You’re right, that makes sense. I couldn’t stand Alexandra’s – the print had no impact and the outfit was scary-ugly.
I love this challenge but those looks were largely uninspired. If you’re going to do that sort of tape/religious look, this is how you do it. The print did not work with it.
Helen’s look was childish. Dom’s was like scribbles. Alexandra’s was just plain awful. I think the only reason Justin was saved was to justify Tim’s saving of him.
I can’t understand how a woman (Helen) whose body is one big print could spend the whole time whining about not being able to do prints. I kept thinking: “look in the mirror, borrow that print!” And it’s not like this challenge should be a surprise to anyone who’s seen PR.
I think that Justin is kept around more for his personal popularity than his talent. He’s definitely better-than-average, but I don’t see him doing a line for Fashion Week.
Though I did think it was sort of silly criticizing somebody who chose a Miss America as his muse for designing a pageant dress.
I think I disagree. I like Justin and his clothes. And as bad as Kate’s was yesterday, I’m really, really disappointed and disturbed that she’s gone. Nearly every one of her pieces was great, up until now.
But that’s the way it goes, I guess.
Yes, I thought Kate would be saved for her body of work.
But Kate’s dress was really bad.
So was Alexandra’s, and she was safe yesterday. How, I have no idea, but she was safe. I thought she’d be gone from the show after the runway part.
OK, so I have to say that Alexander was a real dick to Joshua at the beginning of the show. I mean, there’s just no other word for it. There was Joshua, being his usual gracious and welcoming self; offering a touch of good-natured humour to lighten the moment, and Alexander just peed all over it. Now I’m kinda sorry I defended him last time.
Oh, Kate. The hanky skirt? Really? You of all people should have known that’s a guaranteed Auf’ing! How can anybody who has ever watched this show get out there and try to do the hanky skirt??? And the print? It looked like she’d dripped some bleach on her Grandma’s blue tablecloth. Hideous!
But not as hideous as whatever the hell that was Alexandria sent down the runway. It just screamed “Triple Auf!” In fact, it chanted it while banging its Viking drinking horn on the raw board table . . . “Tri-ple AUF!! Tri-ple AUF!! Tri-ple AUF!! Tri-ple AUF!!”
As bad as Alexander’s beaver whisker print was, and as wholly inappropriate as it was in combination with the religious symbolism,
\Valley Girl| Because, my last name!!! |/Valley girl
I thought Alexandria’s was far, far worse. Only his behavior at the beginning of the show left me at peace with the decision.
TruCelt - Do you mean Justin? The deaf guy?
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I do indeed, thank you!
I would have loved to hear Michael Korrs critique of that skirt!!
Justin’s corset was pretty, and beautifully made, but the skirt was sooooo disappointing. That was surprising, but Kate’s travesty of a dress was shocking. I couldn’t believe she thought that was a good idea from the design stage, and then when those pleats looked so terrible in the workroom, she didn’t see it! I thought she was a contender.
Helen needs to shut the fuck up and grow a pair. Or maybe grow a pair and shut the fuck up.
It’s becoming clear she’ll be the third person, with Braden and Dom, in the finals, and, yikes, I just don’t get it. She’s won four times(to Braden’s three and Dom’s two).
Ugh. I am so sick of listening to her angst – and just think, people, we’re hearing the edited version of that constant drone.
You know what just occurred to me too – she was designing inspired by someone young who breaks down gender barriers, and then she puts her in a forties dress up to the neck, covered in ruffles. Not that women aren’t free to wear that, but really? And maybe I’m showing my ignorance, but I thought binary was ones and zeroes? That would have been a cool graphic on a bold color.
Here’s the thing, that off-kilter wrap skirt has been on two FW runways that I’ve noticed (Dries Van Noten was the most recent) so it could be that Nina et all are realising that it is currently trending.
It’s funny though, that the “racer-front” look that whatshisname, the emo guy from the midwest, got lambasted for… that has also been on the runways for SS14 and Heidi just wore it as well.
I can’t remember any critiques that Alexandria has recv’d. Has she been in the bottom 3 at all?
I think Justin will go home next, and then her. Braden-Dom-Helen for Final 3.
Three times: the choose-your-materials team challenge with wallpaper, party store, and grocery; sportswear; and superfan.
Does anybody else find Zac Posen too bitchy? He seems, if only to me, more interested in biting soundbytes than constructive or even insightful criticism.
Helen is a childish asshole who was threatening the bloggers Tom and Lorenzo the other day. Grow the fuck up, you little snot.
The problem is that i think he feels like he has to replace Michael Kors, but he doesn’t have the wit and charm to pull of a Kors-style critique.
For me, possibly the most disappointing part of this challenge was the challenge itself. The print part was fine, but the inspiration part seemed so pointless and contrived. “Let’s pick seven people with almost nothing in common, and use them as the inspiration for clothes that we’re not actually making for them, using fabric that we create ourselves.” Stupid, stupid, stupid.
And if they had taken the “inspiration” part seriously, there’s no way Helen should have been in the top. That strange little mixture of stars and moons bore not the slightest resemblance to the work of her artist inspiration. She might as well not even have visited him, for all the effect it had on her print.
Kate’s was a fucking disaster, but, while i’m not going to argue too much with Alexander’s exit, i might have had Alexandria in the bottom, and possibly getting aufed instead of him.