5 stars
An artistic, clever reality show. Imagine that!
January 7, 2008
Project Runway is a must-see for any budding artist, designer, or even model! Every single element of this show is thought through and shown, revealing the intelligent, creative sides of real-life designing(not like other reality shows that focus on the drama). With direct, scholarly judges, fun yet intresting challenges, and a vast array of talented designers, this show makes fashion your life for an hour a week. The models get pulled into the action, too. The winning model gets a fabulous prize, too, and watching the designers choose their models is very suspenseful. The camera reveals the designers in the morning(complete with bed-head and minimal pajamas), their frantic sketching, the final walk down the runway, everything! The designers reveal their inner thoughts about both their and others' designs, time is crunched, arguments start, egos inflate; but in the end, this show focuses only on what we all look forward to: the fashion.
This show doesn't use voting or polls or anything that focuses on a fan-base to determine who is in and who is out , just the raw talent of the designers. After all the models have finished their struts down the runway, there is a quick q-and-a session where models, judges, and designers get involved. After this, we watch the judges private talk and the best and worst are determined. This probably has to be my favorite part about the show. Project Runway is no attention-desperate American Idol, where talent is only determined by untrained masses(no offense, I love the untrained masses myself). Project Runway has professionals in the fashion world giving their brutal, honest, and authoritative opinion of the designer's work, which is not affected by how much training they had beforehand but by how hard they worked, how strong their vision was, how well they managed their time, how much taste they had, and how they spent the amount of money they were given. These are skills we'll all need at some point in life, and what better way to learn them than through the culture and lifestyle that is fashion?