True.
However it was the only reason I could come up with since many times in past seasons one of the judges will say something like, “the design was awful but I want to see more from the person.”
I have watched all the past seasons; but for some reason this season I have become obsessed (possibly too strong a word) with figuring out how they decide which is the best of the top three and the worst of the bottom three. Also I constantly stop the show during the runway so I can analyze each design and do my score to compare with the judges.
(OK I need to get out more :eek: but it is only one night a week )
I know it is reality TV and they probably decided who the final winner is as soon as they cast the show:smack:
Just watched this episode last night (i have to make an effort to stay away from this thread until i watch).
I thought Sandhya’s was interesting, but i definitely wouldn’t have given it the win. For me, it was between Kristine and Emily, and my vote would have gone to Kristine. I thought it looked good, and i really like the way that the white outfit and the green jacket went together.
When she was describing her jacket to Tim during his critique, and talking about the rings she was going to make for the bottom half of the sleeves, Tim didn’t really seem to get it, but i knew as soon as she explained it that it was going to look good. And the white outfit was pretty great by itself.
As for the bottom, i think that Alexander would have received my vote for the elimination, although i can’t complain too much about Angela. Did anyone think she seemed relieved to have it all over with?
Korina annoys me more and more with every episode.
I thought the 20-year-old photo of Emily was awesome, in her big hair and revealing black number for a glamor fashion shoot.
Didn’t get a chance to watch till tonight. Nothing to add – Angela was deeply, profoundly annoying, and I’m glad to see the end of her for that reason alone. And the skirt was godawful. Plenty of bad stuff on the runway, though, so I wouldn’t’ve cried foul if she squeaked through.
Sandhaya, though, I just don’t see it. God that dress was ugly.
PS: Rooting for Char – though I wasn’t wowed by this week’s outfit – and Emily.
So far everyone in my house has noticed how none of the contestants have much of a personality. At first I disagreed. There was Angela, always worried and unsure of herself. There’s Mitchell, flamboyant and catty, and Fäde, arrogant and kind of reminding me of Dieter from Sprockets.
But Angela’s now gone, and Mitchell and Fäde have seemed to tone down their attitudes, so yeah, this crop is kind of bland.
I sometimes get annoyed with this, too, but it’s worth recognizing that there are different kinds of wearable. If the thing you designed looks like it came off the rack at Ann Taylor Loft, it’s not likely to do well in a fashion design competition.
Leaving aside Sandhya’s for the moment, the other two top designs this week were quite wearable, i thought. At least, for the type of tall slim woman that most of this stuff is designed for.
This has always a problem with this show: “wearable” is an offense against fashion. Always bothered me. What, they want something that’s NOT wearable?
I think (but I wouldn’t swear to it) they’ve said that they don’t grade on a cumulative score FOR AN INDIVIDUAL EPISODE. When decided who to keep and who to send home, however, they clearly discuss whether they’d like to see more for a person – ie., was today’s horror just a fluke, or part of a consistent pattern.
I would have given the win to Kristine and sent Alexander home for that ugly dust rag. It reminded me of the challenge where they gave them no money to design for a cheap shop and sent someone home because he couldn’t cope with it. Kristine’s coat was very cool, interesting and unique. It also worked well with the white outfit underneath it.
I just caught up with this and I have to wonder what the judges are smoking with Sandiya’s two wins. Sure, give her props for creativity but those fugly things should not have won. I was truly surprised that second one won because they weren’t even talking it up that much.
Sounds like they gave him a pass because he admitted it was a last-minute thing … but even at the last minute, there’s no excuse for the alignment of the pattern being off. It should be on grain anyway, but definitely when there’s a visible pattern like that.
Sandiya’s wins sends a strong message (besides “whole thing is fixed” and “the judges are smoking crack”).
Don’t bore the judges. I’m not a Sandiya fan but I can see that she at least isn’t repeating design…tropes…for lack of a better word, that the judges have seen over and over. I loved Emily’s outfit and thought it was beautiful, but I can see how the judges would have seen it before, ad nauseaum.
The judges jobs, outside of PR, is going to fashion shows, designing, looking at fashion and thinking about fashion. They can probably spot an unoriginal, repeated design idea from 50 yards. And I think there have been challenges in past seasons where an amazing design that we all saw was just blatantly stolen from something on runways that very season, and the judges saw it for what it was, right away.
Sandiya also is using inspiration from her culture, which lets be honest **is **fresh and new - I don’t remember seeing another Indian designer in the 13 seasons. (Am I forgetting anyone?) She isn’t just sending another take on a boring black dress down the runway so good on her.
That said, both of Sandiya’s wins have been laughable if nothing else than for reasons of finishing I think. But…I think I get it.
This is my opinion, too. Sandiya is standing out for her originality, compared to the other contestants.
For me, Amanda is the most annoying person ever to be on the show. I still cannot grasp how she was the one voted to come back. Having to listen to her is almost ruining this season for me.
I think Christine’s was original enough to show her creativity and still looked good and wearable. Sandiya’s was some tubes slapped on a boring shift dress. I can accept that first win she had because she did a lot of different techniques to that dress even though it still looked ugly, but that second win is fishy to me. It wasn’t supposed to be Avant garde but something that people would actually wear, right?
I think she’s getting praised for her Indian aesthetic, too, but in a different way. She’s their first Indian contestant, and her work so far has been very heavily and obviously based in an Indian aesthetic. And it’s damn near impossible for to look at something that’s so clearly ethnically-based and say it’s tacky, fugly-ass shit without that coming across kinda racist.
Her winning piece was a list of things that have historically gotten people sent home. Boring? Check, it was a shift dress with some tubes put on. Cheap-looking? Check, that gold fabric the tubes tapered down to looked like something you’d find in a mall store catering to teenagers. Unwearable? Check, nobody could possibly sit down in it, and even a professional model looks like shit in it. Flat-out unattractive? Check.
We had the same thing a couple seasons ago with a Native American (can’t say Indian ‘cause it’d be confusin’) who did stuff based on tribal whatchacallit, that looked tacky but got high praise from the judges because they can’t be racist.
I think she reminds me a bit of the deaf guy from a previous season. It seemed like they bent over backwards to praise him when his stuff wasn’t really that great. It was like they couldn’t be mean to the deaf guy and they always had to tell him how brave he was. I guess that bugs me because I think he would rather have been thought of as a great designer, than the deaf designer. And being deaf wasn’t really that much of an obstacle to designing clothes. It should have never even been mentioned.
So it feels like they decided that the Indian woman (not the Native American one who hasn’t quite mentioned her heritage quite as much) is the one that constantly needs to be praised because her culture is traditionally rather oppressive of women so isn’t she brave and all that?
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