Damn, Ivy is one jealous bitter bitch.
I agreed 100% with both the winner and loser in this episode, and I really want to buy that winning sweatshirt!
Hmm, OK, well I wanted to buy it before seeing that tops in Heidi’s collection are sold on Amazon for $100+!
There was some serious ugly on the runway.
First, Heidi’s line is dull. That they were more or less limited to gray jersey made the challenge bad to begin with. That they had to do three looks just made it stupid. It was an ill conceived challenge all around.
To me, nothing looked good. Andy made at least two of his models’ butts look huge and not in a good way. My ass can look wide for much less than $100. Mondo’s looks were less actively offensive than many of the other designers, but I’m pretty sure I own that sweatshirt. And I want to know where April’s models were going, the only place the dress belongs (which she still managed to make in black, with straps!) is an 80s art-music video. If I saw a woman in any of her looks on the street…well, I probably wouldn’t notice, because I live in a neighborhood where people will wear anything but I can’t see a typical “mom” picking up her kids after the gym in that. I can’t see a typical anyone in that. Michael’s dress with that belt made his model look pregnant. I know that I own near replicas of Christopher’s stuff, except I wear it to the gym with tennis shoes, not heels. And Gretchen was the 80s dance music video.
With those results, they should have just scrapped the challenge and apologized saying “we’re sorry. These are all awful. We’ll try again with a challenge that counts tomorrow morning.”
I have to run off to work, but I just wanted to post some love for Heidi snarking on Ivy’s shit-talking during the workroom visit. It made me want to bust out singing “Schadenfreude.”
Excellent editing when Ivy says she believes in karma and then they cut to her getting hurt… man, that gold.
I thought the winning collection was awful. Those stripes made the model’s thighs look a mile wide!
This was a ludicrous challenge. We’re what, two or three weeks from Fashion Week, and they’re designing sweats? Might as well ask them to design the 2011 line of tarps for Home Depot. This would have been an OK challenge in about the second week.
Heidi’s collection looked like some grim post-apocalyptic *Flashdance *mess. Her face was all over Amazon last night - it’s an expensive post-apocalyptic Flashdance.
Ivy’s needle blowout - it’s funny how machinery can somehow sense when people need an attitude adjustment. I’m thoroughly convinced that all sewing machines have some level of sentience.
Oh, and that fake hyped up cheating drama?
I feel used and a little dirty.
Christopher really did deserve to go home last night, but I agree that it was a pretty bogus challenge.
Ivy is a such a bitter little bitch. I loved Heidi in the workroom with Michael C and her little jab at Ivy. I do wish Michael would fight back a bit, I hate seeing him getting picked on like he does. I just want to give him a hug. Such bitter cakes this season.
My prediction for next week is that either Gretchen or Michael goes home. I am sick of Gretchen’s attitude and unless Michael C can make something comparable to a Mondo or Andy, he will be sent packing.
They are down to 5 now, you can’t slide by on a middle of the road design.
If you pay attention to Michael’s interviews on the show, you will notice he isn’t such a shrinking violet. He pretends to be all hurt, but he’s fine.
I hated this challenge. But if you put a shakey gun to my head and demand that I pick a collection I like, I would go with April. Her wacky dress was kind of cool to me, for some reason. Her trademark little black joint was cute, too.
ETA: For some reason, I’m starting to like Gretchen.
If you haven’t checked out Heidi’s collection on amazon.com, take a look. It’s awful. Andy’s pieces are the best things in the line. After seeing the collection, I understand some of the dreadful designs on PR this week.
This was the perfect challenge to stifle designer creativity. Perhaps the true challenge was to see if the designers could abandon their aesthetic for the sake of exposure and financial gain.
Just in case any designers were showing a bit of personality, Heidi showed up in the workroom to put an end to it. Example: Gretchen got reamed out for using fabrics she liked instead of fabrics from the warehouse.
But then, of course, Heidi hates Gretchen. Jealousy no doubt.
The off-the-shoulder blue dress Heidi was wearing on runway day was the same color as the background, and it made her look like a floating head and shoulders. That was kind of fun.
Farewell Christopher. You were a sweet piece of eye candy.
