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Lesson to be learned: Don’t make a tube dress and just stick some shit on it. The judges WILL notice.
And speaking of judges…Sandra Bernhard kicked Natalie Portman’s butt.
I was totally floored by the judging tonight. Horrendously bad. I’ll spoiler because the Left Coast is still waiting to see this bad dream.
[spoiler]Sandra Bernhardt was accusing Kenley’s model of having a goiter… she did have a giant purple tulle tumor, and she freakin’ WON. What? My cats have vomited up more attractive things than that.
Leanne’s outfit was perfect. This was a rare occasion where someone on PRW made something beautiful that I personally would actually wear. I want that outfit. HOT. The judges were totally lobotomized here. Not to mention that Teri’s was also better than Kenley’s. And several others that didn’t even make it to the Top 3. WRONGNESS.
And I agree with Emily-- her dress was NOT the worst thing on the runway tonight. It was lame and boring but wearable. Keith’s dress looked like a whole lot of nothing and sucked. Jennifer’s dress’ hem looked like it got stuck in the machine, and it looked like a 50 year old woman would think it was too old-looking.
Ugh. Bleah. Argh.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Ugh…I’m glad I don’t need my eyes examined because I, too, thought that I myself have vomited up prettier things than Kenley’s dress.
I’m also left wondering why Emily was sent home and that matronly sack dress was saved.[/spoiler]
You don’t have to spoiler box it. West coasters know by now not to open the thread in between the airings. (We’ve discussed this a zillion times.)
Because Emily’s was just a tube dress with shit stuck on it. At least Jennifer tried* to do something. Keith was saved because he stuck even more shit on his tube dress than Emily did.
Kenley’s was beyond hideous.
Why hasn’t anybody noticed how bad Blayne’s neon stuff is? I thought last weeks was atrocious, and this week’s was even worse.
Why don’t you post it in the OP or label the thread SPOILERS then? Because until you do in the OP, I’m going to spoiler it. Not trying to be antagonistic, but that’s how it’s generally done no matter how many times it’s been discussed in other threads. I can’t keep track of that unless it’s in the OP or thread title.
Spoilers coming…
I have a feeling a lot of PR viewers are confused tonight. Leanne’s non-dress looked a million times better than the others. And I was sure the old lady dress would be the end of Jennifer. Keith’s was just as bad.
Why did it look like Blayne was sitting around bothering other people in one scene, then like he was pressed for time the next? Buddy, I know you want to be the next Christian, but he pulled that crap after he finished. Plus he made some non-fug once in a while, unlike you.
And because it must be said every week, Slacker wants to punch Suede in the back of the head.
I get the feeling that the powers that be really like Kenley–we’re sure seeing a lot of her, and she’s consistently praised, etc. I mean, she did a nice dress last time, but this thing was truly heinous.
Emily totally got the loser edit-- Tim told her she needed to do something to make the dress less lame and boring, and she did the classic, doomed, “Tim didn’t like it but I trust MY artistic vision, so I’m going to ignore Tim’s sage advice and careen directly into the abyss.” So I knew that Emily was out immediately upon seeing that testimonial.
Couldn’t have seen Leanne’s loss to Joan Collins’ Closet Barfed Tulle though.
I think Kenley is very pretty and will make for good press, like Christian did. Beyond that, I don’t get it, but I agree with you, Freudian Slit, they do seem to like her.
I cannot stand Sandra Bernhard. I have never associated her with good fashion sense. She was even scarier looking than ever, perhaps a bad face lift? I don’t think she contributed anything worthwhile and I don’t understand why she was a judge. And she’s just plain stupid because goiters occur in the neck (thyroid gland), not the thigh. Did I mention I can’t stand her?
Leeanne was robbed. Not only was her outfit more wearable that that thing of Kenley’s, it fit the challenge better in that it was more reminiscent of the picture and it was something normal people might choose to wear for a night on the town. Leeann learned from last week and improved greatly, I think she deserved the win for that.
When they called out the six I was confused because I thought there were 4 bad designs out there and didn’t expect Kenley to be a top 3, let alone the winner. I guess they really like loud fugly patterns. And what was the deal with giving her the win after all those comments about her dress would be good if someone had one thigh bigger than the other? Leeann’s had no criticisms. I wasn’t crazy about Teri’s either.
I would have picked Keith to go home because it didn’t seem to have much effort in it and Emily’s might have been wearable without the ruffle. Jennifer’s looked like a maternity dress to me, it made her model look pregnant but I thought she at least made an effort and her construction was better than Keith’s. But then Emily made the fatal error of ignoring Tim’s advice, so she was doomed. At least it will be a little easier to tell the generic white chicks apart.
I was shocked by those results…
How did that just happen?
My family was shocked and appalled by the winner decision tonight. Usually I can calm down the wife and daughter by saying that the judges were rewarding forward thinking designs that have exagerated elements that could be incorporated into next year’s fashions, rather than rewarding those who are simply following trends and make garments that could sell right now. I couldn’t make that argument tonight, that dress was butt ugly and will be butt ugly next year and butt ugly for the forseable future. We agreed that either the hip hop lady with the dress/pant combo and the nerdy girl #1 with the grate dress would have been a worthy winner.
We felt that either the Winona Ryder looking girl with the corsage dress or the nerdy girl #2 and her clock dress deserved to lose, but we would have added the winning 50’s rehash girl to the bottom 3.
