"Don't go home too soon...Don't go home too soon."
Bitch, don't go taunting your fellow designers in the sewing room when it's your ass on the line. Karma's not enough of a bitch in reality, but it's a HUGE bitch in reality television.
Y'know, looking at the still photo, it's really not that bad. The parts that are actual pieces of clothing and not fabric swatches, of course. We really love the colors she chose and we like the proportions on the jacket and pants.
Yeah, Ginny Barber in her cheapass-looking discount mall dress said the jacket looked like Members Only but then again ... cheapass-looking discount mall dress, y'know?
And granted, the Duchess was correct in pointing out how "insane" that crotch is, but then again, she's the Duchess. She probably spends most of her free time in insane crotches.
But yes, nothing is done and what is done doesn't look well made. No argument there.
But we really like the pairing of the dark brown jacket (with the lining) with the lighter brown pants and the brilliant blue of the imaginary shirt. That hat is total ass, though.
We have to say, we liked her bold new direction for Project Runway contestants. In the future, they won't have to actually make the clothes, they can just wrap fabric around the models and say "I envisioned this as a beaded cocktail dress" or "This fabric represents resortwear."
This represents "sewing."
We also liked her introduction of the possibility of eyeball-gouging the judges on the way out.
"Auf wieders-AAAAHHHH! Sheisse! My eye! You almost poked my eye out with that doorknocker thing on your neck! Get off my runway, bitch!"
The outfit was ass and not even sewn together but HOLY CRAP! What was that thing hanging from her neck! it looked like two dino teeth, or a crab claw....shudder.
I think instead of creating an outfit for Tiki she wanted to scare away all the competition with her accessories.
T-Lo said... Yeah, Ginny Barber in her cheapass-looking discount mall dress said the jacket looked like Members Only but then again ... cheapass-looking discount mall dress, y'know?
Actually, the dress is a $3,000+ Versace Couture dress from Donatella's 2007 Spring line. It just looked like a cheapass-looking mall dress on Mrs Barber. Just sayin'...
Is it just me, or were the judges really harsh last night? I would so enjoy seeing MKors working within the constraints that the designers were faced with. Why do they give them such absurd time limits? Wouldn't it be far more fun to see what they come up with in a reasonable amount of time. And I would so love to see NEEENAGAHSEEA pick out fabrics in 30 min.
"Ginny Barber in her cheapass-looking discount mall dress..." (Which Emma says is expensive but not good on her). Wow! Didn't even notice. You guys see everything!
I was actually sad to see Carmen go, if only for the entertaining potential she promised. She would have been fun to watch as the season progressed. Plus, I'm curious as to what her design ethic really is.
That said, your post was pretty right on. And funny!
I don't understand why they don't let the contestants stay as long as they want to finish the garments? Both in school and the "real world" if you want to make a great presentation you spend as much time as you can. That's why they call them "all-nighters."
I will not miss Carmen at all. She was very annoying. I really enjoyed this episode, I have never laughed so hard as I did last night. When she draped that fabric around his neck and called it a shirt, I died. She should have just zipped up the jacket or pinned it up as need be.
But guys! How can you say the still photo is not that bad. That is a travesty of fashion. That imaginary shirt tucked into his crotch looks like he is wearing that Borat bathing suit.
It's hard for me to critique menswear cause I have no idea what they want to look like but the color combo is really ugly.
Like Heidi said about the purple outfit, I would never want my husband to look like that, even if the outfit was finished and constructed properly.
Well, all true, but let's give the lady her props. She took the auf'ing with some dignity, and was herself appalled at the product. She's also very pretty, without the Carmen Miranda hair.
That's what she gets for using the Blue Fly accesory wall.
But a big reason why I was shocked at this aufing was, seeing the way Carmen walked that runway, at the preview show a few weeks ago. She worked it like she owned it; with such confidence, I was sure she'd gotten to the finals.
I agree that the potential for the top half was there - I did like the color combo of the brown and that blue was lovely. But the bottom half? They were like Kramer pants. And what the hell was on his head? Mrs Barber looks like a major ball buster - Tiki seems super henpecked talking about how his wife and he had worked on his style. Whatev...
