Anyone else watching?
My first thought…twins, just no.
Yes, the twins are going to get on our nerves. Also, if they’ve already worked for Katy Perry, what are they doing on Project Runway? This is a step back for them.
Taiwanese teddy bear was clearly the traditional social outlier brought aboard as early-going cannon fodder. They edited Man-bun to seem that way too, but whenever there’s been a country boy, he seems to stick around for a few episodes, gawking. Straight Guy Who Makes A Big Deal About Being Straight is a perennial, too.
I’m intrigued to see the (cheating?) scandal that they teased.
Oh no, those twins. Bad enough to have one obnoxious twit, but whatever they are doubling, it isn’t the fun.
I am not too sure about girly guy with the long blonde hair who showed the preliminary judges the “feel yourself up” pocket in his model’s pants. Seems just a tad edgy for PR. Same goes for the guy with the fetish-inspired designs. Just a little edgy for the venue. For people in the very inclusive fashion industry, the on air judges can get a bit puritanical and, forgive me, judgy if you go farther out of the box than the network tolerates.
I expect an epic meltdown when one of the twins is eliminated. They give off a creepy “never gone to the bathroom alone” vibe.
That guy - he struck me as more of a “look at me show you how quirky and DIFFERENT I am, because I’m so quirky and DIFFERENT” poser like the “I have to be upside-down to be creative” girl a few season ago (IIRC, she only lasted a few episodes).
The way the twins talked seemed like a parody. Like a real life Onion article.
I have not watched tonight’s episode yet but I think my favorite person is the former-classical-pianist guy. His gown from last week was gorgeous. It’ll also be interesting to see how long the 50-something-fashion-professor lasts, since it seems like those ones either can’t deal and go home early or stay the distance.
More than anything though I’m reminded that these first few episodes are just a slog as the group gets winnowed down to a number you can actually keep track of and care something about.
Oh and did you hear…they are using models of ALL SIZES this season. Which I mean is cool and all, but they seemed very self-congratulatory about it all.
PS. Twins on VH1
Ugh.
Dang it! I didn’t realize it was starting and I don’t think they have it on demand? I’ll have to check it out as soon as I get home.
OK, I caught up with Ep 1. How tone-deaf do you have to be to say you were trying to camouflage your plus-size model??!! :smack: Nina taking an extra note after that was priceless.
I did not get the love for country boy’s athleisure look. I thought it was up there for bottom three. But they aufed the right person. Adorable but ugh that outfit.
And I definitely saw looks I liked better than the ones they chose. Too soon to highlight them all I guess.
Margarita: “At last! Real women!” Grrr. I’m super heavy and still – every body is “real”!!
Oh dear Lord, THIS! Tim, Nina, and Heidi all falling all over themselves about the “gorgeous & stunning” women of “all SIZES” :dubious:
Please…anyone recall waaaay back in Season 1 or 2 when Tim was commiserating with, I think it might have been Jay McCarroll (but I could be wrong) about this blonde, skinny model being “rather zaftig” and how her plumpness was a problem? Chick was so skinny if she turned sideways and stuck out her tongue she looked like a zipper. STFU with all your fat acceptance, Tim! We know how you really feel.
This is something they all are just doing to show how cool and “non-body shaming” they are. If Heidi truly felt that way about curves she wouldn’t starve herself and workout like she does to look the way she does after 4 (or is it 5?) babies. And Nina, you know good and well she doesn’t want anything in her magazine but these 6-foot tall scarecrows that have been the fashion norm forever. And if they think these women are real women, I gotta say NOPE. So a few of them have pudge, so what? They are all still 6 feet tall and look like baby giraffes.
And as a person who sews, it seems fewer and fewer of their picks every year actually know anything about tailoring and actual construction technique. And this season’s so-called menswear designers? No, they most certainly are NOT! Menswear is all about the tailoring and the fit, not all this baggy, misshapen, random fabric. An upside down tuxedo? Girl, hold my hair while I barf.
It also kinda makes me a little sick every week to see how these folks just chew up yards of lovely Mood fabric every week, being the fabric hoarder that I am!
And is anyone else sooooo over hearing these young twits talk about how they like to “play with” everything? Color, or gender norms, or fashion rules, or whatever? They all talk about playing with ideas like they think they are the first to ever say that.
Those twins are a fiasco waiting to happen. And why put them on the same team last night? They need to be spilt up for everyone’s mental health. I could take their manner of speaking if they actually had talent.
Every year I say I am done with this show because it gets less enjoyable each time…but each season there I am being their bitch.
This season seems like a rag-tag bunch just trying to be quirky and odd for the sake of it.