I am already tired of the undernourished overly tanned moppet guy and the faux hawked guy from Reno 911 trying to be this years “cool gay with the snappy catch phrases” guy. Please, let both of them get booted next week for some sort of rules violation.
On screen, Kenley’s weird tulle thing made the model’s hips look weird. I can get why they thought the idea was cool, but it didn’t work. Terri’s idea was also cool. And it worked. “organic, yet architectural”'s (does her manner of speaking make anyone else want to shake her and tell her to use a real voice?) idea was also cool and it worked. Either of those could have won.
I also really liked Jerell’s gown - but I think that’s partially because I like gowns.
I liked Keith’s idea - and had he not completely obscured his model’s body and done something more interesting with color blocking, I think it would have made a good dress. Failed execution, but good idea. The ruffle thing was just wrong. It was supposed to be inspired by the picture, not reminiscent of it. It was way too literal, the ruffle was put in the worst possible place (“here is a line from her breasts to her crotch. I feel that symbolizes NY at night”), and it was ugly. I would have been happy with either that or the maternity dress going home.
Blayne. We know, you want to be seen. We saw you. Stop it.
I’m getting tired of these wannabes trying to make themselves into TV icons. Suede with his speaking in the third-person - someone needs to pull him aside and tell him how not attractive that is. And Blayne with his “-licious” suffix. Did you see him answer the door abd say “Tim-licious!” to Tim? Although I will say I giggleed when they tried to teach Tim the “holla atcha boy” thing. And it seems to me that, for the most part, the designers get along better in the workroom than most previous seasons. Although listening to the hammering of grommets all night would drive me crazy, too.
As for the outfits. I liked the bronze and black dress, the two piece based on the tree grate, the long gown (which seemed like a lot of dress for $100), and the blue tunic & black pants. Stella’s bustier and trousers were sort of meh. the winning Ft. Lauderdale lounge chair dress was horrible! I looked at it and said “somebody’s gone back to the 89’s, and not in a good way!” The clock dress made the size-0 model look fat, which is never a good thing. I think the inspiration was cool, it was just poorly executed. The toilet-paper dress didn’t work - it made the model look rotund. Maybe if he’d tried to fringe the fabric, fitting the dress better and having the fringe swirl with movement. Neither black dress with colourful ruffles did anything for me.
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I agree with so much of what’s been posted. Leanne was robbed. The floral buttock enlarging dress shouldn’t have been in the top, let alone the winner. Jerell’s dress was gorgeous but I don’t think it answered the “night on the town” aspect of the challenge. Daniels dress looked like Rami made it. I wish they’d taken the opportunity to show us a flashback of Jay’s Chrysler Building dress. I LOVED that dress!
The only new thing I have to add is, could we puhleeze hve a little less Stella. “How do you work this camera? Wahhhh?” Isn’t she FROM New York? How then is she surprised that someone walked through her photo??? In the amount of time she spent crabbing about it (that we saw) she could easily have taken 10 more.
I have to remind myself of the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen at the end of the credits - winners are based on the judges scores AND on input from the producers and staff (paraphrasing terribly here), so if they want people to keep watching they have to keep up the drama. If all we see for 45 minutes is designers getting along and making pretty things, no one will watch. So even though her stuff is bland and Merry-Go-Round circa 1991, Stella has to stay b/c she’s a bitch. And either Suede or Blayne has to be this year’s Christian 'cause people *watched * last year’s Christian. I don’t know why they’re keeping the matronly dressmaker who makes matronly dresses, I guess 'cause they can only auf one person per show and the Tim-denier had to go. Tim’s got smiting privileges, I bet.
God, it is draining to listen to her! Everytime I hear her voice it is like all the joy is sucked out of the room. The woman is so negative. And it seems like she gets more camera time than anyone else.
I’m finding Blayne a little more tolerable than Stella or Suede, if he wouldn’t try so hard to be memorable-licious he might manage to show that he has a real personality instead of being fake-i-licious. Besides he’s like, 12 years old, so a lot of his faults can be forgiven for childish exuberance and he mocked Stella which made me like him a bit more.
I’d be very happy if there was a challenge with teams of two and the bottom team gets aufed and the bottom team is Stella and Suede. That would be very entertaining to watch.
Much like Jillian’s twizzler dress last season, the black street dress channeled the actual competition and still made excellent couture. My girlfriend and I were desperate to see a dress inspired by architecture (wouldn’t a chrysler building dress be awesome?) but only Leanne met that expectation. And like the Jillian, she didn’t win.
Who was the guest judge? Heidi Klum’s presentation sounded, in my ears, like “This is a woman who lives in New York. That will suffice.” Very strange. It is also strange to see the judges unite in their hatred or praise towards a given dress, it’s like they amplify eachother.
e Blayne is really, really grating. Heads up: the reason why Christian got away with silly catchphrasing was because he was a very gifted designer who got a lot of respect for his creations. Also, seeing Tim Gunn shout “Holla” made my hair stand on end. Below his dignity for sure.
I love Sandra Bernhard. I’ve seen her live before, and she’s just freakin’ hilarious. But the last thing I would ever ask her to be is a fashion judge. Really…
Here’s Jay’s Chrysler Building dress from Season 1. Still one of my favorite things ever made on PR. Somehow I’d blocked the giant silly flower. But the dress is impeccable and I think it was one of the challenges where they had either less time or less money than usual to make it.
And Blayne’s dress looked like something from the Linda Dano for QVC Collection. Neon? Really?