sammi says

"The Project Runway All-Star Challenge," "Project Runway Season 6," and the brand new "Models of the Runway" aired on their new network, Lifetime, last night. Needless to say I was sucked in for all 3 1/2 hours. You probably shouldn't continue reading if you haven't watched the show yet or if you have never watched the show and don't give a crap what happened for that matter. Should you wish to review the designs with me go to Project Runway and click on the designer for their piece. Anywho, Let's start with the All-Star Challenge...

I was pretty pleased with the people they chose to bring back. I loved Chris, Mychael, Uli, Jeffrey and Sweet P during their individual seasons. Notice that all of these people were from Season 3 and 4, which happen to be the only seasons of the show I've watched religiously. Everyone else I really didn't care too much about. Santino annoyed me by his cockiness, but I gave him a pass because I figured he was an amazing designer but it turns out his pieces were awful.
I love, love, loved Uli in this challenge. During her season I did like a lot of her designs but the wild print maxi dress design got completely stale. During this challenge she went a different direction and I would wear any one of her pieces. Not to mention the fact that her models flaked and she had to fit her clothes on herself.

The final four came down to Chris, Korto, Sweet P and Daniel. I really can't believe Sweet P and Chris's pieces made it. I was shocked by how much the judges loved Chris's outfits. I thought they all looked so similar and absolutely drab. His red-carpet dress was probably one of my least favorite designs of the whole show. I may have liked it better had he chosen to use some color. Sweet P's dresses were ok, certainly not my style but eh, whatever. I loved Korto's designs minus the stomach-showing vest/pantsuit outfit. When it came down to the final two between her and Daniel I knew Daniel had won because a. His designs were more innovative and cohesive as a collection and b. the editors made too much of a point about the fact that Korto came in second during her season and how she needed to win as validation, blah blah blah. And let me tell you, Korto was pissed when she lost!!! The judges went crazy over Daniel's red carpet dress and I agree with them...It was gorgeous and fit perfectly into the rest of his collection.

Ok, now on to the season 6 premiere. We got to meet all the new designers and wow, it sure felt like there was a lot of them. I hate when there's so many people and I don't who everyone is and so little time is spent on each designer. Here are some of my highlights...Johnny, the former meth addict, can you say baby?! Ok, I'm being totally insensitive but was his mental breakdown really necessary for his first design? Thank God Tim Gunn was there to talk him off the ledge. Speaking of his design, I thought the finished product was hideous. It looked like what Denise Richards would wear on "Dancing with the Stars." Malvin, the androgynous Asian with crazy hair, made me miss Christian Siriano! Ra'mon, former neuro-surgeon student, his parents must be pissed!!

On to the judging...The challenge was design a dress for any red-carpet ie. Oscars, Emmy's, Grammy's, VMA's etc...Dresses I loved- Althea, Carol Hannah, Gordana, Irina, Ra'mon, and I totally agreed with Chris's win. The worst dresses- Ari, Johnny, Mitchell, Qristal and Louise. When it came down to Ari and Mitchell's designs being the worst I felt like the judging went a little awry. While I think that Ari is a total space cadet who bears a striking resemblence to guest judge, Lindsay Lohan's, girlfriend Samantha Ronson who designed a horrible garment, I think that it was wrong for her to get eliminated when she had a finished garment. Mitchell draped some shear fabric over his model and sent her down the runway. As for Lindsay's judging, I actually thought she seemed pretty well spoken, well, by Lindsay Lohan standards anyway.

And finally, "Models of the Runway." Maybe it's because it's a new show and it was the first episode, but as of right now, this show is completely useless. I do appreciate the insight of the models that get picked but I feel like they could squeeze it into the existing show. After an hour of "Project Runway," I don't know that I want to sit around for another 30 minutes watching Heidi pull buttons out of a bag and the designers picking their models.