was in its first season, but still entertaining enough to continue watching.
The Hills - What a FANTASTIC episode this week. Love the Jason and Lauren drama. LOVE IT. Christmas and New Years in the Hills. What could be better. Don't any of these kids have families to go home to for christmas though? I'm just saying.
Project Runway - It's back. YES. So much fun. A joy to have this show back in my life, especially for the summer. Challenge #1 involves making an outfit out of materials from their fancy apartments, and the hilarity of them tearing up their apartments and then coming back at the end of the night to find the apartments still torn up was priceless. I bet that was Tim Gunn's idea. Love it!
I think that's it. I survived the All Star Break and baseball is officially in its second half! Yankees swept the White Sox this weekend, which is a huge move. HUGE. Baseball fans know why. And I also officially came one step closer to becoming a responsible poor home owner this past week. Don't want to talk about it too much just yet though, lest I jinx myself. What a long and crazy process this is!
Mascots, gourmet pretzels, retractable roofs and chevrolets...
I didn't think this show was even on anymore, but apparently it is and still making new episodes. Tonight launches a new season of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - Vegas style. Do people still watch this? Is it still any good? Things that make you go, hmmm.
The British kid won Apprentice last night apparently. I say apparently because I didn't actually watch but saw a headline for it online today. I tried really really hard to stick with that show, but just got too bored with it to watch the last couple of episodes. Who thought that even *I* would someday be sick of reality tv?
I was getting sad about the lack of tv for the summer, or at least the lack of decent tv, but I did a little research and there will be at least a few decent things to tide me ove after all!
Weeds - Season 2 starts August 14. If you missed season one, go find it and watch it. then watch season two when it starts. It's about a single suburban soccer mom who sells pot to support her family. totally hilarious.
Entourage - Yes! It's back! Soon! Like June 11th soon. Rumor has it one of the boys gets himself a little menage a trois action this season. One of many reasons to watch.
The Hills - This has actually started already. It's a spinoff of Laguna Beach, so if you watched that, you have to watch The Hills. You will love it, whether you want to or not.
Project Runway - I mentioned this one already, but I love it enough to mention it again. July 12. Set your DVRs.
Well, I totally got faked out by the finale of Project Runway. Aside from the fact that I think I subconsciously knew who was going to win because I had been desperately trying to avoid reading any coverage about the show and I think I ended up accidentally catching a glimpse of it because it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to stay away all forms of internet and newspaper during the week.
In any case, go Chloe. I was just as surprised as she was. It was just weird...you hate Santino, you love Daniel...and kind of forget about Chloe, and then she wins! And Michael Kors wants to give Daniel a job! all in all, a satisfying season. Good job Heidi.
