PR4: Monkey House Edition!

[octothorpe]

I thought that Chris' designs ROCKED!!

Remi's designs were good, but I wasn't thrilled with the grey draped thing everyone else did.

::sigh::

Discuss!!

Comments

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Chris ... sweet guy, the show *just started* in this time zone.

Could we start these discussions an hour or so later?

Let's hear it for the gag reflex!

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

[rogueboi.livejournal.com]

OMG Larry Verba! Maker of bling for fabulous queens everywhere! It is well and truly good that he and Chris March are friends. I want a job for just two weeks as duster-of-baroque-gaudytabulousness in his apartment.

[snapperboy.livejournal.com]

That grey draped thing was hideous, a dog of a dress.

[chrisglass.livejournal.com]

Again I'm reminded that my reaction is always the opposite of the judges.

[brindledbear.livejournal.com]

-Chris really gave them creative work.

-Rami's coat was vaguely familiar (Jillian had a collar like that on her (2nd?) coat. On TV, the bodice on the grey dress didn't look right.

Mostly I think it would have been appropriate to at least say that Chris and Sweet P would show but were not in contention for the prizes. Having seen (on the web) the collections I think Chris really had the best stuff on the runway at fashion week and should have been given a little more recognition.

[50poundnote.livejournal.com]

Once you knew exactly what Chris had used it was a crime not to reward him with one of the final three spots.

Rami didn't deserve it.

[thornyc.livejournal.com]

I don't get it -- a dead animal fur good, human hair bad?

[delmarmar.livejournal.com]

I nmy humble and not so fashionable opinion, the decision was simply wrong. Makes me wonder how different these things look in person.

[kjaz.livejournal.com]

Oh now I liked the Remi grey draped thing and I usually don't like his work.
I thought that the human hair work looked great. It had nice movement. Would the washing instructions read, "lather, rinse, repeat"?

[badgerpdx.livejournal.com]

I agree. Chris' rule... (But I'd fock Rami).

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

My feeling is this:

I did like Chris’s work better than Rami’s in general.

That said, there is, alas, a difference between staying true to your aesthetic and doing what you need to do to win a reality show.  On Top Model, you have to kiss Tyra Bank’s ass, and on Project Runway, you need to not scare Nina Garcia with human hair.

The trick here, then, is to remember why you’re on Project Runway to begin with.  Are you trying to get a higher profile, or are you trying to win $100,000?  If you’re trying to win the bucks, then you need to work harder at getting inside Nina’s pretty little head and come up with something that impresses her without creeping her out, and I think it goes without saying that you gotta manage that with all the judges.

Tim knew what he was talking about, and Chris didn’t want to compromise his vision in the interest of winning, which seems to be a pretty typical reality show contestant pattern.

Rami’s work was safe, definitely, but he apparently worked his vision into the corner he needed to in the interest of actually continuing on.

ETA: I suppose the comparison could be made: when a designer already has assured financial backing for his line, he can send whatever he wants down the runway without much concern for what the Fashion Editors of the world have to say about it.  However, Chris March, in the PR context, probably could have had that principle a little higher in mind, fair or not.

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

And now Sissybear has gone public with how he really felt about the judges’ response to his collection…