Had to start a thread–I love, love, LOVE this challenge.
Laura is being Laura, Uli is being Uli, Vincent is doing a reincarnation of that heinous Jetsons dress, Jeffrey is making a dress out of what in America we’d call a tablecloth, Michael is stressing, and Kayne is making a pageant gown.
I love this show.
Ack, I missed the first five minutes. Can anyone give me a quick summary (though I’m sure I’ll catch it in reruns anyway)?
They’re making couture gowns–everything has to be hand-sewn. At least, that’s what I thought although Laura is using the machine so what do I know? Maybe any embroidery or embellishment has to be hand sewn? The hems have to be handsewn at least.
Oh hell, I don’t know.
YAY! VIncent it OUT!
I can’t believe that hideous thing that Jeffry made, won.
But it’s a relief to know that Project Runway “got [him] off.”
I actually liked Jeffrey’s – it was very different and fun. I would have picked Uli over Jeffrey, but his was a good choice.
I really liked Michael’s dress color, and if he could have executed better, he would have had a chance to win. The judges were right about those two bunny ears.
Vincent’s dress was weird. I thought of Angela as soon as I saw that thing on the back of the dress.
Laura was very close to going out. I actually thought that collar was uglier than anything Vincent did.
Kayne was Kayne, and he hasn’t learned how to reign himself in yet.
I secretly loved Kayne’s gown, it had a gorgeous flow and the colors were perfect, IMO. But Uli’s was by far the best, and I’m sad and disappointed that Jeffrey won for his piece of crap dress. I thought the crits were right on for Vincent, Michael and Laura, though Michael’s was a lot nicer than theirs.
I thought this one was tough for the judges because none of the dresses was that great, unfortunately.
I thought Uli’s dress was the best but, honestly, it was just an upscale variation of the same damn thing she always does so maybe they didn’t want to reward that.
Jeffrey’s was a good design but the fabric was downright fugly.
Kayne’s dress was a lighter version of the dress that got Malan booted.
Michael’s dress WAS fucked up but there actually was really pretty detailing on it. If he’d had more time, it would have been really, really nice.
Laura’s dress was appropriate for Lily Munster. In a lighter fabric, with no sleeves, and a livelier collar, it might have worked.
Vincent’s dress was just wretched. The top was all him and the bottom was Angela on quualudes–one giant, clunky rosette.
I agree with this. I liked Kayne’s a lot. Maybe I just have bad taste. 
Kayne is also the only one left with a sense of humor.
I could picture Uli’s being worn by someone like Gwyneth Paltrow. I hated Jeffrey’s. He’s such an arrogant penis neck. I’m surprised and glad Vincent is finally out. I actually thought it would be Kayne or even Laura.
I liked Jeffrey’s dress. I hate Jeffrey and hate to see him do well, but I did like the dress. His model really sold it on the NY runway. Uli’s dress was better in my opinion. It was similar to her other stuff, but it was so beautiful on its own that I would have made it the winner. No one else came close to those two.
Laura’s wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t couture. I didn’t think it was ugly, but (to me) it looked like something an older woman who was still in good shape would wear. I think it looked better on the Paris model.
Michael had his first misstep. The color was gorgeous, but why did he attempt hand rouching (how is that spelled anyway) for a 2 day couture dress at this point in the competition (when many of the weaker players are out)? It did look a lot better with those bunny ears gone. I was hoping Michael’s NY model could really sell it (he has the best model), but even she couldn’t salvage it.
Kayne’s wasn’t too bad as an evening dress, but it was rather pageant like. I didn’t see it as really couture either. It wasn’t flat-out ugly, so it beat Michael’s and Vincent’s in that respect. Plus, it wasn’t as old lady as Laura’s. His looked better on the Paris model too.
Vincent brought the fug. That thing would be ugly as a prom dress. It would be ugly at the boring office Christmas party. It would be ugly as a house dress. Pretty much, it would be ugly anywhere. And why the hell did he put the flower thing on the back? A tribute to Angela?
I loved Kayne’s dress. It was awesome. Maybe it looked wretched in person, but I think it beat Jeffrey’s, hands down.
I guess I’m horrifically tacky. Oh well.
Loved Kayne’s dress. It was a little wild, but Michael Kors got it overall, and yeah, it’s waaaay too much, but hey, it’s fun to look at. He takes risks. I like him.
Michael was “sweating like a whore in church,” in his words, when his dress went down the runway. Statements like this are why I love the guy. He is not arrogant, and realizes when his work is not his best. Of course he’s not going to get dinged for his first bad dress, and I wish wish wish Tim had told him to take out the bunny ears! As it was, he was mid-pack on that, which tells you just how bad the bottom two were.
