And they both did, in a Project Runway first. Maybe now you see why I was so sure that Team Emilio/Seth Aaron was gonna win. I don’t want cliché, but a little flash would have been cool. Instead of vibrant colors, textures and patterns, they gave us… basic black? Sure, there were those blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em blasts of red on the skirt, but in their original sketch, red and gold were the main colors. But their fear of going all-out playful in one of the most colorful areas of town left me feeling the way I do when I eat an apple instead of cookies for desert: mightily unsatisfied. To be sure, Georgia Peach and Quiet Girl are to be applauded for not returning from Chinatown with dreams of dresses made of fake Rolexes, pirated DVDs, and lunch-special egg rolls. She praised Anthony and Maya for their subtlety, but also pointed out that they could have cut loose with more color. Seeing as Sir Quips A Lot was at a tanning convention in Capri absent (and temporarily replaced by Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein), Nina did most of the talking. In any case, the judges said they dug what the two kids did: a black dress with cool, puzzle-like detail inspired by a Chinatown dragon, and a jacket-and-skirt ensemble with details meant to evoke a pagoda. Though we were supposed to believe there might have been some friction between Anthony and Maya in the workroom, methinks that was nothing but massively drummed up faux-drama.
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