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"Suede decided to cut out all these strips. Suede loves that. It is going to be a long night for Suede. Suede is a bisexual Sagittarius and loves long walks on the beach and really loves to work with small pieces of fabric. Suede is really sad."
Once again, there's one sentence in there with which Tom and Lorenzo agree.
Uhhh...
Yeah.
Oh, kittens. Tom and Lorenzo do not agree with each other on Suede's dress. Tom and Lorenzo are fighting. This makes Tom and Lorenzo cranky and irritable and less likely to have sex.
Tom thinks that this was a youthful, somewhat whimsical design that against all reason, came out looking better than Tom expected.
Lorenzo thinks she looks like a frozen pizza.
Tom and Lorenzo both agree that Suede was getting the loser edit and when Tom and Lorenzo saw what Suede was working on, Tom and Lorenzo assumed it would be a disaster for Suede.
Tom and Lorenzo also agree that the skirt and basic silhouette are cute.
Tom and Lorenzo can also admit to a certain amount of shock that the obvious execution issues with this look were never even referred to by the judges. Tom and Lorenzo think the judges are whackadoodle.
Tom and Lorenzo also think that perhaps it is a bit silly for a 37-year-old man to dress like a 15-year-old skate rat.
Tom and Lorenzo are grateful to Suede for providing Tom and Lorenzo with this opportunity for snark:
"If I were ten years younger, I would wear it too."
"Says the 35-year-old in a lace bustier and micro-mini. Honey, if you were ten years younger, you'd probably be running around in a sequined diaper."
[Photos: Bravo/Barbara Nitke - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blospot.com]
176 comments:
I agree with Lorenzo. Suede's dress made me want to pick up the phone and call Papa Johns.
BTW, can someone explain to me how tulle is a "green" fabric?
Third person Suede, how could you possibly have won? (Insert Name Here) was robbed. And that's saying a lot since there were... ISSUES with all the garments. Some of them were so brief I hesitate to call them dresses. But, congratulations to Suede!
I love how one model said, "I don't know anything about fashion design!" Of course not, how could you, being a fashion moddle?
Note to self: never let models pick anything out themselves.
Sus was not impressed with Suede's Eddie Van Halen guitar-inspired dress. Closeup shots of Suede's dress displayed shockingly bad bunching of material. And Suede's dress had fit issues noticable from the runway show.
Sus does love Tom and Lorenzo's frozen pizza reference. Right on!
I have to admit to liking this dress, with the exception of the neckline being kinda weird.
Baby steps for Heidi. Just acknowledging that you dressed yourself 10-years ago is a lot for her. Aging seems to be harder for the beautiful. Admitting it is almost impossible.
Juju and Dan think that Suede's dress looked like Bleeding Mummy Ballerina Barbie.
In a bad way.
Loved the Heidi comments. I had thoughts along the same lines.
BTW the loser edit means nothing. The on-camera Tim-thinks-the-dress-is-interesting exchange means the designer is not going home, so everyone can relax. ;-)
Bill agrees with Lorenzo. Bill would also like to fire up the toaster oven in TLo's kitchen and eat the frozen pizza with a pitcher of Margaritas.
Bill also thinks Suede is not really Suede. Bill thinks he is actually Microsuede - a cheap, synthetic imitation that is much less durable and a bit obvious when seen close up.
DuBois thinks Suede's dress was middle of the pack at best. DuBois would have preferred Terri's dress in the top 3. Of Course DuBois has nightmares about a similar dress DuBois had to wear in a ballet recital at the age of 6.
Wait. Suede also likes girls? You sure you guys don't want him exclusively? 'Cause I would be okay with that.
Why was the green aspect of this challenge not discussed in the judging? Was it because all the fabrics were assumed a priori to be green?
After Wesley was sent packing, my husband and I once again were disappointed that PR doesn't use a point system. All the designers, every week, a winner and a loser every week, but the loser doesn't go home.
Wesley seemed so talented from what little we saw of him!
Once again, no mention of Terri's design from the judges. Or the straight guy. Whatever his name is. I can't remember it right now.
Siding with Tom on this one. That dress is cute, flirty, sexy and fun. What more can you ask of a cocktail dress?
I despise that pretentious tool, Suede, but the dress was in my top three.
"Tom thinks that this was a youthful, somewhat whimsical design that against all reason, came out looking better than Tom expected.
Lorenzo thinks she looks like a frozen pizza."
Gotham Tomato agrees that it's youthful and whimsical, though, in stills, it also reminds Gotham Tomato of the time Marcia & Jan had to practice their first aid skills to get their Girl Scout badge and turned Bobby & Cindy into mummies.
--GothamTomato
Hate hate hate Suede's dress. I found it tacky and extremely poorly executed.
Suede's dress was pretty, and executed reasonably well given the time restraints. More than anything, I think it won both because it was pretty and because it stood out (and because Natalie Whoreman swooned over it, I'm sure). Suede did impress me and I'm looking forward to seeing his work in the future, but I don't think I would have picked this for the win.
Suede himself, however, seems really sad. Dying your crappy fauxhawk blue at age 37 just seems desperate and juvenile. It kinda makes it hard to take him seriously, especially when he's wearing rhinestone denim jackets and calling himself "Suede" in the third person constantly. You know his real name is like, Brian Smith or something lol.
Note to Brilliant:
Don't bore the judges with the details. There was so much going on in this challenge...
Green Fabric.
Model's choice.
Movie Star "acting" like a judge.
Cocktail dress.
Too much criteria. If it was all about green, that would have been discussed more. The ultimate green fabric is Cheroin's drug of choice - "Letha." I mean, isn't it the ultimate in renewable?
And BTW, Gotham Tomato forgot to add that she is rooting for Suede to win some money, so he can have that unfortunate, blue point removed from the top of his head.
--GothamTomato
Oh, the other criteria...
to be sold on bluefly.com
which they didn't tell the designers until the task was half over. Too Many choices. So the judges can't be bothered with if tulle is actually "green" or not!