I don’t think he’s pretending, but he’s just sucking up and dealing. Did you see the look of genuine happiness on his face when Andy won? Andy, the guy who hasn’t had two nice things to say about Michael from the beginning? It seems, however, that most of the true hostility toward Michael has come from the women: Ivy (as big a See You Next Tuesday as you can imagine) and the detestable Gretchen leading the charge. There have been several guys who joined the anti-Michael bandwagon in a sort of GroupThink way, but who came around to liking him once they got to know him. But the sheer level of venom leveled against him from the female competitors is truly mind-boggling. I would love to see him make the final 4 over one of the two remaining females (April DiaperShorts has no leverage when it comes to criticizing him either) just because I’d be curious to see what he’d come up with for Fashion Week.
Chris was a nice guy (and Bay Area rep!) but did nothing to distinguish himself through the whole season. Middle-of-the-Road all the way, it was only fitting that it was this blah collection that finally gave him the boot.
You’re not kidding. I’ve only seen bits of this episode so I can’t comment yet, but looking at this collection on Amazon, I’m a little confused about why it was produced at all. You can’t do yoga or running or active-anything in any of those hangy-loose pieces (cashmere? for NB? really?), and the rest is basic pants/tanks.
But the lack of color! Gah! I’m having a hard time picturing anyone (even the most choosy fashionista) paying a hundred for …grey sweat pants. Hell, even if they were just purple or bright or super-absorbent sweat fabric of the future, I’d be a little more understanding. At least it doesn’t have “Heidi” bedazzled on the butt.
Gretchen seems like a two-faced bitch. Telling everyone who will listen that she hopes Michael C will go home, then cosying up to him and giving him a pep talk. And watching her tell Heidi what her collection lacked was priceless. Does the woman have no sense of self-preservation?
I liked Andy’s hoody. I hated everything of April’s. Just everything. Christopher’s was just meh. I didn’t hate, I didn’t love it. It’s stuff I’d walk past in a department store without giving it a second glance. Gretchen’s tight skirts looked anything but casual and comfortable. And those shorts under the first look did look like they were riding up. That belt around the butt of the model in Michael C’s look was so uncomfortable looking, and did make his model look like she’s pregnant. I thought Mondo’s looks were the most successful. They didn’t look like Mondo, but they did fit in with the challenge and were attractive. I’m surprised Heidi didn’t hold his petulant pouting in the workroom against him. If he hadn’t won the three previous challenges, I think the win would’ve been his.
With all the bullying in the news, I think Michael C’s case is proof that bullying doesn’t only happen to kids. I know the producers and Tim can’t make them play well together, but it’s very painful to watch.
StG
I actually liked the short little shirt that Mondo first made that Heidi was all snotty about.
Terrible challenge. Ivy is SO ANNOYING. She has this super prim way of talking that makes me want to stab her or myself and frankly, I’m leaning toward her.
It would’ve been even better if she’d spontaneously dissolved into a pool of bubbling acid.
That woman needs an exorcist.
I’m baffled as to how the words ‘lululemon’ were never mentioned in regards to Andy’s designs.
That hoodie is pretty much a direct rip-off of Lulu’s signature logo hoodies. How is it design to reproduce something that there are already hundreds of thousands of, because someone else has already built an entire retail empire around it.
I guess I missed the part of the challenge where the designers were told to make at least one of their looks completely shapeless and unflattering for any body type. Holy shit.
Maybe Heidi wants a piece of their market?
I’ve fallen in love with Mondo’s designs. I wasn’t too keen on his blue-white stripes, pink & green bikini thing, but since then I like everything he’s done. I hope he wins the whole shebang.
I liked Christopher in the beginning, but he’s gotten boring in the past few weeks, the last good thing he made was the dress under the rug.
I laughed out loud. Seems like the editors are having more fun this season than usual.
This really was a terrible challenge. Everything was so hideous it actually hurt my feelings. I checked out the line on Amazon, and it’s pure ridiculousness. I frankly don’t understand what these clothes are for. They’re awfully pricey for gym clothes, and mostly completely unsuitable for anything else.
I think it does hurt his feelings somewhat (nobody enjoys being disliked, after all), and Ivy is absolutely a dyed-in-the-wool crotch, but yeah, I think he’s milking it a little with this wounded-fawn routine.