Yes, it’s a Project Runway knock-off but I love Tim Gunn enough to watch it.
Last night the 12 designers had to do Hollywood glam red carpet look and the winner – well, it looked like a set of bedazzled overalls to me but the judges loved it.
So far we’ve already had Tim getting frazzled at least three times over designers not following the rules – No, no, no!! I love him.
And Mondo, put on some long pants.
Stopped watching a week ago. The designers and mentors seem to have fallen into that trap of “I must have a Brand Identity” and have taken to all sorts of affectation. With short pants, beanies, fans, bizarre haircuts and cosmetics and unwearable clothes, all are trying so desperately to appear edgy and out there. It all strikes me as silly. A race to the bottom.
Not watching and I don’t think TLo are recapping. I love the divine Tim Gunn but the presence of Anya removes any credibility of this being a desgn show. She never should have won her season and she would be a terrible mentor (she lost money and fabric on her season and was bailed out by fellow designers).
I adore Tim, love Mondo, and don’t mind Anya – so, yeah, I’m watching (well, catching it online on Fridays – haven’t seen this week’s ep yet).
Crap,** twickster**, I didn’t mean to spoil this week – I should have put a warning!
No prob – you don’t entirely spell out “so and so won” – and even if you had, since I haven’t figured out anyone’s name yet, it wouldn’t mean anything. 
I agree. Who the fuck cares what Anya thinks? She has no talent and no sewing skills. This is also so mushy with praise I can’t take it seriously.
I so wish Mondo didn’t wear such horrible clothes. I generally agree with what he says, but then I look at him and am appalled by his personal taste.
I guess I know nothing about fashion. I thought Nick’s designers, with the exception of the bad green dress) had far superior looks to anything Mondo’s and Anya’s designers had.
I was shocked that they loved the overalls. I thought that Blake’s dress looked like something a 10 year old would design as an arts and crafts project, and although I liked Shan’s dress I was really surprised none of the judges thought that the top was open just a little too much.
No, they act like they want Hollywood glam but then preferred non-red-carpet or alternative-red-carpet looks. “Certain red carpets” meaning not the Hollywood ones they claimed they wanted. :smack:
I don’t get the fascination with jumpsuits. The winning design looked like shiny overalls. It could have at least had a belt or something around the middle. I thought for sure he would be in the bottom, except the judges on Project Runway always go gaga for jumpsuits.
Ugly ugly ugly.
Not sure how the green dress didn’t go home. Were the seams on the back *supposed *to look like that!?
I really, really, really wish Mondo would put on some long pants.
The problem with what Nick’s designers were doing was that it was boring and/or badly made – either one is a no-no on the red carpet, let alone both.
How were they boring? And with the exception of that one green dress, how were they badly made?
I’m finding it interesting. It’s not really a “Project Runway Knock-off” as per gigi in the OP, my understanding is that they wanted to do a Project Runway season but they didn’t get the info to Heidi in time, and Tim wouldn’t do it without Heidi, so they invented this quasi-PR. I don’t think it will go a second season, I think they’re just using it as filler until next PR.
I agree that Anya is a poor choice. IIRC, she didn’t even know how to sew. Not sure what they’ll learn from her. The winner of the red carpet challenge has said that he only makes casual wear, so no surprise that his red carpet look was a jump suit. The three judges all picked him first, but I wonder how he’ll do long term if he can only do casual. I thought Nick’s four apprentices all made much more traditional red-carpet dresses (perhaps why twickster thinks they’re boring), but then he was directing and micro-managing so his vision was on all four.
Boring, traditional, whatever – I didn’t look at any of them and say “wow, what a gorgeous dress!” Each seemed to be very Nicklike. (And that looks like it’s going to be one of the story lines of the season – will he learn to back the fuck off?)
I thought Nick’s team had lovely and elegant gowns. But I think the fact that he went traditional is what cost him. They liked the others because they were different. Of course different doesn’t automatically equal good though. And this was a red carpet challenge, not an avant garde challenge.
Nicks dresses were red carpet dresses. Hell, the diamond dress where it looked like the model peed herself looked like a red carpet dress. Jump suit, arts and crafts, and wide open chest didn’t look very red carpet to me.
Still no one is a big standout for me but I watched. Anya messed up which is interesting. The winner had one too many ideas in her dress. I agreed with Zanna.
I agreed with Zanna also.
What I came in to say though – freakin’ Anya. I know a lot of people hate her and don’t think she deserved to win – never bothered me, I like her aesthetic.
But she totally threw Brady under the bus with her “mentoring,” and then backed up and ran over him again when she picked him to go home.
Bad form, my dear, very bad form.
That was the unconventional materials challenge? Where were the placemats, mop heads and coffee filters?
Yeah, Asha should’ve won – not only a nicer dress, but the best use of unconventional materials.