-TLo Addict --
Sewing Siren is mildly irritated by this outcome. Red touch yellow, kill a fellow.
This dress is ugly. This dress is impossible to maufacture.
Lorenzo is correct, in Lorenzo's assesment that it looks like a pizza. A Claes Oldenburg pizza.
Leslie agrees with Lorenzo. That dress is whack.
~snerk~
When Heidi came out, I thought she hadn't finished getting dressed.
Heidi's daughter can use Suede's creation when she plays dress up, or ballerina-in-losing-scissor-fight.
Was it because all the fabrics were assumed a priori to be green?
Jackie, Tim wrote in Tim's Take that the green fabrics had been tagged at Mood, so the models knew what fabrics they could choose.
Sewing Siren will must also give the nod to Tom. When Tom said that Tom thought the dress turned out better than Tom expected. Yes, the Sewing Siren expected less too, but it is still ugly.
I'm not going to play along with the calling myself in the third person game because I really hate it. I had a student once who did that through an entire paper. Made my eyes bleed.
Now, I didn't like the dress, but it was very clever how he tried to create a new fabric- a print- by layering and entwining two solids. With a bit more time, it could've looked amazing. It was cute though, and the model really worked it.
Um
I also didn't get where the whole "green material" concept played into the judging either. Its the earth as product placement I guess.
Gotham Tomato and Bill, please never leave this site. I think if I spent a night with you, Tom and Lorenzo and a pitcher of margueritas I'd bust a gut laughing.
Can someone tell me where Tim's Take is? I can't find it and I'm feeling stupid haha. :(
"Lorenzo thinks she looks like a frozen pizza."
" brilliant said...
call Papa Johns."
ROFLMAO.
Tlo, you and your readers are brilliant and that's why I love this blog so much.
Thanks phantomminuet for that info!
I'll have to procrastinate further today and go check it out.
My husband, a visual arts-type person LOVED this dress. I looked at him like he was crazy. He normally has such a good taste level... But I think he simply liked the design element to it, and not its look as clothing. I think he also liked Koto's (sp?) dress and I simply said, are you crazy? I wouldn't wear either of these in a million years.
But, congratulations to Suede, not only for the win, but for the seeming ability to _occasionally_ speak in the 1st person
"Bailey said...
Can someone tell me where Tim's Take is? I can't find it and I'm feeling stupid haha. :("
TLo has a link on the front page under Bravo sites.
Carol agrees with Lorenzo (Carol apologises to Tom...)
Suede's dress DOES look like a pizza. Carol is bewildered that it didn't get ripped to shreds by the judges.
Oh....forget it....this third person whackadoodie whatever it is, IS EXHAUSTING.
Cuz a person isn't SUPPOSED to refer to themselves in the third person ALL THE TIME. It's WEIRD, Suede, WEIRD.
I think because Natalie Portman gushed over it, the judges fell all over themselves to agree.
And TLo - right on the button again, about Heidi and age appropriate dressing! I was just saying to my friend how Heidi's judging outfit was 2 sizes too small for her. As usual.
(ooohhhhhh The Fraulein is SO gonna be mad at YOU GUYS!!! hahahha but keep it coming!)
"If I were ten years younger, I would wear it too."
"Says the 35-year-old in a lace bustier and micro-mini. Honey, if you were ten years younger, you'd probably be running around in a sequined diaper."
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
oh my god i can't stop laughing you guys keep them coming
edina monsoon agrees with Lorenzo.
Suede's dress needs to go back into the oven at 350 degrees and bake for forty-five minutes. Maybe a dash of garlic salt might help as well.
Did anyone else notice how strikingly "odd" Natalie looked? She seemed a rather emaciated, her eyes looked a little kooky and her hairline was weird. I dunno. Maybe it was me, but I've seen her look way better before. Anyway, I was impressed that she appeared to feel genuinely shitty for getting Wesley auf'd.
- edina -
Oh, another point for Suede in that he actually didn't complain and took the task as it was handed to him. Bravo for that. In fact, in the bonus footage for this week, Blayne du Soleil also says that you can't complain, you just need to take what you get and yes, make it work.
Extra points to both.
OK, I'll stay on theme here...Daxx kinda liked it, but don’t see how it can be manufactured. I don't mind that it is reminiscent of pizza, but to Heidi’s point, no one over 23 would be able to get away with it (Sorry, love you Natalie, but even your too mature). Daxx was also surprised by the execution issues, but I guess obvious puckers on one garment do not equate to obvious puckers on another. Suede seems waaaaayyyyy too needy. Doing one thing to (desperately) hold on to youth is one thing, but faux-hawk, blue point and skater punk all put together is just sad. I won’t even go into the fact that all of those trends are also well past their prime.
I actually thought it stupid that they didn’t get to talk to the models before they were sent out. It’s one thing to have someone with limited knowledge making qualitative selections, (and I’m a passably intelligent fellow who’s watched this show for 4 seasons now) but I don’t have a clue how much yardage it takes to make a basic cocktail dress.
"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets...." Oh, I'll just stop now because it drives me apoplectic.
I side with Lorenzo on this one. I thought it was shiny version of a mummified Nefertiti does the ballet.
"Tom and Lorenzo also think that perhaps it is a bit silly for a 37-year-old man to dress like a 15-year-old skate rat."
Agreed! I'm so over mutton dressed as lamb, no matter what your gender is. And I'm roughly the same age as the designers. Grow up!
PS: Glad to see you back Bill, I missed you!
Gotta agree with Lorenzo--the frozen pizza comment has made me love him more! [Sorry, Tom. If I said you have better pecs, would you still let me post?]
And, yeah, Heidi's outfits may be getting a *bit* young, but d@mn, her hair has grown out nicely! Love the new styling rather than the severe, blunt bang look.
Bill--he's not even microsuede, which at least tries to approximate Suede. He's moleskin, something you *think* may help blisters, but actually ends up making them worse because the adhesive sticks to your shoes/socks, whatever it comes in contact with.
