Project Runway Episode 11: Rock the Vote

This week:

Suede has lost his charm. The models get all mixed up and I can’t deal with the way he takes things personally. The designers are all designing for each other in this week’s challenge. Their inspiration is supposed to be a musical genre. Kenley’s genre is pop, Suede’s genre is punk, Korto is country, Jerell is rock n’ roll, and Leanne is hip hop,. Korto is designing for Suede, Kenley is designing for Leanne, Suede is designing for Jerell, Jerell is designing for Kenley, and Leanne is designing for Korto. Confused? Yeah, me too. But everyone seems stressed and tired and annoyed with everyone else, so I’m pretty sure this is going to be a good challenge. The black contestants are getting a huge kick out of watching Kenley attempt to do a hip hop look. Richard from Gawker managed to sum up Kenley in a way so brilliant I had to use it here:

Do you remember that girl you knew in college who was fashionable in this timid, darting way. Who things never seemed to go quite right for until they really did and there was something so smug and self-satisfied about her success. And then you’d see her at parties or in the dining hall and she was always talking to boys, only boys, perhaps one out-of-her-league fellow in particular, in this cloying and sad and infuriating way. She would get a little too sloppy at parties and quietly profess her sad love for this boy—who probably played club lacrosse or rowed crew and had some family money and was kind but aloof to her—and she would glare at any girl in a shrill passive aggressive way if she felt encroached upon. That girl was someone you felt bad for, sure, but mostly you couldn’t stand her. Because she was a poor representative of Women, the kind of deliberately damaged goods (I don’t mean mental imbalance—I mean put-on modesty wrapped in over-confidence swathed in self-righteous anger) who made boys thinks that “chicks are crazy, man.” That is Kenley. And that’s all I’ll say about her.

Kenley’s lack of respect freaked out Tim, who called her out on it. I kind of wish Stella was still in the mix, cause she would have turned this challenge out. Poor Kenley keeps piling on accessories, asking Jerell if it’s hip hop, and he keeps nodding like an idiot, trying to sabotage it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she goes home for it.

The runway! With special guest judge LL Cool J

1. Leanne- (model Korto, look country) purple vest with black ankle length skirt with fringe detail and checkered cravat

2. Jerell- (model Kenley, look pop) black minidress with cutouts and webbing, sequined bra, shrunken fur vest

3. Kenley- (model Leanne, look hip hop) high-waisted jeans with shrunken black jacket and floral shirt

4. Korto- (model Suede, look punk) bleach-splattered jeans and shoes, black tank, chain accessories

5. Suede- (model Jerell, look rock) black leather vest, black shrunken jeans, torn ad painted tank

Kenley is blaming Leanne right off the bat for making her hip hop look poserish. Suede’s outfit for Jerell looked too understated. LL said she didn’t look like part of the culture, and Kenley got super defensive and shouted that she didn’t want to make her look like a fool, and poor LL was tripping over himself to apologize. Gosh, I love him so much. And speaking of sexy, why don’t we just award Korto the “Best Ass in Television” award? Cause it’s OUTSTANDING.

The winner is Korto, for her punk-inspired outfit, and the loser was Suede. I figured it was Kenley and her mouth. Guess I was way off.

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