Project Runway Canada Episode 10: From Boardroom to Bedroom
Source: By BRIAN COULTON
Posted: 04/01/09 11:31AM
Filed Under: Project Runway Canada
After watching weeks of PRC injustice - Kim sliding through week after week, Adejoke's back-dooring, Jason and Genevieve's return after being booted - it's finally time for the designers to take the stand, with a truly difficult challenge sure to guarantee justice is served. All rise! The business suit has entered.
Season 2 Contestants |
Oh, come on. You knew he was going to win this one from the beginning. Sunny was like the seasoned veteran in a competition of newbies. No one else's work held a candle to his - and it showed when he won a bazillion challenges in a row. Congrats, Sunny! You earned it. |
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After the remaining four designers stick with the models they worked with last challenge, Iman instructs the quartet to apply their signature design to business wear. Garments must be tailored for the modern woman. That's right, Genevieve - you finally have no excuse for your weekly draping session!
Armed with $225, they'll have two days to complete the laborious task. While all of the designers seem to share inexperience in such tailored clothing (minus Genevieve's obligatory self-assuredness: "My eye for proportion and scale is on as it always is.") Jason appears deceptively cool and proclaims that he wants to be unconventional, so won't share the deets on his duds. "I just hope they can't hear what's going on inside my head," he said.
But when we see what's cooking in his cranium, it turns out to be total crap. Somehow, the guy thinks a flaming pink top with white polka dots, surrounded by a shoulder-less grey jacket would be appropriate for the boardroom. Then again, Iman didn't specify which business the garment was to be designed for. High-class hookers need to look good too, right?
His innate "innovation" leaves him finished early on the first day of the challenge - just enough time to start spewing his "haterade" all over Sunny. But boy wonder calls Jason's bluff when, about Jason's eccentric ensemble, he says, "The gimmick should be in the craftsmanship, not a spectacle."
It is a spectacle, however, to watch Sunny attempt fitting his suit on his own body. "You do realize that you have boy parts and your model doesn't," reminds Jessica. But with modelequse size-zero proportions, I'd call the guy clever for trying to perfect contour.
When Brian enters and witnesses Jason's professional vomit, he has some obvious concerns. He's relieved when Jason says he has fabric left over, clearly put off by the lack of shoulders and generally scant nature of the piece. Jason rebuts, "A modern day woman would not have a conventional suit." Sure. But she'd have a whorish flamingo costume? It's like Ivanka Trump spilled Pepto-Bismol on her grey shawl and called it a suit. Jason appropriately accepts Brian's advice.
When Brian returns later, he delights the designers by telling them they'll have until 7 p.m. - much later than normal - to finish their work. But delight turns to discontent when they learn they'll have to complete a second piece - lingerie - to bring the garment from boardroom to bedroom. Adding insult to injury, he says their models will be in charge of obtaining the fabric, with only the designers' limited instruction.
As the models romp through Rockland, they all seem utterly stumped by the word "charmeuse". Hint: A taxidermist doesn't stuff it, and it's not something you put in your hair. "Jason wants me to get some charmeuse...which, to me, sounds like a dessert," Jason's model Ashley says with a chortle. Someone's hungry.
The models return without any problems, making the twist totally unfulfilling (a running theme this season). Even less fulfilling is more of Jason's creepy thoughts escaping to the forefront. "I don't think the women have an advantage because they wear lingerie," he says, "I think I might have an advantage, because I really like looking at lingerie." So do I, Jason, but when you say it, you sound like a sicko. And don't tell Jessica looking at all the lingerie makes you hot. She's just not that into you.
On the runway, Sunny's boardroom and bedroom looks are the first to show. His taupe jacket with frayed detailing and bow-fronted belt is fitted immaculately, inviting praise from Toronto designer David Dixon, this week's guest judge. Rita loves the fabric, while Shawn calls it "powerful but feminine". His black lingerie consists of a thin-strapped bra and panties. While basic, it's still sleek and, I think, a fitting pared down complement to a more distinct suit.
Distinct is one word that could describe Genevieve's suit. Crooked is another. Frumpy, over-designed, typical...I could go on. Her olive-brown skirt features vertical black strips on either side of its front, and a diagonal one on the front of the jacket. She was going for a '30s art deco look, but David thinks it's more 80s. That's not a compliment, Genevieve. Paula Abdul was also popular in the 80s. Rita scolds Genevieve for the lines not matching up and for the abundance of bunching at the back. But her light, black, dress-like lingerie with an exposed back, which Shawn slobbers over, saves her from total ridicule. Lucky break.
I thought Jason would be lucky to receive a single positive word about his suit. His one-buttoned grey jacket (Now, with shoulders!) and grey shorts are stabbed by the maintained pink shirt underneath, gaudy bow and all. Somehow, the judges are generally taken. Iman loves the pink vs. grey. I love Iman, but...come on...honestly!? His black panties and black, mostly translucent tank top is slammed for being too run of the mill by David, in comparison to his suit.
Couture: Paris 2009 |
In defiance of all the doom and gloom of the world, chief Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld made a couture collection that was mostly all white. |
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Biffi chooses a brown palette, showing a low cut jacket with a pair of slits in the front and pants, all fitted with a tan belt just below the bust. The shoulders are pretty boxy, which the judges pick up on, but they laud her silhouette. And showing more chest than other is fine by Iman, who says there's no problem using "you know what" to get the job. But "I don't know what" is going on with her lingerie. The chocolate brown tank top and panties, lined with white lace, look like something a girl would wear to a school sleepover. Not exactly a turn on.
After the judges deliberate, it's clear that Sunny leads the pack and he gets the final three spot he secured on day one. Jason closely follows him, though I'm still scratching my head.
When it's down to Biffi and Bug Eyes, I shudder at the thought of losing talent for tedium. But frumpy fails (for a second time), meaning Biffi makes the cut to show at fashion week. And Iman whips out her fly swatter.
Random Noticeables:
-- Jason, wearing your glasses inside looks pretentious - something you really shouldn't be… and I wear my sunglasses at night… but outside. Please cease.
-- Biffi's full of the one-liners this week:
-- "I would hurt small children to be in the top three."
-- "It's really pretty...I f--king hate you."
-- "Jackets scare me. Sleeves and pants are not my friends."
-- "I don't really wanna live in a wicked cardboard box somewhere...I'm sure it would be pimped out, though."
-- "Welcome to Thunder Dome! Jessica's going to Toronto fashion week!"
-- The judges' 'judging' is incredibly suspect at this point. Jason making it to the top three exemplifies everything that's wrong with this season.
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