Project Runway is back!

Without much fanfair this year – usually they’re shoving PR down our throats for weeks, but this time, it was a little understated. Maybe they’re out of ideas. Or maybe, they’re a bit pissy about the whole moving to Lifetime thing. Who can tell? Either way – either you’re in, or you’re out!

16 new designers this year, and they’re a properly freakish bunch with overinflated ideas about how fantastic they are. It’s gonna be a great year! Hahah! They revisit a challenge from the very first season, and the always lovely Austin Scarlett is there to guest judge – assuming he can see through all his makeup. They go shopping in a grocery store, and I’m all excited about some inovative stuff but… they lack serious vision as far too many grab the table cloths. BORING. Tim Gunn tells them how disappointed he is, and I cheer. Of course, Tim Gunn walks into a room and I cheer, but whatever.

So Stella makes a garbage bag dress, piecing it together at the last minute while bemoaning how she’s going home (…confident much?) and Blayne pieces together a very odd and kind of scary looking bathing suit of oven mitts and things, and Jerry Tam makes a rain coat – an UGLY raincoat – out of a shower curtain.

Korto saves her table cloth with some produce neckline, Daniel makes a completely awesomely fitted dress out of pastic cups, and Kelli rocks a cute and creatively dyed dress of vacuum bags and coffee filters – Kelli come out on top, and Jerry is sent packing with his fugly coat.

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