I am relieved Stella is gone. Poor Forever 21 as the insult of the week.
Who ended up winning? I was worried it was flirty can’t-sew guy and didn’t really want to see that.
Yeah, Alexander’s was boring while Mitchell’s was a trainwreck. I guess boring won out this time.
A whole dress covered in pills would have been neat.
Mitchell not only didn’t go home, he wasn’t in the bottom three.
For this.
What the everloving fuck.
Kens dress with the black hose was neat and Stella could have rocked a look had she picked better supplies. Kini with the gloves? why was the front longer than the front?
Flirty boy winner was horrid… I think the Judges are wack. The dress with the stars on it wasnt bad if you took off the stars. All I could think of was Fringe Fringe Fringe remember the year of the Fringe?
Good question! I wondered about that too.
WTF? What, are they afraid to auf Sam because he was won twice and creates interpersonal drama? Sorry, one day you’re in and the next day you’re out – go home Sam. It’s true what the other designers said – Fade was a good designer, he didn’t get a reprieve.
The excuse that the naturists felt confident and so it was a success is weak.
I was shocked Kini made an ill-fitting coat. Not like him at all. And again with the denim!
Yup.
The judges favoritism was so blatantly telegraphed and obvious this week. Even before the runway I knew it would end with no one going home because there is no way they were going to send Sam home after giving him the win twice in a row. (Sure, they claim “One day you’re in and the next you’re out,” but past performance obvious figures heavily in whether or not you are eliminated.)
At least the other designers called it out, not that that will do anything.
And the judge’s comment that they’re both talented and good, that’s just silly. It’s All-stars, all the contestants should have considerable talent.
I can see a situation where no one makes a “bad” garment (again, they are all talented designers and they could all do well), and they don’t want to judge “least good.” But that wasn’t this situation.
Did anyone else think the “naturalist” was a bit too gimmicky and exploitive?
Okay, we’re five episodes in, and this is the second time there’s been no elimination. C’mon, judges, do your job – or at least save those who deserve to be saved (Fade), and not pretty-boy Sam. Or Valerie, who I like, but that coat was du merde.
Was Kini’s coat really ill-fitting? Or just tighter than the client wanted? I wasn’t clear.
And Mitchell was top two – thank god he didn’t win or my head would have exploded.
And, yeah, the naturalist gimmick was super exploitative.
How has the show I loved so much gotten so fucking awful?
I don’t think of Allstars as the “real” show. Like the summer replacement (if you’re old enough).
I’m waiting for Ken and Sam to have a dust up because they both irritate the fire out of me with their over-inflated egos.
I think Dom should have won last night.
OK, people:
STOP HELPING SAM!!! Got it??? Man, I wish he had sent that down with muslin under it!
And Kini, using the same folded umbrella technique as in his avant garde challenge? Don’t be a one-trick pony. It did not work with the rest of that dress, which could have been really nice.
I didn’t mind Alexander’s, till he added those pearls, pearl necklace, and hair.
Okay, so they used Medieval Times as a signifier for “the Renaissance,” which is wrong but could be justified if you tried really hard – but the theme of the challenge was “Baroque.”
Was anyone else screaming and throwing things at the TV? Isaac presumably has a slightly better grasp of history than that – but who the hell signed off on that chronological abomination?
That was really grinding my gears, also. They used the name of just about every classical era, all of them incorrectly. The only one I don’t recall hearing is Romanesque. We know the contestants aren’t history professors, but Alexander the costume designer of all people should have know that a Baroque challenge wasn’t equivalent to a Victorian challenge. Harrumph ( and get those quarrelsome children off my lawn!)
And then Sam was top 2 with a dress that had nothing to do with any of them, including Victorian.
I’m not really a fan of the All-Star judging crew. They are so inconsistent in what they like and don’t like, and in this challenge, at least, they didn’t judge on period at all. I understood it’s Baroque INSPIRED, not Baroque itself, but if you put me in a room with 80% of those outfits and asked me to describe what era inspired them, I’d not have said Baroque for any of them.
It’s not really Baroque, but I don’t care!
It’s really just someone having found a great textile, but I don’t care!
grrr
This week I’m surprised the judges didn’t consider Emily’s the worst. Her dress looked like something that would have been worn on the Jetsons. Like what someone from the 60’s would imagine people wearing in futuristic times.
Yeah, that surprised me. Even if it did show more creativity than the 957th and 958th pantsuits featured on the show, it was awful. I thought the dotted fabric wasn’t awful and would have been a good overlay on the solid.
I missed the first few minutes – what were they told they were shopping for, before having to swap fabrics? Some weird fabric choices to begin with.
Ken? An 80s prom dress in thick neoprene? It wasn’t horrible but I don’t get the love for that one.
Sam :rolleyes: it looks effortless! Yeah, draping one piece of fabric and tacking it into a shape we’ve seen a bazillion times does take almost no effort.
I hated ken’s dress. So ugly. Such horrible seams. Ditto Sam and his lumpy seams. Lose. The. Jumpsuit. To tell the truth, I thought all the dresses last night were horrible. Even Dom’s and I love Dom.
At least Kini was safe – I assume they gave him a “look what the fuck he had to work with though” pass because that lace was so godawful.
ETA: I mean seriously, doesn’t thislook like what a stripper would wear if she were the mother of the bride?
I was struck with how bad some of the construction was on last night’s clothing. Agreed on Ken’s and Sam’s issues and add how Layana’s bodice pulled and stretched and buckled unattractively.
Unlike the judges, I actually liked Valerie’s outfit. It wasn’t breaking any creative boundaries, but it worked with her fabric and looked nice on her model.