austin is way too costumey and wont compromise his ideals for specific projects [his dress for #3 was too springlike for a winter collection].
i tagged jay as crashing and burning early because he wouldnt be able to adapt to the challenges at hand, but this hasnt been the case. dont count him out just yet.
kara's work is very thought out and incredibly well executed -- i could see her being the winner.
i dont know what to make of kevin. his responses to everything has been really well done. definately will be there until the end, unless something disastrous happens.
i kind of find nora's work to be too hip at times. cutting down large segments of the population is not going to help her business down the line.
robert's work is awful, just as cliched and contrived as starr's stuff, but in a different way. no wonder he divorced his wife and came back to the states -- just by the kinds of things he's put women in, the guy has no understanding of the opposite sex. men's suits? fake fur? what the fuck? i dont think he'll last much longer. by the promos ive seen for the next episode, supposedly he cracks his head open on a sidewalk after showing off how macho he is. serves him right.
vanessa, hm, another one i cant quite pin down. solid work but seems like an incredibly shitty person other wise. im sure that will bite her in the ass.
wendy could win this -- she made her mistakes early and is now being very careful about what she does. but who knows?
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I like suits! If I were to seriously take the time to learn how to make anything, it'd be a really well tailored suit. Someday.. And yeah, Robert comes off as having plenty of cliched & ridiculous ideas about women. I figured there had to be a layer of irony to that, but maybe I'm just giving him wayyy too much benefit of the doubt b/c he is really good looking (and maybe that's yr layer of irony right there).
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
also, Tim rules it. I adore him. He should have his own show.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 6 January 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
"Cotton is the official fabric of Project Runway"
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link
I wonder if the ratings are any better for this episode. I was like jumping up and down, I was so excited that it was back on the air.
I still am not fond of Kevin but he behaved better this week. That singer! Ouch! Can we not have any more goth-lolita-gone-bad business ever again? Jay's outfit was the best by a mile, minus that awful skirt thing.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/Episode_4/Tims_Take_1.shtml
The three in turn selected their team members in a classic, wincingly painful process that all of us who were the last to be selected for softball remember all too well. (I certainly do!)
when I saw that pile of shredded fabric that would become the removable skirt, it looked like puke from Pee Wee's Playhouse and I thought, "uh-oh…", but they transformed it into something truly fabulous.
Believe me when I say that this industry responds to more garbage and bull*#!@, simply because the individual pitching the work is so passionate and artful in how the bull*#!@ is presented.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 6 January 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 6 January 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I wanna be a fashion designer. Except.. like Vanessa, I can't sew.
― daria g (daria g), Friday, 7 January 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
also, the first time i've ever wanted to watch multiple episodes of any reality show.
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 7 January 2005 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Austin is costumey and doesn't listen. I didn't think he had such a limited range but that was probably because the first dress was cornhusks. He's kind of doing the same thing every week and getting away with it (usually) because it is beautiful, and others have really fucked up.
I still don't know if Rob is super talented or what his style is. I think he's one of the few contestants who might be a real surprise, while with most, you kind of know what they'll do..
― daria g (daria g), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
kevin - mistakes all around, first one being MORGAN. [why havent all of the designers put their competitiveness aside for a second, to collectively decide to oust her?] the second was designing a suit that didnt even seem like a suit. the third was letting morgan leave the party in his outfit.
alexandra - finally, stuck on the nail of her own unoriginality. it seems like she would be useful in the upcoming episode though because she's solid, no-nonsense worker.
jay - his suit was awesome but i hope he takes the comment about appearing more "serious" for the next challenge.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I didn't like Austin's suit. It made me want to barf, and so does his personality at this point. Jay rules it, but he does tend to undercut himself while Austin seems able to thoroughly inhabit the world of his own, uh, bullshit.
Rob is a peculiar personality indeed. I didn't love his suit but it wasn't terrible.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link
this picture is awesome.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Who did that? Crazy.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
i think being a two-faced bitch ranks pretty high in my book. for a while, i was into her but after all her "this is my last chance" speeches and stuff, i dont think she has what it takes to win.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm indulging my contrarian impulses here; I was reading the Television Without Pity board on Project Runway and there are all these smug women ripping "the Pepper" up one side and down the other for being bitchy, frumpy, and overweight - all while these same people are being incredibly bitchy themselves and complaining that Banana Republic doesn't make plus sizes (ie larger than a 16!).
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm just catching up on this show after watching a marathon of reruns the other night, but now it's my favorite show ever.
