‘Project Runway’ Season 19 Episode 1 Recap: [Spoiler] Wins Challenge

A bunch problem on the primary episode of a brand new Project Runway season? What may probably go incorrect?

Sixteen new designers (click here for a better have a look at every one!) assembled at New York Metropolis’s Lincoln Middle on Thursday to obtain their first task from host Christian Siriano, and nobody was notably thrilled to listen to that their future within the competitors trusted how effectively they labored with a bunch of strangers.

Talking of not being thrilled, this seems like time to remind you that Karlie Kloss — who has served because the present’s host for the previous two seasons — needed to sit most of this one out, however she is anticipated to make “visitor appearances” all through the season.

OK, again to enterprise: Impressed by the town’s daring reopening, every staff was tasked with making “a cohesive assortment of eight monochromatic excessive trend runway appears celebrating coloration.”

Group Heat received off to a reasonably hopeful begin, with all eight designers planning to fulfill halfway via their journey to Temper to verify they had been shopping for cohesive materials. It was a stable plan… and it could have been even higher if everybody truly caught to it. Poor Bones, we may all really feel his stress as he tried to make the most effective of a chaotic scenario.

Group Cool additionally despatched up a couple of pink flags early on, beginning with confusion of what its general theme was going to be. The flowers-vs.-bows debate can finest be summed up by this line of concern from Caycee: “Not solely do now we have completely different tastes, however now we have completely different ideas of what meaning and the way we talk it.” In different phrases, Group Cool was screwed.

Following a surprisingly emotional runway present — the primary stay trend occasion that decide Nina Garcia had attended in over a 12 months — Heat was introduced because the successful staff, sending the members of Group Cool right into a panic, as one among them can be getting the boot.

Of the highest three appears pulled from Group Heat’s assortment, two of them had been performed by Bones; there was his personal look — a celebration of the Black feminine type — in addition to Darren’s last-minute gold gown that Bones principally did for him. Octavio additionally loved a second within the highlight because the judges praised his pink satin design. Unsurprisingly (and intensely deservedly), the primary win of Season 19 went to Bones.

Somewhat than letting his massive win give him a giant head, Bones remained humble and targeted on the general success of his staff. “I’m very pleased to have the ability to see my staff on high,” he mentioned. “I’m additionally very pleased to have the ability to see Darren get this second alternative as a result of, if he hadn’t had that garment, we might have all been within the backside. It feels nice to be felt and to be seen by the judges. It’s greater than phrases may even specific.”

However simply because the premiere gave us some early frontrunners for the season, we additionally had our first designers find yourself within the backside three. Sabrina was in tears because the judges learn her ruffly robe for filth; Caycee was informed that “poor design selections” resulted in a gown that was deemed “unfinished”; and Chastity was informed that her look was “poorly constructed and unimaginative.” (Ouch.) Ultimately, one designer needed to go first — and that was Caycee.

“I perceive why I used to be eradicated, my clothes weren’t completed,” she mentioned on her means out. “I simply want I may have proven extra of me. That’s the half that’s hardest. This expertise has opened my minds to what visions I may create shifting ahead that I haven’t but delivered to life. I simply didn’t get to indicate who I used to be. Who I am.”

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