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PERFECT!
Now that we all have a firm grip on each of the individual designers--their styles, their strengths and weaknesses, their fucking P.O.V's--let's just mix things up a little bit and have an unconventional challenge!
In teams!
And, naturally, in one day.
Because there's absolutely no chance we could lose one of the very best designers, in Episode TWO, due to his/her inability to hot glue Twizzlers.
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I'm watching the first runway again while I wait for the new episode.
Man, there were about twelve outfits they could have put in the bottom, for any number of reasons similar to the ones the judges gave, and it would've been equally plausible.
The designer so pleased with her black jersey jumpsuit. Yes, loved it, but spring fashion collection? No.
The long blue dress with the plaid corset? Wtf?
Nina complained about the very fresh and spring-y shorts and yellow top: "But it's just shorts and a t-shirt!" Is there some outfit you couldn't sum up as "Just a ________________"? Pants, dress, shorts. . .no one's going to invent a new kind of body covering. (And that wasn't a t-shirt either, Nina, you bitch.)
"Oh, look, I didn't even know my design had futuristic elements!"
Electric orange jumpsuit with palazzo pants? I wore that to my prom in the '70's and I was way cool because ruffles were the style then (on both sexes, hahahaha.)
"My colors are so good!" Honey, that's 90% beige, with a couple strips of green.
Sandhya could've won, could've gone home. Coin flip.
Whew. Got that off my chest. I'm cleansed and ready for the next one.
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. Just say you're sorry, be gracious and move on.
An apology is always best. But people like him and want to give him the benefit of the doubt, so how about "Just say you're sorry OR be gracious and move on"? He keeps picking the only really bad choice, which is to continue being a schmuck about the whole thing.
There's been no Neosporin at all and the upcoming anti-bullying tirade is yet another bad choice.
Does the man not have a manager or a handler or a p.r. firm to reel him in?
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Did anyone else see the blurb in Marie Claire for Oscar and Nick? Tim's only comment in support of the winner of HIS show was: I've never seen anyone who can SEW so well. Apparently, and sadly, he can't even be gracious after the fact.
Didn't see it, so thanks. Woof.
I can understand that Tim Gunn would be bitter. He was many viewers' favorite part of PR, netting him his own eponymous show, complete with that little public relations boost about staying loyal to Heidi when the producers didn't want to accommodate her scheduling conflicts. He was involved with producing, mentoring, judging, working all the levers.
Then, about 15 minutes into the first episode, "hashtag monkeyballs" zoomed to new heights in the public lexicon.
It wouldn't have been impossible to patch up his reputation, though. Look at this board--people who didn't slog through every undignified moment of UTG can barely imagine Tim Gunn being THAT inappropriate. People still want to invite him for cocktails. There were a couple of instances where his friendly face slipped a little on PR, wtf was up with that?
Memories fade, if he'd let them, but he just can't stop hemorrhaging the bitter. Oscar has a real talent-- for sewing. Really, Tim? He could have tut-tutted about editorial growing pains with a new vehicle and said that Natasha's great, Nick's just a chip off the old mentoring block and Oscar Lopez has a fabulous future ahead of him as a top designer.
But. . .no.
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For selfish reasons, I'd like to see how the models look in assembly line Bare Essentials. I'm almost convinced by the infomercial but concerned that it's sold by the gram like coke. Seems too complicated.
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I thought it was kind of funny when one of the designers told the Mary Kay makeup consultant that he wanted a "nude lip."
Back in the L'Oreal days, the makeup artist would have pulled out a huge selection of creamy neutrals. The Mary Kay person dabbed on some clear gloss and we were off to the races.
Maybe with the Walmart accessory wall, we'll get makeup sponsored by Vaseline Petroleum Jelly.
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Oh, look! I've found a personal connection with this goofy MTV sudser:
I remembered being nervous about my first slow dance and asking, "Is this okay?"
He said, "Well, I don't think you're really supposed to be spinning us this fast." [cringe]
According to the Taylor model, I should have come out of that dance with moves like Tina Turner.
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Miss Henry is smiling now. : )
I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that Miss Henry would share my dismay that children will no longer be taught cursive writing.
How will they write their thank you notes?
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"Literally" being twisted is one that's always bugged me, but I can't get all that heated up about "Five items or less", because I think that's a far more legitimate example of the language adapting with the times. Language is supposed to be fluid.
The inexcusable ones are the ones that do a total about face on what's proper. "Literally" means a specific thing, and yet seems to often be (mis)used to mean the exact opposite thing, and it's just annoying, lazy and dumb.