This look of Carmen's does look so much worse in the still photos. Sort of like, the residents of Leisure Town put on a dinner theatre production of Oliver, for the 4PM all-you-can-eat buffet.
--Gotham Tomato
P.S.- I have a question for Emma P: Does the 'P' stand for 'Peale'? That was some impressive detective work.
I hope somebody caught some of the screenshots of Carmen's bizarre facial expressions. She was trying too damn hard to be a Personality. I think her little song in the sewing room was an attempt to be Santinoesque.
Emma, you're awesome! One minor correction - the dress was RTW, not couture. Versace stopped doing couture last year, I believe. Regardless, here's the dress on the runway from Style.com
" don't understand why they don't let the contestants stay as long as they want to finish the garments?"
Probably becasue they have to pay union scale to the crew. They're almost certainly paying a huge amount of overtime, at least time and a half for every minute over 8 hours, but after a certain point (16 hours, I think) it goes into triple time.
Okay, so she didn't make a shirt. It could have been worse. She could have done like Sweet P and turned her shirt over to Denise Huxtable with the instructions, "Girl, make me a Gordon Gartrelle!"
Count me in with the crew who'd like to see the designers get more time to do things right so that they are more interesting. I was hoping they'd let them pull an all nighter. Who cares if they do? The Bravo crew doesn't have to stay and babysit them yanno.
The hat, to me, looked like one of those old-fashioned ice bags on his head. :-)
I was never all that impressed with Carmen (and am I the only one who thought she looked like a really well-surgeried tranny?) (Not that there's anything at all wrong with that! Just an observation.)
Anyway, bye Carmen. Guess being a former model didn't help all that much after all.
Geez people, you're making me feel a little sorry for Ginny Barber, and coming from me, sympathy for a millionaire athelete's wife is a sure sign that pigs are flying somewhere.
On the other hand, day-um, that Versace dress was even ugly on the runway.
I liked the dress Carmen was wearing for the runway show, except for that bizarre gold underarm guard on her right side. It was like she permanently afixed an evening bag to her torso. Bizarre.
Loved Carmen's parting words-- about how losing this challenge wasn't a TRUE failure, because this outfit didn't really represent what she's capable of.
Oh, but it DID, Carmen, it did! What it DIDN'T represent was your deluded fantasy of what you think you're capable of.
Hmm, I don't know. A few people said last week that they need to feel the garment first before making a decision.
I concur. I'm going to have to feel that crotch before I can determine whether it is, in fact, insane.
Brilliant, that was indeed, brilliant.
There's nothing to say about Carmen's work other than she needs to listen to her client a bit better (she should have never considered that 80's jacket), and like the boys- I did kind of like her color choices.
Probably becasue they have to pay union scale to the crew. They're almost certainly paying a huge amount of overtime, at least time and a half for every minute over 8 hours, but after a certain point (16 hours, I think) it goes into triple time.
Okay, but come on! They've got to be coining money from this show! And even if they're not, couldn't they just leave a camera running and edit the stuff the next day?
And what would be wrong with giving them three days per challenge? I've never really gotten why they have to do everything so fast, except for the drama of it all.
Emma, you ROCK. I can't believe you pegged that dress. If you had asked me with my hand on a stack of bibles I wouldn't have EVER guessed that her dress cost three thousand dollars!
Emma, you're awesome! One minor correction - the dress was RTW, not couture. Versace stopped doing couture last year, I believe. Regardless, here's the dress on the runway from Style.com
GT, you're absolutely right, it was RTW, not Couture, I stand corrected. I bow to your awesomeness, I'm such a fan of yours. GT & Anne, J'Adore!
Gotham Tomato is right about Carmen knowing how to work it. One of TLo's screen caps from last week's episode showed Carmen looking fierce standing next to Christian's model, who looked anything but fierce. Carmen's necklace for this episode was tres distracting though. I barely heard a word she said in her confessionals because I was so mesmerized by the jewelry.
