What’d you guys think?
I liked Ricky’s dress. I think I might have to buy it off Levi.com when they make it available. Of course, he did cry when the judges were complimenting his outfit. (For drinking games, drink three times when Ricky bawls.)
Victorya’s really wasn’t all that good. Neither was Jillian’s. I’m glad Chris is still around, though.
Christian is a little bitch as always.
The look on Chris’ face when he saw he was going to have to run to get his fabric was like, “Oh crap, not again.”
Chris’ garment was dated-looking, and he should have listened to Tim about the trim. Glad he wasn’t auf’ed.
Rami’s was hot and should have won.
Christian’s was cool looking but such a retread of what he did for the Everyday Woman’s weight-loss garment. Innovative because it was jeans, maybe, but totally signature Princess Puffysleeves von Frontplea in design and execution.
Sweet Pea’s still looked hippy dippy to me and nothing special. The patched didn’t line up and that bugged me.
Ricky talking about how he’s always on the bottom made me snicker. But he’s the top now, bitches! His dress was meh to me, but everyone else loved it so…
Can I say, thank GOD Victorya’s out. I was so sick of her supercilious bitchery. I’m glad it was her v. Jillian and the judges chose the better designer. Jillian’s coat wasn’t that great, and neither of them should have been doing jackets after that last challenge, esp. not V, but in the end, it was more Jillian’s.
I have a bunch of old jeans in my closet that I’ve been planning on ripping apart and making into something else. I may need to reconsider that.
Ricky’s was actually good - but the crying needs to stop.
Christian’s looked exactly like his weight loss challenge design. I don’t get how they thought it was more innovative.
I really didn’t like Rami’s. I see why some people would, but I didn’t. I would have liked Chris’s had he sewn down those curvy things.
The guest judge’s upspeak? because everything? is a question? was driving me nuts?
While I’m very relieved that Victorya got kicked off for that awful coat thing, why did they have to make Ricky the winner? Were they just so impressed that his work was finally befitting someone who has come that far in the competition that they had to reward him?
Speaking of the guest judge, I couldn’t really pay attention to what she was saying because I was too fascinated by her hair. It looked… wrong/ fake/like she was wearing a tiny red hat.
This winning thing might come back to bite Ricky in the butt though. I mean, now that the judges are aware he can actually make something that doesn’t stink, they might have less tolerance for the usual crap he puts out.
Ding dong, the [w]itch is dead, the [w]itch is dead!
Unless Vickie-wickie totally recut a Levi’s jean jacket from other Levi’s jeans jackets, I can’t figure out what took her the whole time. It was just boring. Had she actually made a trench coat out of denim, it might have worked, but just sewing a lapel and skirt to a standard jacket properly sent her auf. The clips of her twice calling Sweet P “Kit” in the beginning were highly amusing.
What probably saved Jillian was her obvious ambition, because her coat didn’t work as is. I think the judges saw it had some style, if not the execution.
I am now doubly disappointed that Kevin has been kicked off, because had he been there, he would have taken Little Miss Verbal Diarrhea out into the break room and kicked the shit out of him. At least he didn’t finish early to taunt the rest, or I have no doubt that leftover denim would have been hot glued over his mouth. I think the reason that judges loved his outfit was the sleeves as pants legs, which was very well done, though it really helps if you are designing for a pencil-legged model. The jacket was well done, and it would have knocked the judges socks off had it been the first time they had seen a Puffysleeves Jacket Model 100, but the third or fourth loses its impact.
I liked Weeping Ricky’s dress, though it didn’t reduce me to tears. Beyond the obvious fit and finish, I think he came out on top because it evoked the style of classic jeans more than the others, and it is pretty marketable as is (as shown by the Levi’s judge’s offer to market it).
Dithering Sweet P made the right change up this time. Other than the denims being a little mismatched left to right, I thought her dress was great. It was another that could have been shipped straight to store shelves.
Rami was finally forced not to drape (except for the little swoop at the collar), and came off pretty well, and using the zippers was clever, though the dress seemed a bit overdesigned to me.
