#bridesmaid gown

Project Runway All Stars Season 4 - Episode 11: Always the Bridesmaid 

Before watching this last episode of PR All Stars I thought they were going to design a bridal dress, not a bridesmaid dress! And we all know that danger is always behind the corner when someone talks about bridesmaid dresses!

We were right: all the designers made a mess this episode. A total train-wreck.

Except for Sonjia. She was again my favourite, and really, I’m absolutely stunned at how she works, because she basically never designs, she basically always doesn’t have a clue about what she’s going to do, and then, like a magician, she pulls out something amazing from her magic hat. The fabric choice was really smart, because apart from the amazing colour - it’s not too bright, so it doesn’t outshine the bride, but at the same time it’s not dull either - it was a kind of jersey which was perfect for draping. Differently from Georgina, who said that the front of the dress was too busy, I think everything in this dress is superbalanced, the draping was just perfectly done, the back was really sexy, I loved the fact she kept the sleeves long and it’s really smart because I can totally see it worn at a wedding as well as for another occasion. At the beginning I thought the belt she inserted was going to appear out of place with that dress, but again Sonjia proved she has great taste. She definitely deserves to get to the finale.

Fabio found himself making another mistake and this time was inevitable for the judges to send him home. I agreed with them. Probably Michelle’s dress looked even worse than his outfit, but in that case it was just a problem of fitting; Michelle’s idea was a good one - even if I was really skeptical at the beginning, I thought it was going to read really cheap and tacky - while Fabio’s was just…boring. Apart from the fact that, if there’s another event for which you can wear such a dress I guess it’s a funeral, that fabric was just horrible. It was absolutely cheap, it looked like a dress you can find on a rack in a Chinatown store, it was ill-fitting, I didn’t get those shoulders… A mess. I know I was rooting for him to get to the finale, but he made a terrible mistake this time, and when you make a mistake in Project Runway, you should go home.

I was shocked at the fact Helen won. First of all, it was pretty obvious to me that if someone had to win, it was Sonjia. But even if the judges didn’t like her dress so much as to let her win, then just don’t let anyone win, because really NO ONE deserved it. And Helen was even worse than Dmitry (who made just a normal nice dress). That black dress was matronly. And it’s the second time I say it during this season: Helen’s designing for my grandma.

Next episode will be the last one before the finale, I think I can say it’s basically sure Sonjia and Dmitry are going to the finale, so it’s between Michelle and Helen. I would like to see Michelle among the top three, because she’s the only one, together with Sonjia and Dmitry, whom I’ve never judged as worst. But after all, we all know the win is between the first two.

Anyway, in Project Runway, you never know.

xxx