Project Runway 19 - EPISODE 14: "Finale"

 Date for Entry: (Wednesday 16th February 2022)

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

*The Show of a Season: 19*

Dear Diary,

    The finale came and went by a long duration in the viewing process two hours. One disappointment was that the Facebook Live record was cut. Somehow the internet dipped low and then I had to do a second Live recording to continue. The other disappointment was that the recordings did not display any of the forty designs properly. Tonight’s finale was hosted at The Shed. We did not get to see Miss Elaine there for the finale but it was nice to see all the designers of the season, Coco Rocha and Emile from the Housewives challenge.

    As the top four designers, being the first all-female top designers in Project Runway’s history, they were given five months as working time for the final runway. I decided that I would grant myself five weeks to come up with something as my final look. It would be a compilation look or a summary look of the entire season. I liked this idea done from season eighteen and I’m surprised that Kristina chose to do the same thing as in episode thirteen.

    In the drawing process of my sketch, it felt as if I did not use all the drawings that I did for the season. There was difficulty incorporating aspects of several episodes into this finale sketch. I decided to take a few of the things that highlighted themselves to me after laying out all the season’s sketches in order of episodes on the couch and sketch the finale look. I was extremely proud of the sketch when it was completed.

    In this compilation (finale) look, I used a hairstyle from the hair challenge, a new hat to symbolize the accessory challenge, the red and orange shirt to represent the pattern of the shirt in the unconventional materials challenge, and the skirt for the flower power and graphic design challenge.

    The circular neck piece was taken from my accessory challenge’s pattern from the dress and the same thing that Katie did for the neck piece in her garment. I did not know why I was doing that exact thing but I liked the patterns and the idea of the colour that Katie might have used. Also, a blue pair of hand gloves were added from Prajje’s flower power design. When it was coloured, I felt very satisfied. I continued to wonder if people would call it a clown costume like they called Katie’s designs from some of her presentations but I loved it anyway.

RATINGS.

    Since it is the final episode, I could not make any selections but only pick one or two that I would have wanted to win. However, ratings were still done for all of the forty designs presented for the night.  All of the pieces came by so quickly that I did not have enough time to write proper comments or even notate them well on the paper.

• For HEARTS: Kristina got 4, Shantall got 5, Chasity got 9, and Coral got 10.
• For TICKS: Kristina got 4 and Shantall got 4, and Chasity got 1.
• For DISLIKES: Kristina got 2, and Shantall got 1.

    I would say from the presentations, that Kristina had the best music choice of the four. I would miss the sound of her laughter from the episodes. It was a very close call for who the winner would have been. I told myself that whoever was going to be the winner I would be happy for them because each of the four was amazing and they have worked hard as the others before them throughout the whole season. I look forward to next season, awaiting a new collection, a new book, and some more fun. 

 

Link(s):

1. Fashion Magazine & Journal - (Season 19).
2. Private Recording of Episode 14 - “Finale”.**

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali