Project Runway - The Complete Third Season
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Artist: Heidi KlumBrand: Wellspring Media INC
Host: Nina Garcia
Host: Tim Gunn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 800 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Weinstein Company
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- International Supermodel Heidi Klum returns as host of Project Runway Season 3, heading up a glamorous panel of celebrities and fashion icons in search of the next great fashion designer. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 796019807524 UPC: 796019807524 Manufacturer No: 80752
Movie Reviews of Project Runway - The Complete Third Season
Movie Review: Great reality show, but Season 4 recommended for sewing enthusiasts
Summary: 5 Stars
What I most enjoyed about Season 3 was the project to make a matching dog outfit to go with a ladies garment. I'm not a dog owner, but was very curious to see the outfits the contestants would sew up for these little dogs. Some of the outfits were cute, the dogs were all small-sized. Aside from that project, there were a number of other interesting projects, one of the most interesting was making outfits inspired by fashion icons (Cher, Katherine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, etc.) There were some really beautiful outfits and some dreadful ones too. Also, for one of the competitions all of the contestants were flown to Paris, and it was interesting to see the scenes filmed there.
One thing that I did not like about this season was the conflict between some of the contestants. I know that since this is a "reality show" that conflict and arguing is part of the formula, but I watch the show just to see the sewing and finished outfits, and I fast-forwarded through the arguements. Some people enjoy watching that kind of thing, but I could do without the conflicts, and I thought a lot of the personal conflicts should have been edited out so that we could see more of the sewing techniques the contestants were using. In this season, one of the contestants was disqualified when he was found violating rules, and a finalist was unjustly accused of violating rules but his name was cleared and he stayed in the competition. Those two parts were very relevant to the competition, but the personal conflicts and arguements were extraneous.
Overall, I gave the show five stars because the filming was lovely and very entertaining, the show was very polished, the designers/contestants talking about their sewing was interesting, the runway shows were fun, there were some nice clothes (and some terrible ones too!). Tim Gunn is the mentor to the contestants, and he's got an utterly charming manner---very distinguished-looking and offers good opinions about works in progress.
Finally, I thought that Season 4 was outstanding----and Season 3 was very good. With Season 4, in every episode I understood why a garment was judged and labelled as "out", and I could see why the ultimate prize-winner was selected over the other designers, and I saw more sewing details (which is my primary interest in the show). With Season 3, there were times that I couldn't see why a garment was selected as superior to the others, and I didn't understand the judges reasoning as to the ultimate prize winner. There were some beautiful clothes in this series, and I was gratified to see that one of the garments I liked the best won a competition near the end of the series. This show is so entertaining. If you like the "reality show" approach to fashion, you'll like Season 3. If you're more interested in sewing techniques, see Season 4. (I also wrote a review of Season 4).
Summary of Project Runway - The Complete Third Season
International Supermodel Heidi Klum returns as host of Project Runway ? Season 3, heading up a glamorous panel of celebrities and fashion icons in search of the next great fashion designer.The third season of Bravo's reality hit boasted the most evenly matched upper roster of aspiring designers thus far in the series, and maintained the show's reign as one of the best in reality television (it's been nominated for an Emmy every year). It also featured not just one clichéd villain, but several: Keith, the impossibly arrogant menswear designer who believed he was "above" all challenges (and refusing to design the dog outfit mandated as part of that challenge); Jeffrey, the tattooed rock-star designer who was as condescending as he was innovative (yet, because of his bluntness, successful sobriety and impossibly cute son, you couldn't help but like the guy a little); and Vincent, the slightly perverse '80s-era designer who famously cashed out his 401(k) to try the business again and whom always seems two sandwiches short of a picnic. The season's challenges included making a dress out of materials from the contestants' apartments, modernizing the look of a fashion icon (from Audrey Hepburn to Madonna), and designing an evening gown for Miss USA (the later fallen Tara Conner) to wear in the Miss Universe pageant. Later in the season, the remaining finalists were able to jet off to Paris to be judged by designer Catherine Malandrino, whose criticisms were actually harsher than host Heidi Klum's ("You look rideeeculous," she tells one. "You look like a fehk pop stahr." ). Other guest judges during the season included Vera Wang, Kate Spade, Ivanka Trump, and Richard Tyler.
Project Runway stands out from many other reality shows in that talent was actually a requisite and there was no audience voting to keep undeserving contestants in. Not to say there weren't any frustrating contenders overstaying their welcome (Take Angela, the farm girl who claimed her dresses were "mistaken for Yves Saint Laurent" back home, but felt the need to smother all her creations with rosettes), but the competition was evenly, satisfyingly matched toward the end. The DVD includes the reunion episode, which features a tense exchange between Keith and Klum and pokes fun at den father/breakout star Tim Gunn's "$3 vocabulary." A couple of bonus features follow the finalists post-show, profiles Gunn, and shows an assortment of outtakes. Not featured on the DVD? The many, many Saturn Sky Roadster promotions that preceded every commercial when it aired on television. And for that, we happily say Auf Wiedershen. --Ellen A. Kim
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