What I missed seeing this episode is how Elisa - queen of sewing by hand - managed to make what looked like some really nice menswear, or at least it looked nice in the nanosecond Bravo deigned to show the non winner/loser outfits.
i'm so glad we won't have to see carmen & her puffy sleeves anymore. she had a bad attitude and didn't have the style to back it up. just more attitude.
also, i don't think ricky should have been called for bottom 2. honestly, it should have been sweet p. her shirt just didnt even come close to fitting, or even really looking like a shirt. ricky's suit may have been sloppy, but you could at least tell it was a suit.
Just because she couldn't do menswear it doesn't mean she's not talented. It was a fucked-up challenge and as Tim says, someone had to go. It's a shame she came across as a bitch, but I have a feeling she's not as bad a person as she appeared to be.
A little off topic, please forgive me boys, but I just noticed that Nina Garcia answered our dear Lima Bean's question on her blog. Awesome!!
"Lastly, a reader by the name of Lima Bean asked about the most important job I have -- about my new baby and motherhood. Out of all of the jobs I have had in my life, there has, and will never be, anything more rewarding than being a mother. It is amazing how having a child grounds you and really puts things into perspective. My child is my joy."
Ya know...I know this is a third post for me but they just ran a rerun of this episode on Tv and I am reminded how other contestants have excelled at men's wear in the past.
Kara and Cloe did great mens wear for the makeover challenge. I don't know about Kara but cloe had never done mens wear before. Their "models" when down the runway with shirts and pants and Kara even made a frigging hat for God sakes!
Watch the episode again. In the scenes where Carmen is cleaning up her workspace it looks like she shoved her sorry excuse for a shirt into her dress. Compare the screen shots to earlier shots of her in the episode. Either she's stealing fabric, or her "boobs" are trying to escape through the bottom of her dress.
yea i thought she was going to last longer... but oh well... i wonder if she would have lasted longer if she had pinned it together like mr cries a lot did.
and about that- seriously, 3 episodes in a row? I am going to wHip out my hot glue gun and glue his tear ducts shut. he is just... ridiculous.
i don't understand all the fear and hate directed at carmen. yeah, she had a large personality, but except for her set-to with elisa, she seemed pretty friendly and good-natured.
Ah, you knew she was gone when she did the "Hocus Pocus" outfit. She's stuck in the 80s, but not in a fun way, she's still at the mall in parachute pants.
One thing I DID notice at the fashion show-Heidi trotted out on the stage and said "One of you will be in". The camera fixes on Carmen.
"and one of you will be out" and Jack's face fills the screen.
I just had the opportunity to see this epi last night...
I loved the comment from the Duchess about the crotch being insane and it would only fit someone like a Boogie Nights star...If ANYONE knows about insane crotches, it's the Duchess.
honesty.not.pc said, Kara and Cloe did great mens wear for the makeover challenge.
That's true, but they not only had their models from the start of the challenge, they had their models in the workroom with them constantly! Makes it a lot easier to fit.
In this challenge, the designers were well into the construction of the garments by the time they saw their models, and many of them had to deconstruct the clothing and start over (or close to it) due to fitting issues.
When Kevin was telling Heidi that Seal would look great in his design, Heidi practically spat out David Beckham's name as a more likely choice. Why the Becks hate, Heidi?
When Kevin was telling Heidi that Seal would look great in his design, Heidi practically spat out David Beckham's name as a more likely choice. Why the Becks hate, Heidi?
I heard it's Posh & Heidi that hate each other, stemming from the big gala welcoming Becks to the states and the Samuels weren't invited.
rain brain said... "Gotham Tomato is right about Carmen knowing how to work it. One of TLo's screen caps from last week's episode showed Carmen looking fierce standing next to Christian's model. . ."
But did you see her horrible posture on the runway during this episode? It specifically caught my eye because she said she'd been a model. How can you be a model and not stand up straight?!
I'm sure Carmen is a lovely person and everything, but what I love is how she went on and on and on about Elisa's lack of sewing abilities and supposed inability to make it in the competition, when Elisa is still there, made a three piece suit and should have won the Sarah Jessica Parker challenge while Carmen has been auf'ed. I just didn't understand her need to constantly patronise Elisa, even going as far as calling her a condescending sweetie.
Gah! I'm glad to see Carmen go! Her aesthetic and personal style really screams 80s! The bouffy hair, the clothes, the episode 2 outfit and styling, EVEN THE NAME! GOOD RIDDANCE!
