First post for spoiler space…
Ah, American Sportswear & Jackie O. A fantastic combination.
Meh.
The challenge: Sportswear that the designer can somehow convince the judges reflects the style of Jackie O.
Day 2 twist: add outerware.
The clear winner: Mondo. Does anyone disagree?
Out: Michael D.
Should’ve been out: Andy. I think he got honorary immunity after being cheated out of last week’s win.
I hate Poison Ivy and want to see her gone so badly that I can’t find anything good about her designs.
Gretchen: consistently not awful, but surely too boring to be the ultimate winner.
Michael C: A wild card. A class act (or at least being edited to be).
I miss Models of the Runway. This year we don’t get to know the models at all. They don’t seem very good though. Apparently the designers are all stuck with their original models, and none of the models are helping their designers win.
…And Mondo finally wins. As the only one, IMO who actually achieved the goal of the challenge.
I can’t say I’m horribly surprised by who was sent home; I could’ve gone either way, though. And personality-wise, while I like both Michael D. and Valerie, I liked Michael D. better. He was funnier. But I’m guessing they needed to thin the male portion of the herd.
Other thread here:
Merged 'em up.
I liked Mondo’s design. His jacket was classy with the purple lining. He used “classic Jackie” prints in the sense that she wore houndstooth and black and white stripes. She may not have done a bold purple houndstooth, but I could have seen her in that black and white striped shirt. There was nothing boring about his design, but it was still classy.
Andy deserved to go home for not designing for the challenge, but Michael D’s was ugly as all hell. Valerie’s was too casual and definitely “mall” fashion.
Christopher’s dress was beautiful and if he had created a better jacket, he would have won. Ivy’s was better without the jacket.
I liked Mondo’s for the win. Tim seemed a bit more subdued than usual. I kept waiting for all the dramatic things in last week’s previews but they never came. I guess it was a “this season” rather than a “next week” preview. :rolleyes:
I have to say, I agree with every word in this post.
I’m glad Kors brought up MC Hammer there at the end…I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw it. (When Andy’s model emerged on the runway, I thrust my Pepsi in the air and shouted, “Hammah!”)
The fact that Andy survived showed a big difference between PR and Top Chef, the other competition-based reality show that I watch: PR is about art, and TC is about craft. On TC, if you swing for the fences but end up making an inedible dish, you’ll get sent home over the person who kept it simple and executed it well. On PR, an interesting idea that becomes a hideous garment will win over something more expected. I’m not sure one is better than the other, but it’s definitely different.
Still, those pants should have sent Andy home. He clearly got some cumulative love.
Oh, and one word: “boobhole”.
I’ll say it, I liked Andy’s pants. Or at least I liked the idea of Andy’s pants. They were futurized cargo pants which (as I understand the term) fall under the category of sportswear. They weren’t well executed - but I got where he was going. Those weren’t hammer pants. I don’t think the judging was well explained.
I don’t think the challenge was clear - was it supposed to be sportswear? or something 60’s inspired? or something Jackie inspired (and from which era - her style changed radically over time)? or something that Jackie O would wear today if we reanimated her corpse? because I don’t think either the designers or the judges knew what the instructions meant.
Even though I don’t like Valerie’s jacket, I do think she got screwed when she was told that she had to make a second piece of outerwear to go over her first jacket (instead of being able to make something that went under her original garment when everyone else was making outerwear). There was really no coming back from the “twist” for her.
Ivy can sew well, but can’t fit at all. Gretchen’s just looks sad. I liked Mondo’s. I liked Christopher’s dress, but not the accompanying pelt. And April’s screamed “I’m in art school in New York” which gets old after a while.
Generally, the judges shouldn’t have commented so much on the shoes - the designers are limited to the Piperlime wall, there’s only so much they can do with what they’re given.
Andy’s piece didn’t seem that bad to me. It seemed spunky and young, but definitely not Jackie O. However, I read on another board that Tim Gunn thought the judges didn’t get the challenge as well, which makes sense to me since he didn’t comment at all on Andy’s piece in the workroom except to say that the piece was very much Andy’s aesthetic.
I had thought Valerie was a goner after they pronounced her work as being “boring.” Speaking of boring, Ivy’s was pretty, but so boring.
Mondo’s outfit was definitely the best one by far though.
In case you haven’t seen them, Tim has been posting videos each week on his Facebook page. He hasn’t posted yet this week, but they’re priceless. My favorite line from last week: “Now, I said I wasn’t going to say anything about the crack-smoking judges…”
I agree that the challenge was poorly defined. And the designers are given little time to think and sketch before being rushed off to Moods. If I’m given a challenging task, it takes me 15 minutes just to get a cup of coffee and find a pen.
The most fabulous thing about this season is turning out to be Tim.
When Michael D said he was going to do a little cartridge pleating, I thought he was well and truly insane.
I’m not sure anything can top “Jackie Kennedy would not have camel toe.”
Each time Michael Kors spits the word mall out so disparagingly I chuckle inwardly because directly opposite the entrance I use most frequently to our local mall is a Michael Kors store.
I did like michael D.'s “three stages of Tim”
I didn’t like Andy’s, but I don’t think it was all that far off. Being in Northern Virginia, where Jackie Bouvier grew up, (or at least spent a lot of time when she was young) I was raised with a slightly different image of her. She was Jackie the photo-journalist and highly accomplished equestrian. Her heroines were people like Amelia Earhart. She was the daughter of “Black-Jack Bouvier” a real Rhett Butler type - and she was referred to as “her Father’s daughter.”
I actually think that young woman would have loved the adventurous spirit of Andy’s design. It would have had a safari-like quality to it in her mind.
Too bad Andy can’t claim to have known any of that! LOL!
I’m all about the Ivy hate, but I really liked her design this week. I thought that design should have won. I absolutely loved Mondo’s skirt, but pairing that houdstooth with a striped shirt was just harsh to my eye. I really don’t get how that’s attractive. They were two pieces that Jackie O would have loved, but woudl never have considered wearing together.
But then I thought Casanova should have won last week. I guess my style is “frumpy.” LOL!
OMG! January jones was froze out! I imagine Heidi kicked her in her butt backstage! Heidi is a witch, really a fistful of quarters.
Mondo, Christopher and a freaking wild card for the final three… don’t you agree?! 
Val, already you’ve been told drop the plum, and a shiny skirt? :dubious:
Gretchen I am your only fan, I liked the outerwear but what was underneath it? 
Chris you shy boy, you will go far…
April, whattsa matta fer you? Bad hair days x10?
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking.
Something that hasn’t been mentioned here yet . . . Gretchen grabbing Michael C’s outerwear fabric out of his hands at Moods. Just wow.
DoctorJ, thanks for that link. You made my weekend.