On the most recent episode of Lifetime’s Project Runway, the three finalists left L.A. to go home and work on their final collections. Tim Gunn did home visits to check on their progress. Later, the designers headed to New York for Fashion Week.
Meanwhile, in Houston…
Outside The Compound gates at dusk, a man approaches and hits a buzzer.
Bzzzzzzt.
[Raucous sounds of dogs barking.]
Intercom voice: Go away. I’m reading Facebook.
Man: Tim Gunn here to do a home visit with Becks.
Intercom voice: Who?
Tim Gunn: BECKS.
Intercom voice: No, I’m Becks. Who did you say you are?
Tim Gunn: It’s Tim Gunn from Lifetime’s Project Runway. I’m here to check on the progress of your final collection.
Becks: Go away. I’m…sewing.
Tim Gunn: Right. That’s why I’m here. I need to mentor you.
…..
…..
Bzzzzzzt.
[Raucous sounds of dogs barking.]
…..
A woman appears.
Woman: Hello, Tim. Look how svelte I am. Am I pregnant? Did I already have the baby? Everyone’s so confused about this season. When did we tape? Was it Fall Fashion Week or Spring Fashion Week? Nina Garcia and Michael Kors: Now you see them, now you don’t. Do we air on Wednesdays? Thursdays? Are we taping in Manhattan or L.A.?
Tim Gunn: Heidi Klum, what are you doing here? The home visits are my part of the show.
Heidi Klum: Listen, Mr. Make It Work, this show was meant to help me outshine Tyra Banks. But then everybody liked you best. Now I hear our threat level of being canceled is oranger than Michael Kors, so I’m getting all the air time I can.
Heidi presses the buzzer.
Bzzzzzzt.
[Raucous sounds of dogs barking.]
Becks: Go away! I’m watching an America’s Next Top Model marathon.
Heidi Klum: [Grrrrrr.] It’s Heidi Klum. I’m here with Tim Gunn to see how your final collection is progressing.
Becks: Go away. I’m ruching.
Heidi Klum: She’s Russian? I thought she grew up in Alabama.
Tim Gunn: She’s ruching.
Heidi Klum: Rushing?
Another woman appears.
Other woman: Ruching. It’s a French sewing term that means gathering, ruffling, or pleating.
Heidi Klum: I know that. Who are you?
Other woman: I’m Heidi Gunn.
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn: ……..
Heidi Gunn: I was last season’s producer of Live Journal’s Runway Monday.
Heidi Klum: Right. Our attorneys would like to talk to you.
Heidi Gunn: Hey, Runway Monday is an homage to your show. Just like I’m an homage to you and Tim.
Tim Gunn: She does look like you, Heidi.
Heidi Klum: What are you talking about? She’s a total Barbie.
Heidi Gunn: Check your ass, Heidi Klum. I think you’ll find Mattel stamped there.
Heidi Gunn reaches for the buzzer.
Bzzzzzzt.
[Raucous sounds of dogs barking.]
Becks: Go away! I’m sewing as fast as I can!
Heidi Gunn: You still have to find your models!
Heidi Klum: And get them to hair and makeup!
Becks: I’ve chosen all my models. Half of them already have their hair braided and styled.
Heidi Klum: Braids? I hope you’re not going Oktoberfest on us. Did you not see Episode 8?
Heidi Gunn: A word with you, Heidi Klum. I’m German, too. Why the Oktoberfest hate?
Heidi Klum: Auf wiedersehen.
Tim Gunn: Sorry, Becks’s readers. Apparently there’s nothing to see here yet. Tune in next week.
[Raucous sounds of dogs barking.]
Previous designs from this season:
6:12–The Art of Fashion
6:11–The Best of the Best
6:10–Around the World in Two Days
6:9–Sequins, Feathers and Fur, Oh My!
6:8–A Fashionable New Beginning
6:7–The Sky’s the Limit
6:6–Lights, Camera, Sew!
6:5–Fashion Headliners
6:4–What a Woman Wants
6:3–Rumble on the Runway
6:2–We Expect Fashion
6:1–The Red Carpet>
P.S. the doll that’s supposed to be Heidi Klum really does look like her! Who is she?
She’s Mattel’s Heidi Klum doll!
Okay, have I perfected looking like a buffoon to an artform yet? I had no idea that doll existed.
You don’t look like a buffoon at all. I knew a while back that she was going to be released by Mattel, and then suddenly she was all over eBay and nowhere else, which annoyed me. You can bid on her and maybe get her cheaply, but I needed her pronto so I had to do a “buy it now” on a nude doll with her jewelry removed and no stand or other accessories to get a decent price. Enh, I rarely use the clothes they come with anyway, and at least I got the doll by my deadline–this post.
haha that’s so funny because I ordered a pair of boots for my entry today, but they didn’t arrive so I had to improvise. They’re such killer boots, emerald green high boots with fur edging, damn-it-all-to-hell. Watch them be in the mailbox today. grrrrr
I can’t wait to see those boots.
I can’t wait for you to see all the stuff I’m working on.
I need a sewing elf. It’s too bad you didn’t hop on your private jet that you got from your winnings last year to help out a struggling designer.
Champions always forget the little people…
I’m sorry, I was uncorking my complimentary magnum of champagne and didn’t notice what you said…. : )
(You know I hate spoilers, but please just tell me one thing: Are you planning a showstopper?)
I have no idea. I have three looks finished, head to toe, and fabrics picked out and models selected for the other ten. But everything is going to be rather organic, so I have no idea what it’ll all be until it’s done.
Hopefully there’ll be at least one look that’ll dazzle.
Absolutely delightful!!! I love the home visit….
That Heidi Gunn is a cutie. She was rescued a few years ago by a friend of Lynne’s from a thrift store and was gifted to me wrapped in shiny green ribbon at Christmas. I thought she deserved some celebrity.
Hahaha!
[Raucous sounds of dogs barking.]
It seems so familiar, doesn’t it?
It’s like I’m there.
Ha! So good of you to take a brake from ruching and write this for us, Becky. Tim Gunn looks younger than I pictured him in person. 🙂
And all I could think of was “Dave’s not here, man.”
HA HA HA, that was SO in my head when I did this post. (No, man, I’M Tim Gunn…)
Loved the Compound’s gates … so fleur de lis! And the raucous sounds of dogs barking. But how come Tim Gunn, who has apparently been eating too many carrots, has painted plastic hair?
The big question is … how can you be so creative at 02:44 in the am?
okay … is Tim carrying a purse or are the Heidi’s sporting man bags?
They are all holding identical portfolio cases. I wanted Heidi Gunn to look as legitimate and official as the other two.
This was great, Becky!! Can’t wait for th efinal collection.
My favorite line: “Heidi Klum: Braids? I hope you’re not going Oktoberfest on us. Did you not see Episode 8?”
Thanks! I hope the final collection lives up to the hype.
That looks like snow under the Compound gates. I know Houston is really bad about localized weather — thunderstorm over here–not a drop of rain three blocks away, but, my goodness, we had snow? That channel 2 weatherman never gets it right!
I’m not saying we didn’t have snow, because this is Houston, and anything’s possible with the weather. But that could be the light gray paving into The Compound. It’s an old property.
I was waiting to read this until I watched Part One of the season finale of Runway. (Finally caught up with it last night.) What a dope I am!!!
May the spirit of the Almighty One – aka Edith Head – guide your sewing needle as you finish your collection.
That’s my new bracelet: WWEHD.