Next week’s preview…YeOWZA.the claws come out. I think Anya will be in trouble soon. How many times can she repeat the same damn design??
Oliver isn’t just a blond Asian with an accent, he’s a blond Asian with a FAKE accent. Didn’t he say he’d lived all his life in Detroit or so such place and recently moved to London. I HATE the Madonnaesque I’ve-moved-to-England-so-poof-I’ve-got-a-British-accent. Poseur.
Cleveland;)
I swear to god if I were in the same room with him I’d tell him to drop the fake accent and STFU. He’s a ridiculously pretentious little twerp and I hope he leaves ASAP.
I thought it was a fair challenge and a fair result. The paintings the kids did were mostly pretty terrific so good for them. My favorite was the blue one Skyy did. Awful name but great imagination and color sense. Bert’s look was at least interesting and played with proportion. Josh’s dress was far too literal and derivative. He needed to go. When watching I really thought Betsy was a goner but apparently not.
This season has been unpredictable. So far no clear favorites have emerged. Both Bert and Olivierer have won and been in the bottom. I think this may lead to a very unsatisfying final three or four.
Oliver maybe doesn’t have the chops, but I don’t think his accent is fake. Examiner.com says “Here’s the scoop, as Olivier has tried to clarified since the poorly edited ‘Project Runway’ comment aired. While the designer was born in Ohio as a young child he spent several years in Taiwan. At the age of 16 he moved to London. And then, after around six years in the UK, Olivier moved to Milan for schooling.”
Read the whole article here: Examiner is back - Examiner.com
PS is that a legit site or content farm? Not sure.
What really got me about this week’s challenge was that the judges ragged on a couple of the bad designs for not being avant garde, but when it came right down to picking the winner, they clearly didn’t actually give a flying fuck about that.
None of the three top looks were avant garde in any meaningful sense. Laura’s rose thing was a pretty straightforward dress, and Anthony’s winning dress was a nice interpretation of the painting but was not really unusual or forward-thinking in its design or execution at all. I guess Josh M’s was somewhat more in tune with the requirements of the challenge, but even then i didn’t understand all the gushing over the fact that he painted the skirt. Big fucking deal.
Bert’s was truly awful, even though it was, at least, interesting in a horrible way. Other Josh deserved to go, and Olivier’s looked like a dog’s breakfast, as my step-father used to say.
I actually would have liked to see Anya in the top three (although i take amarinth’s point about how she always does the same thing), and i also quite liked what Kimberly sent down. And while i thought, after the scene in the workroom, that Becky’s cube-laden number was going to be awful, in the end i actually didn’t mind how it turned out.
Josh M. is still a complete dick, even though he made some sort of surface effort to be a bit nicer in this episode. But he still treated Becky like shit. He might as well have said to her, “Rather than abusing you in this episode, i’m going to be incredibly condescending to you instead.” Douchebag.
Yeah, the years between 16 and 22 can be a pretty formative time for a lot of people, and i have no trouble believing that someone could pick up a new accent if they moved to a new country at age 16 and lived there for 6 years.
And some people are just more susceptible to picking up accents than others. I’ve lived in the US for over 10 years, but my Aussie accent is unchanged, according to both my American and my Australian family and friends.
As the child of a NH yankee and a GA southerner, I have to stick up for Olivier a bit. Neither of my parents liked hearing the others’ accents come out of our mouths, and we grew up in Virginia, so there was a whole different set of vowels to contend with. As a reult, CeltBro and I are both still accent chameleons, and pick up whatever is around us automatically; we also switch around depending upon the topic, or where we learned a certain word.
Far from pretentious, I think he shows signs of abuse. When he had a panic attack and passed out after falling, that was my first clue. And the way he just froze when Tim confronted him about the glue, he really seemed like he expected to be hit.
His aspect reminds me of people who grew up in North Vietnam. Extremely introverted, and always expecting to be punished or severely shamed. I think he’s paralyzed most of the time.
Still hate mean Josh - there’s the seat of pretention here. And the look on his face when he talked about his Mom’s initials, it really looked like he was pimping for sympathy points. Though that could be my hatred showing. . . I love though, that he actually said “I don’t like organic, I like things FAKE.”
I felt very badly for Bert’s artist. Did you notice the body language there beside the runway? Bert was like a little kid demanding compliments “Did you like it?” and the poor young man was leaning as far away as he could, with his face turned the other way mumbling “Yeah.” to be polite. I might almost have accused him of homophobia, except that there are so many legitimate reasons to dislike Bert.
The editing/camera work is still making me nuts. You can hardly get a glance at any of the clothes they flip around so fast. I put the DVR on slo-mo just to get a look at them, and even at that there often simply is no shot of the whole garment.
I thought Becky’s idea of fading from 3D to cutouts was itneresting and tastefully done. Unfortunately it was too tasteful to call it avante garde.
I don’t watch the show that often and when I do it’s usually with the captions on. I did catch this latest avant-garde episode though.