Isn't Natalie Portman one of the crowd who liked to wear tutus? I know Keira Knightly and the scary-skinny actress who dated Jack Nicholson were like that, but I thin Natalie has also.
hahahahahaha!!!!
I love you guys!!
Leanne's little deadpan interview ("Leanne likes Suede, but Suede needs to stop talking in the third person") made me love her.
I thought the bodice-weaving pulled together better than I expected but I hated how it fit--what a mess.
The frozen pizza (oh, so perfect as usual, Captain Simile) turned out better than I expected, but the bodice fit was shit.
WTF is up with the speaking in third person?? It is so affected-sounding. Whenever Suede opens his mouth, all I can picture is Elmo on PR. All these big grown up people and a little red muppet trying to design clothes.
That said, I thought his dress showed the most innovation (oh wait, that was the last challenge). I thought that it was interesting, if a little bondage-y.
"Lorenzo thinks she looks like a frozen pizza."
!!!!!! Oh, my, she really does!
Great commentary, TLo.
I'm mixed about the dress itself. It is fun & flirty & youthful, blah, blah, etc., but it does indeed have fit and execution issues.
Gotham said, ". . . rooting for Suede to win some money, so he can have that unfortunate, blue point removed from the top of his head."
At the risk of repeating myself: !!!!!!
And, dear Bill (oh, we did miss you), I think you're thinking of Suedette.
I like the concept but it was poorly executed. The top looks really messy. Kenley (??)'s dress was far better.
Sorry I don't know how to do direct links, but it looks like bluefly isn't even doing a real "production" of Suede's dress. It's limited to 250 pieces and you need to pre-order.
Here: http://flypaper.bluefly.com/archives/2008/07/own-suedes-winning-project-run-1.html
More annoying than talking in the third person?
Finger guns.
i liked kenleys much better. it did remind me of our beloved daniels flower dress.
suede's was kinda cute.
Joanie agrees with Lorenzo. Joanie hated the weaving. Joanie thinks it looks like a home ec class project.
kyano said...
WTF is up with the speaking in third person?? It is so affected-sounding.
Exactly. It's a manufactured "personality" for the judges/fashion world/world. We get it, you're soooo crazy and creative, Suede. You must be a brilliant designer. Blue hair? Eccentric! Rhinestome lettering? Whackadoodle! Oh Suede, you so crazy...now please, drop the act. Not everyone in fashion is a crazy Karl Lagerfeld. Most designers wear t-shirts and jeans and are normal human beings.
antares said...
I'm not going to play along with the calling myself in the third person game because I really hate it. I had a student once who did that through an entire paper. Made my eyes bleed.
I had a student (Ed) who talked that way, too, and when I yelled at him to stop, he looked at me totally crushed and muttered, "But that's the way Ed does it."
Back to the point --- Kenley was ALMOST robbed. But I can see the Duchess's point that Suede really reworked this fabric into something entirely new. He gets credit for that.
Bomber, I thought Suedette was a Crepe...or maybe a tiny country between Chad and Ethiopia.
snaillady2 said...
Sorry I don't know how to do direct links, but it looks like bluefly isn't even doing a real "production" of Suede's dress. It's limited to 250 pieces and you need to pre-order.
Here: http://flypaper.bluefly.com/archives/2008/07/own-suedes
Just click on the banner under "shop what happened" in the right column.
TLo
snaillady2 said...
Sorry I don't know how to do direct links, but it looks like bluefly isn't even doing a real "production" of Suede's dress.
I knew it. They should've picked Kenley's.
Terri's design FTW! I always forget that this early on you barely see the ones the judges don't deem best or worst. And Stella's should have definitely been in the worst section. Hers was just as short, tight and shiny as poor Wesley's
"Lorenzo thinks she looks like a frozen pizza."
Gotham Tomato suspects that, at 11:28AM, Harvey Weinstein bellowed at his minions, and demanded to know why there was no pizza product placement on last night's episode.
Said minions will spend the rest of the afternoon faxing every frozen pizza company in North America, and cursing Lorenzo under their breath.
--GothamTomato
"Says the 35-year-old in a lace bustier and micro-mini. Honey, if you were ten years younger, you'd probably be running around in a sequined diaper."
Did anyone notice how the camera was moved over to Heidi after Nini made that comment about short, shiny, and tight being the fastest way to look cheap?
"Frozen pizza"
CroqueMonsieur was nearly on the floor laughing there...seriously good stuff. This made CroqueMonsieur fall off his chair.
Danielle said...
"More annoying than talking in the third person? Finger guns".
LMFAO!!!!!
Mommyca agrees with Tom, she likes Suede's dress, although now looking at the pictures while he was still working on it, it looked better when it had more red fabric showing....
anyway, Sewing Siren, your reference:
"Claes Oldenburg pizza" was awesome!! I love Oldenburg stuff!!!! I never thought I could read about it in this blog!!! that's why I love it!
I just thought it was over done. Smart, but a bit too much.
Just wanted to offer a counter viewpoint in regard to "green" fabrics, bamboo in particular. Warren McLaren of TreeHugger wrote a good article about the processing of it into fabric. In regards to "greening your wardrobe," TreeHugger offers these tips
Lima Bean fell on the floor in anaphalactic shock when neither Kenley's nor Terri's dresses were picked. Lima Bean thinks this is going to be a brutal season.
Lima Bean loves the Tim tongue lashings however.
Bill: I thought Suedette was a Crepe...or maybe a tiny country between Chad and Ethiopia.
Haha--for all I know, either one.
On the other hand, maybe what we're really looking for is UltraSuede.
I agree with Lorenzo also--
frozen pizza trying to dance Swan Lake!
I loved Terri's navy dress, and Joe's dress in the same fabric as Wesley's-- done sooooooo much better.
I can't imagine that Natalie's stylist would let her wear such a dress-- ballet style can be done soooooo much more tastefully.
