Finally, a more interesting challenge. And a guest judge that I’ve actually heard of. What a relief. I was actually thinking of going to bed and catching it on On Demand tomorrow.
I liked the challenge. It wasn’t really super-creative or innovative, but it was a good solid, well, challenge for the designers. It paid off in a much better group of garments than we had seen before. Much better.
I agreed with the choice of winner (for a change) It’s always so nice to see something other than a little cocktail dress. It’s always so nice to see sleeves!
That said, Christopher’s was obviously a close second. Gorgeous. He said again that he likes to juxtapose hard and soft. He did the same thing in the first challenge, where he won. He’ll have to make sure that he doesn’t become predictable.
I’ll add more tomorrow, kittens. (I’ve been reading too much TLo. Sorry.) I jsut wanted to get this party started. See ya in the funny pages.
If there really was visible scotch tape on Irina’s coat, that’s pretty lame. I couldn’t see it, but it was mentioned by one of the judges. I liked the coat, but I liked Christopher’s better. That was a cool creation.
What I did not get was why Althea was top 3 again, but Gordana in the bottom. There was nothing whatsoever wrong with Gordana’s dress. I thought it looked great, actually. Since when is “wearable” a bad thing, esp. as Gordana said, when using such unconventional materials? Tim even liked it. The judges were way off here. Althea’s was cool, but it was just another sheath IMO.
There were several other dresses that I liked much better than Althea’s, like Epperson’s, Shirin’s, and Carol Hannah’s. They took risks too but went unrecognized. That seems to be par for the course this season.
I’m glad Johnny was auf’ed. It was lame to lie about steaming painted newsprint as the excuse for the crap he wound up showing. (Steaming painted newsprint? Yeah, that was smart!, as Matar pointed out. Why would you need to do that in the first place? And who would? Bad lie.) He’s just full of excuses. Should Nicolas have called him out like that? Well, maybe if he hadn’t gone off on how the lost dress was SO DIOR! :rolleyes: I loved how being on Project Runway was harder than kicking meth. What a drama queen. Buy-bye!
Can I just say, the models were really annoying tonight. Fatma needs to self-censor a little bit. Why talk about America’s obesity in a room full of emaciated women? And all the weeping and gnashing of teeth when Emarie got eliminated was annoying. So sorry someone from your lame little clique got kicked off. It can’t only be girls you don’t like, and huge, heaving sobs and laying on the bathroom floor was a bit much.
Next week-- contrived model drama when all the designers are forced to pick a different model. Oh noes!
I wish the models show spent more time showing us what it was like to model a paper dress … and you know, actually be a model. I thought it was fascinating that some of them couldn’t sit down all day because they were wearing PAPER. I mean, it’s obvious but it just didn’t occur to me. And didn’t one say the couldn’t go to the bathroom? (I was partially distracted during that segment, it was done by that time I came back) I can’t imagine putting up with that … and then walking down the runway like you own the world.
I was wondering, too. I mean, they have to wait a couple hours for the runway show, and then there’s judging…but does that take seven or eight hours? Wow.
I love that Tim didn’t hug Johnny! Just tugged and his cuffs and kind of scowled. He hugs EVERYONE. Wow. And I liked his tirade afterward. Don’t mess with the Gunn.
I really liked Christopher’s design. I sort of see why Irina won but I preferred his.
Nicholas was a bit of a bitch. I mean I get why he spoke up but it seemed bitchy.
The winning design was great in terms of style and construction and concept, but it really failed in a big way by keeping it all plain newsprint. If she wasn’t going to use paints or colored pages, she should have at least broke it up a little by making some parts be a darker or lighter section.
Johnny deserved to be auf’d if only because of his attitude. After he had a successful design following his first mental crisis he had a better mood, but I guess he couldn’t sustain it. I actually like his dress for the most part - if he had just constructed it a little better he might have been safe. The comments from the one judge about how it was a momentary set back and he’d be diong great stuff next time made me think he might be safe.
I didn’t get what the model drama was supposed to be. The previews made it seem like there was some major blowout but there wasn’t. I’m glad they are making the designers pick different models next week, or else there’d be no suspense with regard to them picking the same ones every week.
I didn’t get the thing about them being in the dress for 7 hours. What were they doing in between the time they left the studio and when they did the runway show??
Wow Tim was hard on Johnny!! I never expected him to be bad mouthing a designer behind their back!
Oh, you missed this gem from Tim: “I’m incredulous of that utterly preposterous spewing of fiction that Johnny did on the runway. It was ridiculous!” He said this to the remaining desigers after he told Johnny to clear out his things. He stood there, playing with his cufflinks, refusing to hug Johnny like he always hugs the departing designer. I love how even Tim’s angry disses sound like they were constructed using a thesaurus.
jackdavinci, maybe the “model drama” was the formation of those warring cliques? So 7th grade. Next week, all the designers have to switch models, so that should definitely generate some drama.
Why lie at all? Why not just say, Tim gave me some feedback on my design and it dovetailed with some concerns I had, so I rethought things and started over. Did he think if he told they truth they’d tell him he shouldn’t have listened to Tim? I just don’t get it, and I’m glad he’s gone (and good on Tim for calling a spade a spade).
I know. I never thought I would miss Nina, but I think since I already miss Michael I miss her too.
I’m also cranky since Lifetime doesn’t have an HD channel where I am, so I have to watch it less crisply than on Bravo. So I blame Lifetime for a cruddy season, which is annoying because it’s set in LA and it should be awesome.
I think he was making excuses because he didn’t want to admit that he’d made not one but two crap dresses. If he portrayed the first one as brilliant but accidentally ruined, the judges might give him another chance. That’s the lie of the whole thing-- the first dress was crap, period, and would have been so without water stains. However, the fact is that he tossed it because of what Tim said, which had nothing to do with the steamer accident.
What’s really messed up is that he’s still swearing he didn’t lie. He actually contradicts himself in this article, at first saying that he wasn’t talking about ruining the first dress with the steamer: “When I was talking about the sputtering of the iron, that’s the dress I’m talking about. I’m not talking about the red dress at all. It may have come across like that, but that’s not what I was talking about.” Then he goes on to say that he ruined BOTH dresses with the steamer: “The first one, the water was causing the paper to weaken — and that’s what I was talking about.”
So wait a second, Johnny-- you still steamed the second dress after you claim you ruined the first one with the steamer? And no mention whatsoever of the fact that, on tape, we see Tim criticize the first dress, and you promptly crumple it into a ball and toss it? Does this kid not realize he’s on TV?
I think this is the problem with setting the show in LA. Michael Kors is based in NY, as is Marie Claire magazine. This makes it harder for Nina and the Duchess to be around. To me, that’s enough reason to move the show back to NY.
That’s been one of my pet peeves with this show, from whenever we first started watching. They use “wearable” as a dire insult to design. Drives me nuts.
Weird. He kind of reminds me of that other guy in (I think) season 3. The guy who brought pattern books and then he said that the rules weren’t clear or something…and was still denying he cheated after he was kicked off and came to the reunion show. No one else seemed to have a problem with the rules, just him.
The first thing that occurred to me about Johnny’s lying is that you don’t have to win PR for it to help your career, but you do have to avoid being a jerk. I think he hurt himself a great deal. Who would want to hire or back him now?
Their web site is also complete crap. It’s so slow it makes the search funtion here look super sonic in comparison.
I don’t watch Lifetime except for PR so hadn’t seen their commercials for the show until last night. I was disappointed to find that unlike Bravo they give everything away about the next challenge. Not to mention being Lifetime they have to try to throw in a big romance between designers.:rolleyes: