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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]


Dana - Nov 06, 2009 6:18:08 am PST #11718 of 23273
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The Project Rungay guys are livid about Gordana.


Kathy A - Nov 06, 2009 6:20:58 am PST #11719 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The judges have had a serious hate-on for Gordana all season long, whereas I think she's made some really lovely dresses. I thought her paper dress was one of the best of that challenge, and was shocked when she ended up in the bottom three for it. And last night's dress was gorgeous! Yes, the zipper was a wrong choice (she should have sewed her model into it), but it was really pretty.


Vortex - Nov 06, 2009 6:27:49 am PST #11720 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I'm not so sure if it was the judges or Heidi. Since she's the only one who's been there for every judging, she's probably had a tremendous influence on the judging, since she can talk about past designs/mistakes that the other judges haven't seen.


brenda m - Nov 06, 2009 6:47:24 am PST #11721 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

me either. I thought that she was going to get ripped for the wierd lumps and wrinkles. It looked much better standing still than moving.

While Irina's was the opposite. It flowed and moved beautifully, but when the model was standing still was a giant ball of frump.


Vortex - Nov 06, 2009 7:01:14 am PST #11722 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Yep. I didn't hate the length, but then I think that most of the stuff on the runway is way too short. Clearly these are not clothes made for people to sit or bend over in.


Aims - Nov 06, 2009 7:09:25 am PST #11723 of 23273
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Maybe to tweak my idea for the Bryant Park challenge - choose the three or four best looks from the season and design your collection around those. Even if there is a dress made of an unusual material - it could be worked into the collection. Austin cornhusk dress was nothing short of amazing and could have fit into any collection he did.

IMHO, if a look is designed and constructed well, it should be able to have minimal tweaking to fit into any collection that designer does if it is a true representation of that designer's aesthetic.


Vortex - Nov 06, 2009 7:13:34 am PST #11724 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Maybe to tweak my idea for the Bryant Park challenge - choose the three or four best looks from the season and design your collection around those. Even if there is a dress made of an unusual material - it could be worked into the collection. Austin cornhusk dress was nothing short of amazing and could have fit into any collection he did.

actually, that's a great idea - choose three looks from your work this season and design a collection around them.

Unusual materials are not always a bad thing. Korto's restaurant materials dress was fabulous , better than her planned stuff. (still annoyed that Daniel won over her, and that they gave her a bitch edit for being disappointed that she didn't win)


Amy - Nov 06, 2009 7:16:51 am PST #11725 of 23273
Because books.

Maybe to tweak my idea for the Bryant Park challenge - choose the three or four best looks from the season and design your collection around those.

I love this idea -- then you'd get nine new looks for the runway, and it would really force the designers to look at what they'd produced so far and decide which best reflects their perspective and style.

Bravo's got S2 rerunning today, and right now is the garden party episode, which is also when Santino riffed on Tim and Andre going to Red Lobster. Heh.


meara - Nov 06, 2009 2:08:29 pm PST #11726 of 23273

I'm so over ANTM. Only Nicole, this season, looks at all like a model. (Though I kind of want Sundai to go on to have a brief but awesome career as a model for Gap Kids?) But seriously--none of them look like models at all. None of them pop. A few of them have had decent pictures, but who the heck would hire them?? And most of them didn't even have good pictures. Ridiculous. Boring. Pathetic. Come ON, Tyra.

Though I would totally watch "America's Next Top Plus Size Model". You know there's gotta be some hot girls who could turn it out, if Tyra could find them.


-t - Nov 06, 2009 8:03:25 pm PST #11727 of 23273
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I liked the judges restyling Irina's model a lot. I always hate the "why should you go to Bryant Park and who should go with you" portion, it's stupid. It's just like the "what's your greatest weakness" interview question.

I would have made Irina's dress maybe longer, more goddessy - with that back she doesn't really need to show leg.

I think that Nina had a nerve talking about what they've seen from designers.

I know! I know who Gordana is as a designer at this point, but I've seen all the challenges, Nina.

Damn, man, she's the only one who actually fulfills the challenge and she's out. Project Runway Fail.