The ones that don't bug me much are the ones where common usage has so overwhelmingly changed, for so long, that it seems peevish to be the lone hold out. Fewer vs. less is a pretty good example. It's not like one word means the opposite of the other (like "literally" vs. "figuratively"). They mean the same thing, and it's just a matter of accepted usage which is correct. And that kind of thing DOES change over time.
Well, that's an interesting point. When does bad grammar become the graceful recognition of linguistic fluidity instead of being sloppy, lazy or stupid?
I don't accept that similar words are interchangeable right up to the point when the difference becomes so "literal vs. figurative" egregious that they're opposites. These aren't synonyms, no matter how many people think they are:
Affect/effect
Imply/infer
Continual/continuous
Disinterested/uninterested
But there's also value left in mastering the differences between words with a more subtle distinction than semantics, words which improve the clarity of a statement. Even though language is evolving, aren't most attempts to communicate helped rather than hindered by traditionally "correct" usage?
Fewer/less
Which/that
Whether/if
Since/because
Farther/further
Is grammar becoming irrelevant?
--My personal bugaboo, lie and lay. In the present tense, "lay" is a transitive verb requiring a subject AND an object (I lay the pencil on the table. I lie on the bed.) Shall we throw out the musty rules of verb conjugation?
--"There's only two doughnuts left." Everyone understands the doughnuts are going fast, so is subject-verb agreement just another irrelevant old dinosaur as long as everyone's on board?
It's not foolish or pedantic to maintain standards beyond "common usage." And "common" isn't automatically the equivalent of "acceptable." Isn't the natural course of a growing, evolving language to develop in the direction of greater precision rather than less?
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I personally prefer, "mound of Venus". .
This cracked me up, Gumby! I'm getting a visual. It's green.
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The juggernaut of modern grammatical errors!
People lie, chickens lay.
I mutter this at my television a hundred times a day. No one listens.
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It was All About Christy, for me.
--First, that woman sharing all the bloody details of her episiotomy--caused by Christy's big head, no less. Her incredulity that Todd would "take on" two kids that aren't his, plus throwing in a few choice remarks about Christy's shithead ex? What the fuck, lady?! No wonder Christy is always highjacking the spotlight--no one ever taught her about discretion or the art of self-restraint.
--All the scolding about Todd's vows and then his vows were heartfelt and loving, compared to Christy pawing around for her cellphone so she could read off what she wrote HERSELF. Chalk up another solid for Todd.
--Finally, I'm split on Christy not being invited to Traci's wedding. It does not bode well that Christy's already getting a kick out of turning T's wedding into her own pregnancy announcement event. But with 250 people, she'd have to go to such extremes if she wanted to commandeer ALL the attention. She'd have to go into early labor and pop out a baby in the middle of the father-daughter dance. Hmmm...
--Felicitations, Christy; all good wishes for you and Todd. See you next season.
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It was crazy upside-down world, for sure.
Natasha made a dress for the "steampunk" challenge that was awesome (and didn't win.) It had little pulleys on the inside that would ratchet up the front of the skirt--she was no schlub at construction.
But she'd wind up at the bottom due to poor construction skills, while in the next episode, the judges would rave about someone's garment that was falling apart halfway down the runway, and claim, "Well, after all, this show isn't about being able to sew, it's about VISION."
Finally, there was the time Anya and Mondo stood and confronted the judges--after the bottom designer was announced--calling them out on their decision because it should have been (Nick's protégé) Natasha instead. Fabulous Uncle Tim put his chin in his hand and said, "Hmmm."
I don't know--maybe you should watch it after all. None of the first 12 seasons of Project Runway are burned in my brain like UTG!
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Thanks for the UTG forum. I was actually thinking about requesting one called "Gunned Down"....*LOL*
That could be the alternative thread to the one we already have under Project Runway: "Tim Gunn, Your Fabulous Gay Uncle!"
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Since the advice has been overwhelmingly in favor of NOT watching UTG, can you expound just a little on what constituted the bullying on Tim's part during that show? This is disappointing information, but I feel I must know more.