How is it that the only thing she finished was the pants. dude I can make a pair of pants with a belt loop on 2 and a half hours. The jacket I see why it took her so long but to not even start on a shirt....
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The outfit was ass and not even sewn together but HOLY CRAP! What was that thing hanging from her neck! it looked like two dino teeth, or a crab claw....shudder.
I think instead of creating an outfit for Tiki she wanted to scare away all the competition with her accessories.
i am glad she is gone...she gave me the willies.
Not going to miss her. At all.
T-Lo said...
Yeah, Ginny Barber in her cheapass-looking discount mall dress said the jacket looked like Members Only but then again ... cheapass-looking discount mall dress, y'know?
Actually, the dress is a $3,000+ Versace Couture dress from Donatella's 2007 Spring line. It just looked like a cheapass-looking mall dress on Mrs Barber.
Just sayin'...
Emma P.
This represents "sewing." HA!
I liked the color story here and the lining on the jacket. The execution, wellll.......it all spoke for itself, didn't it?
And what was with the hat? Marion Lee left last week. Was she trying to bring back the spirit of that timid little Newsie?
Is it just me, or were the judges really harsh last night? I would so enjoy seeing MKors working within the constraints that the designers were faced with. Why do they give them such absurd time limits? Wouldn't it be far more fun to see what they come up with in a reasonable amount of time. And I would so love to see NEEENAGAHSEEA pick out fabrics in 30 min.
"Ginny Barber in her cheapass-looking discount mall dress..." (Which Emma says is expensive but not good on her).
Wow! Didn't even notice. You guys see everything!
I was actually sad to see Carmen go, if only for the entertaining potential she promised. She would have been fun to watch as the season progressed. Plus, I'm curious as to what her design ethic really is.
That said, your post was pretty right on. And funny!
Emma P., I sit in awe. I wouldn't even know where to begin figuring out what Ginny Barber was wearing.
It was pretty wrinkly looking, though, wasn't it. And her hair was a little too strip club for me.
I don't understand why they don't let the contestants stay as long as they want to finish the garments? Both in school and the "real world" if you want to make a great presentation you spend as much time as you can. That's why they call them "all-nighters."
I will not miss Carmen at all. She was very annoying. I really enjoyed this episode, I have never laughed so hard as I did last night. When she draped that fabric around his neck and called it a shirt, I died. She should have just zipped up the jacket or pinned it up as need be.
i know posting again...such an attention whore.
But guys! How can you say the still photo is not that bad. That is a travesty of fashion. That imaginary shirt tucked into his crotch looks like he is wearing that Borat bathing suit.
It's hard for me to critique menswear cause I have no idea what they want to look like but the color combo is really ugly.
Like Heidi said about the purple outfit, I would never want my husband to look like that, even if the outfit was finished and constructed properly.
Bill said...
Emma P., I sit in awe. I wouldn't even know where to begin figuring out what Ginny Barber was wearing.
It was pretty wrinkly looking, though, wasn't it. And her hair was a little too strip club for me.
Bill darling, that's exactly how I feel when you lovingly distribute those incredible bon mots of trivia.
Emma P.
Ginny Barber's hair: (evil snicker) I know, Right?
that was a total mess, it just made me laugh.
as for mrs. barber. i dont care how much she spent on that dress it was ugly.
Well, all true, but let's give the lady her props. She took the auf'ing with some dignity, and was herself appalled at the product. She's also very pretty, without the Carmen Miranda hair.
"That hat is total ass, though."
That's what she gets for using the Blue Fly accesory wall.
But a big reason why I was shocked at this aufing was, seeing the way Carmen walked that runway, at the preview show a few weeks ago. She worked it like she owned it; with such confidence, I was sure she'd gotten to the finals.
--Gotham Tomato
I agree that the potential for the top half was there - I did like the color combo of the brown and that blue was lovely. But the bottom half? They were like Kramer pants. And what the hell was on his head?
Mrs Barber looks like a major ball buster - Tiki seems super henpecked talking about how his wife and he had worked on his style. Whatev...
This look of Carmen's does look so much worse in the still photos. Sort of like, the residents of Leisure Town put on a dinner theatre production of Oliver, for the 4PM all-you-can-eat buffet.
