Wednesday, January 18, 2006

THERE'S ENTIRELY TOO MUCH TOOTIE BEING EXPOSED: I will have much to say about women's figure skating as the Olympics approach, about the sport's internal battle between boundary-breaking athleticism and retro notions of femininity and "grace", as the name Slutskaya will be uttered repeatedly here and without titters.

Tonight, however, we focus on the sport's more feminine side, as it was the subject of a tremendously entertaining Project Runway challenge, designing an outfit for new U.S. figure skating champion Sasha Cohen. Honestly, I thought the outfits at the end were the least interesting of any of the rounds so far, but this was still an episode full of laughs (on the ice) and an increasingly interesting fleshing out of the intragroup dynamics. The winning outfit? Way too sexy for skating judges, I thought, but darn cool.

We're getting to a point that reminds me of the midway point of America's Next Top Model 2, at which all the remaining competitors (save one, Kara) are talented enough to win this, and it's just a question of not-screwing-up enough times in a row to make it to Olympus Fashion Week. But like I keep saying, the difference between this show and all the other Who Wants To Be The Next [X]? shows is that you really can't coast at any time -- if you screw up badly enough, there's no cumulative good will around to keep you to the next challenge. I am pumped for the rest of the season.

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