Project Runway

By Myles See, what works about Project Runway is that it transfers the aesthetics of the fashion industry into terms that are unrelated to the fashion industry. I know nothing about fashion, but I know a lot about what Nina Garcia likes to see in fashion, or what the series values in terms of creativi...

By Myles And yet this leaves Project Runway, which has been predictably boring but almost entirely unpredictable in terms of the lack of consistent judging. As such, while the uncertainty of Survivor’s finale is downright exciting, the uncertainty surrounding who will be going to Bryant Park i...

By Myles In some ways, Project Runway did something similar this week, providing a clearer directive than they have been of late. As I noted in last week’s roundup, the show has been too vague as of late, so seeing them offer up film genres which forced the designers to marry their own aesthetic with a...

By Myles For Top Chef and Project Runway, the trust relationship is between the viewers and the people who have the power, the judges. While every Survivor contestant has a sense of agency, control over who goes home and who stays, Top Chef and Project Runway contestants are there to cook or sew, and...

By Myles There’s a few reasons the show has been lacklustre this season, and in some ways I thought “What a Woman Wants” helped things at least to some degree. We got to see contestants handle a challenge that combines the client-designer relationship (always good for bringing out the best/worst i...

By Myles After being caught in legal hell for about six months, Project Runway is finally back. Amidst swirling speculation about how the show would change, and whether it would be able to retain its success jumping to a new (and older-skewing) network, the show debuted to the series’ highest prem...

By Myles So while the show is perhaps justified in using this as a big “A-ha” moment, it’s all backwards: rather than people we missed returning to create some sort of karma, it feels like we’re being punked. And, I don’t like being punked, and neither do the designers who get sent home in the wrong fas...

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By Myles This is going to be a pretty short one, because this episode is as simple as it gets: no gimmicks, no major drama, just five designers given a task to create an outfit for a supermodel. While I think that Adejoke’s depressed take on the challenge was a little bit off kilter, she’s right: while i...

By Myles The thing is, though, other than Danio’s tragic early exit (followed in time by his tragic passing from Cancer), the people who have gone home all deserved to go home until we hit Baylor, who was unfairly punished for a mistake that, while certainly not minor, was not on the level of the epis...

By Myles This is pretty much the story of the third episode of Project Runway Canada’s second season, a dreaded group challenge really demonstrating the kind of dividing lines that we’re used to seeing. It’s a really smart challenge for actually testing these people: not only do they have to begin...

By Myles But in the end Jessica is right: we don’t get much of a sense of any major design emergences here, instead focusing more on personalities. And considering that they’re dressing a celebrity, I guess it makes sense to focus on some of the people only concerned about trying to become one throug...

By Myles But Project Runway Canada, which I went back to and completed as I was waiting for new episodes of the fourth U.S. season to begin, was in itself an entertaining project. Done on a fairly small network but featuring high production values, there were even things about this particular import t...

By Myles But Runway never feels that way, charting its own course in the reality television waters and being all the better off for it. The show is also memorable this year for its off-air wranglings, with Bravo and Lifetime fighting over rights to the series and delaying Season 6. When that is eventu...

By Myles Really, Suede is now the odd man out: whether he can survive next week's hip hop challenge will ultimately decide his fate, because otherwise I don't think he's up for Bryant Park. Cultural Observations As some may know, the runway show has already happened, and various websites have all s...

By Myles When Project Runway gives you a drag competition, you do one of two things: you either go full-out into that fantasy drag outfit you've secretly always wanted to make or you adapt parts of your own aesthetic into a drag concept in order to show the best of both worlds. The former gets you into t...

By Myles After last week was spent pimping out NBC's Olympics coverage, which has clearly benefitted from the attention (I'm equating its success with Project Runway, as unlikely as that is), so now NBC Universal is turning their attention into my universe: the surprise Sophomore pickup of NBC...

By Myles That balance was struck better elsewhere: look at someone like Kelli, Stella or Blayne. Here's three designers with unique aesthetics who all put very simple but well-executed designs down the runway. Kelli even admitted that hers made no attempt at being Sportswear, but it was echoed he...

By Myles New York at Night" One of the worst things about Project Runway is that each week gives each designer a clean slate, so that they can screw up completely to the point that any good will they've gathered will be almost entirely eradicated.

By Myles But I won't let that be a barrier to the only reality competition series to ever win a prestigious Peabody Award. There is something about Project Runway that just clicks in this genre, primarily because these people are actually capable of creating interesting fashion design for both th...