What will the big shocking revelation be?
How many times will we see a grown man cry?
Will Christian continue to ignore Tim’s advice?
What bodily fluid will Interplanet Janet use to imbue her essence into the fabric this time?
Apparently there WAS no big revelation. All hype!
Ricky cried again, but with good reason. Whoo.
Not much drama from Christian or Elisa this ep.
I agree with the win, though Kit easily could have won it. Jack’s was more interesting, though, and it looked cool. Tiki Barber’s wife said Tiki liked vests, but apparently he doesn’t, so maybe it’s good that Jack skipped the vest in the end.
I also agree with the auf-- Carmen is going out with her chin up, but no one can figure out why. That was just embarrassing.
Answers:
- The previews lied!
- Once
- We didn’t see much of Christian this episode. But did we see someone carrying him into the workroom in a bag? That was pretty funny.
- Also didn’t see much of Elisa. I couldn’t see Tiki Barber in her outfit, but I thought it was actually pretty nice. I’m sort of rooting for her now.
And I am SO mad at myself!! I was going to put “Will Kevin point out that he’s not gay again?” in my OP! (Answer: Yes)
Edited to add: I was glad to see Carmen go. She really bugged me for some reason. I do think it was the right choice. Given what Tiki said about his butt, that jacket would have been really really bad for him.
I had no idea guys could have small waists and big butts…or be self-consious about them! Learn something new every day, huh?
I was a little disappointed at no big revelation. It was interesting to see them design for men–they never did so well at it in past seasons, like when they had to design for each other in season 2.
Was the big revelation supposed to be that Jack was HIV+? That’s the only thing that I can think of that might qualify but it’s on his bio on the Project Runway website. Very strange.
I thought this episode was hilarious. I realize menswear requires more tailoring and most of them had no experience with it but how hard could it be for them to make a shirt and pants?
The previews aren’t necessarily from the next episode, but from a future episode; which means we’ll see the ‘big revelation’ soon. I hope.
Too bad the designers didn’t have to fit to actual football players. That would’ve been fun watching them try to make shirts with 25" necks. 
I really loved this episode.
Fun stuff.
As a woman I’m still not sure why men’swear is such a challenge? My husband thinks it could be because with the ladies you can drape things whereas men’s items have to be more fitted? I have no idea if this is true.
Chris is such a teddy bear. I want to reach out of my screen and hug him. And then hug the male models. They were just adorably sexy no matter how bad the designs were. That was worth the price of admission tonight. I did not like that purple thing Keith put out there. It reminded me of a drag queen or Liza Minelli doing Caberet. Or a purplish version of the suit Chloe did for Nick in one of the previous challenges.
I totally understood where they were going with the bottom three.
I would have auffed Ricky just based on his sheer body of bad work so far. This is the second time he’s been the bottom two so far. I don’t think he’s long for the show. Plus the stupid cap on his head makes me want to smack it off.
But Carmen also sucked so I wasn’t displeased to see her go. Why can’t she make a shirt? Is it that hard? She just looked incompetent.
Sweet P was also just a mystery. Her design was awful. The poorly tied tie looked sloppy rather than rakish. Her tattoos are getting on my nerves. They look so very ugly.
I did not like Jack’s design very much although I could see it was well made. The pinstripes looked oddly clashing to me. I am surprised he was allowed to get away with using premade clothing to make a pattern. Isn’t that a form of cheating?
I would have given it Kit. She knew what looked good and she did a good job of translating that.
Jack’s shirt strobed - not tv friendly at all. For that alone, they should have gone with Kit. (And I personally liked Kevin’s best).
Of all the things Carmen did wrong, designing an outfit that showed off Tiki Barber’s butt was not among them.
This episode was kinda fun since everyone was out of their element. I think Granola Chick (Elena) may be our dark horse this season. She seems incompetent and on her own wave length but she’s interesting and she’s staying in the middle of the pack. That’s a good way to survive a reality show.
I thought about it and if I were in this competetion I would have gone with luxe fabrics to satisfy Michael and something streamlined in the jacket, possibly sort of futuristic to shut Nina up, just a pant that fitted as well as I could and hoped for a position in the pack instead of the win.
The big reveal is supposed to be in episode 5, I believe.
In the meantime, it looks like next week is a 2 person team challenge and should be a high end diva bitch fight. Sharpen your claws, ladies!
That’s my guess as well. Women’s fashion has more variation, I think menswear is a much narrower catagory.
He asked if it was allowed at the start of the challenge, and Tim said “of course!”. A few people were annoyed with it, but he did clear it with the boss first.
Ooo, I wish I had time to find out how to do spoiler tags.
And when they returned to the workroom for the second day, someone was carrying him piggyback style. I told my husband hat if Christian gets auf’d, they should let him stay as someone’s pet. “Go back to your basket, Christian!” He’s so teensy and wee! And with that big poof of hair, I just want to let him curl up at the end of of the bed. 
I’m pretty sure that was Jack who was carrying him both times, first with one hand (!) in a basket and then on his back.
