I have to say, Amy and Jay Nicolas have my attention.

Jesus = EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.  Why are you still here?  I could have thrown up on a model and it would have been easier to look at then...whatever that was.
And Pamela....what the hell?  Sure, it wasn't all that flattering or mood-correct, but it was an impressive technique.  Why keep Jesus over her?


Jay...what?  Sure, it was a neat trick on the skirt, but she looked like a ballerina.  In a way, the overall idea looked so... the first thing that comes to any amateur artist's mind when they start doodling a dress...slim tank top and short poofy bottom.  Just what. The. Fuck.


Amy- So far my favorite.  That dress.  So, so gorgeous.  The playful textures (like some kind of sexy forest nymph), the composition, the contrast of the swishy skirt and open, smooth back, the perfect use of color -warm without being drab...and originality without being cliche' original, Ping. Plus, she was the one who best filled the challenge... she both embraced the fabric and re-invented it.   SO FUCKING ROBBED (tm raven)!!!!

Speaking of Ping.  Not a bad idea with the skirt, definitely some potential there (though that wouldn't save the top...) but how hard is it to cover a model's ass?  Why does this keep happening?

Also, what is his name, Andre?  The one with the little short-skirted red dress that went up first?  Why on earth was his overlooked?  Especially for Jay's.  Bleh.


Gah.  The drama.  Already it starts. :C


But, so so so much better a talent pool this time around.  Even if the judges were so squirrely this round.

Last edited by OnlyInThisLight (01-21-2010 11:03:07 PM)

Dude, WTF!

First of all, I LOVED this challenge, making something AMAZING out of cheap burlap sacks. Now I want a burlap sack. I would wear half the outfits those designers made out of freakin' POTATOE sacks. This challenge showed a whole new level of creativity.

There were a lot of pieces that were dyed and really pretty and you couldn't even tell they were burlap at all, but.. I think they kind of lost the point of the challenge even if they were awesome.

So why did the people who did keep the dresses burlap-y but still completely good-looking not win? ): I loved the modern-looking dress and the one with the burnt-looking fluffy edges.. I can't remember the designer's names. They were both in the top three. The guy who won made a great dress, but it wasn't burlap-y. Impressive that he made the feathers out of burlap though.

I'm glad they gave Ping another chance even if her dress was awful. I think she's just really oblivious but definitely tried.. or maybe I just feel bad for her. I really wish they got rid of Jesus (sounds like HEY ZEUS to me) instead. He deviated from the challenge the most and his dress wasn't even that great for trying to cover up all the burlap with pretty fabric, so that says something.

Out of the ones that made it in but didn't get called back, I really loved the one with the hoodie (would so wear that) and the cute pants-suit.

Last edited by SleepDebtFairy (01-22-2010 08:13:56 PM)

SDF wrote:

There were a lot of pieces that were dyed and really pretty and you couldn't even tell they were burlap at all, but.. I think they kind of lost the point of the challenge even if they were awesome.

So why did the people who did keep the dresses burlap-y but still completely good-looking not win? ):

The problem is deciding what the actual objective of the challenge is. Was the point to make wearable burlap, or to make burlap not look like burlap?

OITL wrote:

Hrm, do you guys remember the separates piece, with the pants and vest?  It wasn't in the top or bottom three but I have to say, I smell Logan, and I see unflattering pants.

I missed part of the runway, so I had to look for it. And yes, while cute, it totally reeks of Logan. Of course, that brown dress with the lace panel on the front screams Irina, too.

Anthony's dress was cute too. A lot of people on Jezebel said that they would have booted Jay's dress from the Top 3 for his. Like I said, this was an incredibly above-average episode.

Yeah, I guess the challenge could go either way. But seeing as how Jesus got slack for completely covering up and hiding the burlap, I assumed the challenge was to keep somewhat of the burlap-essence.

DEAR GOD I LOVE ANTHONY!

"Quit acting up in front of company!"

I love and hate team challenges. I love them for the drama, but I hate them for the same drama. If there wasn't a clear bitch before, there will be after this.

Anyway, WTF Mila?! How the hell did you manage to do ONE THING for two days?! Guess it paid off, not that I particularly care for it. I almost think she won just for doing pants.