Once again-- you two boys are spot on with Heidi!!
Thank you so much!
Gorgeous Things thinks the strips of fabric are poorly constructed. Gorgeous Things would tell Suede to get his third-person over to the pressing station and fix that godawful mess. If Suede was one of her students, Gorgeous Things would spank him for doing such an amateurish job and send him back to Sewing 101.
Gorgeous Things promises never to refer to herself in the third person again. It's annoying even to her!
"it also reminds Gotham Tomato of the time Marcia & Jan had to practice their first aid skills to get their Girl Scout badge and turned Bobby & Cindy into mummies."
Hahahahahahaha! Snort! That made my day, GT. Thank you!
Oh and thank you TLo for the spot on snark!
lovemesomedaniel agrees with Lorenzo. Wackadoodle pizza boy!
Brooklyn Bomber said...maybe what we're really looking for is UltraSuede.
I thought Ultrasuede was one of Warhol's Superstars...or a drag waitress at Lips...or, oh never mind.
Boo thinks that Bluefly.com will have to find a whole lot of 12 year old sweatshop workers in Southeast Asia to produce that dress at anything close to a reasonable price point.
Boo would rather have a pizza. And more picutres of Wesley.
kyano said...
WTF is up with the speaking in third person?? It is so affected-sounding. Whenever Suede opens his mouth, all I can picture is Elmo on PR. All these big grown up people and a little red muppet trying to design clothes.
Hush Kyano, do you want to give them ideas for a S6 challenge.
I can see it now, designing outfits for muppets with Elmo as a guest judge.
"Elmo thinks you look like a tacky crack whore."
Something that has really annoyed me about the show lately is the fact that we see each dress for like, literally two seconds (this gets better as the season progresses and less designers are left but still not by much). We spend 45 minutes watching them make the dresses then barely get to see them? What kind of payoff is that? And how can we really get into the judging if we don't even remember most of the clothes without pictures online (which are not as good as seeing them in motion)? Grrr. I love seeing the workplace and the drama, but there's no reason they can't allot even a few more minutes for the runway show. I'd also like to see more of the judge's comments, too. Who decided on this lame format???
Nice strategy, Stella. Start with total crap, make a minor improvement, give the judges a glimmer of hope and stay in. Any other strategy and that biker/hooker dress would have been auf'ed. The challenge was a COCKTAIL dress, not a come-on-back-with-me-to-my-doublewide dress.
i agree with Lorenzo, also: frozen pizza. and "Juju and Dan think that Suede's dress looked like Bleeding Mummy Ballerina Barbie."
YES! that's exactly the phrase I was looking for.
Terri's dress was *gorgeous*, and I personally loved Daniel's black dress. Joe's was simple, clean, well done. Yeah, the fabric is oogly, but he couldn't help that. And on the subject of short, tight and shiny as the hallmarks of cheap: didn't any of the judges notice Cheroin's dress? short! tight! shiny! cheap!
I really did not like Suede's dress. Or Suede.
clearly, all the judges decided to go green and smoke up before the runway show. only explanation for their deplorable choices.
dont ever stop with the suede jokes. i'm talking for the rest of the season - think hard and keep them coming!!!!!!!!!
This blog always makes me smile.
The biggest shock I had during this episode was seeing that horrid little curly tail thingee hanging on the back of Keith's head! Ewww.
IF I had followed the drinking rule last night of taking a shot everytime Suede referred to himself in the third person I would have been hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.
He refers to himself in the 3rd person, because "Suede" is a persona, a character, a role. Whoever he is, "Suede" will be discarded for something else when he becomes tired of it.
Air guns, and that kissy thing he does drive me crazy. Grow up man/boy!
You guys are so funny. I knew after watching that disaster I would be cheered up by what you said.
Suede dress was okay, the top didn't fit the girl, it looked like a someone had stretched the neckline and it was not cute. The bottom was nice The girl with the large towering neckline was better and Terri dress was beautiful. One of those two should have won.
Going to have to side with Tom. I think the dress is fab and the model looks cute in it.
Duchess was spot on, the right dress for the right girl.
I tvo'ed and watched the show this morning...then went straight to the blog.
I choked on my morning coffee when Heidi made her "10 years younger" quip.
Suede looks like a life-size kewpie doll. Suede should take a long look in the mirror and take advice from Heidi...if he was 10 years younger...ahh, the blue-hair-skate-punk look probably wouldn't have worked then, either.
Thank god Suede doesn't ACTUALLY wear suede.
Frozen pizza!! Hilarious...love it, TLo. My first impression was "The Mummy's bottle of ketchup blew up".
Blue Suede's dress was certainly not the best of the bunch at all. I preferred the "40's broad's dress"!
Did anyone else think that Heidi's dress looked like the skirt was actually BLOOMERS? Maybe I had one too many J&B's.
----StkrShock
I was perplexed by the guest judge selection. Usually when the garment is going to be produced for sale, a rep from the company doing the selling is usually the judge as in the Banana Republic challenges from seasons 1 and 2 or the SJP and Levi's challenges from last year. I bet Terri's or Kennley's dress would have been chosen if the guest judge had been from Bluefly.
I thought it was a great dress, really first rate all around: beautiful and well-made, considering the design and time constraints. I think it showed GROUNDED IMAGINATION, which none of the other dresses had -- one or the other but not both. Young, bright and flirty. I thought it was hot.
Imperfect seams on a garment like this don't matter (unlike on Wesley's brown abortion).
Suede is a profoundly irritating person, and the skate rat comment is spot on, but siriuslover is also correct when she says "Oh, another point for Suede in that he actually didn't complain and took the task as it was handed to him". AND he mentioned listening to the client, and made something that worked ON HER. Unlike some others, who did nothing but bitch the whole time.
OMFG, the models picked out bad fabric because they didn't know how! Um, yeah, that was the WHOLE POINT of the challenge, now, wasn't it?
