Oh wow...I had the sheets that Daniella used for her skirt back in the 80's. I think it was a Croscill pattern.

"Man, that is one flame-retardant skirt. It should have a little "Brought to you by the fine folks at DuPont" label on it because that's not fabric, that's a chemistry experiment."


LOL.


One of the ugliest things sent down the runway this season. For sure.

"flame-retardant skirt"

snork, giggle, guffaw.

What I hate most about Daniella's Ensemble are the pockets towards the front of the skirt. Number 1, pockets on a skirt are almost always not good, and secondly, what woman wants to stick her hands in the front of her skirt so that it looks like she has stomach fat pooch???????

Johny's was an odd mix. I didn't know how to react to it

Daniella's: Worst thing she made by far. And I generally like her work. I think everyone was surprised this was not in the bottom 2. Hell even Daniella was surprised.

The lighting must not only be dim, it's got to be hypnotic. Or maybe the combination of the lights hitting the skirt created subliminal messages to save her.

Frank

Based on the editing, I didn't think Daniella would be in the bottom. Then I saw her outfit and thought she HAD to be the one eliminated.

"And she should have been called on the fact that not only did she already do a sheer top during the competition, but she did a sheer top in what looks like the exact same fabric."

This is another problem with having the audience's votes determine the top and bottom: Coming in for that week, audience members have no sense of a contestant's body of work over the season -- whether they're repeating themselves, USING TOO MUCH NAVY (enough, Daniella!), or whether just about everything they've designed looks like ass (hello, Johnny).

-- CAAF

"Do you know how HARD it is to come up with new ways of critiquing these facacta clothes?"

LOL! I'm an Italian from Brooklyn, and I just cracked up at your use of facacta. Spot on...

@indyanna, wow, good call.

Explain to me again, what the hell do these suck-losers have to do with Tarot cards? Heh?

It looks like the collar on Daniella's "blouse" is black which adds even more fugliness to the outfit.

I agree with Jen: Based on the editing, I didn't think Daniella's would really stand out one way or another -- because she received like zero airtime. Then I saw that, that, that MONSTROSITY that she sent down the runway and I was SURE she was going home. How could she not? How could they not?

It makes no sense at all and casts an even more suspicious light on this audience of "industry insiders." HUH?

That outfit is so disgustingly ugly Charlotte Russe wouldn't carry it. Even in the 80s!

~ zbird

"But Jesus H. Christ, take it off and it's Hello Hooker!" AND "Man, that is one flame-retardant skirt."

Nice to see you channeling Duchess these days, boys!

Keep it coming!

perhaps this is why they keep the lighting so miserable for the runway show - so you can't see the true fugliness of what is up there - Danielle's outfit as the best case in point.

WHY was her ass not sent packing for forcing us to look upon this monstrosity? yes, the coat was a tiny bit cute but what was underneath??? yeech.... nothing about that outfit had anything to do with fashion - except as a "what not to EVER wear"

ugh. the only thing worthwhile that can be said is that this show is providing y'all with such rich material for comments.

I thought these two should have been on the bottom.

Johnny did another see-and-sew pattern. Simple and extremely ugly.
The chambray bow is just the icing on the cake. Ugg.

Daniella's is kind of cute with the jacket ON. But she suffers from the same vanity that Reco has. They are so proud that they did three pieces, they have to show it off. The skirt fabric I don't hate as much as most everybody else, but the little silver yoke is kind of weird. I think the jacket is, even with the sheer sleeves of the blouse showing. But removing the jacket and showing that sheer blouse with the bra on full display is just tacky, done, and ugly. I love that cute model though.

It makes no sense at all and casts an even more suspicious light on this audience of "industry insiders." HUH?

Word-who are these people? After some of the comments about how some members of the audience were selected, I think that the definition of "industry insider" is very loose, to be kind.

There was nothing about this outfit that was appealing. I know I'm repeating myself, but isn't the sheer blouse over a bra very old fashion news, and news that we'd all be happy to see stay buried?

