
Sabrina Spanta wants a bow coming out of a flower. Their Mood experience is slightly less harried, but when they too sit before the dreaded sewing machines, all goes awry. Success!įinally, after some expected panicking, the warm team gets down to business in the workroom while the cool team does their shopping. I’m too old for this.” Houston, I believe we’ve located our contestant with zero filter. Right now, he’s too busy flirting with Christian: “Are you single? I am! Just putting it out there.” To which Christian gives a predictably gorgeous response: “Oh? Ugh. I’m no military strategist, but picking your tactics after your troops are already on the field sounds, I dunno, ill-advised? Anyway, no time to reconsider-they’re headed on their first Mood date!Īt Mood, the sunny-hued soldiers have 45 minutes and $400 to pick their fabrics, but Octavio Aguilar’s already sweating into his red mustache, and Darren Apolonio’s hoarding gold sequins because he wants his “first introduction to be 100 percent Darren.” Yeah, uh.

The warm team ultimately decides they’ll make their collection cohesive once they already have all their fabrics. It sounds nice, though! (Perhaps like something Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens would award $250,000 for!) Over on the cool team, self-proclaimed “juicy b*tch” Meg Ferguson is busy making sure plus-size women are represented in the collection, but most of the other designers are more concerned over whether bows or flowers will make the collection more, ahem, “cohesive.” Y’all, just pick one and-forgive me-make it work! The word “cohesive” is tossed around approximately 800 times, though no one seems to agree what such a word might mean in practice. The group splits into two teams, one focused on warm hues and the other on cool, and almost immediately the conversations go off the rails. This is exactly the sort of mental torture Project Runway loves to play off as fun. And the final nail in the coffin is that one group gets to work during the days, while the other will be forced to work the graveyard shift. They’re in luck: it’s all about color! The twist? It’s a team challenge.

In the first moments of the premiere, our merry band of hopefuls gather at Lincoln Center to meet the judges-host and season 4 winner Christian Siriano, fashion designer Brandon Maxwell, journalist Elaine Welteroth, and, of course, our very own editor-in-chief Nina Garcia-and learn the fate of their first challenge. In the meantime, I’ll be here talking about 16 fashion designers fighting for $250,000 (supplied by Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens, lest we ever forget!).
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Eric Thomas, who has since moved on to write TV shows and bestselling books (here’s hoping I catch a little bit of his pixie dust and write the next Squid Game someday). Welcome to ’s weekly recap of Project Runway, the show famous for giving you Tim Gunn and “Not even to dinner with the Kushners?” I’m taking the baton from our former staff writer R. Folks, it’s episode 1 of Project Runway season 19, and we’ve already got all three.

Each season, I expect three things from Project Runway: Fashion so marvelous I’m tempted to burn my entire wardrobe, fashion so terrible I question whether I could make a better sequin skirt, and at least one cheeky contestant with absolutely no filter.
