Down and Out in Denver

Alastair and I are confirmed addicts of the ever watchable Project Runway.  And we’ve been enjoying this season much more than the predictable snoozefest that was Season 6.  We’ve even gotten used to the movie advertisements that invite us to head “on over to LMN” to check out “Amish Grace” or “The Pregnancy Pact.”  Oh, Lifetime….

Seth Aaron Henderson. Need I say more?

What we can’t get used to, however, is Seth Aaron Henderson’s continued appearance in the Top Three. What is up with this?  He clearly styles himself some sort of rocker and continually designs in black and leather.  And it just doesn’t work.  Alastair and I are no stranger to muted colors; I’m sure I wear more black and gray than anything else.  But this just looks so terribly dated.  And forced. And like he’s attempting — both in his own ensembles and bad hair, as well as what he designs — to be something that he is not.

Stella B. Zotis at a confused moment

He reminds me just a teeny tiny bit of one of my very favorites from seasons past, Stella B. Zotis. Except that with her, you believed it.  She had the accent and rode a Harley and had a boyfriend named Ratbones.  Seth Aaron (yes, with the perpetual two names), not so much…

Over on Models of the Runway, however, we are thrilled, thrilled I tell you, that Alexis (the crazy witch — her claim, not ours — from Denver) was kicked off and that the ever lovely Cerri has finally hit her stride and found a designer (in the talented and funny Jonathan) who knows how to treat her right.  We’re ready for next week.  And we’re still awaiting the moment — included in the season’s opening teaser — when one of the models refuses to work with the designer who selects her.  Stay tuned…