Bailey, I think the problem is that they have too many bloody designers running around at this stage. It makes it difficult to give us drama and fashion in less than an hour. This is why they usually have lots of group challenges early on. To be honest, I hate those challenges (and they are treacherous for getting the wrong people eliminated), but still it helps to make the show more compact and manageable. I hope the producers are planning a double elimination soon, cause there are just too many designers/models running around. In fact, the premiere should have had a TRIPLE elimination, with all bottom three auf'd auf'd and auf'd.
There were fit issues, construction issues, DESIGNER issues. There were issues. But it wasn't the most hideous thing on the runway. I was actually surprised that I found myself kind of liking the garment.
Suede though? Oy. Don't get me started.
And Heidi's proclamation of "if I were ten years younger..." Honey, it's never stopped you before.
"mjude said...
Danielle said...
"More annoying than talking in the third person? Finger guns".
LMFAO!!!!!"
Oh my god YES YES YES!!
Now I sound like that shampoo commercial.
What really disappointed me about this win was the fact that Suede has started referring to himself as "I" by the end of the challenge. I fear the win will only encourage more third personing.
Suede's hair reminds Ms. Sangrail of the Mad Magazine regular Don Martin cartoon...the one where you put money into a vending machine for a haircut (Insert Head Here) and the result is a sharpened pencil appearance, with pointed head and tuft of hair on top..
Ms. Sangrail has just dated herself by sharing this recollection.
Suede's dress looks like he cleaned up after the finalists in the Dames and Divas Death Match, sewed the bloody shreds together and called it a cocktail dress. Ms. Sangrail wonders if the dress is going to be marketed as "The Bloody Mary".
Ms. Sangrail thinks the idea was pretty good, but the execution and fit was terrible.
anonymous said:
Too much criteria. If it was all about green, that would have been discussed more. The ultimate green fabric is Cheroin's drug of choice - "Letha." I mean, isn't it the ultimate in renewable?
But "letha" would never have passed Natalie Portman's vegan test....
I always knew Lorenzo was my favorite! ;D
I SCREAMED at the TV. Maybe my annoyance from him has blinded me to his "talent", but the execution of the bodice was BAD. It didn't fit well and it looked poorly put together. The skirt was cute and the idea was interesting, but the execution was FUGLY.
Jeez. I couldn't believe a "bad judging" episode had happened so early this season!
Goodness knows I love you both but this post made me want to slit my wrists and paint a room with it.
Much the same feeling as listening to Suede talk about himself in the 3rd person.
The dress looked like a roll of packing tape unwound over construction paper. Hideous. What is with these judges?
Suede's dress makes me think the model was caught in a gangwar gunfight on her way to the cocktail party and was shot multiple times in the torso.
In theory, the dress is quite cute. But oh the titscrepency!
The dress was not Suedelicious.
No, no, you did not just use licious!
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but I just want to say how glad I am that this wasn't a team/duo challenge. It seems the second "real" challenge (not counting Road to the Runway on S2 and 3) for the past couple of seasons has featured teams. I'm sure tlo like it 'cause it means half as many dresses to post about, but I don't like not being able to see half the designers' style/vision so early in the season.
Fnarf said...
Suede is a profoundly irritating person, and the skate rat comment is spot on, but siriuslover is also correct when she says "Oh, another point for Suede in that he actually didn't complain and took the task as it was handed to him".
"Profoundly irriatating person" That there had me laughing a good 5 minutes.
Me, too, shiver72876! Seeing Kevin's horrific, nape-of-the-neck hair monstrosity almost, but not quite, lose my fag-hag lust for him entirely. Who knows? Maybe it's a sign of things to come. Perhaps there's more to Keith than meets the eye. In next weeks episode the preview made him out to be something of an a-hole. I hope not. And he'd better not be auf'd next week or it's adios PR5 for me.
- edina -
Frozen pizza --- aaaaahahaaaaaaa! That is awesome.
Did anyone else notice the weird bunching on Suede's dress, under the left arm of the model at around boob level?
Yes, I guess it does resemble frozen pizza but I have to say - I thought it was cute. Much better than that noddle-y mess Leanne made.
>>Lorenzo thinks she looks like a frozen pizza.<<
Me thinks Lorenzo is spot on.
nso agrees with Tom that Suede's dress is cute and youthful, even though she also agrees with Lorenzo that it looks a little like a pizza. nso was very surprised to see Suede's dress turn out so well after seeing it looking so messy as a work in progress. nso thought it was the best of the judges' top three, though she thought there were others more worthy of the other top three slots. nso hopes Suede leaves soon so we can stop talking in the third person.
Ugh, that dress looked like a craft project, esp compared to Kenley's. LittleKarnak thinks Padme Amidala needs to eat a cheeseburger and get a better stylist. LittleKarnak can't wait to see your take on the Leatha exchange!!!
Aww, TLo, hope that you make up soon
Kanddmom
A sequinned diaper? Nein, sweeties! Make that a sequinned g-string for Fraulein who looks in the mirror and sees a 22-year-old.
Kiss and make up, guys! Life is too short to battle over a dress that looks like an inadequate number of bandaids covering a severe wound.
Come on, pucker up....
Where Lorenzo said frozen pizza, Tal said mummified candy cane.
What an awful, hideous dress. I can't think of another time I was stunned by the judges, except for maybe the Vincent Libretti win in Season 3.
I think the dress concept is pretty neat, but seriously ... the sewing on that dress makes me cringe. I can't get past the neckline and the bias strips. It looks like a fashion student had a great idea, but made it look shitty by letting themselves sew it. ... too hard to look at the rest of the dress because of that.
Definitely an Elio's frozen pizza.
Excellent description!
I think the judges this season are going to select the design that is "different", not necessarily the one that is good design and quality execution.
You would think that models, who wear clothing for a living, would know good fabric when they see it. And possibly NOT buy the same one as 2 others...?
Tom thinks Suede's dress looks like a slightly more tasteful version of Angela Kesslar's Jubillee Jumbles dress.
Tom is sad.
Tom misses Granny Circles.
