Yay! No more Jeff! What a wack job he turned out to be.
The only two that seem remotely talented are the heavy blonde woman and Shauna.
The thing which absolutely boggles me in watching shows like this is the degree of disconnect that some people have between their images of themselves and other peoples.
Jeff was a perfect example of that. “Tommy Hilfiger is going to regret passing me over. I really thought I was going to win this”
Um, why? Tommy thought your team failed to come up with a potentially trend-setting rock band image. He didn’t like the fact that you couldn’t come up with any idea-type contributions to the final outfits. He didn’t like the fact that you failed to use your salesmanship on the rockers- where it might have helped. He didn’t like the “there were only four band members and five team members” excuse.
Jeff’s certainly not the only person on a reality show to walk away still believing he’s better than everyone else- and I won’t argue with someone who claims that the winner of a reality show like this may not be the person who has the most qualifications for it- but it boggles my mind every time. Especially if there was some reason why the person eliminated should have behaved differently.
The best example of this comes from “Cooking Under Fire” where about three episodes from the end, Katsuji (who may spell his name differently) walks away talking about how he is young and still has his tastebuds and he’ll be a great chef anyway and how he didn’t want to work for Todd in his stupid restaurant. Maybe he’s right, and maybe he’s wrong, but the arrogance that it takes to claim that one knows better than the judges- and the unwillingness to try a little harder to please the judges baffles me.
Then again, if anything I’m lacking a little in the self-confidence department- and I can not imagine wanting to be on a reality TV show. So maybe that explains it.
The heavy blonde woman is Deanna – I like her.
Shauna – yikes, I remember her from the intro as the person whose skill was shopping, but apparently there’s a little more to her than that: check out her bio.
Plus – good lord – her third marriage? :eek:
I am still REELING from the prior episode (decorating and filling the two stores)–how come it was fine for James to leave his team and go to the Hamptons and then when Felix left his team, everyone, INCLUDING James said Felix let them down by not being there and leading them.
I think this will come down to Shauna and Deanna. I give Deanna a slight edge.
I don’t like reality television but I REALLY like this show.
What did Jeff say at the end? “I’m going to make him pay for this” or “I’m going to make him regret this”? Dang.
The regret one. Not a threat, just a “I’m going to be wildly successful and Tommy will be sorry he didn’t hire me when he had a chance.”
I’m far from a fashion maven, and even I could see that the black shirt/pts team had ZERO chances of winning.
Yeah, unbelievable. Who was it who said “All-black? Seems kind of cliched to me, but if that’s what they want …” :rolleyes:
And they buy shiny jeans and spend their whole time trying to make them not shiny? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Another case of someone missing the whole point of the exercise…which was to make a DISTINCTIVE look for the band SO THAT their fans would run out and buy clothes with their look and make money from Tommy…
As to ALL the jeans needing inset pieces to make them fit: I wonder if it occured to them to try swapping the jeans about first? As in, put the second biggest guy into the jeans that were to the biggest guy, the third biggest into the second, and so forth. Yeah, you’d have to add BIGGER insets into the formerly smallest pair to get them to fit the largest guy, but it’s still much easier to do that for one pair instead of all four.
Well, apparently So You Think You Can Dance was destroying The Cut – at least they moved it and didn’t just cancel it.
Tonight’s show was great – it was definitely fun watching them all work individually, and seeing what they each came up with. (Elizabeth may not be popular, but damn if she doesn’t do good work.)
And I almost freakin’ died at the end when
Karl Lagerfeld walked in.
Way too much fun watching them all freak out, too!
And the right person got booted, definitely, I thought.
Lagerfeld was the funniest part of the show, too. That man is so fake! (Note rings on each finger. Note stupid tall collar. Note fugly ponytail.) And his clothes pretty much suck, too. I saw the Chanel exhibit at the Met this spring and it was really shocking to see how Lagerfeld junked up the pristine Chanel ideas!
How often do you see someone on a reality show fall on his own sword like Felix did? Not that Hilfiger was terribly impressed with the gesture.
Yeah, with six other people around, how hard can it be to come up with something critical to say of one of them? At least two of them were critized for creating “iconic images” that someone else has already staked a claim on (DKNY with the taxi, and the Paris Hilton look). Look, Felix, no one else is going to promote you to Tommy Hilfiger. If you want to stay around, either sell yourself- or ding someone else’s work, ideas, creativity, something!
That said, the person who was cut missed the point at least as badly. Yes, one should stand back and let someone who knows what he or she is doing do their work when appropriate. But Tommy H. has been nagging people all season long about having some of their ideas in the final project- and that was when it was a group project. How could one not expect to be cut for choosing a photographer and a model and letting the photographer make the rest of the choices? Everyone else had an idea that they attempted to make into reality- Felix failed through circumstances that were arguably not his fault(Scale of model vs. Statue of Liberty)- most of them succeeded and created images that they would be proud to take with them and say “This was my idea” I knew Shauna was in trouble when she mentioned that the dress was not to her taste and shooting at night was not her first choice- she seemed to be allowing her image to be awfully heavily influenced by the photographer.
Yeah, the problem with Shauna’s work wasn’t that the ad was so bad – derivative, perhaps, but not bad – but that she was so freakin’ passive. Every mid-job confessional with her was “fine, whatever” – and I was thinking, wtf, girl, do you have no ideas of your own?
I’m really a big Elizabeth fan, btw. I thought her image was truly stunning.
I agree!
And she seemed like the most mature contestant of the group as well: a clear idea with the knowledge of how to carry it off with no histrionics to speak of. Good job!
I missed this episode (class reunion stuff going on and I forgot to Tivo). Who was cut?
The challenge was to work individually to create “an iconic image.” Most of them were nice – a couple were very good. Elizabeth won with a picture of a woman in Grand Central Station in a ball gown draped (not cut!) from an American flag – Shauna, who didn’t like the dress used and who didn’t make any effort whatsoever to control her photographer, lost.
Special guest start: Karl Lagerfeld, who came on and commented on each of the images.
Good ep.
Let’s see, the images chosen:
The loser:
A woman getting out a cab, dressed in high style, with her arms raised in excitement? to show herself off?
The winner:
A woman dressed in a ballgown made from american flags in Grand Central staion.
The rest:
Closeup of a baseball guy, blowing a bubble gum bubble with that blacking under his eyes.
An ‘immigrant’ raising his arms in celebration at the sight of the Statue of Liberty.
A black women getting out a car at the Stock Exchange, dressed as a power business woman.
A Paris-Hilton type pose, women carrying a dozen upscale store type shopping bags with a white cat on a leash.
A waif? fish out of water? young girl dressed all in TH clothes, beneath an elevated road in Harlem (I think it was.)
I about the loser, and the chosen winner was a beautiful image, but I must have misunderstood the assignment, too. I thought they were supposed to come up with a iconic style that could be used repeatedly with variations, to establish an “image” for advertising a line of clothes. Out of these pix, the only one that seemed to fit that was the woman at the stock exchange: clothes for the high end business woman, do a series with women arriving a obvious ‘centers of power’.
Who’d have thought I’d be wanting Princess to win an ep?
A good place to go for no holds barred discussions of shows is the Television Without Pity message board
Was it just me, or did that picture look more like Fran Drescher saying “Welcome to Las Vegas!”?