First episode of the reality show to pick Tommy Hilfiger’s new protege was tonight – damn, kids, I think this is going to be as good as “The Apprentice” – maybe better, given how bad the last two seasons have been.
Check it out – definitely!
OK, I watched it. There’s a lot of similarity to THE APPRENTICE, for sure. I was expecting a bit more of RUNWAY. They’ve got some corkers of contestants. And Tommy Hilfiger is several steps above Trump in the “class” category. I’m hooked.
Corkers, indeed. What’s with that bald guy?
The mix of backgrounds is really interesting – “I like to shop” doesn’t seem like much of a recommendation to me. It will be interesting to see how the various types of expertise work out. “I kept everyone on track” might have been a useful contribution on The Apprentice, but it clearly didn’t cut any ice with Tommy.
“You’re out of style – hit the runway.” Hee!
All during the show it was bothering me: Who does Tommy Hilfiger look like? This morning it hit me: he looks like The Grinch, only not green!
Thank you! I have been wondering about this for years. I kept getting stuck on The Wizard of Oz, but not able to come up with anything specific from that. (Bert Lahr? Flying monkeys?)
It’s the upper lip, isn’t it?
Yes, definitely, the lip.
Looks like we’re the only two Dopers who watched THE CUT. Could spell trouble!!
(And weren’t those billboards hideous?)
Not if you sign up for Yahoo IM – we can hang out and watch it together.
Completely hideous.
Waaah, I missed it! Does it rerun this weekend? It sounds great…much better than his daughter’s show, anyway. She has the Grinch lip too, BTW.
I watched it! And liked, it, too…
Does anyone remember what the background was of the woman who got cut?
From the CBS website:
Proving that ability to spend money may not be enough of a qualification here.
It’s about time Hilfiger started hiring some designers instead of relabeling any crap JC Penney or Sears thought was too boring for their product lines. His stuff is too boring for ME, a fat man who buys many of his clothes by frickin’ mail order! It is an argument against letting straight men design clothes.
Is it just me or does Hilfiger look like a chimp from a Bugs Bunny cartoon?
I watched it and thought it was good. i agreed with his critique of the billboards.
I saw part of this. The one group was putting up the Statue of Liberty billboard, which I thought looked horrible. The other group hadn’t started. What did the final products end up looking like?
Like a bright camoflauge rectangle with the white emblem of a lion superimposed on the top of it. The writing was really hard to read and I think that is why they lost.
Princess, Princess, Princess – shut the fuck up.
Good ep! The hateables are starting to step up and identify themselves – I’m looking at you, Jeff – and we’re starting to get a sense of who the truly competent are (James, Chris C., Julie). Shall we start invoking the Perdew-Rancic corollary (how do you spell that freakin’ word?) yet? 'Cause if so, Tommy, buh-BYE!
Hee! I’m lovin’ this show!
Watched intermittently tonight. Is Tommy the one who was sent to the People’s Choice Awards show? If so, yeah, buh-bye.
I was thinking about the corollary too. Shauna, for sure, and maybe Julie (assuming Julie’s the older blonde woman).
The show looks exactly like The Apprentice, but it’s on a different network. Are the same people doing The Cut?
Watched Mark Burnett on an Oprah repeat today, and he’s a sweetie.
Boy! There are some real losers on this show. Too bad Tommy H. can’t just sweep all the losers out of there right now (Tommy, Jeff, blonde purse designer, Princess, for Pete’s sake!). Then we might have an interesting time watching the competent ones compete.
Oh wow was that a stupid task! “Hey let’s spend too much money making a truck look trashy!” The fur covered window handles were absurd. Princess is a moron. But then again Hilfger doesn’t look so good either. He has no charisma.
I liked last week’s assignment a lot better. I also miss Project Runway. Now *that * was a great show about fashion design. So far this one is just meh.
I dunno, it’s gotta be hard to come up with design-oriented tasks that8 or 9 people can do as a team. I thought this was good, in terms of seeing how teams work as teams, and also as a way of bringing out individual skills and abilities. The differences between the info Chris got and the info Princess got – my god. Vienna fingers? Jay-zus. And let’s face it, this being capitalism, in the real world, you’ve got a specific client you’re working for, and doing your own thing in a way that pleases the client is 99% of the point of being a design professional.