Here's RealityGal's recap, from Episode 1, page 3, that I mentioned:
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Please just don't actually watch the show. I want to try to put it in a nutshell. The premise of the show was that three former contestants (Mondo, Nick and Arya) came back to each mentor a team of five designers I think (so it was a total of 15 designers). Well, one of Nick's designers...Natasha was just the brunt of bullying from a group of designers who had no room to talk due to their own lack of talent. And then it got to the point where even Mondo and Arya were bullying her, or constantly talking shit about the girl. Anytime she was given praise by the judges, it was like Mondo and Arya and these group of mean contestants were busy rolling their eyes, or just talking shit. One girl in particular, who I think they were trying to angle for the win was especially hideous to her. And Tim Gunn, instead of stopping any of this, fed right into it, and was constantly being mean to this girl too. He never bothered to stop Mondo or Arya, or to ask them to talk to their designers that were being dickheads, instead he blamed the girl who was being bullied and piled on too. It shows such an ugly side of Tim, and it left a really, really, really bad taste in my mouth because he had become such a follower in his attempts to be part of the "cool kids"
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As I added in a similar comment over there, the fact that Natasha still refuses to say anything negative about the show or any of the designers just makes their behavior seem even worse, by comparison. She had many opportunities for a "tell-all" and chose to keep her mouth shut. But Tim Gunn continued to disparage her work and her, personally, even after the show ended. He just couldn't seem to stop justifying what had been a truly distressing situation to watch.
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I was wondering if other people were still off of Tim after the nightmare of Under The Gunn, & it sounds like they still are. I'm going to have trouble watching him on PR, because I still want to smack him for being such an ass.
On the third page of Episode 1 of the new season, we were asked to take the Under The Gunn outrage (which was distinctly anti-Tim) over to that show or this thread. If your "Fabulous Uncle Tim" wounds haven't quite scabbed over yet, you'll find a lot of company there.
The season previews are featuring Tim's anti-bully lecture, but after his disturbing behavior on that UTG fiasco, I'll need to see him grabbing kittens as the jaws of the auto crusher close around them, drowning out their tiny mews.
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As for Lori and Carter, I'm kind of expecting that Lori will finally get all set up to escape with Carter, Carter will either hesitate or flat-out say no, and that will somehow lead to Lori getting arrested, making Carter feel guilty and possibly causing her to pull away from the family again.
Carterguilt will soon need its own byline in the credits. At first, Carter was able to maintain that laser beam focus on "my mom," but now she's relaxing, making new friends, excited about her new ride. When she finds out Lori's been lurking around the edges all this time, she'll feel guilty. And it looks like Lori isn't about to switch gears and give her the "go and be happy, my beloved child, I'll be fine" speech.
In the "We Are Two" parent-child family, there's extra potential for guilt built right in. Even normal stuff, like falling in love or going off to college, can generate guilt if the parent doesn't step up and let it all be okay.
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Not exactly a grammar thing (I think) - but every now and then I hear a person mispronounce a place name and they're supposedly FROM that place! I know it's quibbling, but no one from Louisville KY pronounces it "loo-ee-ville" - they say "loo-ville".
I'm always willing to be flexible on the "Loo" part, but then they go too far and insist the back half's "-vull" and they lose my cooperation.
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My feathers got re-ruffled remembering Under The Gunn, but I came here to comment about offering Ken as a returning designer.
The producers genuinely don't get it, do they?
NO!!! We're not interested in high drama or personal conflicts or impossible time limitations. Just let good designers design good clothes! We'll watch that!
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Excellent recap, Realitygal. I can't resist adding that last ONE fun moment.
Neil Patrick Harris and Heidi Klum joined the three regular judges and Tim--whose judge/mentor role was murky--for the final runway show.
Just as the regular judges (and Tim) snuggled down and prepared to hand the prize to their favorite designer, Neil Patrick and Heidi blew the top off that nonsense! BOOM!!!! NPH calmly opined that her clothes reminded him of (I think) a carnival fortuneteller and Heidi agreed. "Ya, ya, I just don't get it."
Then they handed the win to the proper person. Yay!
P.S. The designer everyone picked on, Natasha, still hasn't said anything negative about anyone on the show, which makes all their poor behavior seem even lower by comparison. The whole show was hard to watch.
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No, I don't think I omitted a word. The "forte" in "this is my forte" should be pronounced "fort" and not "fortay" because it is derived from the French word. You should only pronounce it as "fortay" if you are actually talking about the Italian musical term.
Then again, we do enjoy bastardizing French pronunciation, so at least we're consistent. :D
Thank you for an incredibly gracious correction, Galax-arena. I shouldn't have been so quick to speak on your behalf. Or to have spoken at all, as it turns out. My google check wasn't very thorough--I thought the accent over the e sealed the deal, but that might have been a bit of floof stuck on my screen. Sorry!
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The killer word for me is Moët, as in "Moët et Chandon."
