TV Recap: Project Runway - Season Five, Episode Eleven - Page 4

Inside Parsons’ workroom, Tim dutifully enters and informs them all they have an hour before heading to hair and makeup. Leanne fits some pants onto Korto while Jerell vlogs about Korto’s “junk in the trunk” possibly being a challenge. Suede has no such problem with skinny, skinny Jerell. Suede vlogs that despite what Tim thought, he thinks “the judges will love it.” Kenley loves her Wal Mart-ish pants on Leanne. She says the judges will not notice the “bunching in the crotch.” Jerell thinks what Leanne is wearing is child size and “ridiculous.” It does look as if a child got into their mother’s closet for dress-up. Circa 1960. “Hip hop. Right, Jerell?” Kenley asks, holding up huge gold earrings. “Mm-hm!” he says, obviously sarcastic. Strange Kenley didn’t recognise it as such. Korto merely smiles.

In hair and makeup, we hear “Brady meets Pussycat Dolls,” “Halloween” and “channeling Lenny Kravitz.” It’s fun seeing the designers all ‘dressed up’ in their costumes, and the hairstyles are hilarious. Tim enters and can’t help laughing. “I’ve forgotten why I’m here!” he quips, momentarily thrown by the sight. “It’s not going to be dull!” he says, as he exits. Kenley vlogs that she will win. “I nailed it!” she brags. Jerell vlogs that “Kenley Spears would be rocking this (design) at Madison Square Garden. And then, probably kicking her panties off and falling asleep in the back of a limousine.” His design does look amazing on Miss Snarky. “I should probably win again,” he boasts.

Tim returns and says it’s time. “This will be the most unique show Project Runway has ever seen on that runway,” he announces. It just might. I believe it was in season three the designers had one another as clients, but it wasn’t quite like this. Now they are all rock stars after a fashion. Heidi appears on the runway and faces the judges’ panel. There is no other audience, since the designers are also the models this episode. Heidi welcomes hip hop star LL Cool J as guest judge. He and Michael Kors are both dressed in black from head to toe, but LL somehow makes it much cooler. Nina Garcia wears a beige sleeveless top with a diagonal bodice, and a dark brown mini skirt. Heidi is, once again, all in black. Heidi’s hair is styled loosely and she seems very relaxed. There is an air of anticipation and humor as the judges wait.

Country Korto is out first. Country music twangs as she does a country western walk down the runway. She wears a dark, maxi-length skirt, a gold belt, a purple sleeveless top and a black and white checked neckerchief. Her hair is gathered up atop her head with tendrils hanging down. The long skirt appears to have a small slit and pleating at the bottom as well as a bit of dark fringe. “She definitely sold it,” Leanne approves in her voiceover. Korto even gives a little dip and nearly winks as she leaves the runway. Very sporting of her. After all she is modeling a competitor’s design.

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