--Gotham Tomato
P.S.- I have a question for Emma P: Does the 'P' stand for 'Peale'? That was some impressive detective work.
Carmen,
Denise Huxtable from the Cosby Show called. She'd like her hair and dress back, please.
"Insane Crotch" pleased me to no end.
But people! Uncle Nick is on PR Canada next week!
About the outfit.
That crotch was beyond insane: what man would want concavity where there should be convexity?
I was kind of excited to see menswear, and glad to see Carmen go... she was a bit frightening.
Scary thing is, as a girl, I'd wear a lot of the stuff they have for menswear, just ah, fitted differently.
Also, I was totally watching my feed reader anxiously for the posts today. Because I knew they would be good, considering how insane the episode was.
Bill said "I liked the color story here and the lining on the jacket. The execution, wellll.......it all spoke for itself, didn't it?"
I think "Execution" is the key word, here, Bill!
Do you think Li'l Ricky will stop crying so much now that the big scary lady is gone?
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I hope somebody caught some of the screenshots of Carmen's bizarre facial expressions. She was trying too damn hard to be a Personality. I think her little song in the sewing room was an attempt to be Santinoesque.
The only thing I'll miss about Carmen is the awesome PR ScreenCaps (tm) that she generated. Girl knew how to mug. The clothes, not so much.
Gotham Tomato said...
P.S.- I have a question for Emma P: Does the 'P' stand for 'Peale'? That was some impressive detective work.
Yes it does. I'm an awesome spy, too.
Emma P.
Emma, you're awesome! One minor correction - the dress was RTW, not couture. Versace stopped doing couture last year, I believe. Regardless, here's the dress on the runway from Style.com
Looks like she stole one of Marion's hats before he left. It looked like it was for an 8 year old....
Talk about a crash and burn. Sweet P should kiss her ass....
" don't understand why they don't let the contestants stay as long as they want to finish the garments?"
Probably becasue they have to pay union scale to the crew. They're almost certainly paying a huge amount of overtime, at least time and a half for every minute over 8 hours, but after a certain point (16 hours, I think) it goes into triple time.
Okay, so she didn't make a shirt. It could have been worse. She could have done like Sweet P and turned her shirt over to Denise Huxtable with the instructions, "Girl, make me a Gordon Gartrelle!"
Count me in with the crew who'd like to see the designers get more time to do things right so that they are more interesting. I was hoping they'd let them pull an all nighter. Who cares if they do? The Bravo crew doesn't have to stay and babysit them yanno.
The hat, to me, looked like one of those old-fashioned ice bags on his head. :-)
I was never all that impressed with Carmen (and am I the only one who thought she looked like a really well-surgeried tranny?) (Not that there's anything at all wrong with that! Just an observation.)
Anyway, bye Carmen. Guess being a former model didn't help all that much after all.
Hmm, I don't know. A few people said last week that they need to feel the garment first before making a decision.
I concur. I'm going to have to feel that crotch before I can determine whether it is, in fact, insane.
Come here, little boy. Mama's waiting....
Geez people, you're making me feel a little sorry for Ginny Barber, and coming from me, sympathy for a millionaire athelete's wife is a sure sign that pigs are flying somewhere.
On the other hand, day-um, that Versace dress was even ugly on the runway.
I liked the dress Carmen was wearing for the runway show, except for that bizarre gold underarm guard on her right side. It was like she permanently afixed an evening bag to her torso. Bizarre.
Loved Carmen's parting words-- about how losing this challenge wasn't a TRUE failure, because this outfit didn't really represent what she's capable of.
Oh, but it DID, Carmen, it did! What it DIDN'T represent was your deluded fantasy of what you think you're capable of.
Hmm, I don't know. A few people said last week that they need to feel the garment first before making a decision.
I concur. I'm going to have to feel that crotch before I can determine whether it is, in fact, insane.
Brilliant, that was indeed, brilliant.
There's nothing to say about Carmen's work other than she needs to listen to her client a bit better (she should have never considered that 80's jacket), and like the boys- I did kind of like her color choices.
