Creator: Eli Holzman
Genre: Reality, Competition, Fashion
Rating: B
I really enjoyed the designers on the 10th regular season of Project Runway, even if I also absolutely hated some of them. If you're not familiar with the show, the series takes a group of aspiring designers (this year 16), puts them through a series of tasks (this year 12), eliminating designers along the way. At the end of it all, the top designers are given the opportunity to create a collection for Fashion Week with the best collection winning and presumably pushing forward the careers of the winning designer. Along the way there are a vast number of celebrity guests judges, ranging from people in the fashion industry, to famous business owners, to actors and singers.
This year's guests judges included Lauren Graham, Krysten Ritter, Hayden Panettiere, Debra Messing, Hilary Duff, Zoe Saldana, and Jennifer Hudson. The thing that I really like about this show is that the guest judges are more than just random celebrities come to promote their newest project; they're usually people who are somehow involved in the fashion industry, if only because they have an interest in clothes, and the tasks that they judge on are often somehow tied to their personal life. As such, they're not typically sitting there gushing about how awesome the designers are; often they can be as critical and harsh as the regular judges.
The designers this season were not all really good designers, nor would I say they were all necessarily sane. The first few episodes of this show is always about weeding out the weak, and I was really happy to see that the designers who I thought were the weakest overall were weeded out fairly quickly. Sure there were a few whose personalities I liked, but you could tell that they weren't as strong as some of the others. Granted, there were a few designers who carried on whose personalities I didn't like, but I did have to admit that they were skilled.
That's actually exactly how I felt about this season's winner. I really didn't like the person, I hated their attitude although I didn't mind their aesthetic. I understood why they won, and when it came down to it I have to admit that they did present the best (and most cohesive) show, even if going into the finale I had listed who I wanted to win most in order, and the person who won was at the bottom of that list. Actually, my list ended up being the exact opposite of how the results went down, but I admit I know nothing about fashion and had based that list entirely on who I liked as a person most. While I wasn't a fan, the right person probably won, which doesn't often happen in reality tv shows.
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