Project Runway Season 12 Episode 2 Live Blog

Tonight is the second episode of season 12 and I'm here to live blog it as it happens, taking pictures of the screen when necessary. I update at each commercial break. Here we go!

"I need to sew my hookers" - Sandro

A big truck pulls up with a guard. I know from the preview last week that the challenge involves expensive diamonds. Each model will have a necklace, bracelet, etc. and the designers must design something that goes with/shows off the jewels. The guards have guns. Heidi comes out with the button bag and Kate hopes its not teams.

Alexander: "Wow. Wow."

The jewels are worth over $30 million. The look they must create is glamorous. Timothy doesn't like this challenge. The designers get to choose the model they want, also choosing the diamonds that come with them. I can't tell how many of them stuck with the model they had before.

They will finally get to try out the new Go-Bank account (they get $4,000 for the whole season) and we will finally get to see Swatch at Mood! They only get one day to make this evening gown.

Timothy wants to do something called trash for treasure.

The girl with the tattoos is doing a strapless dress which sounds like a good plan to me.

Mood! Someone whose name I don't remember goes for silk prints while Timothy goes to the garbage. I'm already getting tired of typing things about Timothy.

I hate shin length dresses. Yuck. The Russian is doing one.

"Bye Swatch!"

Kate is doing some kind of costume. Sandro and Ken are fighting in the sewing room. Oh, Ken pulled out, "Speak correct English." Not cool.

COMMERCIAL #1

Sue has some liquid silver-looking fabric. Bradon has some cool silver curtain fabrics.

COMMERCIAL #2

Tim gives Kahindo some help by suggesting she layer her print with a sheer green fabric for her African-inspired look.

Timothy's look is a mess and Tim says it looks like a ticket home.

Alexander Pope is giving Kate crap for not being original. His name isn't even original. I still like him. He's like, "Omigod, I have to go drape a skirt in like twenty minutes!"

Sue has a problem with her sewing machine and is freaking out.

COMMERCIAL #3

2 hours to runway and Sandro is running around shouting about sewing hookers.

Tattoo's dress looks bad and it looks even worse next to Kate's look which has the same kind of top, but better.

In the make-up room, they have found L'oreal's sustainable line of makeup which should make Timothy's model pretty happy.

A designer whose name I don't know is putting a matching headband on her model. Sandro is putting a bra on his head...

Sandro is upset because no one will help him work the steamer, so he calls on a crew member to help him, but the crew member doesn't help, so Sandro starts crying.

COMMERCIAL #4

On the runway the 15 designers look nervous. Heidi's hair looks super be beachy cute.

First up is Dom's look! She's the one whose name I keep forgetting who put a headband on her model.

Dom

Justin made a black dress. Luckily, it is not a hot mess or he would be in the bottom for being so boring. His model's hairnet hair is crazy.

Ken's green peplum dress is boring and the top is ill-fitting.

Kahindo's camp-looking cocktail dress is kinda cute.

I don't like how short Alexandria's dress is in the front - is this a fashion trend I don't know about? It looks like a mistake to me.

The proportions are off on Miranda's ugly blue top/skirt.

Miranda

Alexander's dress has wow. I'm glad he didn't put the sleeves up.

Alexander

Kate's Marie Antoinette look is pretty good. The styling is also spot on.

Kate

Timothy should go home, but there are a lot of messy looks tonight...

Karen's blue silk dress fits weird at the armpits. Is that on purpose?

Jeremy's dress has a lot of drama - he is safe at least.

Sandro's model can barely walk in that tight dress thing.

Helen (that's tattoo's name) is crying - Heidi even asks if Tim wants to go and talk to her! (She's not supposed to give away that the dress is hers). She's shaking and Sandro is trying to comfort her awkwardly as Tim approaches - in front of everyone.

COMMERCIAL #5

Tim whispers something to her, then says "We're going to carry on, everyone." Tim is so great. I love him. The dress doesn't look good, but it's not the worst.

I don't like how Sue's dress is a halter and the necklace has to go over parts of it. The two don't look like they belong together. She thinks she "definitely nailed it" however.

Bradon's dress is cute, but I'm not crazy about the black trim and I don't like the little jacket thing.

Heidi calls Dom, Sandro, Timothy, Kahindo, Helen, and Kate forward - they are the top and bottom six. Obviously Kate and Kahindo are in the top, with... Dom, I guess. Kate's dress is pretty, but no one thinks it is very original.

Everyone like's Dom's look, but not the headband (called it).

Timothy's dress has a racerback in the front and no one cares for it much, but they don't seem to really hate it.

