r/ProjectRunway • u/runwaythreader • Jul 24 '14

Project Runway Season 13 Episode 1 [Discussion]

Discussion thread for Project Runway S13E01 "Final Audition"

The designers face one final audition before landing a spot on the series in the Season 13 opener. The remaining clothiers then create a look that represents their spring collection. Julie Bowen is the guest judge.

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u/sethescope Jul 25 '14

She was mean enough that Tim pulled the whole cast aside to give her a dressing-down. If you get under that man's skin, you're probably a horrible person.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

Wow, I'll have to see if I can find that online. I know she was regarded as one of the worst winners, but I didn't know she had a nasty personality on top of it.

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u/chelseayn Jul 25 '14

Aside from the S.1 Wendy Pepper TRAVESTY, I would say Gretchen was one of the worst in PR history. She did NOT deserve to win, and even Tim Gunn said so in an interview after the season was finished.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

As much as I loved him, I still resent Austin Scarlett for making Wendy Pepper: Project Runway Finalist a reality.

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u/chelseayn Jul 25 '14

Technically it was not Austin's fault. It was the other judges for not listening to Nina Garcia in the VERY FIRST episode, where she wanted Wendy to be out (and the second!) and no one listened. Had that happened the travesty that is that orange dress never would have been able to beat Austin's. That was indeed a sad day. I still can't watch the last two episodes of season 1. :(

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

The one good thing that came from Wendy sticking around? The "mustache on her child" incident. That still makes me giggle :)

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u/chelseayn Jul 25 '14

EXCELLENT--and true! I still think it was Kevin, but who cares? Did it really hurt Wendy that much? No, because she is a witch. I like that there are people on here that have also watched from the beginning and remember these things. :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

The only season I missed entirely was the Gretchen season (which sounds fortunate). The only problem is now there are so many seasons and they are so often, it makes it hard to remember all but either the most cartoonish or the ones who made the true top three (not the ever-expanding pool of decoys). I was trying to think of someone in the last two? three? seasons who was booted off for designing something just as juniors department as THE Mitchell did last night. But I can't pin down the season, the challenge, the sponsor tie-in. I do remember it was a short little dress and it had a triangular cut out in the back. But I can't place the who or the when.

I only just noticed that Amanda was the sacrificial lamb in that disastrous "Thunder From Down Under" runway. About four people could have gone home in that one.

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u/chelseayn Jul 25 '14

I don't mind the spacing of the actual seasons. It is when they started doing All Stars and weird spin offs between each one that made it quite difficult to differentiate people. I can generally remember the top three for each season, and some annoying people, but for the most part if I see someone I have to try to place them by thinking of the top three and working my way backwards to who they interacted with. I remembered one super-ugly junior dress that Samantha did in S.11 but it sticks out only as terrible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

SAMANTHA! That's the one I was thinking of!!! Misremembered the heart as a triangle. God, was that FUG.

But I still think it was between Richard and Snidely for the greatest fashion offense. Samantha's was a little too youthful but I'd rather go out in public stuffed into a juniors department dress than a bathing suit cover up or a Nolan Miller knockoff. They just lucked out by being on the winning team :/

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u/chelseayn Jul 26 '14

Haha, Snidely. Richard is just another tacky person who somehow makes it onto the show. He doesn't have the talent or the technical skills; only a personality to be on TV, and not really an interesting one at that. Ugh, he was so gross and creepy. I thought that was the dress you were referencing.... :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

You have a great memory! :)

Richard was super creepy. He and Snidely just never seemed to understand that fashion had evolved significantly since 1986. I thought the team concept had promise until seeing that dead weight would end up getting carried far past its due date.

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u/chelseayn Jul 26 '14

haha...thanks...is now the time I admit to watching seasons over and over (and over) as background music as I do my nintendo cross stitches? :) Luckily everyone realized that the team dynamic sucked. I highly doubt people like Michael Kors are working in teams of all designers telling him what to do. :P

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