Project Runway 10.4 Exodus
Posted: August 14, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: project runway Leave a comment »We already know my feelings about the episode, but here are my feelings about the fashion. The challenge was not very challenging: design a look for a woman on the go.
I love Melissa and I love layers but this went a little overboard. Then again, there’s a Jedi cloak thing going on here that at the least makes it Geek Chic. And Jedis are on-the-go…? I guess?
Project Runway 10.3: MAD Fashion
Posted: August 6, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: april johnston, Dmitry Sholokhov, kenley collins, melissa fleis, project runway Leave a comment »I didn’t watch this episode live because the OLYMPICS trump everything. Yes, even when the Olympics aren’t live either. Thursday was the Women’s All Around in Gymnastics and while it was impossible not to be spoiled for the results I loved watching with my daughter screeching GABBY GABBY GABBY. The top four — Gabby Douglas, Viktoria Komova, Aliya Mustafina, and Aly Raisman — were are all fantastic and I adore them. So I DVRed Project Runway and watched Friday afternoon and, like the All-Around, I knew the winner going in. Knowing the outcome didn’t make it anticlimactic. But the fashion was SO ANTICLIMACTIC. I only have two things to say about it.
ONE: Kenley is my favourite.
I’m Team Melissa
Posted: July 20, 2012 Filed under: Runway Fashion | Tags: melissa fleis, project runway Leave a comment »You guys Jenny Humphrey is on Project Runway!
Melissa might not know she’s channeling Gossip Girl‘s damaged pixie designer but she totally is. I like her look, I like her vibe, and I like her designs:
Project Runway 10.1
Posted: July 20, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: project runway Leave a comment »Watching the pre-show with Mondo and various other PR alums last night reminded me how sad-and-angry the PR All Stars Season made me. I really liked Mondo and Mondo’s designs on his first season but All Stars soured me on him and the show. It seemed created to hand him a crown. But! The first real episode of this new season renewed my excitement for the show. The judges weren’t fawning (I love Nina Garcia) and this new batch is full of people with heroine chic design potential. Like so:
Elena’s aesthetic (and her own hairstyle!) reminds me most of Aeon Flux and that puts her high on my list of favourites.
Project Runway All-Stars 1.9
Posted: March 2, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: project runway, project runway all stars 1 Comment »“But she’d fit right in at Comic-Con.”
I agree (guest judge) Pharell Williams. I also agree that this screams Mortal Kombat (MORTAL KOMBAT). Mortal Kombat by way of Tron. So is it heroine chic or is it straight-up costume?
Project Runway All-Stars 1.8
Posted: February 24, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: project runway, project runway all stars 1 Comment »Well. On the plus side, the challenge “make a dress inspired by a flag” yields inherently heroine chic looks. On the minus side no one did particularly well with it, I’m tired of The Mondo Show, and Mila went home for making an awesomely conceptual, very well-crafted, and interesting dress. But let’s start with the positive:
Kenley made another super cute dress that the judges (begrudgingly?) loved despite her making the same kind of super cute dress every week. It is very heroine chic in its cut. And as Joanna Coles pointed out on Twitter last night, this is a play on a stars and stripes dress!
Project Runway All-Stars 1.6
Posted: February 10, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: kenley collins, project runway, project runway all stars Leave a comment »There was only one garment on the runway that was passably heroine chic and its designer was sent home. So this post is going to be about Kenley:
Kenley Collins beat Mondo (such a favourite I am beginning to think this whole All-Stars season was created to hand him a win) in the fashion face-off and nearly won the whole challenge. But Jerell said only Minnie Mouse would wear her jumper and everything I’ve read online seems to agree. Here is the look in question:
Heroine Chic by Yves Saint Laurent
Posted: January 26, 2012 Filed under: Runway Fashion | Tags: yves saint laurent Leave a comment »The YSL Pre-Fall 2012 Collection is all about heroine chic y’all. Look:
The styling for the collection includes a lot of kickass tall shiny black leather boots and long gloves which is heroine chic all by itself. But look also at the cut and the material. She looks like she just stepped out of the first Matrix movie. Killer!
Project Runway All-Stars 1.2
Posted: January 13, 2012 Filed under: Review, Runway Fashion | Tags: april johnston, project runway, project runway all stars Leave a comment »“Night at the Opera” doesn’t scream “heroine chic”. It doesn’t even whisper it. These aren’t red carpet events, there’s not going to be a fashion recap, no alleged fashion blogger is going to scan through the pics to find the one who looks like she belongs in a comic book. As much as I now want to show up at the next scheduled performance to click pictures I can then scan through to find the one who looks like she belongs in a comic book, that’s not what opera is. So we don’t have too too much in the running for Superheroine Pick of the Week. But when has that ever stopped me??
Superhero of the Night: Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted: January 13, 2012 Filed under: Runway Fashion | Tags: critics choice, leonardo dicaprio Leave a comment »I’m just gonna put this out there:
You know in Catch Me If You Can when Leo wants to be Bond, James Bond?
Yes.
