Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper

We have two designers. One is a flamboyant, overbearing, egoistic clown who has designs that only look good on models and solely display his own out-sized sense of his brilliance, as opposed to an actual sense of style.  Oh yeah, and all the pieces look the same.  The other is also slightly full of himself, but backs it up by being able to design a variety of stuff, and make clothes with understated craftsmanship and skill that his competitor probably couldn’t even understand or envision.

And yet, flashinesss won over nuance, ego over real skill, and Christian over Rami.  Now, this was the first and last episode of Project Runway I watched this season, but it was still abundantly clear, even from the judges deliberation, that Rami was the best.  THe only problem they could vocalize was that he wasn’t great with colors. Christian’s final collection, however, was about 70% black and 100% ridiculously over-the-top.  In the words of Tim Gunn, it was “not-so-wearable art.”  Did I also mention how swarmy and annoying Christian is?  All and all, an abominable decision.

Is it bad that this made me feel crappier than the Ohio and Texas results?