Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Gretchen Jones takes home Project Runway Season 8 award

The fashion in Project Runway Season 8 was not the most surprising. The Project Runway finale had been a long slog towards a mostly disappointing result. The Project Runway finale provided one of the biggest surprises of all. The winner of this year’s Project Runway was a hotly discussed subject — and will probably continue to be.

The eighth season of ‘Project Runway’

Season 8 of “Project Runway” is the 3rd season the show had been on Lifetime Network. There were fourteen episodes to get a winner. There was one winner out of the seventeen contestants. "Models of the Runway" was swapped out so the episode could go for an hour and a half rather than just an hour. Of course, product placement had been all that happened in that additional half hour.

’Project Runway’ ends with a final episode

The “Project Runway” finale this year began with the season recap. The "Project Runway" finale didn't actually happen until after a long discussion of the season 8 "Project Runway" contestants talking about their experience that season. There had been minor model drama, but in general the “Project Runway” finale show went off relatively smoothly. Andy had a green-and-silver collection that judges quickly took him out of the competition with. The judges had a hard time deciding between Gretchen and Mondo though. They were both fabulous. Nina and Michael thought Gretchen’s 1970s easy, casual line “had her finger on the pulse of fashion.”. Guest judge Jessica Simpson and also the show’s host Heidi Klum, nevertheless, thought that Mondo deserved to win for his creativity and style. When the judges are choosing, a two against one vote will always win. This meant Gretchen won the competition.

'Project Runway’ going in an interesting direction

The "Project Runway" finale has been easy to predict each and every since season 6 on Lifetime. The judges when the show had been still on Bravo TV would make decisions depending on the clothes. It seemed like in season 8 of "Project Runway," just like Season 6 and Season 7, wasn't as much about the clothes. The "good for TV" personalities got to stay in the show when designers with talent were eliminated because they weren't during season 8. There's also too much product placement now. This had been shown with the additional half hour dedicated nearly completely to that. It is clear that "Project Runway" is farther from its roots than ever as shown in this episode. Fashion probably isn't going where Gretchen's "rewind" designs seem to be going since nobody is wearing it.



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