Project Runway 19 - EPISODE 1: "A Colourful Return"

Date for Entry: (Saturday 16th October 2021)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Tuesday 1st March 2022)

*Date and a Movie*

Dear Diary,

    Tonight, was the first episode of season nineteen for Project Runway. Being forced to go through the coronavirus pandemic and the town caused a super long pause on people around the world to wait for the series to come on television. Most likely it was to be aired in December 2019 as season eighteen. The designers were sent to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts at the beginning of the episode. Only Miss Kloss was not there for the whole episode 

    The theme for this challenge was colour. Each of the sixteen designers was split into two teams; the cool team working by night and the warm team working by day. They had to select a single colour based on their group type and create a cohesive look. Since purple is a colour that I like a lot in this current time of my life, I decided to side with the warm team. Surprisingly, this was also the winning team for the challenge.

    When Christian asked about the idea of the designs someone mentioned something about dinner and going out. I had to make sure to pay attention to what the other designers in the group did to make sure my idea might not go off. I also recall on the first day of two when the warm team lined up their designs in the last thirty minutes of working, the leader ‘Bone’ mentioned that everyone had some kind of trap work in their design. For me, the straps would be the waist piece to the center of the sketch and around the two arms with the fluffed detail. The detail was inserted from advice made by Shantall.

    Straps again would have been the handle part of the purse that the girl in my sketch had. ‘Bones’, Darren, and another contestant had a part of their design with some sort of textile to the back or the side as extra. I thought that if I added a scarf that it would help the cohesive part and it would match something like those three designers. The scarf detail was supposed to be a very light type of fabric as sheer so that the necklace can be seen as the upper chest is covered by the scarf.

    The earring patterns me from the shape of the neck part and coloured in blue as the eyes of the model wearing the garment. The lower end of the skirt was to be a short cohesive part for the cool team. However, they decided to go with bows instead which did not work out so well again. The contestant Sabrina was the inspiration behind this week’s design. Not being able to draw that well I continued to think of her in my mind and I tried to see how to dress her. Once she was dressed it became the look on the Bristol board sheet. Not everything was done as seen because of difficulty in trying to get the image of the mind to paper. I am still very glad that this came out well as a first for the first episode.

    The guest judge for this week was Mr. Jason Wu. Another person that I do not know but I was glad that he too was able to make a nice contribution to my list of advice and important words section of the chapter. For the first episode, in particular, there were fewer of these than from the last season but I look forward to collecting them.

    The first designer to leave was Caycee Black. She reminded me of Veronica a bit from season eighteen and how sad it was to see her leave so early in the game. In the same comparison perspective, I can see Meagan and Brittany being similar alike. I hope that Meagan would not go into much as Brittany did. We have some ‘diva’ and some characters in familiar that I see are here now and look out to see how they react and interact with the there. I’m glad to see that there isn’t much difficulty in choosing between two designers as I would have between Delvin McCray and Marquise Foster. Perhaps this might be an obstacle for later on in the series? I’m still yet to see who might match Geoffrey, Dayoung, and Sergio.

    I’m no longer in the Project Runway group with Ms. Bloom again. I’m presently in two news ones. Maybe in time as well I will re-join her group. Shortfall out because of an issue with recording occurred and they didn’t want to do it again. I hope that YouTube will have the episodes throughout the rest of the season on the BravoTv page. So excited to see the rest of this season and hope that it goes well. Also looking to see if all of the designs for the following episodes become available on Google images for the rest of the book.

SELECTIONS.

    Towards the end of the presentations, there was a lot of difficulty and technical ‘thinking’ in making my selections. The easiest selection this week was the safe score pick and Coral won that from me. Her design was the one that I liked because it was not naked and it was something that I would personally wear if I was a girl.

    The winning piece was technical in a way because Darren did not do the work for his design and it was my chosen piece as the winner. ‘Bones’ did all the work and so I awarded Bones the credit selection for Darren’s garment only as my winner for this week. Hence, I agreed with the judges. There was something about Bones’ piece that I still need to understand but I still liked it and loved the colour. I loved the piece that he made for himself for the presentation to show more.

    The Lower score selection was the hardest. The only one that might have made my selection was the piece done by Chasity. The only reason why I did not pick her design was because of the huge bow on the back. I knew she regretted inserting afterward and I felt it too. The rest of it still was as beautiful as the skirt piece below.

    When I did not have a low score selection, I had to make a second saved score. I did not want another winning team’s design as part of this. Anna’s design would have been my choice. The same thing with the lower half was beautiful but was somewhat naked and it became a tie between her piece and one done by Prajje. I knew that Prajje’s piece was covered and not naked.

EXTRAS

    Some other things that I can note about the first experience, this group had a lot of people who smoke. A lot of them in the warm team in their outdoor recess were puffing everywhere. Sister ‘Poo’ somehow was very amazed at it. Everything in both groups started with no strategy. I was glad that Bones was able to help lead his warm team as he was chosen to be the leader by the members.

    For a first show, a lot of heat and medium-level panic was building too fast. This type of scare should be like in the middle of the series but it was something. In addition to that was the time. I felt as if the entire show went by in a quick zap. Even Bones had that snap attack on Christian for the first episode but I was glad that he apologized. For Bones, he truly deserved the win by doing his and Darren’s design (thirty minutes before the presentation) for the challenge. That was incredible.

    I have plenty of early suspicion about Meagan and I will be paying close attention to her since I see the potential for possible negative things that may come from her. I hope that this does not come as I’ve seen in the last season. I also hope that I would be proven wrong and that things would go smoothly for her. 

 

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Daryl Zion M. Ali