Project Runway: Being Thrown Under The Bus Is The New Black
LatestLast night’s episode involved a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the designers saw exquisite gowns — YSL, Balenciaga, Dior — from the Costume Institute. Then they participated in that hallowed NYC tradition: Throwing someone under the bus.
The editors of the show are storytellers, and storytellers use foreshadowing. So right away: Something was up with Ping.
Or perhaps “down with Ping” is more accurate.
The good news? The designers had a whopping $500 — “the most ever in Project Runway history, according to Tim Gunn — to create a “signature look.” The bad news? They had to work in teams. Ping and Jesse had issues with each other from the get-go.
An example of a conversation:
Jesse: “You want this one yard, right Ping?
Ping: “Where is my sketchbook?”
Ping may be wacky, but does that give Jesse the right to be disrespectful to her? With a free spirit like Ping, being rude and derogatory just seems mean, because she can’t help who she is. He belittled her, and it made her sad.
Also sad: The fact that Anthony knew that the dress he was working on with Seth Aaron was awful before they’d even finished. He declared it “for the Vice President of McDonald’s.” Sad, yet hilarious!
In a classic Project Runway twist, Tim Gunn announced the designers would have to create an additional look. (For $50, and inspired by another team’s “signature piece” — a “look for less.”) The reaction shots were amazing: Ping’s jaw dropped.
Jay was in shock; Maya was all, “Fuck my life.”