Different context.
I agree with much of what you say, but as soon as I saw Rami’s zippers as piping I thought of Jeffery’s Bryant Park collection at the end of last season.
The Ricky win baffled me. I was talking with someone prior to the episode and she said something along the lines of “Well he can’t win just for not sucking. They might not send him home if he really doesn’t suck this week, but he can’t win” Wish I’d bet her.
I have a completely unsupported theory about this. I think that there were some serious competitive feelings stirred up within the VictorIan team last week. Each of them wanted to prove that the design and/or execution of that awesome coat was HERS, not the other’s, so they both made a coat this week. It was not a good idea because the mission, materials, and time constraints were different. I’m also thinking more negatively towards Victorya with this theory, because ISTM that the coat last week was Jillian’s idea (and there’s some evidence for this feeling). That would account for Jillian’s anger at Victorya making a trench coat too, and my feeling that Victorya was kind of a bitch and I’m glad she got auf’ed for it.
Doesn’t excuse Ricky’s weepfests, you know.
Did anybody catch him saying he uses denim in some of his hats? Does that mean he makes all of his horrible, awful, not good hats? Including the mesh one? On purpose?
What are you talking about? That is the context. That’s our affectionate pet name for him, when we make up cute names until we could finally remember people’s real names (they made it harder this season - I still often have to grope for them), given him by my boyfriend, whose Mexican family has graciously accepted me into their fold, as he was applauding Ricky for making his own beaner joke himself within the first 5 minutes of episode one. From then on, he was like “YES! It’s Beaner!” He was his favorite contestant until we realized he cried all the time and only made slipdress thingies. Even then we were still cool with him. Don’t make this into something it’s not.
My bf loves beans and is proud of it, but that’s neither here nor there.
I don’t think your theory’s unsupported, and I share your theory. I was also praying that Victorya would get auf’d. I don’t find the rest of them to be all that inspiring, but I find her to be both uninspiring in her designs and almost singularly self-centered.
And Jillian’s reaction to seeing that Victorya was making a trench coat too was hilarious! But still, I’m just not as into this season as last season. There’s way less crazy, and I’m not just talking about the designers themselves.
Viridiana, I realize this may shock you but there are some people who don’t share your enlightened attitude about the use of racial epithets being okay if they’re used by a member of the group in question. Some people, heaven knows why, think that a racial epithet is a racial epithet, and those poor benighted souls simply don’t find the “but my best friend/ boyfriend/ neighbor is a _______ and he thinks it’s funny!” to be a viable defense to the use of an otherwise proscribed term.
But he only came up with it because of Ricky’s joke, as per my last post. I don’t think casual use of it is cool anywhere, I was explaining where it came from, now that I’ve carelessly popped it out. His was the only pet name that wasn’t based on his physical attributes/race/whatever. Even if that’s still not okay with you, I’d rather you not accuse me of “attitudes” I don’t even share.