BYE BYE Kara thanks for making us proud
So we were right, Kara really needed to up her game if she was planning on making the final three for the Project Runway competition. Her sexy black evening dress was the least favourite of the final four which saw her being booted out of the competition.
Go and check out Kara Janx’s website here and read all about the amazing success she has had thanks to …
being on the show.
Apparently Kara did take part in the fashion week along with the other three winners anyway (so what was the booting out all about) and her collection was the best! Kara says her business has grown phenomally and she is now a celeb designer with fans asking for autographs whereever she goes.
Now that’s our kind of reality TV, where real talent and skill make you famous. You go girl!
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People are starting to get suspicious. “Why do you never party anymore on Friday nights? Is it winter? Do you have new friends we don’t know of? Places you don’t want to share with us? Are you getting old and boring?” Well, being cold did have something to do with it, but the second season of Project Runway had a whole lot more.
It all happened one Friday night about 7 weeks ago when, too exhausted to go out on a Friday and missing her man who was gallavanting elsewhere, Editorista went to visit her best friends house with pizza’s in hand. You see the best friends were moving house soon after into their very cute semi in Brixton (what a super cool suburb for young buyers) and everyone wanted to talk about the move and just chill together… Needing to zone out of the weeks stresses, we skipped quickly through the cable ‘bouquet” – cuddling up next to a warm fire, we settled on “Project Runway” on E Entertainment, “just another reality show” we thought. How wrong we were. 7 weeks later we are confirmed PR addicts bordering on freaks and Friday nights will never be the same.
Project Runway works very simply. There are a whole bunch of talented young clothing designers in New York who have to create a fashion garment every week under extremely tight budgetary and timing restrictions. Each week someone is eliminated and the team gets more competitive, the creative bar is raised and the bitchiness soars.
Heidi Klum is the presenter and the judges are all well respected (Nina Garcia) and entertaining (Michael Kors) fashionistas. Drawn essentially to the creative integrity and challenge at the heart of this wonderful show, we were even more delighted to hear the flat accent of a “nice Jewish girl from Joburg” resonating through the American twangs. Enter Kara Janx.
Before we even had a chance to read the credits of episode one, Kara Janx became our heroine… a super-talented, ‘cant-do-anything-wrong’ fashion supremo who’s every design had ‘a good chance of winning” every Friday evening. Biased and proud of it.
Now that we are official PR connoisseurs our opinion is that Kara’s consistent ‘good work’ has kept her in the show, but now we’re worried that if she doesn’t do something amazing on Friday, she may be out next week. Our Kara out? Never.
The series is already on season three in the States and while we have found ourselves sucked towards the dark temptation of googling for Kara to see where she came, we have managed to resist and will wait out the next three weeks to watch in chick-filled anticipation to see how our golden girl does. If you don’t care like we do, see her site here KARA JANX. (kidding. this link will only happen in about 3 weeks.)
This past Friday she made the crucial cut – down to Final Four – the final three competitors get to show their collection at New York Fashion Week – but we’re not sure if she’s going to beat the three VERY strong competitors that she is up against. Being realistic and removing all patriotism from the decision (whatever), in reality our money is on Chloe or Daniel winning, but then it means that if we are to have our way and see our Kara make the top three that (ego maniacal pain in the ass) Santino must go on Friday, which will suprise us as we’re not sure if he can squeeze his big head out the studio door. Chloe has also been consistent with moments of sheer brilliance and Daniel is just so classy, visionary, talented and as our friend Lerato would say, definite eye-candy…Please let him stay.
So thanks to Project Runway, our Saturday mornings are no longer synonomous with sleeping late and babelaas, but they do feel a little weird from time to time when we’re out the house by 9am. Not being a subscriber to the ‘bouquet’ of channels that features Project Runway has meant a serious imposition on our best friends, arriving at their (awesome and cute in Brixton) house every Friday evening with food in hands and a glint in the eye. We owe them big time.
So what we are asking you, dear Representers, is to invite your friends over if you are bouqueted, or phone a friend if you are not, and get behind our sisi KARA who has made us so proud. We love her South African spirit and creative influece and hope like hell that it’s Santino that goes this Friday…. Watch PROJECT RUNWAY on E Entertainment Friday at 7pm. Oh ja and please dont spoil it for us by telling us who goes this week. You’ll ruin a long and fruitful tradition.
KARA JANX BIOGRAPHY
Kara Janx hails originally from South Africa. After completing a degree in architecture, she moved to New York City where she still resides. When she first arrived in New York she worked as an architect for four years. It was during that time when she began to feel herself drawn toward fashion, and now works exclusively as a professional fashion designer.
Kara’s classic cuts and unique accents have given her a reputation in boutiques across the country and internationally. Her collections embrace the urban girl, a lifestyle with which she has become accustomed to. She describes her work as “feminine with an urban slant”. Her clothes are hip, colorful and functional, embracing not only the technique with which she skillfully does her work, but also the city in which she lives.
Kara translates her skills and techniques into her clothes, which have a concentration on various surface treatments. Most of the pieces are both hand-cut and hand-screened, lending to a very tactile finish. All graphics are hand drawn and pull inspiration from the clean lines and precision of architecture. Her line is represented in New York City and is currently selling nationwide and internationally. Janx’s collection has received great appreciation in the press including television and various fashion and lifestyle publications.
Pic borrowed from Jason Coleman. Shot bru.
