Project Runway is one of my favorite network television shows. It gives one (design savvy or not) a chance to briefly have a glimpse into the work of a designer, under the pressures of time constraints, budgets, competition, experienced designers, inexperienced designers, materials and design process. The show has been running for at least 4 years. Because I have been watching the show since it began, my subjective experience of studio life at Davis has me constantly relating it to the Project Runway show! At times I find myself wishing there was theme music, or special emphasis on the clock, indicating that deadlines are approaching!!
A means of presentation of the newly-created garments in the Project Runway show, is with a fashion show, thin and tall models featured. It think that the model’s appearance (although there is variety in their ethnicities) creates emphasis and unification by means of repetition during the show, allowing the unique garment to be featured non-objectively. The focal point is present as the viewer’s eyes are lead up and down the runway (a very ridged and precise perspective), as the catwalk is stark white, quite the contrast to the black floorings and walls used during the fashion show event.
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