12/18/2023 0 Comments Bravo project runway![]() ![]() It’s so much more character driven that the contrast surprised me enough that it at first felt a little narcissistic: Look at our judges! Aren’t they amazing! And we got amazing contestants too! Ones with experience! (The feeling of narcissism isn’t helped by the way Bravo has awkwardly added its name to the top of the Project Runway logo, although that’s understandable, considering that Project Runway All Stars is still airing on Lifetime, and there’s bound to be confusion.) The case seems to have a lot more experience in the industry than other casts. Although the designers are a little short-changed by the early focus on the judges, it seems clear by the end that the they, too, will be well-developed. That sets the stage for what’s to come, which is a lot of focus on the people, and that’s a welcome change. That photo is the inspiration for the designers’ first challenge. The judges show a photo from early in their career, and spend considerable time sharing stories about that photo and what inspired its selection. The first episode does briefly seem to lose focus on the designers, pivoting to a clever first challenge that instead allows the new judges to tell stories of their lives in fashion: the designers are split into four groups, with several assigned to each of the four judges (Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell, Elaine Welteroth, and host/judge Karlie Kloss). It’s all more relaxed and casual, opening with a cocktail party on the stage that introduces the contestants via a runway show, a nice focus on them. The establishing shots of New York City now have dress forms in their foregrounds, and the designers don’t stand on the runway to learn who’s safe, they just get up from their benches and walk backstage. Whereas Lifetime’s version of Project Runway felt mass-manufactured-they were in a groove by season 16-Bravo’s Project Runway feels more hand-crafted, for better or for worse. In fact, a 2011 Magical Elves-produced NBC show followed in the footsteps of a 2009 Bravo show that offered clothes for sale. It’s nice to be able to buy what the designers create, but that is not a new thing for fashion reality television entire series have been built on that premise. ![]() ![]() The photos will be for an Instagram story (angry old man tangent: enough with social media co-opting the word “story”!), so viewers can pick an outfit that will be sold in a flash sale. Some of its changes are unnecessary, like the designers doing a “photo shoot,” emphasis on the scare quotes, using an iPhone. I also appreciate the return of several musical cues, and love that-like Top Chef-the safe designers now get to watch the critiques from backstage. Some of its changes are welcome, like the bright, airy, and lived-in workroom (they don’t even clean it up before the eliminated designer films the segment in which they pack up their stuff), and their new residence: a big penthouse where everyone lives together, not tiny rental apartments that each cram in a few designers. The promised “reboot” is still visibly Project Runway it was unlikely that a show in its 17th season isn’t going to spiral off in a brand new direction. The return of Project Runway to Bravo itself has elements of all of those garments. ![]() After all, that happens every season.Īmong the designs are one that turns a history-making model into “a goddess,” one that is well-constructed but boring, and a few that show flashes of creativity but are sloppy and incomplete. It is not a spoiler that some of the designers struggle on the first Project Runway season 17 challenge: with time, with design, with their models. ![]()
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