6th Place: Kara Janx - Garden Party (39 votes)
7th place: Diana Eng - All Dolled Up (35 votes)
8th Place: Nick Verreos - Road to the Runway (34 votes)
9thPlace: Daniel Franco - Clothes Off Your Back (33 votes)
10th Place: Andrae Gonzalo - Social Scene (30 votes)The tallies for the Top 5: 1st Place Andrae Gonzalo Inspiration (108 votes); 2nd Place Daniel Vosovic Social Scene (65 votes); 3rd Place Nick Verreos All Dolled Up (63 votes); 4th Place Chloe Dao Clothes Off Your Back (45 votes); 5th Place Santino Rice (41 votes).
And finally credit where credit is due for this series. Madpawn at TwoP for coming up with the idea; The Scarlett for her outstanding graphic design and pictures; Rich at FourFour for the screencaps; Momma LK for editorial assistance and allowing us to play around in her backyard; and finally, all of you for participating in the poll and making BPR such a fun place to hang out. Thank You !
4 comments:
Thanks so much for your work on this TBone, it was really fun! There have been some wonderful designs this season.
Last year there was immunity the following week for the winner of each challenge. So, the theory is that the designers "tried harder to win" last year, and therefore created more outstanding designs. But I don't see that there is any difference in the quality of the garments overall. Do you?
Generally, I like the idea of immunity in the early stages of the season. That way, at the start we have fewer designers just creating "safe" designs and remaining in the middle of the pack. Who want to see "safe" designs in Project Runway? Not me.
I'd like to see every designer determined to win every challenge.
Then about halfway through, when presumably we have narrowed the field to the top designers - drop the immunity. With fewer competing, they will have a greater chance to shine anyway - and immunity gets really weird when there are only a few. We don't want anyone to feel complacent when there are only four or five left. That's when we really want to see excellence.
All of these designs are wonderful and there is such great variety. Thanks again TBone!
Laura, I understand the issue of immunity and how it gave the designers incentive to excel beyond the middle of the pack.
Personally, I'd like the see the winner of the first challenge given immunity, second challenge have their design worn by someone famous, third, immunity, fourth, produced by Banana Republic, fifth, immunity, sixth worn by someone famous and have the seventh competition be the final immunity.
Having just watched Season 1 for the second time, I have to say that there were clearly only 3 great designers obvious last year; this year, I'd say there were 6 or 7!
Thanks, Tbone for your great writing and the efforts in tabulating the results. Very well done.
This was great, the commentary just terrific and a lot of work went into it. Like Scarlett reflected, didn't it show that there was a greater number of designers with a lot of talent than last year-remember when we got to the end of season 1 and Robert was still there? I would to see the first episode be a two part challenge so that someone is not eliminated on one design alone. I think as the designers get more savvy (Season 3 designers should be examining the first 2 seasons and developing a strategy/design philosphy) they do need to mix it up a little. I would like to see the designers given more time for the challenges so we can see more of their point of view in the designs. If you are asking them to make a gown that will reflect their collection, can't you give them a few hours-even a day to think about it? How would they know they weren't going to be held to using that piece and measured against it? No wonder they were a little safe!! I'd rather have a designer as the guest judge on the final episode than a celebrity, also. I'd rather see Diane Von Furstenberg here than Debra Messing. And at some point, I'd love to see a runway show of all of the designs at that point-maybe when you get to the second to last challenge (taking it from 4 to the final 3).
That is what I meant-if you measure up Daniel and Chloe's designs for the full season against Santino's-or even Kara and Nick's-I think you should get their "point of view", no? And-do you think that when they get to the final 3, everything done during the season is not considered(I don't know, I am really asking that question)? And most of all-what am I going to do after Wednesday, LOL??
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