8/17 - Project Runway 20 Show Discussion

Prajje truly has nine lives...He has escaped dismissal more times than anybody else.

Not sorry to see Korto go. She did launch a bitter goodbye. I would think that PR did help her business but she sounded like it ruined her life. I am guessing that she did think she would or should be the winner.

She had so many complaints but the one that annoyed me the most ( and she has annoyed me over the entire season) was that her name has been pronounced wrong....I guess the "k" is supposed to have a special twist to it.

Not sorry to see the queen gone.

What I like about this episode was the fact that it showed the extremely tight bond between all the contestants. Also, Prajjie is funny as hell, I LOVED his one liners:

"I LOVE the goddamn Golden Girls!"

"Bishme, why are you over there looking like you just missed your bus? And it was the last one running?"

I also enjoyed seeing them relax and roast each other while getting drunk after working that day.

This group also seems more prone to helping each other (ie: Korto giving Brittany some of her vinyl to help her outfit). Also, Laurant's model is AMAZING; she sold an already terrific look with her walk and poise. She and Mimi are the best models on the show. It's getting to the point where it's extremely hard to see anyone go home, and it's going to get harder as the weeks go by. I pretty much liked everyone's output this week, but at this point it's the small details that are tripping people up, and in some cases is amounting to personal taste; while I loved Prajjie's look, the judges were less than thrilled. I also liked Kortos (especially the billowy pants) but that brocade killed it. I was on the fence about Rami's, Bishme's was "just okay" and after looking at it for a while I really liked Brittanys design; the top two were well-deserved. Korto confronting the judges about their wishy washy judgement might have been a lot but in a way I don't blame her; they are wildly inconsistent, and another thing I took in consideration is the fact that even though we're watching the challenges on a weekly basis they are doing challenges back to back with only a day long break like every other week. No one's getting sleep, everyone is tired, and if you already have an extremely low tolerance for BS, well...i understand. I've also noticed that there's people that really don't like it when certain people are outspoken, and quite frankly so much discourse about Korto veers into "she's uppity" territory, which for many reasons is extremely offputting. I did think it was very nice that she told the other designers at the end to go for it and that working with them was the prize in itself. The aftershow with Christian was also interesting.

I can understand why Korto wanted to say what she said.  I just felt that anyone saying something like that to the judges who are about to decide who's going home....well, it just might not be the wisest choice when you're at the point where the smallest thing might tip the scales in someone else's favor.  But maybe she was just too tired or discouraged or whatever at that moment to care anymore.  She did mention at the top of the episode that she was hit hard by Kara Saun leaving as she felt KS was the one who was always supporting everyone else etc., so maybe that dampened her mood.  I don't know.  I just recall Korto seeming happier somehow with being on the show in previous seasons.  I would imagine it's hard for anyone who's at all competitive by nature to keep coming back multiple times and still not winning.  I also didn't particularly like the outfit she created this time out, but I have liked other things she's made this season and on previous seasons.  The brocade just didn't help the design of those pants at all.  In fact, it kind of made it hard to see the details of the pants, which also completely overwhelmed the jacket. It felt like both Bishme and Korto had interesting ideas that they just didn't bring to fruition.  Actually, I felt the same way about Prajje's orgami technique.  The idea itself was really cool, but it wasn't all that edgy.  It made sense to me that he and Rami basically both fell in the middle--not top two, but not bottom two either, Rami being the odd one out in the top three and Prajje being the first one called safe in the bottom three.

I thought Brittany's use of floor length, long sleeved, and high neck see- through fabric to illustrate modest was very clever.

I did laugh when I noticed that elaine was wearing a cross wrapped white top similar to the Prajje/Brittany issue. Wonder if that was intentional.

One of the things I noticed about Laurence is no matter what model she gets the clothes are tailored to the gods, and fits fantastically. She makes it look effortless, which is a gift.

NGL, I was disappointed in Rami because he can do so much better than that; I think the lack of sleep and doing challenges back to back is getting to them all. Still, I'm glad he and Prajjie were safe.

What the top and bottom looks get is a critique. Safe looks not at all. It is only fair this close to the end that everybody hears what the judges liked or didn't like.... ...so maybe that was why all 6 were either top or bottom. I agree that it was pretty much 2-2-2 although Rami's looks was much more successful than Prajje's in illustrating their words. I preferred that Rami do what he did, rather than some grotesquely oversized sleeve.

I don't think there was actually a problem with mispronouncing it this season. When she talked about it on the most recent episode, she was talking about how she used to not stand up for herself and didn't push it when people would mispronounce her name, but now she has a strong sense of self and stands up for herself in situations like that--something along those lines. I don't remember her saying anything about the K pronunciation. I thought it was more the distinction you mentioned.