'The Fashion Show' Finale: Who did America pick?
The winner of 'The Fashion Show' is already decided, thanks to the voting audience. So what do we see tonight? THE DIRT!
The show starts with the 12 eliminated designers, and notes that Angel is wearing her double shirt dress (which is still wonderful) and Andrew is a true panty-christ, having his underwear line sales skyrocketing in response to the show. And so begins the dirt flinging. Andrew doesn't agree with an elimination that he describes as 'The Nightmare Before Christmas dress' Lydia made compared to his own 'very sellable dress'. But Isaac sums it up perfectly when he says there were thousands of ways to fail - and they preferred Lydia's failure to his.
The show is intercut with retrospectives of the final 4 designers, but they really don't show anything new. However, before they start Reco's roll, they bring out the top 3 remaining designers, which seems to quell any dirt talking that might occur. Except for what comes from viewer emails. Like the one who asks if all the judges were hitting the same crack pipe when they eliminated Reco. They stand firm behind their decision and Reco announces that he has so many opportunities that he is fine with being in fourth place. He doesn't sound very fine with it, though.
There is a great montage of the strange fashions of the designers wore themselves, like Daniella as a twisted pilgrim, Johnny as Fred Flintstone, Haven as an extra on Falcon Crest and Merlin as....well....just Merlin. And speaking of, Merlin and Johnny both created "decoy collections" to throw the press off the scent of who the real finalists were. It's a trick they picked up from 'Project Runway', but unlike PR, we get to see these decoy collections.
What can I say about Merlin's collection? Simply, that I have seen the future of South Beach. And it is terrifying. It is not fashion...it is an acid trip nightmare in Rio. As for Johnny, he didn't push the boundaries of taste. He tripped and broke them. Those were not dresses. They were shirts without pants. And unless those girls were getting ready for a gynecological exam, they needed pants. Or skirts. Or something. A brazilian wax should not be required for any article of clothing that is outwear and not a bathing suit.
We find out that Kristin doesn't regret quitting so early, that Anna doesn't consider herself a TV personality and see a super montage of the designers ripping apart each others work. Also, the S&M gear in James Paul's collection was made by Pakistani women who had no idea what they were creating. Which is strange and amusing and slightly politically uncomfortable all at once. There is also a little to-do over James Paul's idea to cover the shoes of his models by pulling stockings over them, however I have to note that the costume department for 'Aeon Flux' did the same. I am not sure why I know that, but I do.
Of course, they can only stall and show left over footage for so long. It's time to hand out some money, with the first award being the Judge's Choice. It's given the Daniella and Glenda offers to introduce her to designers she would work well with in addition to the $10,000. I think those introductions are probably worth more than the cash, especially since Daniella is so young. It's like being handed a key to the door, rather than just getting your foot in there.
The Grand Prize, voted on by the viewing audience, goes to the designer who really created the most sellable work - Anna. It's not very shocking, after Reco was dispatched. While James Paul was the designer's designer, Anna created things women want to wear today. She was just as sweetly accepting of the top prize as we would expect, but I rather wish we would get to see a bit more about where the top 4 are in six months.
What were your favorite clips? Did anyone else notice that Merlin did not raise his hand when Fern asked how many were planning on staying friends with each other? Did you agree with the winner? Do you plan on watching next season, or are you heading the Team 'Project Runway', never to return? In truth, I enjoyed this show more than I expected. But I am tuning in to 'Project Runway' in August too!
no reco wasn't happy with being fourth, but you failed to mention how catty toned the one old bat judge was when she said she had made the right decision to eliminate him.
i didn't like the retrospect. actually tivo'ed the show so i could fast forward through the parts that annoyed me which was most of the show. anna won but by default. no one could vote for james paul. everyone hated daniella and her explanation as to why she was a ***** was yada yada. hence we get anna with the incohesive collection that haven and johnny explained well - it was a knockoff of anna. how sad.
replace kelly and the old bat. i'll come back for season two with no promises to stay if i see the same crappy judging.
I have never watched Project Runway. I absolutely loved this show and will come back for more.
I think America chose the right one. I loved Reco, but he needs more exposure. His future is bright and he made the show real and entertaining.
I like Kelly and they should definitely bring her back. She has a great fashion sense and brings balance since she is not necessarily an 'expert' in the industry.
THE FASHION SHOW was just Bravo's attempt to replicate their success with PROJECT RUNWAY. And it failed.
And off to Lifetime for the main course.
WHAT THE ****!!! THE ONLY REASON I EVEN TOLERATED KELLY ROWLANDS *** WAS TO WATCH RECO'S FABULOUS DESIGNES. THEY WERE ON SOME **** LAST NIGHT IF THEY REALLY ELIMINATED HIM. THATS SOME BULL****! WELL I WONT BE WATCHN THE FINALE AND NEITHER WILL MY MOTHER AND FRIENDS. THEY JUST KNEW THAT WITH HIM AND DANIELLA AS FINALIST IT MIGHT BE A TUFF DECISION SO INSTEAD OF ELIMINATING THE WHITE GIRL THEY GOT RID OF THE BLACK MAN. WHATEVER WELL IF ANYONE BUT DANIELLA WINS THE **** IS GONNA BE SOME MALARKY
Um, Janae. . . you're about a week behind. Last night, July 23, WAS the finale. And Daniela didn't win.
Someone said it best another week....the producers knew that Reco was winning SO many of the things that America had to vote for (online) so they fixed the competition and eliminated him because they didn't want him to win. That's my 2 cents anyway.
In Reco's fashion show, my jaw hit the ground when I saw his first outfit come out. That *gorgeous* teal long sleeved circle skirt coat with accents...that was a beautiful outfit. Yes, Reco's feather dress and wedding dress were too much....since when do people watching a runway show care about that? Do they actually go and see other runway shows in real life? Those models wear some of the most hideous and weird things you've ever seen....and then they get transformed into wearable garments.
Which is another thing...the models?! Where did they get those girls from? I am not an expert on fashion shows and runways, but watching some of them walk made me cringe. I thought they were supposed to be talented models?
I skipped over a lot of the show....especially whenever they were having James Paul try and explain his collection. His work might be appealing to some people, but you'd have to pay me to wear anything of his.
As opposed to the 30 comments on last week's episode, this week's only has 7 (now 8). I guess we all decided there was no use in watching after Reco was eliminated. :-)
What they don't show in the runway show episode or the finale is that the wedding dress that Reco made came apart on the runway. I'm not trying to plug their blog, but the prrungay guys were at the filming of the show and blogged about what happened. The model had to stand out there for two full minutes, until Reco came out and carried her offstage.
http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2009/06/tfs-final-collectionstaping-spoilerish.html
The interviewed Reco later and he said it was because the model got picked up backstage.
http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2009/07/tfs-t-lo-interviews-reco.html
None of it was ever shown and there was all sorts of fake drama to make it look like Anna might be eliminated.
http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2009/07/tfs-bye-bye.html
And strangely enough, as much drama as this disaster of a show aired, there was no mention in the reunion show about Merlin getting angry and walking out during filming.
Interesting thing!
That's awesome! I can't wait to get into it.