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Meet the Season 9 Project Runway Designers – Part 7

Let’s wrap up our semester of Reality Television Archetypes 101, students. Please get out your notebooks. Whoever is sitting closest to the light switch, please dim the lights so we can use our overhead projector. Are we ready? Good.

Anthony Ryan Auld

When did you realize you had designer potential?
When I sewed a quilt one summer with my grandmother when I was young.
What’s influenced your designs over the years?
In the past, art, specifically graphics and linear things. But now it’s all about a story, whether it’s a historical event or my own heritage in general.
Project Runway challenge you hope they don’t bring back for your season?
The plus-size challenge, just because I don’t have much experience with plus-size fashion.
Why do you think you will win Project Runway?
I feel like I have the ability to bridge the gap between wearable clothing and beautiful and/or edgy runway fashion.

We’re calling it now: The Crier. Also, he’s a lumberjack and he’s okay.

 

 

Serviceable clothes with occasionally interesting elements. And he seems sweet. He’s Christopher Straub 2.0 with a bit of an edge. If the execution is up to Nina’s standards and he makes dresses that Heidi wants to wear, he’ll skate along fine for a decent while.

And he will cry, kittens. Oh, yes. Hundreds of reality show episodes blogged here in the last 5 years and if there’s one thing we can smell, it’s a Crier. Oh and the Narcissistic Bitches. We can smell them from a thumbnail picture.

More info on Anthony here.

Amanda Perna

Who are your favorite style icons?
Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the City.”
What are your strengths as a designer?
Use of color and free-form draping.
What’s influenced your designs over the years?
Nature, people, art.
Why do you think you will win Project Runway?
I understand every aspect of the design process.

That first answer immediately disqualifies her. Nothing against Carrie Bradshaw as an icon, but she’s hit Holly Golightly levels of cliche as an answer to that question. Also, “Nature, people, art” as a list of inspirations doesn’t demonstrate a lot of depth.

 

 

It’s weird. The first couple pieces, including the dress she’s wearing in the video, are cute, if unremarkable girly clothes. But the next couple, as well as some of what we’re seeing in her portfolio, are these explosively tacky Quinceanera Barbie pieces that have us questioning whether she wisely threw together some decent basics to play down her tendency to go nuts or she’s really unfocused as a designer. She’s sweet, though. Another in a long line of cute, Girly-Girls who tend to bore the judges very quickly. Although she does have the potential to get the dreaded “taste issue” crit and that’s not as likely to be used against a Girly-Girl as it is to be used against a Flamboyant Queen, The Old One, or The Person of Color.

Hey, we’re just calling it like we see it here at the T Lo School for Blunt Reality Show Assessments.

More info on Amanda here.

Class dismissed.

Remember to order your box of wine and keep the pizza delivery number handy, because tomorrow the glorious T Lounge will open its fabulous doors once again for the premiere of season 9 at 9/8c on Lifetime. Also, we’ll be live tweeting the shit out of this mother.

[Photo/Q&A/Video Credit: myLifetime.com]



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