# Project Runway 9/10 (And Models of, as well) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 11, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646 "2009-09-11T03:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/21 "2009-09-12T05:42:53Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I was surprised at the number of wrinkled outfits. Are there no irons in the dressing room? Ironing is the first thing to go out the window when you’re so pressed for time that you’re still sewing as your model is walking out onto the runway, practically. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/22 "2009-09-12T06:44:12Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Now that I’ve watched the designers audition tapes I really have some favorites, Gordana, Louise, Qrystal and Logan. > > Nicholas seemed a shoe in for the show with his industry connections, he has an interesting background, Soviet born, London raised, and son of two serious NASA scientists. Gordana also had an interesting childhood, a fashionista in former Yugoslavia her Mom used to burn her clothes because she was so different and getting the wrong kind of attention. Logan has suffered the worst fashion handicap, he grew up in Blackfoot Idaho.😃 I watched an interview on the local news with his mother. she said “Well he was always a fussy child but we never dreamed he would grow up to be a clothes designer.” ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/23 "2009-09-12T09:42:54Z")
The judges’ deliberation in this episode made me feel like I got a glimpse of how the fashion industry is actually like. I miss Michael Kors. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/24 "2009-09-12T13:51:26Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I think they’re going out of their way to choose the ugly ones to fuck with us. Then they can rear up at the end of the series and say, “SEE?! THIS IS THE INDUSTRY! THIS IS HOW WE MADE YOU THINK LEG WARMERS, JUMP SUITS, AND MAXI DRESSES WERE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE OPTIONS!” I hate it, HATE IT, when the judges dismiss something because it’s “wearable.” Anything that might sell, anything that might be worn by a normal human being, and they waive it away with the death-dealing insult that it’s “wearable.” Grrrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/25 "2009-09-12T15:20:49Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > I hate it, HATE IT, when the judges dismiss something because it’s “wearable.” Anything that might sell, anything that might be worn by a normal human being, and they waive it away with the death-dealing insult that it’s “wearable.” Grrrrrr. Conversely, avant garde does not equal wearable. Avant garde means nothing on PR anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/26 "2009-09-12T16:06:58Z")
> [@MickNickMaggies](#): > > Conversely, avant garde does not equal wearable. Avant garde means nothing on PR anymore. Oh, come on now! Surely you know that on PR, avant garde means “big puffy asymmetrical collar on an evening gown ala Siriano and March.” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646/27 "2009-09-13T15:37:44Z")
Anybody here every see _Drop Dead Gorgeous_? (If not, you should!) During one of her interview segments on MotR, Tanisha used the EXACT same carefully choreographed mannerisms and facial expressions that Denise Richards’ character did–finish a statement, turn slightly three-quarters to the camera to display the most flattering angle and pop out a wholly fake big toothy smile that’s carefully engineered not to cause any unflattering eye-wrinkles. It not only showed that the character had been practicing it for a long time, but it also demonstrated that she had absolutely no idea that not everybody would fall for such a pathetically transparent artifice. It showed that she thought she was a great big fish, but didn’t realize that the pond that she was swimming in was very very small. There was no doubt that she would claw over any person that she saw as standing between her and “success,” whether that person was actually a threat or not. When a snotty high-school bitch made that gesture in a fictional movie, it was hilariously perfect. When an actual real-life woman did it, it was kind of scary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/project-runway-9-10-and-models-of-as-well/509646.md?page=1)