Daniella did well with the color she selected for her Dior inspired jacket in the last challenge. It's too bad she reverted back to her favorite dark hues for this week.

That dismal shmata Daniella created was like a combo plate of her previous designs--a combo plate that got someone kicked off "Top Chef." The dark blue sheer top from her earlier winning design, the incredibly gross skirt so similar to the pants she did with Reco (sort of) that landed her in the bottom two. Just so hideous--it's hard to believe the audience didn't put that one at the very bottom of this particular barrel. The girl's got luck on her side, that's for sure.

I personally was not completely turned off by the IDEA behind the Samurai's skirt. The color of the skirt together with the pattern of the netting combine nicely. The fact that the skirt looks cheap and that the netting is literally draped on does not justice to the idea, though. Given enough time to actually sew that netting pattern in (with some-meaning-a-lot-of editing!), you could totally see a skirt like that at Target. Right alongside Issac. Which is why Johnny is still here!

Why these 2 were not in the bottom 2 is beyond me. On PR I do not always agree with the judging (Santino's lingerie, Christian's prom dress) but never is PR this off the mark. Shame on the judges, I will most likely finish this season of TFS (not live, DVR, of course), then I am done.

I find Johnny completely uninspired, tacky, and boring. I feel like show wants us to believe he's the next Jay (given Isaac's statements of someone blowing the judges away after the third episode). He truly offends my eyeballs.

Daniella is competent and has a sense of style. She's not offensively awful at fashion.

I love JP but really he did deserve to be in the bottom as well as Johnny with Johnny going home... And JP winning the whole thing after that wake up call.

Daniella has proved at least twice now that she has absolutely no idea how to utilize prints and colors, hence the go-to navy and black. I hate to use the word, but both of these dresses are "fugly." Even poor Dayna couldn't make Johnny's dress look good.

This episode was totally rigged. Daniella not even being in the bottom? Please.

Olive Cart, I'm with you. The model worked the cute into it and it was tres Isaac. Big pass for Sr. Johnny. Misogny aside, I'm astounded by Merlin's disappearance. He brought some light into this airless enterprise. When Isaac does his Motley Mouse role call at the beginning of each episode, he expresses astonishment at the diminishment of the crowd. I'm equally astonished that this dreary exercise is still around and that I'm still watching.

This might have been said in the comments section of previous posts, but I want to express my dismay about the designers' blogs on Bravotv.com. The writing for some of them (not all) is horrible. I can't even understand what they are trying to say(James Paul!) I get that 1) they are designers and not writers, and 2) might be working under extreme time contraints for the blogs but OMG Bravo needs to dispatch an editor! I started reading them because I was interested in the designers' perspectives but it's now like rubber-necking a car accident. The wreckage is enthralling in a totally disturbing way.

Totally concur with your bottom two.

Johnny would have said bye-bye in my world.

Seeing these in the harsh light of day just makes it even more obvious that one of these two should have been in the bottom with JP and subsequently sent packing (Johnny I WISH). This show angers me more and more each week, I don't even know what the designers are doing anymore...

AYYYYYY

HEI-NOUS. Just awful. Johnny's dress is the color scheme of the bedroom I had when I was 8. In 1975. similar fabrics, too, it seems. Bleh. give her some green sculptured-shag shoes and she'd be a dead-ringer for my room.

and Daniella's...retardant. yes.

The industry insiders must be from the Reynolds Company because that waistband on Daniella’s skirt looks like she pulled it off a turkey and wrapped it around the model. The rest of the skirt looks like the tacky tablecloth they ate dinner on.

The shirt is ... horrific. That’s a 90’s trend that is best left in the 90s. Please, can't they leave the 80s and 90s alone?

Johnny’s reminds me of woman with a bandaged shoulder (the color is ALL WRONG) wearing a bird cage on her hips. It’s not an attractive image and I don't even want to work out the story.

