Yes, Santino had his obnoxious, whiny, self-righteous moments where I found him insufferable. But he also gave us such PRW standards as “What Happened to Andre?”, “Lighten Up, It’s Just Fashion,” and “Don’t Let Emmett on the Surger,” and the Tim Gunn Red Lobster impressions. He was worth it for his moments of high hilarity. Is Stella going to be that enduringly amusing? Doubt it, though Blayne’s impression of her (“My kids, when they came out of me? Leathuh!”) was pretty damn funny, and that made me like him more.
To me, the best dresses in this challenge were not picked to be in the final 6: Terri’s blue dress, Daniel’s black Hepburn number, Emily’s (or maybe Jennifer’s, I can’t keep them straight) orange and grey floaty thing. Stella’s was meh, and Kenley’s was derivative of Daniel V’s flower dress and Christian’s perpetual puffy collars.
Ah, he was. I loved the Tim Gunn and Andre at Red Lobster moment…pure gold, that.
Stella seems more like she’ll be fodder for impressions, you’re right. But both she and Santino seem the types who don’t really admit when they’re wrong, very my way or the high way. It should be interesting when they do group projects to see if Stella plays well with others.
Stella is such a whiny leathuh head! UGH! What did she even get on the show for? She should just have stayed home and pounded studs on her beloved leather.
And Khoto, (or however you spell her name) is awful. Ok, I get it, you are African, you like African stuff, African, African, African. Stop talking about it and design something for crying out loud! I hope she goes soon.
The thing about Stella is, she’d be much more tolerable if she had a sense of humor. She lost me when she missed the opportunity for the perfect comeback at Blayne’s impression of her: “Blayne, your face? Leathuh.”
Anyone else having trouble keeping track of all the 20something white girls on the show? Emily, Jennifer, Leanne, Kenley, Kelli-- I can’t keep them straight.
Usually, when I’ve seen that kind of fabric used, it’s used with linings, interfacings, or some other type of support. As you can see from this episode, the fabric needs that. It also allows the dressmaker to mitigate some of the inherent problems with working with satin. For example, if you were making a satin skirt, the hem could be stitched to the lining instead of the outer fabric, eliminating that hem pucker we saw on all three of the brown satin dresses.
Which, now that I think of it, makes Suede’s design all the more clever, because by layering the fabric, he gave it the support that it needed.
I thought the designs were a little weak this time, nothing really stood out as that great to me. I like how aside from some gentle teasing all the contestants are getting along.
The top three - I’m not sure I would have chosen those. Especially leather girl and candy striper. I think I liked the one with blue lace on the sides and the black one with the white top and the sleek grey ones better. Given the top three though, I’m not sure which I would have chosen. The high collar one was the best, but it was going to be sold on bluefly and it didn’t look as marketable. Natalie really liked the candy striper dress so that probably factored into the win. I wouldn’t have put leather girl in the top three, but she did do a decent job of putting her signature on a style she isn’t native to, and did manage to overcome the challenge of working with what her model brought home. She’s been really struggling though. I don’t see her lasting very long.
The bottom three - I actually liked the inside out dress for the most part. From the back side, the fins didn’t work, but overall I liked the concept. I don’t think it should have been in the bottom three. I guess the other two did look the worst. But the fact that they were both the brown silky fabric shows that they were probably overly handicapped by the choices their models made. I think I would have eliminated the other brown dress, although I’d have to check last week’s to see who has more potential first.
Next week - intriguing, I have no idea what that’s going to be all about.
You know, I loves me some Tim, but I don’t like this aspect of the show. It often seems like he comes in at 11pm and makes vague commentary that isn’t specifically helpful or will suggest a huge change that can’t possibly be completed in the final hour. There might be more going on behind the scenes, but this is the way it comes across on the show.
Well, it doesn’t seem like he gets to do much but the we need Tim. Unfortunately, he has to be subtle and can’t give outright advice that seems like helping but if the contestants have at least two brain cells to rub together they can glean something from Tim’s reactions and the things he can say. For example, Korto should have had a clue from Tim thinking her dress was inside out and maybe done a little editing. It might be more helpful if he could come in earlier so they’d have time for more changes but if he came in earlier there wouldn’t be much to see and comment on.
One thing I have to mention is I hope what’s-her-name, from Africa, doesn’t cry every time she hears constructive criticism. She’s going to have to be stronger than that if she’s going to survive on PR.
You can tell someone is going to be in the Bottom 3 if Tim tells them to change something, and then they are shown saying, “Yeah, well, Tim said this, but I’m going to do it my way anyway!” Leanne was told, flat out, to edit some of the “ellipses” of fabric off her dress, but instead she put MORE of them on. Thus, she was almost auf’d. The mantra should be “Listen to Tim!” because what he says tends to be accurate and predictive of the judge’s responses.
I read an interview with Tim after the last season, in which he was REALLY down on Victorya. She complained a lot that they didn’t have enough time for the challenges, or between challenges, and it was too grueling, etc. The producers asked her if she’d seen the show, and she said yes, but she thought it was cheated in the editing. Tim was like, “well, that’s YOUR fault for making that assumption.” I think that people just believe what they want to believe, or think that they can make it work (to borrow a phrase! ) when they get there. Dumb.
Has Tim Gunn ever been seen to decieve a contestant? That is, give them information that would later turn out work against them? I assume that would be edited out, but still.
O…kay then
I think part of the problem was the budget and the brief…organic silk and satin are expensive, eco-friendly dyes don’t “pop” like the fish-killing ones, and have a limited palette. Thus you get 2 yards of yucky brown satin.
One website I checked was quoting $20-26 for a yard of organic silk charmeuse…no wonder the poor models couldn’t buy enough fabric!
Not that I recall, but I did see one of those behind the scenes interviews with Tim where he said that most of what he says to the designers during his drop-in visits gets edited out. He said that he spends alot of time talking to them about many issues with their garments, and what stays in the show most often are the things that match up with whatever the judges chose to nitpick about. I had often wondered about this myself. I mean, I know that Tim is sharp, but I felt even he couldn’t be right that often. The show is edited to make it look like he comes in and zeros in right away on the problem, but that is not entirely true.
You are welcome! I’m guessing Victorya was pretty bad.
I recommend Tim’s blog on Bravo’s website…he’s not quite as open as he was in that interview, but he can be a bit blunt. Not at all as diplomatic as you would expect from what you see from him on the show
One of the things Tim said in his blog last season was that the editing changed a comment of is from something like “Make sure it’s fabulous!” to “it’s fabulous!” Clearly, not the same sentiment!
) when they get there. Dumb.