Well, that sucked.
I realized while watching the runway shows that one of the other things I hate about Jeffrey is that his clothes don’t fit models, much less women. He may as well be making “avant garde” menswear - he seems to see women’s bodies as having inconveniently placed lumps of fat that convention absolutely dictates he must cover. Not a single model’s clothing fit well across the chest or butt. None of them. Not even by accident. And he didn’t choose well endowed models, either.
I loved Laura’s collection. Liked some of Uli’s and thought she should have won. Michael needs more direction than “come up with some outfits.” He’ll do really well working for a design house (“we need a summer dress in these colors and use some of this fabric - it’s our theme this collection”) for a while - but given the last two challenges, he’s not ready to fly out on his own. His collection was not good.
I hate that I found at least one piece in each collection that I would love to own, except for Jeffrey’s collection. (Michael’s wasn’t a good collection, but there was one white wrap top that would look lovely with a great tailored pant.)
I’m so excited that, after reading the interview with her from yesterday on BravoTV.com, Laura’a coming out with a line of patterns!
Poor Mr. Singular. He was jolted out of a sound sleep by me yelling, “Oh, FUCK ME!!!” in the living room. He stumbled out of the bedroom saying, '“What?!? What?” , and I had to tell him it was because Penisneck won. Now he’s mad ad Bravo and me. But I think Bravo a little more than me. I’m right there with everything everyone has said here. I wish I had enough integrity to stick my nose up with a haughty sniff and declare “Well, that’s it for me. I’m done with this show.” But I’ll be Bravo’s bitch next season. I just wish the reality TV folks would realize that you can build a show on watching people create beautiful things and refrain from creating drama. A two-week cliffhanger resolved with three sentences? Feh. That really sucked. Don’t use my Tim Gunn like that!
Well, I’m going to have to be the odd one out and cheer for Jeffrey. He was my pick to win it after Kayne got auf’d so unfairly. Well, it wasn’t unfair, because his stuff was all glitter shine, but he was so much fun!
Michael would have had a better chance if he had stuck with what he did during the challenges. His stuff was all so trampy.
Nazri was robbed, robbed I tell you!
… although it worked out well for her that she got stolen away from Michael. yeesh.
I think PROJECT RUNWAY has chosen, in typical fashion, an off-the-curve, kooky designer of minimal talent that nobody will ever hear from again except in returning cameos on the PROJECT RUNWAY show itself. (I except Chloe Dao from the off-the-curve and kooky designations; but nobody will ever hear of her again.) And if that’s what the show wants, so be it! However, if they’re looking for a designer who will make clothes that women will actually buy and treasure, they should have picked Laura or Uli.
I hated, hated, hated, hated, hated, this outcome!
There are lots of reasons why, but the primary one is because that asshole was only kept in the show for entertainment purposes, and he was in the bottom so many times, and he sucks, and he clearly cheated (apparently people in the know say the plastic bags he brought his clothes in are the exact same bags which contractors give you), and not one piece of his line was wearable, and he put a sucky-ass *prom dress * in his line, and it was not cohesive.
Were the judges blind? How could they not see how beautiful Laura’s line was?
I hate this show.
But of course, I’ll watch it again.
I think that’s exactly right. What does it mean to be the “next great American designer”? That phrase makes me think of designers like Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, and, yes, Michael Kors–all of whom make clothes that real women can and want to wear. However, if “next great American designer” means making crap that he dimly remembers seeing on MTV twenty years ago for painfully thin models to wear to NYC nightclubs, then Jeffrey was the right pick.
The thing that surprises me is that last year, everyone made some mention of the fact that Chloe has a boutique, and doesn’t really need the prize money or the exposure. No one said ANYTHING this season about the fact that Jeffrey has his own freaking label that appears to be doing quite well. I liked some of his stuff, but did he really need it?
I don’t know. I think the collections are always a bit underwhelming. No one really hit me this year, and no one really hit me last year, either. I wish Allison had made it all the way. I bet she would have rocked it out.
