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Project Runway Season 5 Final Three Chosen Tonight
December 19, 2011 | 
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There were four designers left on Project Runway and we finally found out who the final three are. The Judges chose, Leanne, Kenly and Korto for the Project Runway season finale. Let’s find out how the Project Runway judges came to this decision.
Now, last week the judges couldn’t narrow it down to just three. So the remaining designers were given the opportunity to go home and create a collection with 10 looks.
On tonight’s Project Runway pre-finale the designers received one more challenge. The challenge was to create a wedding dress inspired by their collections and that reflects them as designers.
After the designers are home for at least a month or more Tim Gunn makes his first visit to Korto in Little Rock, Arkansas in which she plays the drums for him.
Tim visits Leanne in Portland, Oregon where the highlight of their visit was a bike ride. Out in Los Angeles Tim takes a look at Jerell’s collection and has many thoughts about it. Finally, he visits Kenly in Brooklyn, NY.
The designers return to New York for their last Project Runway catwalk. But there is one last twist in this Project Runway challenge. The designers must now design a bridesmaid dress to accompany their wedding dress. After that is completed they will present their wedding dress and bridesmaid dress to the Project Runway judges.
Here are some snippets of this week’s Project Runway judge’s comments. They felt Leanne’s dress was so sheik and beautifully crafted. It was modern, dreamy and romantic. Fantastic job.
Jerell’s design was garish and overwrought times 20,000. Nina felt the choice of the grey fabric for the bridesmaids dress looked dirty. Michael felt like the bride had a flower pot growing out of her head. The Project Runway judges agreed that Jerell went hog wild with the wedding dress and that he didn’t put any thought into bridesmaids dress.
Kenly’s wedding dress was very similar to Alexander McQueen’s dress. But it was done beautifully. Michael Kors said that her bridesmaids dress was the cutest damn bridesmaid dress he ever seen. Heidi said it was crazy-good.
Korto’s wedding dress was overworked whereas her bridesmaids dress was underworked. The Project Runway judges felt that it didn’t even look like it was a match for the wedding dress. To top it off Heidi said that if she were a bride she wouldn’t want to wear the dress.
Tonight’s text vote question was who shouldn’t go to Bryant Park. And Kenly was the winner by at least 50%. I thought that was ridiculous. Yes Kenly’s attitude needs work, but her designs this week definitely earned her a spot in the Project Runway final three.
In tonight’s Project Runway episode there wasn’t a clear cut winner just those who were moving on to Bryant Park. However, we had to say good bye to Jerell. And I wish him the best of luck.
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Project Podcast: Tim Gunn’s Podcast for the “Iconic Statement” challenge on Project Runway
Season Three of Project Runway has brought about a new and exciting feature from Bravo.
If you are a Project Runway fan, go to Bravotv.com and check out Tim Gunn’s new podcast. Tim Gunn is the well-dressed and sophisticated Chair of Fashion Design at the New School of Parsons School of Fashion Design. Having served as the mentor for three seasons of Bravo’s most popular television show, Gunn uses a gentle but firm manner to deliver his expertise to the designers who are competing to win the show. Project Runway viewers have given Tim an Idol status – revering him for his popular catch-phrases “Make it Work” and “Carry On”. Both of Tim’s expressions encourage the designers to keep working without becoming disabled from fatigue or crippling self-doubt.
Project Runway viewers are embracing Tim Gunn’s written blog and recorded podcast, both of which appear on BravoTV at the close of each episode. This extra serving of Gunn’s analysis of each designer’s work is delivered with wry-wit and genuine compassion for the designer. However, Gunn does not hold back from telling it like it is, and his podcasts are often filled with snarky remarks, verbal eye-rolling and occasionally blatant “bitchslaps” – another of Tim Gunn’s popular expressions.
For the August 9th, 2006 installment of Runway, Gunn speaks of the challenge called ‘Iconic Statement” in which each designer was required to develop a modern look for a particular American fashion icon. Instead of the designers choosing their favorite icons, in true Project Runway style the models were given the rare opportunity to do the choosing for the designers. In the podcast, Tim describes the scene in which the models are jumping on the pictures of the icons (each icon was represented by a photo of themselves, and whoever was in possession of that icon got to design the new look) as a “feeding frenzy” but declares the selection process a success. In Gunn’s words the pairings between designer and icon were “remarkable”. How much better does it get than Kayne, the Southern pageant gown designer and lover of all things glitter, being able to design for a modern day Marilyn Monroe? Other fitting parings included Michael the African American hip hop designer from Atlanta taking on Pam Grier, and Laura the ever-polished and often snooty designer from NYC dressing Katherine Hepburn. Young and cute Allison was paired with Farrah Fawcett, another promising combination.
After sketching, shopping, pattern-making and cutting, each model walked the runway in the creation of each designer. Tim Gunn tells us in his podcast that he has a strong suspicion of who was going to be voted out as they were preparing to hit the runway. He predicted that the bottom spot would either go to Bradley, who was forced into designing For Cher. Most of the designers would have been thrilled to take on that challenge. As Gunn said “Cher is the ultimate chameleon so anything goes!” Incredulous, Gunn says that Bradley didn’t know who Cher was. In his usual flamboyant podcast style Gunn exclaims “What self-respecting gay male doesn’t know who Cher is?” In the end, however, Gunn tells us that he was “thrilled” when Michael won. In fact, he goes so far to say that he doesn’t have “adequate words” to express how fantastic Michael Knight is as a designer. He says that Michael’s design for a modern day Foxy Brown was truly “electrifying” and that Michael deserved to win the challenge. Michael Knight from Atlanta will have his design featured in a Tresemme Hair Products advertisement in Elle Magazine come Fall of 2006.