I’m sucked in…I swore last season was my last. The twins are good for the drama, so they will be around for a bit. In-deed. How pretentious their speech is for small town girls.
Miss Modest is slightly annoying me although I did like her dress best. And I really like the Japanese guy.
In season 3, Tim called a model “an elongated marshmallow.” I wanted to punch him.
I forgot to say, I can do without the “Model Mirror”. There are enough talking heads without that.
Right! I am not sure if that was the same girl or not.
And remember all the drama when Christian Siriano had to make a prom dress for a short curvy girl? He had an absolute 12-layer meltdown and it was his only real fail the whole season. The girl did get testy with him, but…she was a high school girl and he is a designer and should know better. He blamed the whole thing on her figure and how he just didn’t know what to do with it. He also chose this hideous brown taffeta fabric that looked God-awful with her skin. It was like he didn’t even try, and Tim gave Christian all this sympathy because, horrors! Poor, poor Christian had to work with someone who wasn’t a walking coat hanger.
And oh, how the designers have bitched and moaned at the “Every Woman” challenges over the years.
Maybe Tim, and Heidi and Nina are truly trying to change attitudes and lead by example, but I am not buying what they are selling, at least not yet.
I was wrong. The elongated marshmallow was from season 2, which makes zaftig from season 3. I’m an idiot savant with the seasons 1-4. I always interpreted Christian’s prom dress trouble as two-fold. He felt it was beneath him to design a prom dress for a teenager, and his client believed she was a designer and told him what to do.
Anyway, the whole models of all sizes is a gimmick. Twins AND a gimmick!
I’m torn! As a super-heavy person I do like the idea of a variety of shapes and sizes, but I can see how it is harder to design for some of the shapes that were there. The model from the winning look in Ep 1 (the large-scale floral print) was gorgeous and had a tall, hourglass shape. That looked great. But when the model is very busty or not as overall proportional, I can see the challenge. But as long as it is a random assignment, each person will face the challenge so that is fair.
There’s still no excuse for the baggy or camouflage looks. Or that line of flowers down that poor woman’s buttcrack.
I thought the “country boy” would capitalize on his menswear background by creating a tuxedo look or similar. Instead, blech.
And speaking of Mood fabric, the fabric My Little Ponyboy chose was NOT beautiful, Heidi!!
I love the unconventional materials challenges, they are kind of why I watch the show. Over the years we have seen some breathtakingly innovative ‘garments’ put together from odds and ends of things. Of course we have also seen any number of trainwrecks. But to me it this type of challenge that truly separates the creative minds from the poseurs.
That being pontificated, I wasn’t blown away by any of last nights’ creations. The right team won. They were cohesive and the printed ‘fabric’ that was used throughout their collection was nicely thought out and executed.
But wow - that bottom team. I had to agree with the judges when they said the models still looked like they were wearing garbage. The loser was absolutely terrible and deserved to go. But all the others, with the exception of the braided top, which was smart and nicely done, made so little transformation of the materials that it shocked me a bit. I know these contestants, or at least many of them, have viewed previous seasons. But when they pressure is on, they all seem to forget any lessons they learned from watching them.
And they all need to stop whining about using larger models. Eventually these little darlings will have real-world jobs and clients and will have to design for bodies other than stick figures. There is something ultra annoying about many of these folks who are clearly members of groups who have been wrongly discriminated against and should know better being so nasty about people of size.
Whoever that was bitching about never designing for curvy women needs to be slapped. The model she was whining about couldn’t have been much more than a size 4.
I knew 15 minutes in who was getting the auf. Season after season, the weepy phone call is doom.
Surprised they didn’t keep My Precious Pony around for another ep or two just for “drama.” OTOH, I’m surprised he made it through the auditions to begin with.
I think the narcissistic twins are going to provide quadruple the drama, so Care Bear Boy is not needed. They are a pair of pretentious twats.
Damn Project Runway for making me anticipate gleefully watching their demise! Indeed!
Hee Hee. “If I may”, what the heck? How did she implode in the second week? She knows unconventional is coming and yes, her model has a different shape from the traditional runway model*, but whoa. And her sister was melting down too. I cringe that they will be kept on just for the drama.
I didn’t like the winning look overall because there was too much going on, but I did like the high “leather” collar on it. Fringe has been done to death in other seasons.
Sentell totally deserved to go. To look and that and think you did enough shows a severe lack of awareness.
*I know she wasn’t large overall, but the shape is different from the paper doll tall and exceptionally thin/flat.
A) Gurl this quote is so me.
- Just watched Ep 2. Twins will be around for a while for the DRAHHHHHAMA of it all.
iii) Can you imagine Michael Kors getting excited about bottle cap buttons? No, you can’t.