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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Project Runway Designers and the Female Body

I watch Project Runway - doesn't everybody? The designers have varying awareness of a woman's body. It has been a rather pervasive observation that the average gay male designer (all 3 seasons) doesn't really get how breasts work. They don't seem to know how to take into account things like movement and changes in shape of the various sub-parts (you know what I mean). Not that other designers are any better.

Robert - the departed - seems so freaked out by the presence of normal-sized breasts that he can't deal with the proportions, and has to drape them with multiple layers of heavy fabric. Jeffrey for some reason has to design everything with asymmetry in the bust area. I can only imagine what twisted distorted viewpopint that reflects. And poor Laura - real women with real breasts don't wear things with 4" wide cleavage down to our navel. You're not convincing us with endless peeks at your bony sternum. Vincent likes the female form a bit too much, and has to add the most extravagant flourishes to the upper body. Michael gets it, but he's about it.

Aside to Jeffrey - anyone with a big blatant tattoo all over his neck and not a single spot of ink anywhere on his torso comes off as a bit of a poseur. So, is it henna or is it Sharpie?

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