Tom has Not So Happy Hands at Home.
Tom misses Angela's big bag of krazy, and fears no one this season(not even Suede) will exhibit mental illness for Tom's entertainment.
Suede is starting to come across to me as a sweet, shy guy so uncertain of himself that he created this dopey persona to hide behind. It was nice how he was so quick to hug Korto and how he talked about his Mom. His dress was cute and had a viewpoint.
Ha! See, Aimee's first thought when she saw Suede's dress-in-progress was that it looked like thrown-up spaghetti. But Aimee now realizes that it looks exactly like the (shudder) Ellio's frozen pizza she used to eat for dinner as a kid.
Oddly, I ended up liking the dress more than I thought I would. I thought Kenley's dress was much prettier, though, and that Terri wuz ROBBED.
Holy crap. You step away from PRG for four hours and there's a new post with 111 comments. My only contribution will be to ask if anybody out there in the real world knows if Suede really talks this way or if it's all a contrivance for the show? I could honestly deal with the third-person fixation better if I knew he's had this problem since like 1997.
FUG!The only reason anyone would buy it is because of its association to a tv show. Tulle+ Cocktail Dress + Grown ass women= HOT MESS!
Kensley should have won this one although her dress looked like a Christian Siriano/Chris March collabo circa Project Runway Season 4!
"Sup holla!"
Oh yeah wassup with Runway not putting some of the better dresses in the top/bottom portion of the show. I though Jerrell's dress was heidous enough to be ripped, and that Blayne and Leslie did pretty good jobs to be in the top!
And Suzanne just wants to know how the hell Bluefly is going to mass produce that craptastic piece of shit?
Kenley (I think thats her name) was robbed.
Suede deserved brushing. No, I don't know what that means, but a pun beats making another third-person statement. (Though many of you have done so most amusingly. Especially TLo and Bill!)
I thought this dress was ass, that there was no discernible "pattern" to the jumbled, rumpled, strips of champagne shiny, and that the whole thing looked like the Mineola Middle School "Future Fashion School Project Runway!" winner.
Another Suburban Mom said...
"Elmo thinks you look like a tacky crack whore."
THAT was hilarious.
Jen said...
"And Stella's should have definitely been in the worst section. Hers was just as short, tight and shiny as poor Wesley's"
Thank you! I know we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves, since we're on the Suede post, but I could not get over the judges gushing about Stella. That was a hooker dress if ever I saw one. Talk about short and tight. With laced up sides? no no no.
If I showed that dress to my mother and told her I would wear it out in public, her little Catholic heart might just give out.
Suede annoyed me, but he did get me at the end when he mentioned his mom. I'm a big sucker, though.
Love this blog!
Interesting how Blayne/leatherface boy was so quickly called out for trying to forcefeed us Girlicious as the next PR catchphrase, and Blue Suede snuck under the radar and got so many people talking about themselves in the third person and saying Whackadoodle, albeit satirically.
Love y'all!
lynette had a feeling today would be a third-person snarkfest!
Oh, I hated it. It was youthful all right...bouncy, flat-chested, and messy.
Poor Suede, he hit on a look he liked 20 years ago and can't let it go. Arrested development. Sadly, there are so many men out there like this!
I think it's the double-barrelled finger thing that's killing me. Next episode he'll wear through my last nerve.
Stella's dress was tacky and way more hookerish than the judges thought, but it fit. It may have been short like Wesley's but it was not AS short and not nearly as tight...or shiny. Stella's was at least something you could actually wear (though you wouldn't want to). Wesley's was completely unwearable, even on a girl 6 inches shorter than his model.
Suede's dress was so 'Tinkerbell gets caught in a woodchipper'.
I was surprised this won because it seems more difficult to mass produce than Stella's or the other gal who was in the top 3 (forgot her name already!)
I agree, Bailey. Stella's dress wasn't bad enough to send her home, but I was surprised the judges liked it so much. Top three....
I think she annoyed me almost as much with the whining as Suede did with the third person stuff.
Steelllaaaaaaa! Steeeeeelllaaaaa! Quiiit yooouuuur bitchiiiing!
My boyfriend walked in the room during this episode and asked "Is he making Eddie Van Halen's guitar into a dress?"
Suzanne said...
And Suzanne just wants to know how the hell Bluefly is going to mass produce that craptastic piece of shit?
Kenley (I think thats her name) was robbed.
Suzanne, Are you going to purchase it? I think (if I have the right person) you mentioned before on this blog that you have a "collection" of PR garments that have produced as part of the challenge reward. Let us know what it's like if you do.
looks like a cherry pie.
lizawithazee - 11:33 "Note to self: never let models pick anything out themselves."
hehe - isn't a moddle the host and one of the judges (and the same on ANTM and MMaSM, etc)?
Those models get to not only pick the fabric, but pick the winners!
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Terri's dress looked incredible - from what I could see.
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those dresses were Green in the way that Hollyweird is green - but flies in private jets and drives in Hummers and limos - no diff.
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Thank God they limited our exposure to Blayne this week!
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actually "leatha" kind of is green - it is renewable and not made with oil/petro products, etc. :)
"If I were ten years younger, I would wear it too." - my first reaction was "since when did your age ever enter into your clothing choices?". rather funny, no?
i'm torn about the dress -- over all, it looks alot better than i expected it to, based on what we saw in the workroom. there was definitely alot of creativity in it, and it's kind of a cute silhouette,but i much preferred Kenley's dress for the win. it was beautifully executed, but more classic & classy....
And the funniest part was what was going on in my head imagining the designers at Bluefly freaking out that this one won and deciding who was going to draw the short straw and be the one to have to sew all of the strips of fabric together to make a bunch of dresses. Ha.
HAHAHAHAHA!
Best. Blog. Ever!
Emma P (why stop) would like to hire you all as writers but then Emma P. would be unemployed because Emma P. isn't even remotely as funny.
Bill-- MicroSuede!
You're the berries!