The winner wasn’t avant-garde, and while the dress looked nice from a blurry distance, close up it looked like crap and the slightest wind would deconstruct the whole thing and leave the model naked.
The older guy’s dress with the pin cushions stuck all over it was just awful.
The blond Asian guy just wasn’t really trying, or doesn’t possess the ability to be inspired by something and interpret it.
I liked the tree trunk dress okay, and I like the designer, but then I said I don’t watch the show and the sound is turned off, so that Josh guy could be really annoying, but I didn’t pick it up this episode. Definitely trolling for sympathy with the mom story and got a laugh from “if it weren’t for my mom, I wouldn’t be here.” Duh, she gave birth to you. 
I got lots of laughs at the judges ripping on the biker slut S & M cocktail waitress dress. I kinda liked it though, because it reminded me of Jool, from Farscape.
I think they made the right decision on who to send home. Mediocre at design but good at sewing just doesn’t cut it. Next time I hope it’s Josh. He seems to be very emotionally unstable to me. My bff likes him the best, but I told her last week that he is just mean and a bully, and possibly mentally ill or something- there’s something very dark in there. And this week’s show only confirmed that. I still have a soft spot for Bert, for some reason. Th winning team’s clothes all looked awesome- one of the best runways I have seen since starting to watch this show.
The difference between the two teams was so striking. I almost expected teh editing to be misleading, and team Nuts & Bolts to win.
StG
Examiner is a content farm so I don’t know if I would believe anything on that site unless verified by outside sources.
Me too. But the prints they used were so awful. No amount of editing could disguise that fact.
I’m sorry Betsy’s gone because she seemed so nice. Josh’s bullying probably made it hard for her to concentrate.
I just don’t understand how they could make such ugly prints! You’re given the opportunity to finally make your own damn fabric, in whatever design you’ve always wanted to make… and you do numbers and words. Last years’ challenge was SO much more visually appealing.
And those silver poodle shorts - Yet another way to make your ass look two feet bigger! What the hell is up with these designers!
Bah!
Next weeks’ challenge looks interesting – men designing clothes they think their wives want to wear. I’m sensing impending doom. 
I do NOT understand the winner. That one was just a basic sack with a square-cut back. There were easily two better pieces on the winning team.
I know I’m projecting, but Becky was screwed as soon as she ended up on Team Nutjob.
On her individual challenges (and the one where she was teamed with a sane person), she did pretty well, not final-3 material, but not eliminated this early, either. On team challenges, she tried to be a team player and work with her team. If everyone on the team is also interested in collaborating, that works. If a team is can’t work together, then the only way to do even half ok is to say “fuck it” and do your own thing. To me, it seemed that she was trying to be a Team Player, and trying to do something that worked with the other outfits on the team and take input from her teammates - but because there was no team through-line and they weren’t trying to work together, her outfit became design-by-committee bad.
Josh is an asshole with a stupid aesthetic. His Village People and costume ideas were bad ideas (he always goes straight for costume). And his work is never great. Plus, he has his own name tattooed to his wrist. Is he afraid he’ll forget it?
Anya can’t do sleeves. But she can play the game really well. I hope it’s not enough for her to make it to the finals, I don’t think she deserves it. She didn’t deserve the win last night - either Oliver’s jacket or the Viktor’s gown did.
Anya’s only saving grace in this challenge was her creative placement of the graphics in her cap sleeved mini dress. Becky’s 3 piece was leaps and bounds better but her choice of using the workds DELAYED was a bad mark imo, questionable taste…
Josh is looking for a fame vehicle, he should guest judge on RuePauls Drag race - his sketches are pretty good but someone needs to get in his face and push him down.
It’s between Laura, Kimberly, Bert, Anthony, VIktor & Josh.
Well, if I remember correctly, a black girl designed those. For a lot of black girls, a big booty aint a bad thing.
Listen. Please, please, please let these designers stop using that same tired Stephen Sprouse LV graffiti print every damn time they are asked to ‘create’ a print!
Viktor’s gown was AWESOME! He SO deserved to win for that. Striking yet elegant and sophisticated.
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Listen. Please, please, please let these designers stop using that same tired Stephen Sprouse LV graffiti print every damn time they are asked to ‘create’ a print!
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Amen to that! And I’m sure I’ve seen that ||| motif more than once before as well.
But, did I miss something at the beginning? Were they told to work only in black and white? On previous seasons, the designers gleefully embraced the technology and created vibrant, colorful prints.
Was I surprised by Becky’s auf-ing? No. I bet she’d be fun to hang out with, and she does sew very well, but she really had no chance. Perhaps had she been on the other team or hadn’t had that previous run-in with Josh or had been on another season, she would have gone further.
Josh OTOH…he should have been auf’d for his behavior. He’s got talent, sure, but I can see everything turning into a trainwreck pretty quickly.
I still have a soft spot for Bert. I feel bad for him in the sense that there’s nobody in his age bracket. It would be nice if he had a point of reference instead of having to constantly do his version of “Get off my lawn”.