PR6EP12: The Getty Center As Inspiration, or Which One Of You Bitches Isn't Going To Bryant Park

Like in most season of Runway the last episode before the "tents" involves a challenge based on a road trip. One season it was the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens--Kenley made the Snake Dress--and one it was the Museum of Art--Rami did Grecian draping--and this year was no exception. Tim takes the finaltestants to the Getty Center and let's them loose to find inspiration, either in the art work inside the Getty, the gardens surrounding the Getty, or, the actual Getty.
Personally, I liked some, hated some, and some make me throw up a little in my mouth, so let's do this:

Carol Hannah's dress is very pretty. Lovely gold color, and looks exactly like her inspiration which was a French bed from the 1700s with aqua brocade fabric and gold tassels and heavy, heavy draping tapestries . I know, I didn't get it either. Pretty, but miles away from the inspiration.
Still, the judges declare it the most Wow! dress, so off to Bryant Park goes Carol Hannah.


Meana Irina, who is being edited as the biatch in the last few seconds of this seasons, was inspired by a painting of a Reubenesque woman in a sheer fabric, with animal skins and marble all around. So, she took that inspiration and created this dress which is a reboot of something from the old Donny & Marie Show circa 1975. I think Marie wore this when Charo guest-starred and they did a duet of "Proud Mary." The judges thought it was "old lady length" and that all the accessories were too heavy. In fact, guest judge Cindy Crawford ordered all the heavy pieces removed, from the shoes to the jewelry to the too-tight-all-black-do-rag on the girls head. I would have kept going and asked the model to remove the dress as I was getting sick.
But, based on previous weeks and her vision, Irina heads to the tents.


Oh Althea, dear-sweet-overbite-ambitious-think-too-highly-of-yourself Althea. Her inspiration was of the building itself, if the building were made of a puckery gold fabric and topped by a circus tent. Althea spent all her money and her time creating horizontal shapes and then vertical shapes and then zigzag shapes, and then only had time to throw a sheer doily on the top. I think she should have spent more time making a dress than trying to make a walking Getty, because this looks like a solid gold Target quilt on the Everything Must Go table.
But, again, like Irina, she goes to the tents based on her previous work.

Gordana's dress was based on a Manet or Monet painting of a cathedral, or as Gordana [and Carlos] call it, "a cat-eeeee-dral." But her dress was one of my favorites and it looked like the inspiration; the colors, the flow, the feeling of the painting. In the workroom, Gordana finally broke the news to Tim of the secret she's been keeping all season long: that she's a really a nineteen-year-old Jamaican boy with an expired visa in disguise. What? Oh yeah. right. That wasn't her secret. Her secret is that she's a spiritual person and the painting of the cat-eeee-dral moved her so much that she wept and then created this angel dress.
Alas, the heavens didn't open and give Gordana the Golden Ticket to Tentville. The judges loved her dress, but think she's too safe. Safe? Last week she was dressing the working women of Warsaw and this week she's couturier to the angels. Safe? Pffft.

Christopher. Christopher. Christopher. I love the way you think. I love your ideas. I hate your hair. But I digress. It's just too bad that from idea to execution something goes horribly wrong. His inspiration was a group of rocks in a fountain and the algae growing on said rocks. Really, gorgeous dress inspired by pebbles and pond scum? And it wasn't bad, from the waist up; the judges even liked the dress if they could only see the top half. But the bottom. Christopher? Papier-mâché? Really? Because that's what it looked like on my TV. A stiff pile of gray papier-mâché with a splotches of green and purple tie-dye on the front.
Back to Smalltown Minnesota, Christopher.
Not tents for you.


And so, there we have it. The most exciting finale in PR history! Three of the most fabulous, charismatic, brilliantly talented designers of all! It will be the show to end all shows! heads will explode from all that talent!

Okay......overkill. Still, I'll be watching, and waiting.....for Pr7: Get The Hell Out Of LA!