Could be reading, as in “the library is open!” Slang for “yo mama” style humor/criticism.
The challenge is to “design a dress for the modern southern woman”, or, as half the designers seem to interpret it, ‘design the wardrobe for a Community Theater production of the plantation scenes from AUNTIE MAME’.
St. Flannery of Connor was already writing about the homogenization of the American landscape 50 years ago and it’s only accelerated since then. Now that air conditioning has caught on around the country, I think people as a general rule dress more by socioeconomic class, age, and body type than by geo-region, then there’s the “What the hell is Southern?” question: a she-lawyer in Nashville, an IHOP manager in Atlanta, a young she-professor in Williamsburg, a lady actuary in Dallas, a hipster nurse practitioner in Biloxi, and a female Republican insurance exec in New Orleans, of assorted races and ages and ranging in weight from “not enough ass to last her til noon tomorrow” to “if she decides to haul ass it’s gonna take 4 trips”, are all southern women; which one are you dressing?
Now if they said “design something dressy for hot-as-hell-and-90%-humidity”, that would be more helpful. And would frankly be appropriate for Boston or NYC on some days of the year.
Or, design something for a woman going to a college football game that she can go nightclubbing in aftewards without changing: now THAT would be a modern southern woman challenge.
Kenny, baby, chill the fuck out before your heart just gives out.
What will it take to kick Ken off??? He’s like the Teflon Don of Project Runway.
I think Justin should have been in the top. The color, material and style were very modern and pretty and floaty, just like a stereotypical Southern woman! But what a dumb-ass challenge. And Heidi, I can recall at least 2 other challenges where the losers had an hour to remake their look, so stop with the “first time ever in Project Runway history” nonsense.
Oh FYI, I will NOT be watching PR AllStars Season 3. Why bring back previous winners? And Jeffrey Siebella (perhaps my most least liked contestant) was already on the first AllStars. As was Korto, but I love her.
Very freaky when he’s talking to his mom and she says, has that other side of you come out? Like they know all about what a crazy person he can be and put up with it.
I truly thought Alexandria should have gone home. I didn’t like Ken’s bridesmaid dress in both incarnations but Alexandria’s was truly a tablecloth. It just looked like fabric wrapped around someone – with the end of the yard just hanging out there.
OH! And Dom’s amazing look? It was fine but I swear we’ve seen that on PR before – the thin strap in the back with the piece coming up to it asymmetrically? I can’t believe they thought this was unique enough to put in the store.
Looks like Tin-Tin will go up against Ken next week - he can do drama too!
Someone must really want Kate to make it to the finals. I absolutely agreed with Heidi about her dress – she managed to make a tall, thin model look short and dumpy.
I did think Ken was going home for turning his dress into a hoochie-mama piece, but one again boring loses to bad.
Yeah, the library is open. But it’s more of a dressing down; telling someone off. Sometimes kind of mean. It’s not trading insults. However, if Tim did read Ken, then got up and walked away, Ken might say something like, wait a minute, the book is still open and I found your page.
I wish I could shake the notion that he’s being kept around for the drama ratings.
I sort of hope that this season ends with the decades celibate Tim Gunn picking up Justin and walking off to Love Lift Us Up Where We Belong. (Well, assuming Justin’s gay, and interested in Tim Gunn… otherwise, that could be a real nightmare- Americans With Disabilities and sexual harassment and all sorts of other stuff.)
Am I to understand that the personnel are all different? No Heidi, Zac, etc? If so, just fuck that. I really like the whole package, not just the dynamic among the contestants.
Eh, things that revealing have won, or at least been waved through without comment, before. Those Pam Grier hot pants in Season 3(?) were at least that short and the entire panel soiled themselves on how perfectly proportioned it all was. Just last week, Justin’s look had some actual butt-cheek peeking out. And let’s not even discuss how much of Heidi’s cervix we’ve all seen over the years in the outfits she chooses for the judging. “Oooh, that skirt is soooo short” my bleeding ass, Frau Gyno-fashion.
Also, I’m not quite getting all the “ooh, Ken is so crazy and scary” stuff. I mean, yes, he loses his shit fairly regularly. But it’s generally when someone has been doing something assy like interrupting or trying to talk over him, or being all snotty and condescending and calling him a child for asking a perfectly normal question. It would be better if he said “Please don’t interrupt me, it’s rude” rather than “I’m talking now, so you need to be quiet” and if he said “Don’t call me a child for asking a question, and also knock off the Secret Squirrel stuff, they’re both obnoxious” instead of cussing. But let’s not even pretend his outbursts are any way remotely comparable to the contestants who lose their shit because it’s a day that ends in Y, which there’s at least one of every single season.
I wonder why Ken didn’t present a decoy collection at Fashion Week? TLo made a veiled reference to it “alphabetically by designer with one notable exception.” Did Ken’s head esplode with teh crazy?
I felt the directions were fairly clear. “The Belk Customer” is a demographic they should be in touch with by now. She likes color, knows how to use accessories, and like feminine details. Seems pretty on-target for me. I suppose an age-bracket would have been useful though.
Heidi was trying to get a rise out of Ken. All the judges were following each other with their favorites. I couldn’t figure it out.
I thought Kens second dress was hideous. A top-heavy gyno-check made from leftover bridesmaid fabric. Blech. Besides which he’s an abusive little shite who runs around threatening everyone with his temper and tries to turn every conversation into a monologue. He pauses for several seconds between sentences and then when someone else tries to take a turn he rolls out the “I am talking” crap. Argh!!! He needed to be the one sent off.
And the whole rolling his eyes while the judges are talking to the other designers - does he think they can’t see him? Yet another contestant who doesn’t seem to realize that all his future bosses are watching his behavior. Who would ever want to work with this guy?
Age bracket? Everyone knows that on Project Runway women don’t exist who are over 30! Way too ‘madame’! They only design for women who are rich, young and thin… and spend their days going to brunch or for a night out at a nightclub or maybe a weekend at the Hamptons. No one else exists (except for maybe one challenge a season that talks about ‘real women’ as if they are a foreign species)
LOL! Too true. And one can’t help but agree that Jeremy went home for designing exactly what the Belk exec didn’t want to admit his customers are looking for. . .
Unless they need a funeral outfit complete with cape.
Prediction: next week when they have PR superfans to design for, Ken will lose his shit because of having to design for an average body size.
I disagree. He as making rude faces throughout their critique, every time they dared to express anything positive about teh ebil plaids.
She was just calling him on it; and I say “Brava!”
This was the second week in a row that Heidi had a total disagreement with the others; last week she really liked one of the outfits Nina and Zac and whoever trashed and this week she seriously disliked one that they loved (the one she said made the model look pregnant).
The one she liked last week was the one with “poopy pants,” right? I’d rather look pregnant than look like I shit my pants. And I’m a guy!