Project Runway Recap: Episode 1

Who cares if I’m already behind on PROJECT RUNWAY?  No matter.  I’ve got my girl Jennifer Eolin, my hands down favorite PROJECT RUNWAY blogger breaking down the new season and sharing her 5 cents (because really, what can two cents by you these days) on the new designers and the first challenge of Season 5.

So for the first time this season (ok it’s only the first episode but go with me here), I present…Jennifer’s Runway. Below is only an excerpt so make sure to head over to Jennifer’s Project Runway recap for a look at each designer and then the full competition.
Jennifer’s Runway…

“…After all 16 of these (insipid) people arrive at the Atlas apartments, they saunter up to the roof to meet Sir Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum. Both Heidi and Tim look rested and ready for a new season. Tim Gunn tells them: “You are the most diverse group of designers we’ve ever had on Project Runway.” (And while he says this, the camera is on a white girl. Swift.)

They party on the roof and start it off with Tim popping a champagne cork that flies off the building and probably kills a cabbie in mid-town. (Tim Gunn, on the roof, with a champagne cork! It’s the new Clue!) All the designers talk and Kenley busts Blayne about his tan. Blayne says: “I’m happy and tan!” Poor Blayne. He’s truly the walking example of “Ignorance is bliss” isn’t he?

The next day, the designers are roused at 4am by Tim Gunn. Jennifer answers the door in her towel and wishes she had brushed her teeth. (Someone has told her that he’s not on her team, right??) The designers go on a walk with Tim Gunn (and the walk is peppered with “Where are we going?” soundbites which are annoying as hell cuz duh! We know you don’t know! THAT you don’t have to tell us!) and arrive at Gristedes, the grocery store from the challenge in Season 1, Episode 1. Also at Gristedes is the ever glam, Austin Scarlett. He floats across the street in a cloud of fabulous and joins the group on the street.

(I never thought I’d say this, but next to Austin, Gunn looks butch…)

Continue reading at Jennifer’s MySpace blog. (And if you leave her a comment tell her that GMMR sent ya)