Well, after looking at all the designs again, I think the annoyingly-named German guy is the one to watch. It was interesting that he had very little screen time in the work room and was grouped among the “safes” when his dress with the bias insert on the skirt and the layered bodice hit the right notes of skill, design, interest, and wearability.
German guy will annoy the hell out of me in short order, I am confident.
Interesting that Mary Kay and Red Robin (?) are major sponsors. Disappointed not to see biker-mustache makeup guy.
Thanks for the bump – reminds me to watch tonight!
What was the accessory wall in the last few seasons? My memory is crap and I can’t remember which company it use to be.
I was surprised to discover that there’s a Wiki for that.
I’ll be darned. Thank you.
Well, that was hard to watch. Carrie and Hernan both acted very badly. I wish the judges had eliminated both of them. They certainly seemed in a bad enough mood to do so. If only one, I would have eliminated Hernan. He forced the other two to follow his lead.
Yeah, I agree with that. Also, none of the groups as a whole seemed impressive. Each one pretty much had a bad, better, best.
I’m not sure if the silver teem should have one, but I did agree that out of the three of them, Amanda was the best.
Both could have gone, and I would have said Hernan, but Carrie was such a whiny cry baby (and a bitch) afterwards that I’m now glad she’s gone.
Amanda’s already pretty annoying, and this win will make her even worse. I couldn’t figure out what she used for the white foundation. If that was just muslin, I don’t see how it meets the criteria.
I saw him in the makeup room last for about 3 seconds. I like him and glad he’s still around. Now what about Collier Strong?
But Sandhya said right off in the workroom: each make his/her own design and figure out the theme afterwards. That wasn’t going to work. She was making the cheerleader skirt and Purple Hair was making that awful sci-fi collar costume.
The editing made it look like she didn’t want to work with the others and since she had immunity, that made her look ungracious as well as not being a team player. During the judging, Tim said Hernan was being the difficult one.
It is inherently unfair (therefore TOTAL WIN!!!) [sic] to have the producers pick the teams, with an eye towards conflicting personalities, and to have one team member with immunity. I did expect Korinne and Amanda to clash since each one has been set up to be the power-female. Also Fade and the Kiwi were saddled with very weak Angela but were creative and mature enough to carry her dead weight. I thought the blue/purple design team was fun to see (briefly).
I got caught up on last week’s and was glad to see Jefferson go. “I have a lot of dropped-crotch jogging pants”?! Ah, no.
This week I was a little torn. I thought the over-the-top blue/purple was most in keeping with the theme. And I agree that strings of hardware over a muslin form wasn’t really a full garment.
They really did look like they were going to auf both of them. Too bad. That girl is too bratty to come back even as a helper to one of the finalists. Yeah, it’s not fair, but that’s the way the game is played.
Not at all impressed with Sandhya going whining to Tim – esp. what they were being “mean” to her about was the “let’s figure out cohesion after we’ve made three pieces completely independently,” which has to be the stupidest thing ever said in a team competition.
Also, I thought the winning team shouldn’t’ve won – two of the three of those were just ugly. The stripy thing – yuck. And the letters thing was a cool idea, but the skirt was so stiff that it didn’t look good.
He was there this week (but not last), and he now seems to be working for Mary K., whereas before he was with L’Oreal. I wonder if Mary K. poached him, and if it happened before or after they decided to take over sponsorship.
Exactly. Although Carrie was so fucking annoying that i was happy to see her booted.
I like that Tim attempted to convey Hernan’s pigheadedness during the judging, and i thought they were going to eliminate him, especially because Nina and Zac both seemed to listen to Tim, and to then argue that the collection was his vision. Because that’s exactly what it was. He basically bullied the other two (and especially Sandhya) into making the dress that he wanted.
I understand that some people didn’t feel Sandhya deserved the win last week, but i thought they were very unfair to her this week, saying that she should have been the one going home. Yes, her dress might have been the worst out of the three, but she basically made the dress that Hernan told her to make, after starting out with something completely different. I’m not saying her original design would have been a winner, but it would have been more interesting than what they ended up with, and they ragged on her very unfairly for the whole of the judging stage.
One thing i will criticize Sandhya for, though, is that she was far too inflexible in the early stages on the challenge. If you have immunity in a team challenge, i think it’s your responsibility to let your team-mates take the lead, and be willing to follow their vision. They are, after all, the ones in anger. Early on, she kept refusing to accommodate herself to their suggestions, and kept insisting that she was going to stick with her vision and damn the consequences. She needed to be more flexible.
And i didn’t like Amanda’s piece much at all. I was staggered that she got the win, quite frankly.
I really really really dislike Sandhya. If she wasn’t so resistant to working with others to begin with, that team may have been stronger.
Amanda’s was pretty, but it was just strands hanging over muslin. How does that fit the challenge? Kiwi guy would have won if it wasn’t for Angela’s awful dress which was also just some paper cutouts stuck to a muslin dress.
Yes, I forgot to say that. Maybe they talk to Tim more than is usually shown, but for her to go to him immediately like that was weak.
I do dislike team challenges because if a designer really does make it, they don’t have to compromise with other designers, they get to be in charge. Compromising in working with a client yes, but the designer is still the one in charge.
Once again, I think the wrong person went home. I also think the wrong person won.
In my opinion the top three were:
Emily - I think she should have won.
Sean
Kini
My bottom 3 picks:
Angela
Alexander - I think he should have gone home.
Mitchel
I thought Sandhya’s dress was too costume-y. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t think it deserved to win.
I was fine with who went home. As long as it was either Angela or the potato sack dress. I couldn’t stand Angela’s timid sad sack attitude any longer and I a only watching the show! She must have been unbearable to those actually working with her. How in the world did she work on Wall Street?
I don’t understand Sandhya or what the judges see in her. I would almost think that there is something nefarious going on in the judging, since she has consistently made one of the worst/ugliest garments each week, and aside from when she had immunity she keeps winning. Nothing in her look this week said “strong woman,” that was *such *bullshit. She heard the word “future,” threw some metal tubes on a boring pink dress, and the judges ate up her shit with a spoon.
I liked Kristine’s design the best. The coat was amazing. I like Sandhya a lot (her personality, looks, the entire package) so I am not sorry she won. Her 1st and 3rd designs are not anything I would wear but seem to me much more creative and risky than others. I thought Alexander’s was far worse than Angela; but she was in the bottom the past two challenges so I presume that is why she was eliminated.
They’ve said before that they don’t grade on a cumulative score. Heidi said the judging is supposed to be based on, “One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out.” Of course she could have changed her mind since then.