Let's Anticipate PROJECT RUNWAY SEASON 2

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Robert arrives in Miami = classic

Do I know Diana Eng? I feel like I've met her..

Daniel comes across as an actual human being, it's kind of adorable. That guy with the orange tie dye is so gone.

Swimsuit lady is ugh

Kara from South Africa, Santiago, Diana = tops

I love Diana! I hope she wins the whole thing. And not just because she went to RISD.

also, pretty much all the lingerie SUCKED. except for the winning team's, but theirs still wasn't that great.

What was going on when Daniel and Heidi locked eyes for way too long as he explained his theory of 'lovemaking'?

I liked Daniel's best of all; even though everyone said it looked too old.

I love Diana. What about when Santino claimed that all 3 women on her team had never had sex?

I don't really like this year's new, now the models are in the contest too. I guess they felt they had to raise the stakes for them so that they would actually start to show up.

that was what i was talking about! i think i started exclaiming at the tv. i think it wasn't the only time during the episode.

i'm not sure i'm predisposed to anyone now that daniel f is gone. i found nick super-annoying at the beginning, but his cute dress last week and his classiness in dealing with santino have redeemed him a bit. i like chloe, but not only for the right reasons. daniel v may have potential and i like that while he's obviously sort of set in his mod/rocker personal style, he doesn't seem to take it over-seriously (am i being incoherent here?). the girl whose name i can't remember (on diana and marla's team) seems to be the least-developed personality on the show, but there might be something interesting there ready to come out.

i think it wasn't the only time during the episode

that i exclaimed, i meant

i think i missed this daniel-heidi locking eyes thing. god i'm glad he's gone.

I liked Daniel this year. He has an almost Japanese vibe the way he is always nodding his head and bowing at people when he wants to thank them. I think he overdid it a bit with his exit statement re ethics though.

It must be so much pressure to have to all work in that one room. Unless the deadlines aren't as strict as they appear on the show. It also seems like a really easy way for ideas to get "borrowed."

maybe i'm forgetting something, but he seems like the smartest one there. or maybe he's just the best critic. (a-ha) chloe may be the most adult, though, and i'll bet she has a great shot for that reason alone.

i'm not sure i ever came to like heidi last season. this time around, i'm starting to warm towards her. maybe it's the maternal thing. wild horses and 100 squash blossom necklaces, however, couldn't bring me to say the same about nina garcia.

i was wondering about that, mary...has any fashion designer worth his/her salt ever had to work with these kinds of seemingly impossible deadlines? possibly silly question but aside from this show and america's next top model i know nothing about the fashion industry or the rates with which couture is pumped out.

ideas for a potential project runway drinking game are more than welcome here, by the way. stuff in a "take a shot every time tim gunn says 'carry on'" stylee plz.

x-post emmett seems to have a good head about him, but i think his designing focus is a bit narrow. the opposite of diana, really.

BUT I'm bummed that you all like Diana so much. She irritates me, and I thought her teammates gave valid criticisms of her. I loved the little spat she had with that uptight model, though.

Okay, sorry, I'm just starting to get really into this show. I wish I just had all the episodes on DVD right now so I could stay up all night watching them. Yeah, I really sound like a straight guy, right? Ha ha.

Anyway, it sucks that ever5yone turned on Chloe. But.. you know.. this whole episode left me with a "meh" feeling. My ideal top 3 would have been:

1. Uncle Nick
2. Chloe
3. Andrae

That would have been a truly interesting fashion show. Kara seemed to have lost her individuality while on the show, but I'm glad that she made it to the top 4 and got to show off that delightful collection at Fashion Week. Everyone is hating on Chloe's collection, which totally baffles me because it's easily the best to my eyes (followed my Kara). Daniel and Santino are so one note. I mean, I don't know much about fashion, so perhaps Daniel's designs are "deceptively simple," but it's just so BORING. He'd fit right in with Banana Republic.

Predictions for the winner anyone?

It's become apparent to me that Chloe isn't going to win, so I think it's going to go to Daniel unfortunately. *sighs*

my top 3 would have been Santino, Chloe, Andrae

The way they all turned on my girl Chloe. Chloe in the last two! What a bunch of self-important twits, judges and competitors alike. Daniel V. is so overrated in every respect that I'll be tuning in to the final episode purely in hopes of seeing him get his comeuppance. (Yeah right.)

I'm pissed that I ever cared so much about this show. Boo hiss.

*I haven't looked at them with any degree of thoroughness, I'm trying to preserve some element of surprise.

ps. fuck u if u disagree

potential spoiler warning: one note in the interview could be taken to suggest who the winner is (but not necessarily and there's also mitigating evidence)

that emmy dress fiasco was horrible.

At least she was more entertaining than Heidi S. who was perpetually "whut?" everytime they asked her a question.

Project Jay was interesting, but a little underwhelming.