And the funniest part was what was going on in my head imagining the designers at Bluefly freaking out that this one won and deciding who was going to draw the short straw and be the one to have to sew all of the strips of fabric together to make a bunch of dresses. Ha.
INTERIOR: Bluefly design room. Table of overworked fashion designers and assistants staring in horror at Suede's design.
FIRST DESIGNER: "Oh My Sweet GOD, I cannot reproduce that thing! It looks like a uterus badly wrapped in gold ribbon. I don't? Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you..."
SECOND DESIGNER:"Pleeeeeeze don't make me, pleeeeze. Mother of mercy, it looks like some alien space creature puked up blood and an old prom dress! Pleeeeze, I promise to suck you silly if you let me off the hook this time."
THIRD DESIGNER: (Realizing it is on him): "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."
As camera irises up and out over his screaming figure.
Desertwind is feeling a Daniel Franco vibe from Suede and it's making her sick.
Desertwind doesn't care how cute a dress Suede manages to squeeze out. She wants him gone.
Pronto.
-- d'wind
The Mad Fashionista loved the blue dress and thinks that Kelly/Kenley/whatever was robbed. The Fashionista wishes that someone would grab Suede's blue tuft and pull it out by the roots! Furthermore, the Fashionista thinks that all of the judges suffered a simultaneous brain aneurysm when they saw Suede's dress and thus their perceptions was in reverse.
The Mad Fashionista is deeply grateful that Blayne The Ugly has realized that "girlicious" will not fly as a catchphrase. At least not when used as "greenlicious," which sounds like a wheat grass milkshake (ugh).
The Mad Fashionista keeps wanting to type "Sludge" instead of "Suede," but it is entirely sub-conscious.
The Mad Fashionista is enjoying refering to herself in the third person far, far too much even though she realizes how irritating it is to others.
Finally, dahlings, the Mad Fashionista wonders if Stella is going to die of a heroin overdose during the season and if so, how will the producers explain it and keep the news off the Internet?
There is a reason pronouns were invented, Suede darling. Acquaint Suede with some basic English skills because Suede is getting on my last nerve!
Okay, I gotta rant here. Can we all please just put a lid on the damn third person crap? It's like the Cult of Suede infected the entire site.
That being said, Lorenzo is spot-on with his frozen pizza comment about Suede's design. Sorry Tom!
I still can't figure out why Wesley got sacked. I mean, yes his dress was ugly, and it seems like anytime someone uses brown fabric on PR they get the boot. However, he did such a good job the week before I can't sort out why he didn't get a pass.
If you consider the entire body of work, I'd have sent Stella packing. She displays a rather limited design range.
" usmcsgtftl said...
Okay, I gotta rant here. Can we all please just put a lid on the damn third person crap? It's like the Cult of Suede infected the entire site."
Oh please. It's a JOKE. If you are that humor impaired, go read BPR.
--GothamTomato
Justice was served.
Gotham, I suppose Leanne and I are *both* that humor impaired.
Suede's dress was butt ugly and I cannot believe that Bluefly is going to be selling that shit.
I quite enjoyed Blayne's Ode to Leather.
He still looks like Jiminy Cricket to me, so I'm going to call him Grunginy Cricket.
With all the frozen pizza references, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who thought of the Frankenstrat when Suede unveiled his garment.
Bisexual????
Uh.....uh-hmmm.... Whatever you say, Elton John circa 1973.
What an ugly dress. By far the ugliest dress on the runway this week.
TLo:
But argument sex is so hot!!
I think Suede is all ass. I'm going to flay him and make chintzy lampshades out of him. Maybe something woven, like that dress.
I think this task was asking a bit much, really. I mean, I can see how it might actually happen in the real world, but all the constraints were really too much of a stretch, and the work suffered as a result.
Speaking of flaying, ole Blayne de Soleil (a walking leather farm) better sleep with one eye open, given Cheroin's penchant for her leathah. I'm starting to think Jame Gumb might have been framed for that whole "Buffalo Bill" business...
I think it was interesting, but the 1940's looking chick had a nicer dress.
One other thing... would it be possible to not post the winner's name in the title along with congratulations? I rarely get to watch the episode when it happens (thank goodness for DVRs!) and that just spoils it for me when I scroll across it in my RSS feeds the next AM. I watch and already know who the winner is and it just blows!
Bronwyn said...
Suede's dress was butt ugly and I cannot believe that Bluefly is going to be selling that shit.
They're not complete fools. They're selling it as a pre-order.
So, what you see (yikes! trendy today, stupid forever!) is not necessarily what you're going to get!
I definitely agree with Lorenzo. I could not stand the dress. The silhouette was nice, but the dress itself? Not really. I for sure thought the judges would hate it. And when it came down to him and Kelli, I thought Kelly would/should win.
"Gorgeous Things said...
Gorgeous Things thinks the strips of fabric are poorly constructed."
I agree. It is really bad up close. I don't understand, as you guys mentioned, why the judges didn't say anything. Kenley's dress was the best. Hilarious posts, Tom and Lorenzo. I'm loving the blog!
Another Suburban Mom said...
"Elmo thinks you look like a tacky crack whore."
*Spits Drink on Keyboard*
Elmo likes when Dorothy wears things that are short tight and shiny. Mmmmm Elmo likes. Elmo likes fingerguns. Elmo is afraid of people not liking him, so Elmo hides from real self in third person references.
I'm with Lorenzo. Except instead of pizza, I was thinking more along the lines of spaghetti. With different colors, maybe this could've been cute. With what he used...it looks like food.
Absolutely hated it. I think if Suede had weaved the strips together instead of slapping them all over one on top of the other, the dress would have looked much neater. The silhouette is certainly cute, but it did NOT deserve the win at ALL.
I'm the anon that said she thought Suede was a shy sweet guy underneath the bull. There's another thing or two that makes me think Suede may just turn out to be a contender, despite his tired and tiresome personal style.
