Project Runway’s Diane Von Furstenberg Challenge

Last night’s Project Runway winner was Leanne. She managed to beat out her competition two weeks in a row. Congratulations to Leanne! Her design was flawless and it captured everything Diane was looking for and more. There was not one criticism from this week’s Project Runway judges.

This week’s Project Runway challenge was to create a look for Diane Von Furstenberg’s fall collection. Needless to say working for a fashion icon like Diane Von Furstenberg will be one of the highlights this season. To take a look at Diane Von Furstenberg’s 2008 fall collection featured on last night’s Project Runway episode click here.

Okay let’s get back to Project Runway.

I wasn’t impressed with Jerell’s design last night. It looked very similar to the design he did for the Project Runway Saturn Vue Hybrid Challenge. Last week he made an outfit out of Saturn Vue auto parts. And this week he was privy to some of the best fabrics used in Diane Von Furstenberg’s fall line, so why didn’t we see a huge improvement? Riddle me that.

Let’s move on to Joe. What was he thinking? If you recall he thought this was one of his best designs and it was going to show who he really was as a designer. If that was the crème de la crème I felt he lost a lot of potential clients last night.

Right now Suede is in la la land. He needs to regroup, get focused and get it right. I can easily see his head on the chopping block soon.

I would like to give an honorable mention to Korto once again. If she’s not the Project Runway winner of the week she’s at least in the top three. I would love to see her line come down the runway at Bryant Park.

And this week we had to say good bye to my old girl Stella. What will I do without at least one leather based design on the runway every week? I will miss her she certainly added some New York flavor to the commentary. Did you hear her talk about Rachel Zoe and how Tim Gunn tried to cover it up? I thought that was amusing.

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TNT’s Raising the Bar Premiere Falls Short

I was horribly disappointed in last night’s TNT series premiere of Raising the bar.

When you hear a name like Steven Bochco immediately you remember shows like Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue. These were top notch television series Emmy nominated and award winning with phenomenal writers and talented actors. These series have created some of the most memorable characters in television history.

Steven Bochco is to television like Steven Spielberg is to movies. So when you hear that Stephen Bochco is producing another series on TNT it instantly grabs your attention.

To my dismay TNT’s Raising the Bar didn’t live up to any of its predecessors. The commercial previews of Raising the Bar were more interesting that the show in its entirety.

I have enjoyed Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s performance in the hit series NYPD Blue and the same goes for Gloria Reuben’s performance in E.R. But in TNT’s Raising the Bar the performances fell flat, with subpar writing, bad direction and a poor supporting cast.

I wanted to like the show. I love a good courtroom drama. TNT’s Raising the Bar just wasn’t it.

Jane Kaczmarek’s character was unbelievable. I know they wanted her to be the “Queen Bee” of Raising the Bar but her character just came off as rather cartoonish.

Apparently, the writers wanted last night’s episode to be heart wrenching but they didn’t introduce the characters long enough for you to care about them.

I have to admit that some series premieres have fallen short but have improved over time. However, time is extremely valuable and unfortunately I won’t be giving TNT’s Raising the bar any more of mine.

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Project Runway’s Saturn Vue Hybrid Challenge

I usually like to get my re-caps of Project Runway out either the night an episode airs or at least the very next day. However, due to some unfortunate circumstances I wasn’t able to. But I felt that this challenge was one of the key challenges that Project Runway has and definitely needed to be commented on.

In a brief recap of last week’s episode, Kenley said that she was going to miss Daniel because he was the closest person to her. But wasn’t she the one laughing at Daniel on the runway when he was going on and on about his very high level of taste?

This week’s challenge was to create an outfit using Saturn Vue Auto parts. Innovation was the prime ingredient for this week’s challenge. You could tell by the roll of Stella’s eyes that she was not impressed by this challenge.

My favorite quote of the week came from Jerell when he was referring to fellow designer Terri. He said, “She has two faces count them one, two. Two faces and four patterns don’t trust the bitch!”

Stella tried something outside of the box and it didn’t work for her. And Keith came off as a whiner on the runway.

The Project Runway judges were highly impressed with Korto’s design emphasizing that it was so sleek and elegant.

Jerell, Leanne, and Korto’s outfits were magnificent; they outdid themselves. It’s remarkable that the designs were used from materials of an automobile and these outfits were ready to wear.

This week’s winner was Leanne and they had to say Auf wiedersehen to Keith.

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