It’s week three of Project Runway Australia and here’s our weekly TV blog post about it. There will be spoilers, so if you haven’t watched it yet – don’t read any further.
Week three of Project Runway Australia held such promise, it was going to be one of those challenges where they make a dress out of potato chips or bicycles tyre tubes – usually these are the best episodes but this one seemed to fall a bit flat.
So the challenge was to make a dress out of old second hand clothes, a giant truck load of them were dumped creating a small mountain. Each designer filled three bags full of material and then it a (not at all surprising) surprise they had to switch bags with another designer.
Claire was the winner with her punched leather outfit, Rachael must have come close to winning with her trench coat that was transformed into a skirt, Dylan kept up his quality with something sleek and leather, Johnny did something pretty and white, Craig made a dubious khaki top and pants, Gabrielle went all furry, while Nerida’s design looked a little like extra large napkin elaborately folded.
The bottom three were Anna with a bobble skirt that was described as if it looked like her model had slept in it, Timothy with his Sex in the City inspired jacket and shorts combo which had one short leg and another even shorter leg, and Matcho with a monstrous red and pink sculpture.
Matcho survived – which is good because hopefully there will be a challenge in the future with outrageous materials that he will be perfect for. Anna was kicked out for playing it safe and Timothy too for making dated horrendous clothes two weeks in a row.
Timothy’s parting comment to the other designers that its better he leaves now because ‘he didn’t really want to win anyway’ really summed up why he was the villain of the show up until this point. Now he’s gone who will they all bitch about? I’m predicting Nerida will step up.
So three weeks in, four designers out and 75% of them were from Perth, what does this say about the state of fashion on the west coast?
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Graeme Watson
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