Kate's model is so tall! The guest judge (a costume designer) likes it. Everyone likes the gray color.

Sandro's look is overdone again after they told them not to last week, but Heidi likes it. Posen thinks it is a little trashy since the sides are sheer.

Kahindo's dress is maybe in the bottom? Heidi thinks it is too simple/boring/off-the-rack. Sad. No one thinks it showcases the necklace. So... maybe Helen is going home?

Helen explains that she never made a dress with cups before. Helen says "go big or go home." Up close, this dress really is worse than Timothy's. Helen's crying again because of how much she loves couture - she's even making Sandro tear up, but Nina is not going for it.

Maybe Tim will use the Tim Gunn save this early to save Helen?

Back stage, Alexandria is mean to Timothy and Sandro is telling him to just shut up in front of the judges. According to the online-voting thing, viewers think Timothy is going home.

Heidi calles Nina "Mean-a." :)

Tim gets to speak on Kahindo's behalf and explains that he advised her to put the layer over the print.

Tim explains that Timothy's dress is 1000 times better than his first attempt.

LAST COMMERCIAL

Kate is the winner and Kahindo is out.

See you next week!

Project Runway Season 12 Episode 1 Live Blog

Tonight is the premiere of Project Runway season 12 (can you believe it?) and I'm here to live blog it as it happens, taking pictures of the screen when necessary. I update at each commercial break. Here we go!

"Remember the Unicorns" - Timothy

The first four designers are at some old-timey airport. One of them is from Russia. Three more designers arrive - the one in a hot pink shirt and bright blue pants claims to be "a force to be reckoned with" I'm going to guess right now that he gets voted off tonight! The guy with the orange hair says "Some people love me some people hate me" - I love him! Are they jumping out of airplanes?

Heidi and Tim arrive to welcome them to the "runway" (oh, I get it! Runway!). Hey! A former designer is returning to be the 16th person in the competition, I didn't know that. It's Kate from last season. Who cares? Are there really a lot of Kate fans out there? At least it's not Project Runway Teams anymore. One designer is deaf! Cool.

Love Heidi's glasses and Tim's suit is amazing! Gotta take a picture:

Heidi and Tim on the runway - literally.

Are they making something out of a parachute? They are. Kate fell trying to get the yellow one that no one else wanted.

A bunch of other stuff just happened, but when I tried to update after the first commercial it was all deleted. The highlights include my favorite orange-haired designer saying that he designed costumes for The Lion King and Mary Poppins, a guy with a beard who was a professional modern dancer, and a woman who used to be in the army.

COMMERCIAL #1

Kate is being nice to everyone and explaining how it goes. The Russian guy is so cute! He is making a swimsuit and said something about having potential which was cute, but which also got deleted from this blog somehow.

We get to see inside the hotel a little, but I'm not that impressed with the decor. Here is Orange Hair and his roommate Modern Dancer (who also kind of has orange hair, but he has a beard):

Brandon/Braiden and Alexander inside the new digs.

And now I can finish trying to fix the mistake with the blog and continue watching (I had to pause - sorry!)

There's an older guy who has two really cute kids!

AHH! The orange-haired guy's name is Alexander Pope! Seriously. Love him. He can't believe the woman with the blond sort of dreadlocks doesn't know how to use a basic sewing machine (she is trying to do 3,000 pleats, and based on her sketch it is not going to look very good even if she does finish the pleats, which seems unlikely).

Timothy doesn't usually use electricity. He is into, like, sustainable stuff. He's "waiting to get into a situation with a wood stove" which almost would have won best quote of the episode, if he hadn't already said something about unicorns. Now Timothy is burning his dress to make it "interesting." The Russian and the former model (Alexandria?) are not getting slong.

TIM TIME!

Tim likes the colorblocking that Alexandria the former model is doing, but to me the parachute fabric is really bunching up at the seams and does not look good - that's probably going to be true for most of the designers, though.

Alexander says, "Kate's dress is soooo girly" and then makes a face. :)

Brandon is the name of the modern dancer. His inspiration is wind. Tim says there is something James-Bondish about it.

Tim likes the effect the burning had on Timothy's fabric. Ken (he was pink/shirt blue pants guy) thinks Timothy's dress is awful. Timothy wants his model to go barefoot, so Tim tells him to go for it.

The army girl is not using her parachute very much. This could really hurt her because it's kind of breaking the rules, but this has happened before on PR with mixed results.

COMMERCIAL #2

Helen has tattoos. I haven't mentioned her yet. She is also not really using much of her parachutte in the garment.