OK, uh, I like Santino again. Tell me that guy was never sort of goth or at least hung out a lot with really goth-y people in his teenage years. Daniel V is so.. um.. a little knowledge (or a little praise) is a dangerous thing, now he's learned how to diplomatically tell Tim Gunn "I appreciate what you say" when he clearly doesn't appreciate it and isn't listening at all.

Tim looks at Chloe's stuff and says, ah, Balenciaga.. but.. but.. it's so gold, and so pink! If you took Daniel V's fabrics and Chloe's silhouettes and put them together you might have something super cool.

trouble is I still am not so crazy abt Santino's dresses! but I don't like peach, or that silhouette. I couldn't wear any of that. The stuff he wears himself, that, I could.

http://myspace.com/santinosantino

(and ultimately I think Santino is too creative to limit himself that way)

something very strange happened in this show - i finally fell for nina garcia.

Santino's, with a few very notable exceptions, managed to be both bland and unwearable. What was he aiming at? He seemed to have lost all of his confidence in his style.

The Brainwasher OTM about Chloe. It all looked rather romantic and lush, especially when compared to the other collections. It was obvious it was hers, too, from all the judges' comments and the look on Daniel's face. She's been my choice since the blue & black dress of the "shirt off your back" challenge.

Not very suspenseful, but satisfying.

I preferred Santino to Chloe but I can live with her winning. But is it just me or did there seem to be very little excitement when she won? It was like "oh, okay". Last year it was a party when Jay won.

I don't think that the judges were necessarily looking for "Oh we need someone who can design for Banana Republic," I think they were looking for "Who presented the best collection."

I thought the personalities this season were more entertaining than last season, but I think last season's clothing was more interesting.

also, there was one piece of daniel's that really looked like a cross between something at a ren faire and something a dominatrix would wear. or that was my first impression.

But if you found her stuff ugly, then you won't care about that argument. I just think Daniel choked and Santino doesn't really care about women, is all.

I guess I see the fit point abt Santino's collection in retrospect. And he didn't defend against it, so I guess it sticks. But maybe he knew he had as little chance of winning, storyline-wise, as the judges did. And was fit really the point of his collection? I thought his whole show - the piercing eye-makeup, the flowing locks, the stunning models, the big walks, the subtly-stomping track - effectively sold this image that was simultaneously beautiful/glamorous (reflected in the fabulous gowns), a little punk (the raffish, perhaps kara-style, sweater stuff), and retaining a bit of soft femininity (the baby-dollish dresses). Women, yes, but super ones. Body shape is important to Chloe (ahem), but attitude is more important to Santino. Chloe wants to serve/sell to women. Santino wants to idealize/adore them.

So yes, Santino was very much about the show, but I fail to understand the idea that Chloe presented a more cohesive collection than he did. The theme was 'her fantasy'? It definitely reflected her personality/style - sort of crafty-sexy-cutesy - and I'll admit to not liking that style as much. But how does that have more depth than Santino? Is it a novel because it was quasi-Victorian? Yes, she elevated her particular approach (I hesitate to use the word shtick, though I think the judges used 'one-note'), but to a level that Santino had been on far more consistently than she had. And even at her most beautiful and intelligent, it was still pattern-oriented stuff. Hadn't Santino demonstrated greater range?

I thought it was clear that Tim knew Daniel was resting on his laurels and was trying to kick him out of his comfort zone. Which he appeared to have taken to heart in his last piece. Or was that more Nick's influence? On the whole he looked amateurish compared to the others.

Listen, I hear what you are saying about the Santino / Chloe split, and there might be something to it. Also, yeah, Daniel won a lot of the challenges, and was generally flashier than Chloe, at least until he hit the wall 3/4 of the way through the year. But the challenges don't mean anything for the finale, in the same way that the team with the best regular season record doesn't just automatically win the playoffs.

Santino's collection is, in a word, magnificent. I could easily see it at Bergdorf Goodman or Saks Fifth Avenue. Was it the winning collection? Gasp, I hoped not. Huh? Why? Because, were Santino Rice to be declared the winner of Project Runway, then the season three auditions would be subtitled, "Project Freak Show." Step right up ladies and gentlemen. In this tent we have Jay McCarroll and over here we have Santino Rice. I love and respect Santino, but please don't let him win!

I don't think it really matters whether Santino 'won'. I think the show already made his star.

I'm sure there was a lot of concern that Santino would've fought them over the prize and the strings attached - whereas a Chloe or a Kara Saun would be more willing to compromise and play the game, figuring (probably correctly) that it'll be to their benefit to do so.

Daniel.. didn't really think about his collection, did he? Japanese/military? this could cover so many things as to be nearly meaningless. Of course I didn't have the sense Santino or Chloe thought too much either..

I liked Chloe's babydoll dress with the pockets, maybe Diana's influence made it fun & interesting? Those printed fabrics Chloe used wers some of the most godawful prints I've ever seen in my life.

if I wanted to be mean, I'd say Chloe's theme was J. Peterman-meets-ABC Carpet & Home

yeah, they should have saved their meta for after 'the show'

chloe consistently did it at least technically right. did santino ever live up to the hype? daniel did a few really good bits, but...
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