It's actually pronounced Mo-wett and no one in the world seems to know it, but I keep gritting my teeth and saying it, even though I get a lot of condescending eye-rolls from people in nice clothes holding champagne flutes.
So, Dr. Phil, I guess the answer to your favorite question is: I'd rather be right than happy.
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don't judge me but i thought forte was pronounced ''fortay''?? i have never heard anyone pronounce forte any different! once i know the correct way though i can smugly correct people as if i knew along ;)
It's fort ay. (There's an accent over the e.) I'm pretty sure Galax-arena accidentally omitted a word in her sentence.
But now I'm dying to hear someone say "That's just not my fort."
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If anything this show was Annabelle's first real attempt at pubic attention that wasn't gauche. Though it would be nice for those that like her to send her a link to being called a lovely young woman. Claws and crows feet is more how I see her but different perspectives is what makes the world go round.
I suspect if Annabelle didn't come back in a hypothetical second season it would be either she was found too dull or if it was by her choice and going by her attitude from the start, it would be due to her being miffed the show didn't revolve around her pancake ass and pudding face. She can do all the soft voiced talking heads and looks into the distance but her own past and present are pretty much out there as someone who would mount a camera and ride like a horse. And never fall off. Not the pro Caprice is but her amateur card is pretty full.
The fun bit with Annabelle was anyone having a clue to her life up to this was the wonderful back and forth between *McQueen* and her aristocratic upbringing back to *McQueen* and then back to whispy post modern Sloane Ranger. It was so silly and bizarre in so many ways. I think Annabelle with a gun glomming on to the likes of the Montagus was the closest thing to the little greedy grabby arriviste she was when she snagged Nat. That was actually an interesting Annabelle, not the terrified crash test dummy approach to riding competitively or her over maudlin attempts at being tragically interesting. Annabelle has climbed her share of social ladders and it would have been nice to see that side of what is still a grimly but hysterically funny aspect of British society. It's funny that Marissa as a club owner is the only one that truly seems to see that. And is still the most gleefully unabashed fan of the overly British tropes Americans suck up like a Dyson and yet then stupidly think George III was a tyrant who we rebelled against and wave our flags in even weirder anti-British angst.
Heck I'm dying to know if she is still stretching out her marriage settlement or if she really did cozy up to Khaddafi's sons with Nat even after the marriage ended. There were all kinds of rumblings about Libyan money in the scrambling aspirational set in the last decade or so. And I know just through the feeble lines of information during an internship that money was flowing out of the N. African dictatorships post 9/11 like it was candy out of the back of a stranger's van.
Actually that might be Annabelle's best quality on a show like this. Her own self-awareness on how limited the fake little legend of Annabelle Neilson is when all is said and done.
*McQueen*
I think I'm going to start to do that. During a conversation just get a little misty eyed look off to the side to some imaginary horizon and whisper "McQueen" into the slightest of pauses.
Not an Annabelle fan, then? Smile.
I didn't do the least bit of research past watching the show--apparently A. could have pulled all kinds of interesting bits out of her kit for Show & Tell. Sounds like "aristocratic reticence" wasn't the problem. I retract.
I would've sworn I'd never heard of any of these women. Reading this board, I learned--and it's embarrassing to admit this--I must have seen Caprice on both "Surreal Life" and "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here." Bless her small black heart, she made no impression on me at all. My aging sieve-brain still retains multiple characters from those shows--Flavor Flav and his giant clock (cLock), Janice Dickinson being inconvenienced by the very air she breathed, the affable Frangela, Heidi & Spence [shudder] . . .
Somewhere around here, someone mentioned Jill Zarin really wanted to be featured on a Housewife show set in London and even toured real estate so as to be in position. How 'bout them apples?
S13.E02: Unconventional Movie Nite!
in Project Runway
· Edited by candall
Woe be unto Sandhya if she'd stuck with a design that didn't look exactly like the other two and then her team had ended up in the bottom. Those two would have hooked her between horses and ripped her in half.
(Side snicker: "I feel that everyone is picking on me and I came to you, Tim. You're so experienced, have much expertise.")
My favorite was Sean's thing made of straws. The softness with the little black touches reminded me of ermine. It was pretty funny, though, when he squee'd about taking every single straw in the place and then congratulated himself at runway time because no one else had anything like it.
I think it's unconscionable to designate a team challenge, then single out one person from the 15 who are standing there, to say, "Hey, just so you know, yours was awful. Bad luck for your teammates, eh?" That's nothing more than nicking someone's vein in the piranha pool.