A few more designers whose names I don't know also get critiques from Tim.

Dreadlocks is named Sue. She had 1% hope after the pleating didn't go well, but Tim thinks her garment is a knockout.

The Russian is named Sandro. He is making a jacket for the top of his swimsuit (what?)

The models are here. Timothy asks his model how she feels about "acting and moving awkwardly and things like that." She's going to try. He wants her to channel the Virgin Mary and to sniff her armpit.

The designer with the short blonde hair has made something with a hood that looks like a raincoat to me.

The models leave and the second night is over. Tomorrow is the runway.

COMMERCIAL #3

Tim has to stop and ask Timothy what he is doing (pulling is model, which he calls "choreography." Time reminds him that each model has the same amount of time on the runway. The model wonders if she should just walk normally. Timothy: "Um, no."

Hair and make-up time. Fun, summery, smoky eye, cat eye, etc. Timothy's model can't have product or anything that's plugged in. Just bobby-pinning and braiding and no make-up. After he leaves, his model starts to cry.

The army woman is wearing a uniform.

Sandro's swimsuit has a camel toe situation. Yikes. How can he not lose?

And now off to the runway...

COMMERCIAL #4

Part of their prize is a year's supply of water. They actually get A LOT of prizes - over half a million dollars worth.

Zac Posen is back as a judge (No more Michael Kors??) Nina is there, and Kate Bosworth is the guest Judge. Tim gets to be a judge kind of, but not really. He just gets to save one person. The runway will also be anonymous this year so the judges will not know who designed which look until after they have graded them.

The show begins and first up is Sue the pleater. It's OK. Nina is smiling.

I really like Brandon "Modern Dancer"'s wind-inspired look. It is short with a long train:

Braidon

Jeremy is the name of the guy who has kids. He did what looks like track/hiking pants and a white T-Shirt.

Kahindo has not stood out to me so far, but I kind of like her pleated purple and pink skirt.

Sandro's model is covering her crotch with her hands and some fringe stuff, but, yeah.

The designer with the tattoos has an ugly wrinkly butterfly looking dress thing.

Alexandria's colorblock dress is next. Then Karen's stripy moo-moo thing.

Timothy's model does not really so the performance/choreography. She doesn't even sniff her armpit, so he is pretty disappointed.

Justin (the deaf guy) has constructed his dress pretty well, but I think it's sort of boring:

Justin

Kate's dress looks like a sexualized apron to me, not a "sexy princess" as she puts it.

Angela's short raincoat.

Alexander's diamond dress looks great coming out, but starts to ride up a little in the front. This should not be a problem at all since Sandro's model's vagina was out and all.

Alexander

Feather Earrings is named Dom. Her look has a jacket. It's OK.

Ken has a ruffley orange dress. It's actually cute, so I was wrong to guess he would be the first one voted off. Heidi smiled.

Ken

Miranda (army) has a really so-so looking dress considering she made it out of fabric instead of a parachute

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JUDGING

Now they know who made which garment. She calls Angela, Sue, Miranda, Brandon (I think his name might be Braidon), Sandro, and Timothy as the high and low six. Sandro should probably go, but I think Miranda will be the one out. We'll see!

COMMERCIAL #5

They don't like Timothy. Why is he wearing sparkly high heels and his model is barefoot (also, her hair looks bad. I feel bad for her).

They all like Sue.

Nina likes Miranda, but is disappointed she used the black fabric - Heidi has a huge problem with it. It looks like she is going to skate by, though.

They don't like Angela's because it's missing a bottom (no pants, skirt or anything). Nina calls it a disposable poncho. I think she will be out.

They like Braiden's. Heidi "really really" likes it. It's my favorite of the six they picked.

Sandro explains his inspiration - something about "early twentieth century" but Zac calls her a slutty cat toy. "NOW I understand" says Sandro. Heidi mentions the taste level, but it looks like he is safe. Now that I think about it, the idea to make swimwear out of parachute material is actually very clever.

New this season, Tim comes out with the six models so the judges can get a closer look! That is VERY different! This part of the show is going on too long. Tim says he would give Miranda an F for using that black fabric - he is right.

COMMERCIAL #6 (those new Mr. Clean commercials freak me out)

The winner is Braiden! Hooray for Alexander's roomie. He gets immunity.

And it's down to Timothy and Angela. They've got to keep Timothy just for how much interest he adds to the show. And they do.

That means Angela is out.

I'll see you next week when we will get to see them using their bank accounts, etc. Coming up this season: Someone is missing! Boobs! Camping! A foaming vagina! Stay tuned.

