Bravo's Project Runway started this past Wednesday evening with a two hour back-to-back premier, and a horde of excited designer/contestants.

It's a tad late to recap the show, and besides, you can catch the reruns this week. Plus, if you have read any news from the net you know that Stacey may have an MBA but she doesn't know how to use an industrial sewing machine. Time to take a class at a trade school, honey. And the winner, Keith, whose every other sentence is "I do men's wear," yeah, uh, we got it already, made a shirt out of a sheet.

As a jewelry journalist of sorts, what I found most interesting is that of the top outfits, two heavily relied on jewelry to "make it." First, Mr. I-Do-Men's-Wear and his pathetic halter top dress used a fabulous beaded necklaces and a pair of bracelets that I wish we had a close up of to enhance what is otherwise a basic halter dress.




Obviously, this dress was not my favorite. But, with the addition of the right jewelry accessories he, as the great Tim Gunn would say, "made it work."

Then there's the dress by Barbie designer, Robert. This really incorporated the jewelry into the dress. I wish they provided a back view photo on the Bravo site (which is where these came from) because while the front looks great, the jeweled wall hanging he used as a necklace also acted as straps that crossed in the back with the addition of red bows to connect them.




One of my beefs with previous seasons is the lack of attention to jewelry and other accessories by the designers. Heck, they have an entire wall of goodies to pick from. And, Vincent, I love you, but a basket slash hat? Forget about it.

You guys do what you do best. Make a pretty dress. Then jazz it up with some jewelry made by someone who knows how to design jewelry.