I hope this isn’t heresy, but after watching this show since the second season, I have to say that I am sorely disappointed with the talent these people have in general. I mean it’s everything from those who can’t sew to those who make horseshit looking garb that looks like it would sprout weeds if you watered it. Those suits and ensembles last night were horrible. Horrible. And when they do women’s clothing, so often it’s like they’re trying to do haute couture on a shoestring budget in a day-and-a-half. It ends up looking like something from Design on a Dime — a lampshade made of cardboard and colored polyethelene tape. There’ve been one or two exceptions, but still.
That’s pretty much it in a nutshell. To use a food analogy, tailored menswear is like baking - it’s all formulas, intricate processes and rules. Deviate from them at your peril.
Ladies’ couture is comparatively a free-for-all. You can drape here, tuck there and generally throw fabric around with abandon and still have a stunning garment. Make the wrong move in menswear, and you wind up with monsters like that shirt with a what, 25 inch collar and 32 inch chest?
I thought all the outfits sucked last night and Jack’s was merely the safest/best of the bunch. I would have given the win to Kit for using fleece to make the jacket.
Carmen had an annoying voice and deserved to go. I’m really, really, really tired of Ricky and his crying.
Meh.
I’m not really sure that it was fair to have a menswear challenge (I like the baking analogy, and my thoughts on this are similar to when the contestants on Top Chef have to make pastries), and I didn’t think it was particularly interesting anyway.
I didn’t think that anything any of the contestants came up with, for instance, were anywhere near as good as the outfit that Chloe made for Nick in season 2.
Most of the fun of the challenge came from seeing how horribly some designers failed. Even the best of the lot - and I’d agree that was Jack’s - looked like an outfit I could wind up in by falling into a rack at Express. Not to say it was bad, because it wasn’t; just uninteresting.
Nearly all of the contestants still grate. It’s unfortunate that Christian is talented enough that he’ll remain on the show for weeks to come and probably wind up in the final three. Chris, in small doses, is refreshing. I’d have no problem losing Ricky, Jack, Sweet P, Steven, and Elisa immediately.
Sadly I thought this episode was kind of wack, from a practical standpoint. “Oops! Looks like you can’t crunch out awesome, well-tailored menswear - how on Earth do you expect to succeed in the womenswear industry?? Out you go!” Of course I’m not implying that the rest of the challenges DO relate to the fashion industry in any meaningful manner, but this one reeeally doesn’t. And male models and clothing are so much more boring to look at (well, these examples were at least), even if it is harder. I have no real idea about who Tikki is apart from what the intro said, but at least he seemed to have better sense than friggin’ Nancy O’Dell AND actually wore the winning outfit as-was.
Carmen most definitely deserved to go. I think that was the first time in PR history that a model actually came out without sufficient clothing to wear (well, there was Wendy Pepper’s Carnivale deal but that was poor concept rather than not finishing). She annoyed me greatly as well but that’s neither her nor there. I don’t get why the judges were harsher on Ricky than on Carmen and Sweet P. Sure I saw the pins and that was horrible, but Sweet P’s SCREAMED out “mistake + giving up” with that collar. I think she should have at least tried to arrange the necktie to minimize it. Guess the judges are setting up Ricky to get kicked off next time. His last designs weren’t the most creative thing but I might have both both of them (well, maybe in different colors). We liked that he made a beaner joke within 5 minutes of the start of the season, but I guess the constant crying is getting irritating.
I know Tikki wanted color but I actually liked Chris’s outfit best. Elisa’s was kind of cool too, interesting at least. I’m still rooting for her. I thought Beardy’s outfit was sort of copying Chloe Dao’s makeover design but in weird sizes. Kit’s may have been interestingly conceptualized but I thought it was ugly. Jack’s was just okay to me, but he was pretty gracious with his shorts so that was nice.
The clothing may have been harder to look at, but the models were quite easy on the eye for me! So many washboard abs, so little time.
Elisa turning around while the model changed and being a little shy around him seemed a bit odd. I feel it would’ve been less odd if she were a twenty something year old woman–I just get the sense that she’s cultivating this very young, quirky persona.
ETA: Also wanted to say that for once, I actually knew who a sports celebrity was. Okay, I kind of only vaguely know of Tikki Barber, but I felt smart nonetheless. His wife is also so totally gorgeous and hot. I had never seen her before, but those two must have some beautiful children.
Even though the bottom 3 were a disaster this episode, they were nowhere near as bad as ‘Corky Romano’s’ hair. It’s just annoying to look at, and makes me want to kill a puppy every time he comes strutting in with that thing eating his head.
Someone stop him. Please.
I kind of like her, but I thought this was strange, too. She made that comment about how she only touches her husband, which…ok, I get it, I don’t go around caressing strange men, either. But on the other hand, I don’t think my husband would care too much if I was a designer and I had to fit clothes on a model, you know? I think at some point, you have to treat your profession like a profession, no matter how creative & spiritual you are.
Oh yeah, that was a little weird. 
One would think that one would have touched a man at some point in one’s 47 years and however many years of professional design…I wonder if she thinks it’s icky or if she wants to avoid all sexual desire or what. Ah well.