I loved Jay and Maya's signature look. I liked (believe it or not) Jesus' and Amy's better, though....but not by much.

Everything else was varying degrees of WTF. The yellow and black dresses automatically made me think of Nanami, and not in a good way. It's sad when I'm willing to trust an animated 13-year-old's taste level over a bunch of grown people. ( I will probably edit this part sometime tomorrow after I read the recaps on Jezebel, since they usually include pictures.)

I'm going to miss Ping because she's 12 shades of awesome, but interesting only gets you so far. At least Jesse didn't get dragged down with her.

I was actually kind of fond of Ping's signature look in an odd way.  She designed it so that the model purposely had to hold up the fabric and I thought it looked somewhat elegant.  I thought Anthony's dress was pretty revolting and hideous; Since he and Ping were both in the bottom, I was expecting them both to go home, but alas only Ping is gone :\  She was fun to watch and I think she had a lot of potential.

I also liked Jesus and Amy's.  I think it was Amy's work that made it look well though because had Jesus done it on his own, it would've looked like crap.  Amy has been producing great work from week one i.m.o.

Mila...something about her just irritates me.  Same with Jonathan.  It might be that they both have an "I'm so much better than you" kind of attitude that just rubs me the wrong way.

Everything Raven said = Truth.

God, that red.... . {I liked Jonathan's.  Not the right color, but who cares? }

I mean that red.... they really did look like women covered in tomato soup.  And yeah, no one needed to have their knees exposed. 

But hey, tacky challenge, tacky result.

I also liked Amy's.  In a different color scheme it would look gorgeous.  Sure, flowy has been done before but I loved the top.

Ah, this episode was a breath of fresh air.    The bottom three looks were the only ones I did not like.  Correct that, Maya's.  It just looked badly done and even if it hadn't, it wasn't a cute or flattering design.

I'm so proud of Anthony, and Ben.    The colors on Ben's were so delicious.  I would have taken his over Anthony's, except that Anthony's will look way better on Heidi.  Still, an AMAZING dress.  Emilio's I rather liked with the straps, kthnx, but after last week's episode I am kind of done with red.

Mila is kind of odd.  Heidi is full of herself.  Seriously, I wish the show would cut out a good twenty minutes of the beginning of each episode usually spent on hearing the designers fawn and suck up to whomever the challenge is based on, and instead give that time to have the judges critique each and every outfit.

Can't say much about Anna leaving.  She never really caught my eye.  I didn't hate her, though.

This is probably the first episode in a while where I guessed the top and bottom 3 correctly!

I am so glad Anthony won!!!! It doesn't come with immunity, but HE'S ON THE FUCKING COVER OF MARIE CLAIRE! Seriously, that dress was the fucking bizness. I love that he's absorbing the heavy criticism of the first few episodes and actually learning from it.

Emilio's attitude is starting to wear on me, but the dress he made was cute. I always get a huge kick out of when they do the impromptu makeover in the middle of judging. (They do this on ANTM, too.) For all intents and purposes, though, doing that much work to make it cover-worthy means he wasn't going to win.

Loved Ben's dress. I think if the palette was a touch brighter, it would have beaten Anthony's. The teal, while strong, was too dark for a cover. I do see Heidi in it for a less formal red carpet event.  I'm seriously hoping he's this season's darkhorse.(You know, the contestant you constantly forget is still there until about halfway through the season.)

As for everyone else, I'm baffled. So many of them did not pay a lick of attention when the Marie Claire lady said no prints/patterns, no black, and no neutrals. For me, the bottom three wasn't even about the dresses being butt ugly. It was about NOT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS.

Ok, story time....

When I was in elementary school back in the Middle Ages, we had an in-class assignment about following directions. The teacher would give us the assignment, and say that she had to go to the office for a few minutes.  She'd also tell us the usual stuff, "Stay in your seat, keep your eyes on your own paper, and no talking." We'd start the assignment, and it turns out that it's a list of things that we're supposed to do to complete it. Some of it was simple stuff like "Write a 5 in the top right corner of your worksheet." Then there were odd ones like, "Draw a line through every sentence that starts with 'The'." To top it all off, they throw in extra odd stuff like, "Stand up and clap twice".