I'm wondering how much influence the producers have in who gets the boot. There's a blurb about that in the credits. Do the Weinsteins really make the choices? I'm guessing they'll keep the 2 flamboyant guys to the end for their TV appeal.
That one who compared women to sports cars is not a very good designer and not all that TVgenic. I'm surprised he hasn't gone yet.
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
i dont care if she's frumpy or overweight [hey, i am too]. i just have issues with the two-faced behavior of hers. i would not be surprised if she started in with kara. ive dealt with this type of person numerous times through art school and beyond. somewhere down the line, they screw themselves over.
ive found wendy's work to be fairly uninteresting throughout the series. her only win was uncaptivating [yet its inherent boringness was perfect for the banana republic line] and with each challenge, she does something wrong.
i am very surprised she was not eliminated last night -- a missing part on a swimsuit is a huge error. in my experience as a freelance graphic designer / photographer, omitting something clearly integral to the project would cost me my job.
also, for someone who's incoming portfolio appeared to be nothing but formalwear, i was totally non-plussed by her wedding gown. tim was 100% correct in his assessment of her inability to work with asymmetry.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
btw, note the loosened tie:http://www.bravotv.com/images/Project_Runway/Scrapbook/pic_scrapbook_ep6_11.jpg
puke.
― ade (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Austin is gross, his Yves Saint Laurent impression was off-putting from the start. I'm surprised noone called him out on that, I mean the glasses and the hair....c'mon, it's so obvious who he's imitating!And his clothes are a bit too costumey.....love his makeup though.
― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Can't wait for next week. POST OFFICE UNIFORMS!!!! Who are the powers that be behind this show and what are they smoking? I love them!!! I love them even more for making the designers dress up in post office uniforms! Genius!
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 27 January 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Delvin is the only person to have been eliminated in the past 3 episodes. This is NONSENSE
― imago, Sunday, 3 May 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
Delvin and Chelsey the only two to have been eliminated for 5 episodes!
i kind of want to say you could just skip to the end. because it was not a great season at al.
― Yerac, Sunday, 3 May 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
ding ding ding
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 May 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
the show went from awful to amazing during the final elimination for some reason and a great final, so um...otm :)
― imago, Monday, 4 May 2020 01:49 (four years ago) link
we had to wade through an awful lot of NONSENSE to get there though!
if this isn't too great a spoiler, was *amazed* by how good Nancy was by the end
― imago, Monday, 4 May 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
Watching Making the Cut finally. Saw the winner's collection on Amazon. I am horrified about how trash it is. It is sooooooo bad. Most things about the actual show are pretty good though, otm posts about it above.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
I never finished it, I just couldnt get down with the bizarre & arbitrary judging, it really bugged me
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
when i saw who won i had doubts that i would be able to finish it. but i am more in it for the scenic views now. They are just heading to Tokyo.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link
Making The Cut Season 2 on July 16th!
No Naomi Campbell though - she's not willing to gamble catching covid-19 and risk losing her career. And we're getting Jeremy Scott and Winnie Harlow who I think will make up for it. I didn't finish her season of ANTM but I remember Harlow being fantastically rich in personality on ANTM.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
Season 2 of Making The Cut has started, first two episodes available. The pandemic is real and apparent - there's no travelling to amazing locations, but the "ranch" they're filming in looks incredible and expensive. It's a very well-cast line-up. There's a mix of exciting clothes and talent, and personalities you want to see win or really hate, which sounds really obvious for this kind of show but it's actually hard to do well. There's been some great looks already, especially Andrea's bridal trousers, and I don't disagree with any of the eliminations yet.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
bridal trousers?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 17 July 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
yes, trousers that a bride could wear, bridal trousers
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:39 (two years ago) link
Ah, bridal trousers.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:42 (two years ago) link
gonna trust leading trouser expert boxedjoy on this one tbh
― imago, Saturday, 17 July 2021 11:21 (two years ago) link
this week's episodes were hilarious. Tim's critiques! Jeremy's speech! The poor management! The modelling! The judges' decisions!
― boxedjoy, Friday, 23 July 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
Im sure we all love Gary, right? My wife texted a friend of hers and mentioned she was watching and discovered her friend is college buddies with him. He was, surprise, completely goth in college.
― akm, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
Holy shit the cast of PR this season is insufferable and I’m only 20 minutes into the premier
― akm, Friday, 15 October 2021 04:51 (two years ago) link