“In a Vegas lounge in 1972, that would have been considered glamorous.”

by chuckofish

Well, I’ve had quite the day and I’m starting my blog post later than usual, with a glass of wine in my hand. Buckle up. Just kidding.

Today’s blog post title comes from the inimitable Michael Kors during Season 7 of Project Runway. Yes, I am late to the party in discovering that certain older seasons of PR are streaming on Hulu. No commercials! It was the early aughts so minimal politics. Just sewing and seriously anorexic looking models.

I watched PR almost from the beginning. Back in the day when people still used DVDs to manually find movie clips, I was an intern at the Today Show. The show was on Bravo back then, an NBC subsidiary, so each week when someone got kicked off, they’d be on TODAY. It was a very big deal. And then, I think Season 3 is the season where my whole family watched either together or remotely but together (because everyone watched TV at the same time) and we just loved it. We had our favorites and our least favorites. And back then, even though you rooted for the designer, the fashion determined winners and losers.

In 2008 when I still lived in Washington, D.C., I visited my New York friends and we staked out Bryant Park to see the PR designers arrive for their runway show. We saw them all–and Nina Garcia! I have a whole Facebook photo album devoted to this. These photos were taken with my rather large digital camera and uploaded to my computer via a USB cord.

Fairly certain Leanne, the girl in the middle, won. Also fairly certain purple hair there didn’t even show at the finale.
Queen Biotch.

After this exciting moment, we actually high tailed it over to Parson’s and saw Tim Gunn enter the building. I look back on it and I really can’t believe we did this. Also, did we skip work for this? Justified.

Remember the Bluefly.com accessory wall?

Anyway, it’s really interesting to watch now, as more of a sewist. I could always appreciate the handiwork that went into each garment, but now, even more so. It is a highly entertaining, not terribly stressful, pleasant show to watch nowadays (well, I can vouch for Season 6 which is where Hulu starts). I’d love to see Seasons 3-5.

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention my dear Mother’s birthday today. I am leaving work early so I can head back to Kirkwood to celebrate. For the second year in three years, the date has escaped my father’s memory and he is out of town (perhaps you’ll recall how in the midst of COVID in 2020, he just completely forgot). We’re going to an event featuring our favorite instagram influencer interior designers at our favorite neighborhood store and then we’ll hit up happy hour. Here is my favorite picture from our trip to Oklahoma/Texas:

I’m grateful for my mother everyday and wish her a happy, happy day, and year ahead! xo.