Oh, no, I think he is freaking* hot*. And he really knows how to work it when needed, like a true sociopath.
Tim posted this on facebook:
One last night’s episode, Season Nine lost a great designer and an individual of great quality. It was emotional for me to have to say goodbye…
I saw that before watching the taped episode tonight, so I knew Josh was staying. I couldn’t see Tim writing that about him. This seems like a clear case of keeping the designer who will pull in viewers. It’s a shame. Josh isn’t the caliber of anyone else on there now.
Was anybody else wanting to slap the piss out of Anya, or was it just me? “Oh, it was okay for me to ask for help because it wasn’t really a competition then.” Also, her dress was utterly, utterly hideous and (you may check the blades on Satan’s ice skates since I have written this) Josh was right: it is utterly ridiculous for her model to have to be cut out of the look week after week. A person who gets this far on Project Runway should be able to put in a goddamn zipper.
Totally didn’t understad the praise of Josh’s dress. This was supposed to be “high fashion,” but that was just a piece of bright orange fabric.
Dammit, Burt! I wanted you to go out AFTER Josh! Why the frack did you give up like that! Dammit! I’m so pissed about that.
And I liked the feather dress the best. Josh’s orange dress – when there’s no orange any where on that damn bird - was just stupid.
BAH!
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That was actually a fairly clever ploy, imo. There was no orange on the bird, no. But there was almost that exact shade of orange in the associated makeup kit. The advantages to going that way are two-fold: he can’t be accused of being too literal like Blenley and HV, and there’s no way the judges can say “WTF are you using that color for? That’s in no way related to parrots!” because that would be pissing all over their sponsor. Josh is a narcissistic crybaby asshole, but he’s a clever narcissistic crybaby asshole.
I disagree, actually, on just about every count.
Firstly, Anya was very generous with fabric a couple of weeks before, so it’s not like she had never helped anyone before. In fact, when she got in trouble last week, Tim made a point of noting that she was now in the position of needing help from others after she had been willing to help out previously.
Also, i think there’s an important difference between losing your money in the store and buying the wrong fabric. Sure, Anya should have taken closer care of her money envelope, but her lack of fabric had nothing to do with her abilities as a fashion designer. To tell the truth, when she lost her money i expected them to just give her a new envelope, and when Tim told her that she would just have to use muslin and scrounge what she could from the other designers, i thought it was a stupid bullshit policy.
Josh, on the other hand, needed fabric because he chose stupid fabric and made a butt-ugly dress with it. That’s a design decision, and directly related to the primary purpose of the competition. I think that’s different, in very important ways, from just losing an envelope with some money in it.
As for the whole thing about Anya’s dress, i couldn’t give a shit how she gets her model into and out of it. Given some of the wildly impractical things that go down the runway in the fashion world, the lack of a zipper registers very, very low on my outrage scale. And i actually thought that, apart from the shoulders, her dress was pretty damn great.
ETA: And the fact that it made Josh so mad was just the icing on the cake. He’s such a self-centered, whiny bitch.
I agree with this.
When will the contestants learn that it’s a big mistake to be too literal in these interpretation challenges? It happens time and again, season after season.
Given an OK dress that is a close interpretation, and a really good dress that almost completely ignores the interpretation, the judges will go for the latter almost every time. Bert should have just forgotten about the stupid bird altogether, made a beautiful dress with a small piece of green in it, and he probably would have been safe. In the end, the judges are nearly always happy to forget the interpretation aspect, as long as you make a great garment.
Bye, Bert… I will miss you.
I can’t see anyone but Anya winning this. But that’s what I thought about Mondo, too.
Speaking of which, can’t wait for All Stars!!
You might be right, but if i were betting right now, i’d probably have my money on Viktor, if he can make the final 3.
He’s one of those designers who sometimes misses the mark on the individual challenges, but who, given a few months and a chance to do his own thing, could put together a really great collection. His construction is excellent, and on his day he can produce some really great designs.
There was a lot of slapping needed. Especially when Michael Kors said “it’s so wearable.” No, no it isn’t. For something to be “wearable” you have to be able to get it on without sewing yourself in and cutting yourself out of it and you have to be able to sit down in it. Any outfit that you have to stand in isn’t “wearable.” (Pretty? maybe. Fashionable? possibly. Wearable? no.) Also, when you look at the closeups, her lack of sewing skills shows - it’s not well put together.
