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SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TVFirst up is “Survivor,” because nothing much happened in regards to Yau-Man this week. His team won the immunity challenge, and they went off to be their super-favorite selves for most of the episode. On to “Project Runway,” and the final pre-Fashion Week challenge! Two would be going home! Now, anyone who was paying attention to Fashion Week saw that all five of the remaining designers got to show their lines, which is understandable lest we all be spoiled about the finale. But it also kind of softens the blow of elimination this week, doesn’t it? For most of the designers, it sounds like just getting to show a collection at Fashion Week is prize enough, and all five of them got to do that. Anyhoo, the designers met Tim at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and were told to pick a piece of art as inspiration for an outfit. They were limited to three galleries. The Greek and Roman sculpture courtyard, the European paintings wing, and the Temple of Dendur. Here’s a shocker: Rami chose to the Greek and Roman sculpture room! Everyone else steered clear, and pretty much stuck to the European paintings as inspiration. We Taylor Swift mp3 immediately fell in love with Chris March all over again when he looked in the temple of Dendur and said, “Look! Joan Rivers carved her initials in here when she was a little girl.” Christian’s choice was a Spanish painting by Bartolome Estaban Murillo called “Don Andrew de Andrade y La Cal.” Sweet P.’s choice was “Peacocks” by Melchior d’Hondecoeter. Jillian chose “Scenes From the Story of the Argonauts,” by Unknown Master of the Argonauts, (dontcha just love that naming convention they have for unknown artists?). Chris’s painting was “Marie Francoise de la Cropte de St. Abre, Marquis d’Argence” by Jean Marc Nattier (phew!); and Rami chose…wait for it…a statue of Aphrodite. And he made no apologies about it because he is PASSIONATE ABOUT DRAPING, OK? Christian went for a military-esque look, with lots of ruffles, and seemed to make the whole outfit in about 15 minutes. Boy can sew fast, yo. Jillian also went for a kind of military look, pairing a structured jacket over a gold lame mini dress, and she took about 32 weeks ironing pleats into some fabric. Chris went very haute couture, making the modern equivalent of the huge bow seen in his painting, and he also finished rather quickly, and went and took a nap. (Tim was NOT pleased by that. There’s no time for napping in fashion!) Sweet P…well, it was a little hard to grasp what Sweet P. was after with her “peacock” inspiration. And Rami made a draped dress because draping is his passion. Did he mention that? There was some drama with Sweet P.’s model not showing up, and then an attempt to get everyone excited by a “special guest” who just turned out to be a make-up guy from L’Oreal. What EVER. Let’s move on to the runway. The guest judge was Roberto Cavalli, who needed subtitles big time. They all liked Christian’s design, appreciating that he thinks about “the show” while also designing practically. But for us, there’s something about Christian’s outfits that just scream design school. His focus is just too much on the “Wow!” and not enough on the, “Wow, I’d like to wear that.” Roberto Cavalli called Chris’s dress the most artistic, and told him he could see it in a haute couture show in Paris. Others called him out for making something too reminiscent of the dress he had done with Christian during the avant garde challenge. But let us just point out that every one of Jack Johnson mp3 theUsefull links: Dbw, Sandahl bergman, Abazias, Ghost slide, Myspace valentine