Project Runway: Episode #512 Review and Commentary
Published on: October 2, 2008 – 11:52 am by Jillian Madison 
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Annnnd we’re back for another week of Project Runway drama! We’ve whittled our way down to the final 4 designers so things should be getting interesting, right? I wish. This episode was just awful. It was about as entertaining as a night of Parcheesi and Scientology discussion with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
It seems Jerell is starting to lose it. The episode opened with him sitting on the floor of his apartment, having fake conversations with some rotten, unidentifiable
fruits and a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup. I was half expecting Wilson, the volleyball from “Castaway,” to come rolling across the floor, but no such luck.
Next, Tim took the designers on a field trip to the New York Botanical Gardens. Jerell said, “Oh, we’re gonna do something with plants?” No, Jerell. You’re going to be designing space suits for Lance Bass. Of course you’re doing something with plants.
The challenge: Kenley, Jerell, Korto, and Leanne had to create an evening gown, using nature as their inspiration. They had 1 hour to wander around the gardens and photograph flowers – and lucky us – we saw about 48 minutes of that. (See? I told you! More dull than a cross country drive with John McCain and only AM radio).
Once they got back home, Kenley realized she left a bag of tulle fabric at Mood. The other designers had extra tulle, but they wouldn’t give any to her. Why should they? She’s a bitch, and this is a competition. Jerell said, “I refuse to help her in any way,” and smiled to the camera as Kenley frantically searched for fabric.
We then randomly learned that Kenley’s dad was a… TUGBOAT CAPTAIN. Kenley said she developed her nasty, rude attitude and inability to get along with people as a result of spending many long hours away at sea as a child. Is that also where she developed her hideous fashion sense? Did the boat’s cook wear floral mumu’s and barrettes? And what the hell is on her head in the photo to the left? It literally looks like a rotting fish.
THE DESIGNS THIS WEEK WERE ALL HIDEOUS!
1. Korto made a sherbet orange gown with lace and beads. If Wal-Mart sold a bridesmaid dress, this is what it would look like. The judges called it a 
“pageant dress.”
2. Leanne made a lavender dress with 70s tuxedo shirt ruffles. The worst part? A misplaced blue bolt of fabric randomly hanging off the back.
3. Jerell was named challenge winner, but only by default. It was a very ordianry gown witih gross, oversized beads on the bust. Nina Garcia called it “youthful.” Youthful? Please. Someone could wear it as part of a Dorothy Zbornak Golden Girls Halloween costume and win 1st prize.
4. Kenley’s design was, again, the WORST dress coming down the runway. She made a creepy, tight fitting, fish scale dress with REPULSIVE “petals” on the bottom. Earth to Kenley: your inspiration was supposed to be a flower, honey… not your recollection of a flopping, dead fish on your daddy’s tug boat.
Heidi Klum told Kenley that the “petals on the bottom weren’t elegant.” Kenley snapped back, “I wasn’t GOING for elegant, Heidi.” Please. If I was host of a show, and some bich talked to me like that, she’d be out of there faster than Britney Spears to a freshly opened bag of Cheetos. Instead, Heidi just sat there silent, looking more like a stunned deer in the crosshairs of Sarah Palin’s gun than a confident supermodel host who happens to be married to a dude named after an ocean animal with a severly burned face.
The episode’s big twist? NO ONE WAS SENT HOME. Just like last year. Snore. All four of them will get to go home and design a fashion line, but only THREE of them will be showing at Bryant Park. A decision will be made after the judges see their designs.
Stay tuned next week, when the top 4 designers show off their lines and fight for a spot at Bryant Park!
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October 2nd, 2008
WHAT the hell happened on tonight’s episode?! Kenley is officially the biggest bitch in Project Runway history. Her dress was so ugly. Clearly the only reason she’s there is for ratings. I agree, I’m curious like heidi what she’ll come up with. But I hope they don’t let her show her line at BRyant Park.
October 2nd, 2008
I hate when I invest an entire hour into a show and no one gets kicked off at the end. It’s such a downer.
October 2nd, 2008
Ew ew ew! Kenley’s outfit was so bad yet again! I thought Jerell’s was f’ugly too though. I would not wear any of them. I thought Leannes was the best except for that stupid blue fabric in the back.
October 2nd, 2008
kenley was so rude to heidi. i wanted to reach through my tv and smack the smugness off of her face!!!
October 3rd, 2008
I’m one of the few Kenley supporters out there I guess. I thought her designs have been creative and she has the passion to stand behind them. I respect that about her. So what she’s a bitch? Who in Hollywood isn’t these days? It’s almost a prerequisite.
October 4th, 2008
I would not have worn any of those dresses but KATNY you’re not alone in your support of Kenley. I have liked her all season. Sure sue is a brat but I agree, lots of designers are. It goes with the territory.
I think that they’ve been grooming Leanne to win all season.
October 7th, 2008
kenley kenley kenley – only there for the ratings. and we all know it. maybe the talent will be back when runway heads to lifetime, home of designing women and the golden girls.