Every Thursday night I make time for Project Runway, a show on Lifetime. This show is a hoot! Designers and wanna be designers (I think the show started out with about 16 this season) come to Parson's School of Design and each week face a new challenge--like making an outfit with materials bought at a party store. Or this week, making an outfit to match the outrageous hats of a famous hat designer.

Model Heidi Klum, designer Michael Kors, and Nina Garcia from Marie Claire magazine are the judges. The first week a designer named Casanova made an outfit using a scarf, attached to other scarves on the bottom. The model came down the runway and the judges were frowning at Casanova's design--then the model turned and she was naked from her neck down to her butt crack. Judge Kors said "She looks like a transvestite flamenco dancer at a funeral!"

He said of another designer's creation "It looks like a pinata exploded!" And of another design, he said "It looks like Mad Max--Mel Gibson on the top; Tina Turner on the bottom!"
Oh what can I say--it is a fun show. And if you hear these buzz words at the Academy Awards or other Hollywood shows : "Her gown looked like a Project Runway reject" then you know that outfit was pretty darn bad!

susil