In the end, they made me agree with Josh. Not happy about that.
No, but the help she has given hasn’t been in anywhere near off-setting the help she’s gotten. Not just the money and fabric (and who in the wide world thinks for a minute that second look wasn’t tacked on last-minute to give her another shot?) but all the instruction everyone has given her, and the actual fucking sewing people did for her the first few weeks. If we’re going to look at it from the “she deserves help because she’s helped before” angle, she still owes people. Big time.
And you’ll note she says her attitude toward helping others changed during the Sheepdogs challenge when she realized she might have given the other team the ability to beat her…and yet she still asked for this “inappropriate at this point in the game” help the very next week. In other words, inappropriate for you, not inappropriate for me. It’s self-serving bullshit.
Well, you’re entitled to your opinion, of course.
I have no particular desire to defend her, and despite her outwardly friendly demeanor, i think she’s as good as anyone at playing the game of manipulation and bitchiness.
But i still think there’s a basic and fundamental difference between helping someone in a situation where their problem has nothing to do with their design ability (e.g., losing their money), and helping them in a situation where their problem was caused by a fundamental failure in the very skills and talents that the competition is designed to evaluate.
But, going along with that, i also think that none of those other people at the beginning of the competition should have helped her with her sewing. If i were a contestant, there’s no way i’d help someone else with something so basic and fundamental to the work.
Did anyone else watch that new After The Runway show? Josh is even a bigger whiny bitch there than he was on Project Runway! Viktor didn’t come across that great either, with his “Josh is gay so that excuses him being a rude bitch to people” excuse.
I watched After the Runway, and loved it. Josh has only two reactions to criticism: Be sullen or attack. I really think he is hurting his career. I know I would never, ever hire him. I thought Viktor came across as trying to help him, which was okay. Burt came off really well. He handled his criticism like an adult.
Anya needs to go.
See, I don’t mind not being able to sew- big name designers do no sew their own collections.
I do mind the sloppiness and inattention to detail.
It shouldn’t take other people to point out that your arm holes are different sizes and your model has no way of getting into the dress.
If you have to hand baste the back seam on the drummer’s trousers to stop him flashing underwear, you damn well do it, you don’t send him out with split pants.
Having an eye for prints and meshing that with the current vibe for simple maxi dresses and jumpsuits does not career longevity make.
I thought Josh should go. His looked like a towel wrapped around a woman leaving the spa.
I despised Burt and his dresses but since last week I’ve started liking both so of course he was auf’d.
Anya’s not sharing after her fiasco didn’t sit well with me, because she cited competitive reasons.
I also liked her other dress better.
I really hated the bodice on Bert’s dress. It just screamed “Jaclyn Smith in Charlie’s Angels” to me, especially the covered buckle on the belt.
Anya has some balls. I feel certain we’ll eventually find out that she’s actually a 45 year old man. The whole conversation with Laura excusing her and agreeing was just appalling. Just like last week when they decided the “pact” no longer applied.
Overall a decent episode. Anya is the only designer who has her own aesthetic present in every piece. My wag, Ms Anya knows clothes, on the island she has her clothes made, she designs, and a quick study on the sewing machine. but she is resourceful and has showed her chops with a smile. It amazes our homeviewers how can she be half naked yet seemd covered? Wanted to see how her little hankie dress was going to hold up on the golfcart - 
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Laura needed to go. Kimberely crinkles her nose at Nina and she’s in again. so glad she ditched those horrid pants. Not bad, but Vik’s was somber.
So I fell asleep final judging, it’s a final four?
Well, four get to make collections, but probably only three get to the finale. They’ll have one last runway/auffing.
Anya’s been my pick from the beginning, and I thought ViKtor was a shoe-in, so the drama was the among the remaining three. Either Laura or Kimberly could have gone last night. I think Josh deserved to go through, but I thought he had the ugliest outfit of the night with that red banded top. I can’t believe someone actually liked it.
The biggest shock of the night: when Josh actually said Anya should be one of the finalist.
How in the hell is Josh still there after daring to show that cheerleader-meets-plate-armor outfit! My gods, that was hideous.
Once again showing why I’ll never get to be a fashion judge. 