Probably becasue they have to pay union scale to the crew. They're almost certainly paying a huge amount of overtime, at least time and a half for every minute over 8 hours, but after a certain point (16 hours, I think) it goes into triple time.
Okay, but come on! They've got to be coining money from this show! And even if they're not, couldn't they just leave a camera running and edit the stuff the next day?
And what would be wrong with giving them three days per challenge? I've never really gotten why they have to do everything so fast, except for the drama of it all.
Emma, you ROCK. I can't believe you pegged that dress. If you had asked me with my hand on a stack of bibles I wouldn't have EVER guessed that her dress cost three thousand dollars!
Anne
Anne
At first I thought this challenge would be a snore, but soon realized it was the perfect way to weed out the total incompetents.
A sleeveless cocktail dress with a few tacked-on spangles is child's-play, a constructed suit or sportswear takes genuine skill.
Gorgeous Things said...
Emma, you're awesome! One minor correction - the dress was RTW, not couture. Versace stopped doing couture last year, I believe. Regardless, here's the dress on the runway from Style.com
GT, you're absolutely right, it was RTW, not Couture, I stand corrected. I bow to your awesomeness, I'm such a fan of yours.
GT & Anne, J'Adore!
Emma P.
Where can I sign up for the insane crotch insapector?
"brilliant said...
I concur. I'm going to have to feel that crotch before I can determine whether it is, in fact, insane."
ROFLMAO.
Darling, get a number :)
Gotham Tomato is right about Carmen knowing how to work it. One of TLo's screen caps from last week's episode showed Carmen looking fierce standing next to Christian's model, who looked anything but fierce. Carmen's necklace for this episode was tres distracting though. I barely heard a word she said in her confessionals because I was so mesmerized by the jewelry.
What I missed seeing this episode is how Elisa - queen of sewing by hand - managed to make what looked like some really nice menswear, or at least it looked nice in the nanosecond Bravo deigned to show the non winner/loser outfits.
"Karma's not enough of a bitch in reality, but it's a HUGE bitch in reality television."
LOL. Soooo true.
i'm so glad we won't have to see carmen & her puffy sleeves anymore. she had a bad attitude and didn't have the style to back it up. just more attitude.
also, i don't think ricky should have been called for bottom 2. honestly, it should have been sweet p. her shirt just didnt even come close to fitting, or even really looking like a shirt. ricky's suit may have been sloppy, but you could at least tell it was a suit.
That Auf'kiss does rather look like an alien mating ritual.
Gordon Gartrelle! Christopher, you nailed it. Sweet P really did watch too much Cosby.
Just because she couldn't do menswear it doesn't mean she's not talented. It was a fucked-up challenge and as Tim says, someone had to go. It's a shame she came across as a bitch, but I have a feeling she's not as bad a person as she appeared to be.
A little off topic, please forgive me boys, but I just noticed that Nina Garcia answered our dear Lima Bean's question on her blog. Awesome!!
"Lastly, a reader by the name of Lima Bean asked about the most important job I have -- about my new baby and motherhood. Out of all of the jobs I have had in my life, there has, and will never be, anything more rewarding than being a mother. It is amazing how having a child grounds you and really puts things into perspective. My child is my joy."
It was unfinished. She deserved to go home. Besides, never liked her...
Speaking of the Insane Crotch Club, when Carmen had to sew her model into the pants, I truly feared for his crotch.
snf in va said...
"That crotch was beyond insane: what man would want concavity where there should be convexity?"
HILARIOUS
Of all the bad outfits last night this was not the worst.
Oh, and I liked the "imaginary" shirt. LOL!
The model was hardly "half-naked," as Heidi claimed in the voice-over. I think I would have noticed that.
Ya know...I know this is a third post for me but they just ran a rerun of this episode on Tv and I am reminded how other contestants have excelled at men's wear in the past.
Kara and Cloe did great mens wear for the makeover challenge. I don't know about Kara but cloe had never done mens wear before. Their "models" when down the runway with shirts and pants and Kara even made a frigging hat for God sakes!
Purely for her drama potential, I wish she hadn't been aufed.