Jeffrey’s dress is risky and it worked. It was couture. I think he was being rewarded for using color and intricacy. He will be the Santino of this season, and yeah, I can see him making it to the Final 3 now.
Uli still hasn’t done anything but the same damn dress with that flowing pseodo-Empire waist cut in the front. It was nicer than her usual casual, but it’s not daring for her. That said, it was very pretty and much more wearable than Jeffrey’s IMO.
Laura’s dress looked like Pagliacci. I think Kors was right when he said that these big stretches of unbroken fabric, as with Laura’s and Vincent’s dresses, are just not couture. Ultimately, this is why they were bottom of the pack and Jeffrey and Uli were tops.
Vincent’s dress looked like a mother of the bride dress. Goodnight and good luck!
I liked Richard Tyler. He seems less out-there than some of these guest judges. BTW, Richard Tyler’s Delta uniforms from Fashion Week. Hot!
I may be in my own little canoe here, but I liked Laura’s dress. Comparing it to St. Laurent (was it?) seemed pretty couture-esque! Hers was the only one I really did like.
Uli’s dress was the same dress she does every week. Maybe the fabric was a little more expensive this week. And there was no print in sight. But it was the same dress.
Kayne’s dress was way over the top. He’s lucky Vincent’s dress was a major bomb, or he just might have been heading back to the trailer park.
Michael’s dress just didn’t work for him. Beautiful color. Bad design. Oof.
Jeffrey’s dress was a wreck! It didn’t say couture to me. I thought it was typical Jeffrey hideous!
And doesn’t Laura have an awfully big bump for a 3-month pregnancy? From the previews, she looks like she’s about to cash in her chips and go sit on her nest for half a year. I hope she snaps out of it and sticks out PR.
It was couture, 30 years ago.
I wish Kayne could take his understructure and put something more stylish over it. Tim gives him good advice, why won’t he ever take it?
All those couture dresses look like train wrecks to me anymore. That’s what’s in right now. I don’t know why-- I’d rather wear Uli’s dress any day, as Heidi said.
I always miss those last 2 minutes. What happened after Vincent got booted and said, vomitously, “This dress really got me off!”
Vincent’s work is so dated. He was in the fashion business 10-20 years ago and it looks like it. His stuff is very matronly or like looking through an old Simplicity dress catalog. Chloe’s clothes looked like that last season.
I liked the idea of Laura’s dress. It looked better in Paris. I think she’s really tired and burnt out. She doesn’t look well.
Kaynes I liked.
Uli-same dress, different color. But I liked it and she should have won.
Jeffrey- WTF was that??? You saw the model’s crotch. When he picked out the material I thought it could work but it looked like a bunch of tablecloths. Very unflattering. I thought it was horrible. I knew Nina would like it. She’s bizarre and I don’t like her taste at all. Tim blamed Nina for Chloe winning last season.
I held my breath for poor Michael. I don’t know what he tried to do, but it wasn’t working. I am so glad he didn’t get voted off because he’s so talented.
I was hoping peanut head Jeffrey would fall off the boat.
didn’t quite get what couture is supposed to be about. seems to involve more expensive fabric, custom fitting, and attention to detail. making them fit it to two different models would seem to defeat the custom fit aspect and only giving two days hampers the extra attention to detail. but hey whatever 
Kayne: I loved this dress. I would have maybe chose it as the winner. The in progress seemed like it could veer into Kayne danger ville but the final product was wonderful, and Kayne really explained the work he put into it well. There was a lot of detail sure, but not in a tacky or overdone or busy way. And it annoyed me that the whole point of coutre is adding extra detail and the judges put down the dress for it.
Laura: I thought it looked like a maid’s outfit too. didnt seem like much effort put into it.
Uli: Well made and decent detail. It was smart of her to tone down her colors in response to the judges (altho I personally loved the last dress she did for the jet set).
Jeffrey: Audacious. Maybe a strategically good dress, but didn’t seem especially coutre and was kind of ugly and patchy. But the model really really sold this dress with her high energy walk.
Vincent: Boring and the fabric reminded me too of a sofa. The front didn’t fit well. I did like the work in the back tho. His hitting on the French jude was really painful to watch. As was his constant arrogant boasting. I think he should have been tossed by the second episode.
Michael: A good concept, executed not as well as it could have been due to his lack of experience. So sad with the egg tossing! But good idea and very coutre like. It did look much better with the front pieces tucked in.
From best to worst:
1 Kayne
2 Uli
3 Michael
4 Jeffrey (but best model)
5 Vincent/Laura (tie) - Laura’s was slightly uglier, but Vincent’s was executed poorly and his attitude makes him a must go!
Jeffrey so did not deserve to win this. Heidi hinted at something special for the winner earlier but then just announced that the winner no longer gets immunity.
I’m so glad Vincent is gone. I suspect he only stayed this long for dramatic effect.