He didn't pout about the fabric, he thought around it. That's what gave him the win. He also listens to Tim like his life depends on it. So there's a few things to like about the pathetic fool.
In fact, something about this idiot is tugging at my heart strings enough to dub myself:
Suede Defender
(Sounds like a scotch guard product or a condom, doesn't it?)
I for one LOVE the winning dress. I love the colours, the cute little skirt the overall shilouette. It's a dress I can see myself wearing and if I had the money, I would be tempted to buy one.
What really disappointed me about this challenge was how they handled the "green" aspect. They didn't even explain what green fabric was supposed to be and it seems that all natural fibers qualified as "green" no matter how they were cultivated, manufactured, dyed... How weird.
The more I look at Guede's dress, the less I like it. It's cute from far away, but close up it's a mess. The top is asymmetrical, but it doesn't look like a design choice. It just looks like poor execution. I think maybe the reason Guede won over Kenley is that the dress is going to be sold on Bluefly, and it's easier for non-models to pull off tulle than Kenley's dramatic high collar.
Anonymous said "There was so much going on in this challenge...Green Fabric. Model's choice. Movie Star "acting" like a judge. Cocktail dress. Too much criteria."
I agree. When they criticized Leanne for having five dresses in one, my first thought was "Why not? This was five challenges in one."
Anonymous (1:50)
"The Suede Defender!" I love it!
I wish you well, my dear, championing this cause is gonna be rough, because there are a LOT of Suede Haters out there (present company excluded 'cause I actually think he's kinda sweet...sweet, but tiresome). Any 37-year old man who sends a shout-out to his momma can't be all bad.
- edina -
I really didn't like the dress. Might be appropriate for a homecoming dance at high school, but anything else? I think any grown woman would look completely silly in that dress (including the model).
Aw, I thought the dress was so cute and playful. I give Suede marks for bringing whimsy to the challenge and for just being creative. There were some execution issues but all things considered I thought it was great and my 2nd favorite (behind's Terri's underappreciated dress). I'm curious to see how the Bluefly.com version will turn out.
"EdinaMonsoon said: because there are a LOT of Suede Haters out there"
I don't know that there are a lot of Suede haters out there. Hate is too strong. We may snark and mock, but it's not hate.
And seriously, any 37 year old man who walks around with a blue mohawk & skaterboy clothes, with a Vegas lounge lizard persona that speaks of himself in the third person has got to expect to be an easy target for a snarkfest.
And I'll bet he's loving it. He doesn't strike me as someone who longs to fly under the radar.
--GothamTomato
I don’t hold the skater rat clothes and stupid hairdo against him. I know plenty of people who froze their look in their twenties. Heck, check out Stella or Heidi. Besides, I think someone on the production staff decided this year is to be the Battle of the Street Styles. It was that retro look that got him on the show.
The Disco Stu imitation is a little harder to swallow. I console myself with the idea that this third person gimmick was dreamed up as a reality show hook one drunken stoned night during a marathon of the Simpsons. I’m getting kind of a kick of watching him squirm as the realization that he has trapped himself into a cartoon character sinks in.
Still, I think he has talent and somebody has to do the job of pulling for him. Otherwise he’ll just lay here on the threads like a clubbed baby seal.
Suede Defender
does any one have a link for a video of suede saying, "Suede is a bisexual sagittariaus and loves long walks on the beach"????
Maybe its time for them to just break down and have the "dress a ho" contest.
Next year when PR is on Lifetime and in LA, they can have a theme week with all their bad hooker themed movies, with actual hookers as clients, and Tori Spelling, "Mother May I Sleep with Danger" or Lisa Rinna (with a separate chair for her lips) as a guest judge.
Good god, that looks like Ronald Mcdonald blew up all over a prom dress! Seriously, does anyone, like me, miss the home sewers that could at least, you know - SEW? From what I'm seeing, most of these 'designers' can't construct their way out of a paper bag!
Suede thinks he totally got away with copying Eddie Van Halen's guitar and now they're going to sell it on Bluefly....'Rocked it'!
Ugh.
Slut Barbie meets the bandage costume from "The Fifth Element". The look is a hot mess with mozzarella, hold the pepperoni.
Tulle? Is she supposed to be a ballerina, a bride or under twelve?
As for bamboo fabric being green, what a bad joke! Raw bamboo is chemically dissolved down to the fiber level with very harsh chemicals and processed like Rayon. Just because the raw material grows quickly that doesn't make it an eco friendly fabric. Wool and silk don't require harsh chemicals in the manufacturing process and are the real green fabrics if you take more than a superficial look.
And what is it with bronze colored satin being the kiss of death? Remember that PPS almost got "auf'd" making that brown satin prom gown last season.
ANONYMOUS HATES THIS DRESS TOO
Thyrza thinks all this third-personing is fun! And disturbingly addictive. Thyrza fears that she will not be able to stop. Thyrza needs help.
Thyrza also thinks Bill is hilarious. Microsuede! Perfect.
This guy talks in the third person so that his name will be heard over and over again. It's free advertising. Makes me want to push the mute button whenever he speaks.
Hahahahahaha. You guys are hilarious! I love this site!!!
suede has nice eyes, i don't know wtf he is thinking with his hair and style
Lmao at the final line in the blog about what Heidi wore. That was dead on. She has got to quit dressing like Slutty Barbie.
Also, someone should have given those models some instructions on what to pick out and how much to get. Talk about tying the designers' hands!
My roommate and I are debating whether or not Suede's dress looks more like a frozen pie or the aftereffects of vomited jam. This is the ugliest winning design in PR's history that I can remember.
I have to agree...I hated this dress and was mad that it won.
I actually liked Suede's dress. Gotta go with Tom on this one.
Frankly, I didn't like this dress much and was surprised it got Suede a win. There were better dresses on the runway, notably Kenley's. I LOVE her.
Suede needs to stop mouthing off about Suede or Suede is going to be suffocated in bed by one of his flat mates.
Roxy bets no one moves into Suede's bedroom after Jerry's aufing.
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