I was sure Godric - er, Mitchell was a goner, too. I hate when they keep a poor sewer.
But really - “No that’s the point, to make the hips look kind of like chicken thighs.”:rolleyes: Just because you’re sportin’ Christian hair, don’t think you’re at his level.
And the model show was fun, too. Fatma really had a Fatal Attraction thing going with Logan, didn’t she? It will be interesting to see how she does with Whiney.
I think it was navy. Seems like navy is the hot color these days, as it got lots of praise on The Fashion Show as well. It’s considered sophisticated I guess.
Honestly, look at it again from all angles (you can do this on lifetime’s website). It’s not really all that well-made.
From Heidi’s comments at the judging, it sounds like Malvin and Mitchell were almost neck-and-neck for being auf’ed.
I completely agree–I actually found the “Models” show even more entertaining than PR this week. The model that left this week seemed like one of the more “grounded” ones, so I’m sorry to see her go. And Fatma is SCARY! Logan had better be careful, but it would be awesome to see Fatma’s reaction if Logan has the chance to pick her again and he passes her up.
I do have to say, there was one good thing about Malvin going home. Everytime I saw his name, I would hear George Takai’s voice from a Futurama episode in my head saying, “I think I know how to spell Melllvar.”
Oh, good. I thought I was the only one!
I’m a little late to this party, but I’ve only just seen the episode.
I have a theory on why Malvin got auf’d instead of Mitchell.
Mitchell tried to make an outfit for a woman.
Malvin made an outfit for an incubator.
Most women don’t want to be wholly defined by their pregnancy. They are still women, who like to do things like meet friends for lunch and go on dates with their husbands. Rebecca didn’t seem to want to hide her pregnancy in any way, but she did want something that was flattering to HER. Because even though she has a proto-human inside her, she is still Rebecca.
I think that’s why they all liked Shirin’s dress so well. The waist detail emphasized the belly in a beautiful way, but didn’t make it the focal point of the outfit. Althea’s de-emphasized the belly a little more, but still showed it without making a big deal of it.
I think the four judges had a visceral negative reaction to Malvin’s design. They’ve all been pregnant, and they all know how it feels to be treated as if you’re suddenly nothing but a womb on legs. They know how it feels to want to say “Hey! I’m still here! Up here! Above the belly!” An outfit like Malvin’s is exactly the opposite of what they want.
And I think they made the right choice. Mitchell is lame, but Malvin seems to have no idea that the people in the clothes are, you know, people. Chicken thighs? Oy vey ist mir!
Great analysis, Green Bean. They did seem to have an almost instinctive dislike of Malvin’s design. Sort of the same reaction I had to his name. Malvin Vein? Ick.
I was dissapointed by the booting of the two weirdos. This sends a message not to take risks or be conceptual. Yes, I know that they were freaks and maybe out of touch, but isn’t that how art lurches forward? Someone has to be that first one to have the guts to put something out there that is not the same thing that you can see at Macy’s today.
I know that fashion is an art that is also about making things that people will buy, but trends got to start somewhere. Who knows, in 3 years we may not be wearing slings around our stomach or silly spacey metallic vests, but maybe every high school kid will be wearing very drapey stuff with a lot of texture, or clothes with quilted soccer ball patterns. They didn’t deserve to win, but at least they deserved to stick around to see what kind of crazy stuff they were going to create.
So, so torn.
I’ve been pregnant. I’ve often bemoaned the way it makes people depersonalize you, to the point of perceiving you as public property. They feel free to touch your belly, comment on your every behavior, offer “helpful advice” of all kinds. I remember saying that the next person who told me I shouldn’t be drinking coffee was going to get a swift throatpunch.
But… but… the mother hen feeling is *also *very real, and I get where he was going with that. It was like a pre-natal Baby Bjorn.
And I don’t think Mitchell’s vision of maternity wear was any less insulting. Sure, I don’t want to be perceived as an incubator. I also don’t want to be perceived as a delusional hipster in denial. Let me assure you that most pregnant women also don’t want badly gathered hotpants.
I know what you mean, but the problem is that there is already so much pregnancy/maternity stuff that addresses that. I don’t remember if Rebecca expressed this explicitly, but I think she specifically wanted something that wasn’t about the mother-hen feeling.
I actually don’t think a belly-hugging thing like that is a bad idea. Lots of pregnant women like to wear things that offer some support, and if it was done right, it could have been sort of avant-garde and cool. But the one-shoulder aspect with an apparently separate shirt underneath made it look literally like a baby sling. And the color and texture were too literally egg-like.
I agree with your comments on Mitchell’s outfit, though. Even if it had been well-executed, there was still nothing about it that was actually fashionable.
I don’t really think it sends that message at all, to be honest.
Art moves forward by people taking risks, yes, but not all risks result in art moving forward. Some things are so far out there that even the people who adore innovation just sit there shaking their heads and muttering “What the fuck was he smoking?!” Art, good art anyway, is a balanced mix of risk-taking/innovation and pleasing aesthetics/emotional punch, and in designing clothing you have not only the demands of making good art, but of making that good art functional. That’s what made Santino’s lingerie collection so incredibly awful, and Leigh Ann’s finale collection so stunning–both the naughty leiderhosen and the folded waves were a risk, but one was balanced in terms of color, texture, and shape, and suited to its function, and one…wasn’t any of those things.
Ari’s red carpet look failed in all the ways Santino’s lingerie failed–plenty risky, but butt-ass fugly and completely unsuited to the intended purpose. (For all his arguments that lingerie is meant to wind up on the floor, it’s supposed to wind up there because it’s in the way, not because your husband has laughed himself sick and you’ve ripped it off in a snit and flounced off to bed in your flannel pajamas.) In addition, it looked very poorly sewn and was a total finger to the judges and the challenge. Instead of taking a risk and trying a red carpet look in the spirit of the challenge, she instead made the sort of stuff she was comfortable making and just called it a red carpet look suitable for the Oscars and the Nobel Prize ceremony. That’s not innovation and risk taking, that’s taking the safe route and being intellectually dishonest about doing so.
Melllvar’s maternity look had many of the exact same failings–a lot of concept, but no aesthetics or heart, and a far too literal interpretation of the concept. I mean, really, feathers around the neck and ass-widening pants to give a more hen-like silhouette? Very pregnant women are already feeling huge because of the loss of their waists, the last thing they want is something to make the rest of them look enormous too. That was the whole point of the challenge, for pity’s sake.
Of course, for the first 8-10 people auf’ed, it really doesn’t matter what order they get eliminated in; those people don’t have a snowball’s chance of winning anyway. It’s just a matter of time before Mitchell gets the boot, and it was likewise just a matter of time until Ari and Malvin got it, so I can’t say that any one of them is more deserving than the others of the chance to keep fugging up my television for a few more weeks.