I missed the preview for next week so no guesses there.
And hey Fashion Week in NYC approacheth in real time! So watch out for the spoilers… I hope we get to see more of the runner up’s
but KSO, you can say that before the episode even starts. hell - next week on Project Runway:
Laura will pull something out of her closet, Uli will braid something and drape it, Kayne will do a great job of constructing something that belongs in Vegas or Radio City Music Hall, Jeffrey will piss me off, and Michael will be thoughtful in his choice of fabric.
But this week: What was Michael supposed to do, guess that someone was throwing eggs and throw himself in front of the dress? Secret service detail? But that said - those boob things were ugly. In fact, this week, nearly everyone made their models boobs look weird. It was bad all around.
I sort of kind of liked Jeffrey’s idea - sort of, it reminded me of those 50’s dresses with the plaids, until she turned around and there was a stupid square of fabric doing nothing but looking like a patched quilt. ick. I don’t remember hating Santino like this - I got annoyed at the judges for letting him keep going when I thought his dresses were ugly, but he wasn’t as much of an ass. With Jeffrey, I can see what the judges are thinking. But Jeffrey sucks as a human being.
Does Laura ever do anything where it isn’t exposed to the belly button? And Uli’s dress looked exactly like her “jet set” dress - just in a solid. On the other hand, it fit her models.
I loved Kayne’s dress. But then, I apparently have no taste either. On the runway, it was pretty and flowed, and the colors were great, and I noticed everything (thank you Nina). And oh yes, it was pretty. Which could not be said for some of the other dresses.
And Vincent… enough said.
Iwassn’t blown away by any of the dresses, I can see why Jeffrey’s won though. It was riskier and editorial. Uli’s dress was probablythe best, but it seemed too current and I think they wanted to see more “fashion forward”.
Meanwhile, I thought Laura’s dress was ridiculous. It looked like a costume to me. But I agree with the auf’ing, Vincent’s dress was just the slightest shade better than Laura’s but his rack record is far worse.
Can somebody explain couture to me? What does it mean? What is it trying to do?
Jeffrey won with something that looked like a cut up tablecloth randomly stitched together, with a contrasting napkin or two sewn in where there were gaps. The two halves of the skirt were split up to the model’s cooter, which because of fortunate wind patterns on the runway didn’t actually come out and wave to the judges. I was waiting for my favorite judge-word, “vulgar”, which seems to come out with little relation to the garment’s potential for the public display of naughty-bits.
Admittedly it was the boldest choice out there, though it was probably a risk he could take because he had immunity. I could see how it was like some of the “WTF” garments you see in the clips from the Paris shows, rather than the rest which seemed to be (at least attempted) wearable dresses. But could someone please explain to me the criteria by which it won the show? I thought that the comments would be that it was a thrown-together mess, but Jeffrey, you survive because you have immunity (or because Vincent’s thing was uber-blah).
I thought Uli (or Ulricke, as Heidi more formally called her countrywoman) had the most beautiful dress, but it was just another Uli-dress, stepped up a notch. I didn’t see the creativity in it.
I liked Kayne’s dress. Yes it was a bit over the top as usual, but that was better than the under-doneness of most of his competitors, and for all of the detailing it appeared to be well constructed within the short time frame allowed. Rubystreak asked why Kayne doesn’t take Tim’s good advice. I think it is because Tim saunters in 3/4 of the way through the competition, looks at Kayne’s work, says “I hate it” and doesn’t seem to give him constructive suggestions that can be implemented within the time available. With the others (at least as edited for TV), it seems he often gives specific ideas for particular fixable points. With Kayne, it seems to be just a generalized hatred of the his overall idea, which in the end always seems to turn out to be very well-executed.
Michael was, for a change, overly ambitious, and he left himself short on time, though you could see that dress would have been beautiful given enough time. The bunny ears were awful, but I was impressed at how after he tucked them in, the dress looked like something you would see on a top actress at the Oscars. I loved the comments about how it looked like what the designers got back from the celebrities after the events. And what was up with the egg-throwing?
Then we have Laura. I think it was unfortunate that in New York she had a dark-skinned flat-chested model, because it really emphasized that her dress was just a disembodied collar flapping its way down the runway. Once more we have a one-note designer doing her one-note thing. The dress showed me nothing, and the collar just made me ask “why?”. And shut up with the bitchy comments–you are just not all that yourself. She could have gotten the axe, but for Vincent.
Ah, Vincent. Before we get to the dress, let me say that he should have been immediately pitched overboard for gushing like that to the French designer. And we really don’t need to say much about the dress, because it speaks (or rather simpers and whines) for itself. Though I like Vincent personally, much more than Laura, who I hate, and Uli who is just a cold fish, the dress made the choice easy this week.