Project Runway Season 10 Live Blogging

Season 10 begins in Times Square, then we go back one day earlier and meet the first designer. Her name is Buffi.


Gunnar is next. Gunnar is also the name of a dog in my neighborhood. Wait, is his name Gunnar DEATH RAGE??


What is that Native American Blanket I see strewn across someone's dress form?


Gunnar explains that his customer is Cruella DeVille. That makes sense because half of his brown hair is dyed bleach blonde.

I guess for the first challenge each designer was supposed to bring one outfit they had already created. (They will probably have to, like, create the ball gown version of it or the dog outfit version or something). Gunnar's Cruella outfit is a simple flower print skirt and what looks like a white cape with a black collar (I don't think it is made out of puppies, though).


Lantie is the next designer. She is 38... I mean, 48.


There's a little Japanese guy with an Afro!


The guy from Brazil gives out hugs.


There's a chick with blue hair.


Elena says she designs for the "edgy girl" and her look is some kind of black straight jacket. So, yeah.


Afro guy's name is Kooan. That is not a real name. He says he likes making a lot of "love."


There is a blonde girl who is a lawyer. I didn't catch her name. She likes black, so much so that she watches black and white films and likes black and white photography. I can already tell that she will not get kicked off this episode - there must be a judging panel later where she just barely makes it and then they tell her they are tired of always seeing black and she MUST use color and then she overdoes it! Prediction!


Some guy named "Ven" or something made a white pant suit, but he isn't in the studio yet - it is obvious that he will be a villain. (Oh! His name IS Ven). The first thing he says is "I know the designers will be intimidated."


Tim comes in. Yay!


The Lord and Taylor accessory wall is new. I've never heard of them. I guess the winner will get to sell their line on that website or something?


There is some girl with long hair who makes a crazy face. They haven't shown her talking yet. I bet she gets kicked off.


Tim announces that they will have the runway show in Time Square. They get 30 minutes to sketch and then it is off to mood.


The chick who likes black is drawing a black dress.


The one with dreadlocks says she is a lesbian and likes to design for tomboys.


Ahh! The long hair girl just said designing comes naturally to her but "sewing not so much"! Now I KNOW she's getting kicked off first! AND she is the one with the native American blanket wrap thing over what looks like a heather gray night shirt. Her name is Beatrice.


SWATCH!! I love him!

Beatrice LOVES using knits... she is soooooo going to lose!!


The guy with the hat likes lace. He just said "this is the ugliest lace I have seen" but then it looks like he bought that lace. It IS really ugly. He's going to give Beatrice a run for her money.


The grandma is 58. She is a fashion teacher. I think she is going to lose, too, though.


Oh, whoops, there are two guys who look the same to me. One of them is Gunnar. They are fighting. One of them just said "This isn't Project Obnoxious" and called the Cruella outfit too Prada (it is). The other guy's name is Christopher. Gunnar says their personalities are similar - don't you notice that you are also twins except that half of your hair is blonde?


The lace guy is having trouble with his lace.


COMMERCIAL #1 : I'm typing too much. Now that I know most of their names, I'll take it a little easier.


The Brazilian guy says he eats out of the dumpster (no, really) and Grandma thinks that is "terrific."


There is a Russian guy who kind of looks like Marilyn Manson. He used to be a ballroom dancer. Grandma says he should be an actor with that face. Maybe he can star in a Marilyn Manson biopic!


The blue haired girl says she likes mixing the soft with the hard. Yawn.


Buffi's design looks gross. The Russian calls is "diarrhea." Tim does not seem too impressed either.

This is the look she brought with her.

The hat/lace guy's name is Raul. He now seems to me like the kind of guy who should get kicked off early, but will keep somehow just barely making it.


Tim is questioning the Brazilian guy's skirt, but I can tell he is not going to lose, they are just trying to throw us off - Beatrice for the lose!


COMMERCIAL BREAK #2 - Gary Cole stars as a serial killer in a Lifetime movie! Yikes!


I like the way Raul says "it's like... promdresses."


The mohawk girl doesn't really have a mohawk. Her name is Elena. She did the black straightjacket dress. She shows Tim the black and white dress she is making and then says, "What is worrying me is this... COLOR." And then they look at it. Is it me, or is there no color?


Ven's rose top does look really well made - M.K. will say it looks expensive.

Tim is worried that Raul's model will look naked in the lace dress.


Christopher wants to kiss Tim, but knows that is crazy. I think Christopher is my favorite twin.


Beatrice is having trouble sewing!


