Project Runway Week 1 - Recap

Hope you enjoyed Project Runway this week. Here's the episode recaplet from Television Without Pity in case you missed the episode:

This season, PR bids adieu to Bravo, home of such gems as Real Housewives of Some Place You'd Rather Die than Go if that's what People are Like There, and bonjour to Lifetime, home of television actually watched by actual housewives while they iron the actual clothes of their actual children.

There are too many designers, and taking a page from Jeff's first recaplet of last season, all I can do is break them down into the following categories:

Possibly talented: Shrin (yeah, it's Farsi?). Ra'mon. Althea. Irina. Nicolas. Louise. Logan. Malvin.

Maaaaaybe talented but probably not up to it: Mitchell. Johnny (ridiculous). Carol Hannah. Epperson. Gordana. Christopher (never heard of smocking).

Sadly deluded: Ari (she doesn't sketch). Qristyl (with a "Q").

Obvious drama queens: Too many to list.

The first challenge is very exciting. Because they are in Los Angeles, Tim Gunn delightedly tells them that they will be designing a look for the red carpet. They are each given measurements for their assigned models, commanded to sketch, and shuttled off to shop with their budget of $200.

This one dude, Johnny, a former meth addict who has tried out for this show three times, actually cries from the pressure. On Tim Gunn. It hurt me to watch it. Their results are mixed to say the least. Ultimately, Ari goes home first.

BUT FORGET ALL THAT, BECAUSE LINDSAY LOHAN IS A GUEST JUDGE.

You can check out all the looks at Give Me My Remote. SL had this week's winning designer Christopher Straub:

DS had this week's losing designer Ari Fish. Ari's red carpet design:

Here's what the judges and Ari had to say:

Nina: "Ari... WHAT red carpet is she walking?" (snarky grin punctuates question)
Ari: "The VMA's like 2080. Then I want her to go accept her Nobel Peace Prize on the same night. I mean, it sounds really wild but that was the kind of aesthetic I was going for."
Kors: "She looks like a disco soccer ball... If you want to be that avant-garde, you still have to find some beauty in the oddity."
Ari: "Yeah."
Nina: "It's a little out there."
Ari: "It is out there, I know... but I love it though..."
Lindsay: "...But the person wearing it has to love it more... Gotta make sure someone is gonna buy it."

So we say auf wiedersehen to Ari and DS this week. Good luck next week!