Project Runway: Nicky Hilton gets a new dress, keeps old personality

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You so thought we were giving on our Project Runway recaps, didn'tcha? Well, we have to give Intern Molly something to do besides picking up our dry cleaning and calling our car service. So, we strapped her down again, and stuck toothpicks under her eyelids, and awaited the arrival of her PRW report.

With a real celebrity on this week's show and a promise to knock out two contestants next week, Molly was so excited over this episode that she ran around the apartment (still strapped to a chair) screaming Lupe's goin' down, bitch!

Ok, we made that last part up. But her summary is titillating and scrumptious and below:

Back from a few week hiatus, I'm ready to re-conquer these wannabe designers. (After Daniel Franco's self-sacrifice during the lingerie challenge, Yankee Model Swap once again failed to produce drama. When are these designers going to start stealing each other's models, for Christ's sake?)

For the challenge, this week's Project Runway again promised that the designers would be working with a famous personality. Last time it ended up being Barbie, so we wondered who this episode would feature, and if this alleged "socialite" would even be a real person this time. Ok, so Nicky Hilton isn't really a person, but she's sort of a personality. The challenge was to design the heiress a party dress.

Back at Parsons, Tim handed each designer a dossier with a letter from Ms. Hilton and two photos of her in party dresses. After, they were given half an hour to design and half an hour at the fabric shop before getting down to the sewing. And that's when everything went to shit.

After the jump, Molly continues with super highlights and drama to boot.

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PRW Highlights:

• Daniel V. realized that what he thought was black fabric was actually chocolate brown! Gasp!

• Then, two of the dress forms went missing, a mystery that was never fully solved. Was someone hording dress forms?

• Where the hell is Santino's Chiffon?

• In preparation for the big event, Santino donned his stiletto pumps while Nick reminded us that it's not his "first time at the rodeo.” Awesome. (Is it just me or does Santino sound like he is a chronic smoker with throat cancer who has to speak through one of those electronic voice boxes?)

In the end, Tim was less than thrilled with most of the designs, especially Marla’s, but , Nicky Hilton day came anyway, so the designers finished their dresses and attempted to primp themselves. Models in tow, they set off Marquee to impress the Hilton nobody cares about. Nicky did lots of smiling and nodding, all the while maintaining her trademark vacant expression.

After the bottles were popped and everyone loosened up a bit, Dirty Diana got down to it, and shook her math major thang — which inevitably led to a full on designer walk-off. Andrae, who is quickly putting his fashion-crush moves on both Santino and Nick, deemed these two the winners.

On the runway, Nicky got one more chance to see the dresses and make her (quarter of the) final decision.

The judges picks were in: Nicky fell for Santino's groveling, eeking out Chloe and Nick for the win. Marla somehow managed to squeak by onto another round due to Lupe's plea to maintain Nicky's spot on worst dressed lists, but if next week's episode doesn’t cut Marla, David is going to have to foot the bill for my Xanex prescription.

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