On a lighter note, I loved it when Tim got all verklempt in saying goodbye to the designers. I LOVE YOU TIM GUNN!
Well, it was a fun finale, I thought. I disagreed with the judges’ decision, but could see where they were coming from. They tend to prefer things that are ideas about fashion, rather than clothes that are ready to be thrown onto shelves in stores. Laura and Uli had wearable but not especially innovative clothes that are ready to be sold. Jeffery had clothes that have a certain (80s, messy and unrealistic) aesthetic that is more about what clothes could look like than how they’ll ultimately be sold.
Michael, Michael, Michael. Definitely needs more maturity. His collection was like a hip-hop video dropped onto a runway. Set boundaries for him, and he creates lovely things that meet the rules in unexpected ways. Turn him loose completely, though, and he reverts to a kind of street look that’s WAY more streetwalker than sophisticated. I don’t think he distinguishes yet between sexual and sexy.
Somehow I don’t agree with this idea that the judges are just looking for “conceptual” creativity rather than real, touchable popularity. The girl who won last season, don’t remember her name, won because she “knew how to make clothes to fit women’s bodies”, was what Heidi said at the last judging.
She had the knowledge to make clothing that women would enjoy and wear and even (gasp) buy. I just don’t see Jeffrey’s lasting popularity. I agree with the poster that said that he knows how to make clothing for unendowed women that resemble young boys, I don’t think he knows how to tailor clothes very well.
I think Jeffrey should have been Auf’d for the same reason Kayne was, he’s too one-dimensional, and I think his stuff looks cheap and crappy.
-foxy
Michael was my favorite going into last night, but his stuff was truly Fugly so he definitely didn’t deserve to win.
I think the way Laura handled the Jeffrey thing was contemptible, especially the whole “I wasn’t questioning your integrity” bullshit. She accused him of cheating based on nothing but a rash jump to conclusions. After that, I’m glad she lost (and though all her stuff was admittedly nice, it was completely counter to what the judges told her she needed to do to win).
I would’ve been A-OK with Uli winning, since I probably liked her line the best, even though it was also a bit same-old, same-old. The fact that she used some solids instead of all prints wasn’t enough to genuinely count as “stretching” but I thought it all looked nice and stylish to these untrained eyes.
But I don’t have a problem with Jeffrey. I could see how a lot of the collection pieces fit together and there were only one or two that seemed off. But he seemed to understand the best of the four what an opportunity this was and how he was obliged to deliver the goods on all cylinders, not just the safe ones. So good for him.
Imagine you were in a contest and practically lived with this person for two months and watched them sew every day. You watched him sew and saw what his garmets looked like. Then he goes away for two months and brings back garmets and they don’t look like the finished work he did previously. Wouldn’t you wonder, considering both of the other designers did too? I sew and I can tell good workmanship. I can also tell other peoples work. I can tell as soon as I look at something if my mother or sister did the sewing. My mother uses really small stitches and cuts one seam smaller than the other. My sister puckers and is sloppy!
Also remember he owns a business that employs seamstresses.
At least two or three challenges the judges mentioned the quality of his work calling it sloppy. Look at the high resolution pictures of some of his dresses especially the last challenge where he GLUED the pearl buttons on crooked. Tell me you wouldn’t wonder.
She did nothing wrong in questioning his clothes. What was wrong is she took all the heat for it and Uli pushed her under the bus.
I think if Laura had made her collection 3-4 classy office wear, 2 outfits that could transition from office to evening, and the balance evening wear she could’ve won the whole thing. I really don’t remember her showing anything that could be a daytime ready-to-wear, but since she’s an architect, she must know how people should dress in an office.
Michael disappointed me. I really think at his age and level of experience he works best when given specific guidelines, which is why he did so well in the different challanges. Tell him what to do and he does it really well. Don’t give him any direction and he flounders.
Uli…was Uli. But she does make wearable clothes.
Jeffrey. Ugh. He had at least one Uli-dress in his collection. I didn’t see a theme in his collection. I just saw some serious ugly.