Though the show portrays Tim as dropping by, making just a quick a comment or two to the designers (often a meaningless “I’m worried”), and scooting out, I noticed this week that when he entered “four hours left” was flashed on the screen and that when he left he said that the designers had two hours to go, indicating that he was there for two hours. This tells me that he’s probably put in a good ten to twenty minutes with each of the designers, covering all sorts of things. Accordingly, when Tim is shown to have focused with laser-like precision on the one item that the judges hate, that five second observation has been culled by editing in hindsight from the long minutes of his critique.
All of this is a detailed preamble to the obvious question of “If Tim hated Chris’s pockets, why didn’t he change them?” (Substitute ‘Kevin’s unfinished hem’ or whatever other detail, as necessary.) I’m sure that Tim bombards the contestants with many suggestions, both detailed and general, and the simple press of time prohibits them from completing all of the suggestions they are inclined to take. Once more back to Kevin’s hemming example, I’m sure he didn’t just blow off the all-knowing Tim, but decided (perhaps incorrectly) that he had better ways to use his limited time than working out a detailed hem.
That being said, Chris’s dress was OK, but the pocket sucked.
I think they gave the win to Ricky because they were shocked he finally did something that didn’t stink. The edit monkeys were definitely giving the winner away during the course of the episode.
Meh. I can’t stand him. Grown men should not cry for anything short of a kidney stone. He and his ridiculous little hats can shove it. Christian should have gotten the win even if he is an obnoxious pain in the ass freak.
I am not displeased with Victorya’s auffing even if she did somehow manage two challenge wins. Her overall design esthetic doesn’t seem very flattering to the female form.
Sweet P was just adorable. She comes across as nice and kind. She was smart to listen to Tim Gunn last night and get rid of the wedding dress concept.
I think the final three will be Rami, Jillian and Christian.
Victorya really put out a stinker last night. What was that thing? I know she was going for a trench coat, but the only trenchy parts were the poorly made skirt and the collar. The body portion didn’t look trench like at all.
The only reason I can think of for Ricky winning was that his paid the most homage to 501s with the button front. Otherwise, I didn’t really see his dress as being all that great. It was just another tube dress, and I thought Rami’s was much better. Plus, the too short boob coverage and ruffle at the bottom made it look hoochie mama to me.
I know the verdict is that Chris’s dress was “dated”, but I don’t agree. Did I miss when his was in style? If anything, it may have been too simple, but I preferred it to Ricky’s.
I really liked Sweet P’s dress. I can see it being a hot mess in the full length, but the shorter dress looked very nice. It was attractive without being as hoochie and Ricky’s.
I would have voted for Christian as the winner. Yes, it was similar to his weight loss dress, but it was far more ambitious and interesting than yet another tube dress. And I did love the use of sleeves as the bottoms on the pants.
I guess that leaves Jillian. Hers was a big miss. She copied last week and messed up the execution. However, there was no way she was going home with that disaster Victorya sent out.
Hmm…while I still, personality-wise, only like Fatty, and watching the show still doesn’t make me smile like it did in past seasons, at least this challenge’s designs weren’t all fugly. 
And it was a good, common-denominator let’s-see-how-you-differ challenge, if hampered by totally shameless product placement.
The guest judge hit eyeroll ground zero when she chided Sweet P for not making her garment ‘Levis 401’ enough. Could you at least pretend you were interested in something other than advertising, lady? I liked Sweet P’s a lot at first, but the unfitted boob part changed my mind a bit when they were talking about it. It was a cute idea. Really good call listening to Tim there.
Ouch on both Jillian and Vic! I actually thought Jillian’s was way uglier than V’s, and a seemingly obvious attempt to coast on her design from last time, but V’s was seriously uncreative and ugly to boot, so I feel her loss is justified (by the sound of her exit interview, she agrees). I’d’ve been happy with either going.
I thought Chickenhead’s was ugly on top. The sleeves on the pants was a pretty good idea considering, but the jacket was derivative and fussy and as said, totally done by him before. The outfit as a whole made the model look straight and thick in the torso, too. And it wouldn’t win in any case because most normal people couldn’t dream of fitting in those jeans. And model looked terrrrrible. I wonder if these models would look normal/pretty out of the hands of the designers.