When the teacher came back 15-20 minutes later, she'd take up the papers and ask if anybody got out of their seat or talked. Since it was part of the assignment, everyone raised their hands.

We didn't get recess that day because we broke the rules.

The entire scenario was an exercise in following directions, and we didn't follow the directions that the teacher gave us. It was very fucked up.

Ok, story time over.

Mila's dress wasn't ugly, per se. It was just a bad idea, as Nina and Michael pointed out with the crotch arrow. As stated above, what killed me is that there were three dresses were basically Heidi-colored. In a photoshoot, she'd look naked in all three of those. The fact that Mila claims it looked peach to her makes it worse, because it's still flesh-colored! I knew she wasn't going home, though.

I know one of the flesh-toned failures escaped the bottom three, but it was number 4, as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, Anna was going home as soon as I saw what she was making. In what universe would Heidi wear that? They were right, it was a very young outfit, and Heidi is on the wrong side of 30 for it.

I do want to say that Seth Aaron's suit was awesome, but not for Heidi. She couldn't pull it off. Too severe.

I don't have much to comment on except wanting to fawn over the outfits that didn't get in the top three or bottom three. OitL, I agree, that suit was HOT! I would so wear that. And even though I know few people would agree with me, I LOVED that long silver flowy dress.. I just have a thing for flowing faerie-like dresses.. and silver..

I love how Emilo had the scissors ready. And I liked his dress a lot, but I thought giving the model a side pony-tail was just a bad idea. That and I couldn't understand how he wasn't sick of red after the last challenge.

I'm so proud of Anthony for taking all of that criticism and doing something with it, yet still creating something that was very him.

Not a bad episode, overall.  Can't say that I was AT ALL surprised when Jeanette went home (and I don't think any of the other designers were, either.)

Amy-   Yeah, I was disappointed -even moreso that she made bottom two.  I mean, yeah, she bit off more than could chew and really just couldn't get the separate elements to work, but those elements themselves were solid - properly executed the petal-pants could have been interesting and the blue sweater was adorable.

Jay- Very cute, was all over the color.  The top for the adult model was so visually interesting.  Couldn't take my eyes off it.  Would have preferred different pants for the little girl, though.  Something slimmer to help add more contrast to the baggy, movement-happy top and scarf.

Emilio- Fine line between cutely simplistic and boring as hell, and I'm leaning towards boring.  What was cute was already tried and true (slim, nurselike dress with poofy, short sleeves) and the little girl's dress was just plain lazy.  I was actually too young...the kind of dress a 2-4 year old wears to church. 

Anthony-  I missed it!    Someone give me linkage!

Mila-  Little girl's dress = ew.  But I'm not a huge fan of watermelon color schemes, so... 

Jeanette-  Not good by any means, but not as unwearable as the judges made it out to be.  It was just basic. 

Jesse-  Um...is it just me, or does his adult dress look strangely familiar?  And the little girl's I just thought was morbid.  Like she was either a pint-sized serial killer or a midget dressed up as little girl and not too happy about it.

Jonathan-  Why wasn't he in the bottom two?  Just awful.  Awful idea, awful construction, awful color choice, unflattering and even unoriginal to boot!  We've all seen the failed-ruffles outfit.

Seth Aaron-    The little girl looked like a Squeanix character, which I dig.  I really like how he really focused on what a kid would enjoy, and not so much on being chic -and it worked.  And that jacket...  I just wanted it.  Maybe I'm biased because it's the kind of thing I would wear, but hot damn.

Maya- I don't remember her's.  Perhaps I am still traumatized after the outfit she pumped out last episode.  Was she the one whose adult model had an exposed stomach?  How appropriate.


Also, Micheal Kors needs a new critiquing metaphor.

Last edited by OnlyInThisLight (02-18-2010 09:52:28 PM)

I'll get more detailed later, but for now...

1. Anthony's dress was cute, if a bit simple.
2. HA HA HA HERSHEY'S KISS. That's why we pay you the big bucks, Michael Kors.
3. Hated everything that was metallic.
4. Liked Mila's but glad she didn't win.