StG
This just proves my complete lack of understanding of what matters in the fashion world. Both Uli and Laura had the most complete lines for the runway show at Fashion Week. Every piece in both collections were beautiful outfits that women would love to wear. I can’t remember the exact comment, but Heidi said something to the effect that she would wear every single thing Uli showed. And in the end the only thing that mattered was who they thought would be the most innovative. So I guess that is how they arrived at Jeffery. Tho I really don’t think the 80’s punk/street hooker look is particularly innovative. And his clothes don’t fit women’s bodies. He did have some good ideas but not in a way that would translate to clothing most women would wear.
And Michael Kors of all people talking about the importance of a desinger being innovative is nothing short of laughable.
Add me to the “what are the Judges thinking” column. I didn’t get it. Jeffery’s clothes were made for skinny rocker babes, he doesn’t know how to dress women. His clothes are trashy and ill fitting.
He is an odious man. They is no excuse for acting like a jerk to people!
Sorry, but it’s a poor analogy. If you threw me on the set of Top Chef and said “You have one hour to assemble everything and come up with a perfect dish”. I could make a go at it, but the results would be pretty poor at best.
But then, if you gave me the same challenge and gave me the whole weekend to come up with the same dish, with access to recipe books and my own kitchen and supplies, does the fact that my dish is better prepared, more creatively realized, and better presented evidence that I had the chef down the street cook it for me? Of course not.
Jeffrey interviewed a perfectly reasonable explanation–if he’s under the gun, his work can be sloppy, but if he’s got all the time in the world, he can be exacting with much improved attention-to-detail. That’s true for a lot of people under a lot of different circumstances, from painting a house to playing chess.
No, what she did wrong was not ask him about it in person. “Gee Jeffrey, I couldn’t help but wonder…” Maybe she might not have liked or believed the answer, but he wasn’t even allowed an opportunity to defend himself. She didn’t look for an explanation, she simply saw “proof” and jumped to conclusions. Going behind his back without even giving him the opportunity to explain himself was chickenshit, plain and simple.
Don’t forget that Laura wasn’t the only one that suspected that Jeffrey had outside help, after they all inspected his collection they all agreed that there may have been something fishy going on. Laura was just the only one to say something, Uli jumped right out of it as soon as any sort of confrontation began (“Jeffrey, Laura has an announcement to make.” What sort of shit is that?)
Michael piped up to say “And not to put it all on Laura, because we all looked at the stuff and thought that those jeans looked really damn good…”
So it wasn’t completely Laura who felt that there was an inconcistency in a designer who had repeatedly been knocked for his workmanship in every single episode and then all the sudden manages to find the time to not only work on his own collection, but finish 12 pieces with flawless execution.
And anyway, was anyone else thinking that nobody with half a brain is going to include the receipts for outside work in the stack of things that gets turned in for the accountants to pick through?
-foxy
My pumpkin has been making me watch this ever since Lost started up, and I’m surprised at the Jeffrey hate. I mean, yeah sure, he’s a dork with a stupid ass tat on his weird fat neck. But compared to Laura? That woman is a truly vile snide swamp creature from hell. “I want to beat Jeffrey on the runway.” Yeah, you mean after you tried to tattle on him and got told where to go? Abomination. I spent the whole finale hoping Jeffrey would snap and sew her overly lipsticked mouth shut. She looks like a sinister, pregnant Ronald McDonald to me. I was cheering for Uli anyway.
So what’s with all the Jeffrey hate? Did he murder someone earlier in the season or something?
Exactly.
Grossbottom I didn’t get into how they looked so much as their clothes. I didn’t like Jeffreys clothes. And the judges agreed until the end. In the beginning he was always in the bottom two. He should have been booted for that horrible Darth Vader dress he made Angelas mother. Take a look at it. The buttons on the top of the dress were so crooked and they didn’t line up so it couldn’t be buttoned. The shoulders on the dress were crooked. He sewed some sort of purple panel down the front and thread were handing off of it.