-- desertwind
Watch the episode again. In the scenes where Carmen is cleaning up her workspace it looks like she shoved her sorry excuse for a shirt into her dress. Compare the screen shots to earlier shots of her in the episode. Either she's stealing fabric, or her "boobs" are trying to escape through the bottom of her dress.
yea i thought she was going to last longer... but oh well... i wonder if she would have lasted longer if she had pinned it together like mr cries a lot did.
and about that- seriously, 3 episodes in a row? I am going to wHip out my hot glue gun and glue his tear ducts shut. he is just... ridiculous.
i don't understand all the fear and hate directed at carmen. yeah, she had a large personality, but except for her set-to with elisa, she seemed pretty friendly and good-natured.
Ah, you knew she was gone when she did the "Hocus Pocus" outfit. She's stuck in the 80s, but not in a fun way, she's still at the mall in parachute pants.
One thing I DID notice at the fashion show-Heidi trotted out on the stage and said "One of you will be in". The camera fixes on Carmen.
"and one of you will be out" and Jack's face fills the screen.
I'm going to pay attention to that next week.
I just had the opportunity to see this epi last night...
I loved the comment from the Duchess about the crotch being insane and it would only fit someone like a Boogie Nights star...If ANYONE knows about insane crotches, it's the Duchess.
honesty.not.pc said, Kara and Cloe did great mens wear for the makeover challenge.
That's true, but they not only had their models from the start of the challenge, they had their models in the workroom with them constantly! Makes it a lot easier to fit.
In this challenge, the designers were well into the construction of the garments by the time they saw their models, and many of them had to deconstruct the clothing and start over (or close to it) due to fitting issues.
When Kevin was telling Heidi that Seal would look great in his design, Heidi practically spat out David Beckham's name as a more likely choice. Why the Becks hate, Heidi?
Insane Crotch Inspector said...
When Kevin was telling Heidi that Seal would look great in his design, Heidi practically spat out David Beckham's name as a more likely choice. Why the Becks hate, Heidi?
I heard it's Posh & Heidi that hate each other, stemming from the big gala welcoming Becks to the states and the Samuels weren't invited.
Emma P.
rain brain said...
"Gotham Tomato is right about Carmen knowing how to work it. One of TLo's screen caps from last week's episode showed Carmen looking fierce standing next to Christian's model. . ."
But did you see her horrible posture on the runway during this episode? It specifically caught my eye because she said she'd been a model. How can you be a model and not stand up straight?!
Ginny's dress was Versace boys...not a cheap mall dress. ;)
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/S2007RTW/complete/slideshow/VERSACE?event=show1524&designer=design_house69&trend=&iphoto=30
"Ginny's dress was Versace boys...not a cheap mall dress. ;)"
They said it LOOKED cheap. And it did. Versace isn't above making tacky crap.
Is anyone concerned that Carmen apparently cannot pronounce "accessories" in her exit interview?
I'm sure Carmen is a lovely person and everything, but what I love is how she went on and on and on about Elisa's lack of sewing abilities and supposed inability to make it in the competition, when Elisa is still there, made a three piece suit and should have won the Sarah Jessica Parker challenge while Carmen has been auf'ed. I just didn't understand her need to constantly patronise Elisa, even going as far as calling her a condescending sweetie.
Good riddance! She was a total bitch, just watch the bonus videos on Bravotv.com.
Is anyone concerned that Carmen apparently cannot pronounce "accessories" in her exit interview?
You know though, the more of those I ee the more I think they liquor you up firt and then do it.
Anne
Speaking of pronunciations, Kara Saun used to pronounce the word "comfortable" as "comptable" - no "f" involved at all. It used to make me INSANE!
Gah! I'm glad to see Carmen go! Her aesthetic and personal style really screams 80s! The bouffy hair, the clothes, the episode 2 outfit and styling, EVEN THE NAME! GOOD RIDDANCE!
How is it that the only thing she finished was the pants.
dude I can make a pair of pants with a belt loop on 2 and a half hours.
The jacket I see why it took her so long but to not even start on a shirt....
Geez! I watched this last night and I could've sworn Ricky got the aufwidersiehen. Where was I ? Probably wishful thinking on my part.
Though Carmen's departure is fine. She'd already sent at least one a** garment on the runway and I had no high hopes for her future.
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