Tonight it is with trepidation and not a little guilt that I will sit down and watch Project Runway. Trepidation because of last week's disaster and guilt that I am not strong enough to give it the heave-ho from my schedule. Alison was a designer I could be loyal to, like Daniel V. and Chloe, and now, no matter how talented some of the rest might be, I don't really feel loyalty to any of them. But, I do like sewing.
The good news is that I've learned from Andy's Blog that Alison is showing on her own at Fashion Week in September. That does my heart good and I hope she is wildly successful and that someday I might be able to afford an Alison creation.
An additional brouhaha comes in a more recent blog by Andy in which he posts a letter from Kathy Najimy, who was justifiably appalled by the comments made about Alison's model's size. Andy mentions that the area will be addressed again tonight, and I do look forward to that. If the show can put forth or instigate some earnest social discussion, I think I'll feel better.
In any event, I disagree with the ousting of Alison on the basis that the outfit made the model look big, or emphasized her size. She by no means looked fat, and I take umbrage to the idea that the judges were disgusted by her appearance in the outfit. I have seen outfits that are highly unflattering to a model, but personally (and I realize, subjectively) this was not one of them. It was art in a far better place than Vincent's.
And that is all I have to say about last week's PR.
2 comments:
Hoo...I had forgotten that Runway is on tonight. I guess this indicates how stressed out and distracted I am these days.
I look forward to viewing tonight's show (brandy in hand). It'll be intriguing to see if the editing and viewpoints are affected by last week's fallout. I don't actually know what the time delay is for this show -- was tonight's judging already done by the time last week's show was broadcast (and internetters everywhere went nuts?) I mean, does "buzz" about the show affect the judges, or just the producers and editors as they decide what will be broadcast in upcoming episodes? No clue, here.
--SECP
My understanding is that episodes are long over by the time they reach TV...in fact, I think all of the challenges are over in real time, and the designers would be working on collections or something. I say this because at the reunion shows the designers always talk about watching themselves on TV. I may be wrong, but I think the judges are reasonably free of buzz because of this.
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