Gunnar does an impression of Tim ala Santino Rice. Remember "What happened to Andre"?? Christopher says Gunnar should be on Toddlers and Tiaras. The models come in and Christopher is having a lot of trouble. He can't get kicked off - I want to see more of the fighting twins!


ATLAS! The girls' room has weird pink and purple blank canvasses on the wall - a rare design miss for Atlas Apartments. I would still LOVE to live there, though.


COMMERCIAL BREAK #3 - the show is only half way over! I didn't realize it was an hour and a half!


It's the day of the runway show in Time's Square. They are not going to do the judging there, are they? I guess they will have to.


I forgot to say that since the assignment is to create a companion piece for the one they brought with them, each designer gets two models.


In the makeup room I see that Afro is wearing a headband made out of a big piece of rope with two googly eyes on it. The good news is he can actually speak Japanese! He's not a fake Japanese person despite his weird name.


Raul is the last designer to leave the room.


COMMERCIAL BREAK #4 - Congrats on the Emmy Nom P.R.!


The runway show begins. 


Ven is first. The rose pantsuit looks really good, but the second look seems messy to me. He did what I would do, though! He took the one pop of color from the first look and made a mini dress in that color with a hint of the rose design on the bottom instead of the top!


Yeah, Beatrice is going to lose. I can't see anyone else's looks being this bad... maybe the lace dress? M.K. does not look impressed.


Lantie's prom dress looks overworked. She'll probably end up in the middle... wait - ouch! Her second look is awful!


Grandma did these weird black and white stripped dresses.


Christopher's black mini has a terrible zipper, but his gown looks perfect - is the fabric some kind of striped snakeskin?


Dreadlocks has a couple of OK Tomboy looks. They are well constructed, so she is probably safe.


Elena's dresses (the black and white ones) are also just OK.


Buffi's companion dress looks better than the outfit she brought with her... that is not a good sign. Do the judges know which is which? Probably not.


Dmitry did a sequin gown. Didn't he say he was done making ballroom dance outfits? Heidi looks like she maybe likes it, though.


Kooan's companion "dress" is a mess - it is made with this bubbly metallic fabric and is poorly constructed and puckering. The first look is well-made, though, so that should save him.


Gunnar's companion dress to the Cruella/Prada look is actually really cute! He might have a chance. The two looks really fit well together.


I don't know who this guy is and he has a green dress and a red dress and you can tell he is going to be in the middle, so they are not spending a lot of time on him this week.


Sonjia is the name of the blue-haired woman, I guess. She made a leather jacket and a leather vest. He second look is not the worst at all, but it looks a little thrown together at the last minute.


The black dresses are black. They look pretty good, but are all black. What will the judges say??


The lace looks look fine. I think.


The Brazilian guy's clothes are not that great. He calls it "wearable" and "comfortable" that is not a good sign.


So who will be in the bottom and the top?


The six designers called out are: Kooan (must be bottom), Ven (top), Lentie (I can't even remember her look), Christopher (top?), Beatrice (bottom), and Melissa of the Black dresses (top). I'm not sure if it's Lentie or Kooan in the bottom, but you know they are not going to throw a character like Kooan out on the first episode!


COMMERICAL #5


Well, Kooan is in the bottom, but he is safe. It comes down to Beatrice and Lentie with the awful snakeskin tulle disaster. They don't like her "vintage" dress either and say she is more of a stylist than a designer (ouch).


They LOVE Christopher's gown and they also like Ven (they don't seem to notice the problems with his little pink dress that I see).


Well, Beatrice is out and Christopher is the winner. I'd be happy I was right about Beatrice, except that it was really obvious she was going to lose. Now I'll have to go back and watch Road to the Runway (which is on my DVR) so I can see how she made it in the first place and who she beat out for that spot.


If you read the news, you know two of the designers (I think) turned out to be "cowards" (Heidi's words) and left the show - it looks like at least one of them is leaving next week - is it the not mohawk girl?? The challenge has something to do with candy, cars, and the Rockettes! Should be fun!!


I can't live blog every episode - it is so much work - but I'll be sure to put my thoughts up each week as soon as possible. Stay tuned and be sure to leave your own thoughts in the comments - do you think Ven was robbed? Were the judges too hard on Kooan? Was I?


Finally, for every P.R. challenge, I like to sketch my own design. I am in no way an artist or designer, as you can probably tell from my first sketch. It's easier for me to do challenges with strict limitations. Designing something that "shows who I am as a designer" is more difficult since I am not a designer. Anyway, here is my design for episode 1. Stay tuned for more!