Fatty’s was not that bad. Sort of cute; a little dated, yes, though that seems to be his thing anyway. I call BS on the judges over his pocket, though. Can’t play with fraying without fraying here and there too? How about, he can play with it however he feels like it, Mystic-tan marshmallow head? Even if you don’t like how it looks, you (supposedly) didn’t bring innovative designers on this show to follow your fray-percentage rules.
Baldy’s was indeed overdesigned in my eyes. Many cute elements, not an impressive whole. And Beaner’s was definitely more marketable, which was obviously what the client cared about most. sigh I actually liked Ricky’s a lot, thought it fit the challenge, and think it’s fine that he won. I do see that he’s probably shown the least creativity of the people remaining so far, and the tears and hats drive me nuts, but I’m judging based 95% on individual challenges, so if he can step it up now and make it to the top, I ain’t mad at him.
I doubt he will, though.
Me too. As a consumer, I think I’d go with her dress to wear, not Ricky’s. Ricky’s is cute…but honestly, it’s way too short AND it’s strapless…the overall effect is kind of hoochie, as you say. I could pull it off, but I definitely found Sweet P’s cuter and better looking.
ETA: I know earlier I said I was considering buying Ricky’s…but I’ve definitely changed my mind. That and the price…eh. Not so much.
The personalities are a bit lacking this season.
At least he doesn’t get immunity. That means he could be toast next time. Weepy toast.
As someone who has made clothes for decades, I am always amazed at how quickly these guys can put things together that actually look good. Of course a lot of it is glued, especially when they run out of time - but they do it without patterns!
I wonder how much I’d have to pay to have five minutes alone with the Little Queen and a hair razor. I could at least make him look like a male from the neck up.
Tim has said as much in his blog. In fact, in this week’s installment, he explains that his comment on Ricky’s outfit was taken entirely out of context.
Regardless of what you think of him or his designs, I don’t think racial epithets are appropriate in this context.
Speaking of editing, have always wondered one thing–what is the amount of time in real time between episodes? Like, when they finish a challenge which usually only takes a day or two, do they have any downtime? Or is it more like, the day after the last runway show, they’re back on runway picking their models with Heidi again?
From Tim’s podcasts last year, it seems that there is very little time between challenges. If the runway show is one day, the following challenge will happen the next, unless there some production-related reason not to, like a photo shoot or promotional event. I think filming the whole season takes less than a month.
I watched this last night. Was I the only person who was giggling like crazy during Jillian’s “breakdown?” I use the quotation marks because it was like the breakdown of a chronically fatigued person…“I’m bleeeeedinnnnng evverrrywheeeree!” She never seems to show that much emotion in her voice. Both I amd my husband cracked up.
That’s my utterly Mexican boyfriend’s affectionate pet name for him.
Hilarious. (I’ve beeen to Skara Brae, btw. Beautiful.)
Reminded me of the scene in the Wizard of Oz where the witch dissolves, and cries “I’m melting!”
And how did she manage to cut herself so much anyway? I’ve used a sewing machine for many decades and I’ve never gotten my finger under the needle, or cut myself with scissors or whatever.
Ah. My esteem for the contestants–already high, mind you–went up tenfold. They work them hard! Their mini breakdowns/tears do make sense when you consider the pressure they’re under. The fact that they mostly do make good garments is quite incredible, actually.
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Now thats funny.
I thought Ricky’s dress was a little hoochie and something I’ve seen before. I thought Rami’s was different enough to be unique. Chris’ wasn’t that bad and may have been better had he finished it. I thought Sweet Pea’s turned out nice, I liked how the denim looked soft and pliable and not stiff not so many other denim outfits.
I thought Jillian was getting the loser edit so I expected her to be going. I don’t get why both Jillian and Victorya did coats when they had just done a coat together in the last challenge and there was no way they could do a coat as impressive as that one with the materials they had.
I actually sympathized with Jillian, I have had meltdowns like Jillian when sewing, sewing machines hate me and I always have problems. I also stab my self a lot with the pins holding the garments together, which is how I presume she was stabbing herself. And denim is very thick and hard to sew and pin together.