Wait a minute. I don't watch TFS I just get my updates from TLo since I just could not get into the actual episodes but you mean to tell me that Merlin went home when his outfit was not horrendous and Daniella's outfit didn't even get in the bottom? That's a joke right?

It's hardly their fault, but it pains me so that TLo's covering TFS instead of PRC2... not even a mention of the final collections? You posted about the PRPhillippines final collections! Even if the field for PRC2 was not terribly competitive, getting Sonny Fong out of it is like striking gold.

ANYWAY, it was a cute look until the coat was opened to expose the horrors within. The sheer sleeves and glimpse of psychedelic was fine until it's shoved in your face.

Wow I hadn't seen Daniella's outfit up close. What's under that coat is awful!

I compare this to Merlin's outfit: Both coats are nice, but Merlin's is just superior in design. Coats aside though, how could the audience have possibly considered that fugliness underneath even on par with that cute gray outfit Merlin designed? Daniella showed a terrible lack of taste with this.

Get rid of the audience choice because they're obviously idiots. Or, if they must be involved, perhaps give them one best and worst pick, and let the judges pick one or two others that really deserve it.

Ugh, those two outfits were pure ass. These people want to be designers??

That skirt is horrible. As Emily says in The Devil Wears Prada, "Do you have some hideous skirt convention to go to?"

That is some serious fugly.

"Man, that is one flame-retardant skirt.. . .Brought to you by the fine folks at DuPont"


Haha! Perfect. What was the audience thinking that they didn't put Daniella's atrocity in the bottom two? Or is the question, "What were they drinking?"

And if hear Daniella say "hella" one more time. . .

When the model removed her coat to reveal the sheer blouse, I thought wow! It's a "Fly Girl" from In Living Color circa 1991! I'm embarrassed to admit I owned a shirt like that, but only the arms were sheer...

The little blue coat reminds me of the faux lab coats that the cosmetics clerks wear at department stores.

Oooof! but the outfit underneath! Inexcusable!

The audience must have half a second to look at these get-ups, under bad lighting, while taking notes. That's one possible explanation, anyhow....

Jenn said...
When the model removed her coat to reveal the sheer blouse, I thought wow! It's a "Fly Girl" from In Living Color circa 1991! I'm embarrassed to admit I owned a shirt like that, but only the arms were sheer

Ooo, I had a blouse like Daniella made too. It was all sheer black organza and I wore it with a very long high waisted pencil skirt that had safety pin covered bondage straps attacked with a rubber cock ring (I called a worm) and no bra.

"Tlo said: these facacta clothes"




Hey Boychiks, did you mean to say 'fercockt'? (or 'fercockta') As in Yiddish for 'fucked up'?

How could you leave the 'cock' out of fucked up? Did that cockamamie dreck make you so fertoutst that you couldn't tell your punim from your pupik?

I know, you could plotz.

--GothamTomatosky

Once again, just like your comment about not understanding pockets in dresses, I have to completely disagree about your assessment of bows on grown women. Bring on the pockets and the bows, I say.

Maybe the show has it backwards...maybe the panel of judges should pick the bottom 2 and top 2 based on the assignment and then let the audience "insiders" select the winner and loser.

I don't feel like I even see the outfits until you post them here, my dear TiLo. I only get a general idea of what they look like on the show -- the lighting is atrocious, and they barely show the garments.

Holy crap those looks were fugly. How these could be safe and Merlin utterly trashed was beyond me.

One commenter was quite insightful about Daniela and Rico's need to show off when they make three pieces, even if the third piece is a disaster. I thought Rico's suit was spectacular, but that blouse once again cut the model's bust in entirely the wrong way, which unfortunately is his hallmark, and nobody ever calls him on it.

I knew Daniella's outfit was bad, but I had no idea HOW bad until I saw this post. How could she get by with that hot mess?

Okay, I only half paid attention during the episode. But now that I see that -- why the heck to our dear Pollo Loco go home again?

When he said in his interview that he would have gone home regardless of what he made, I thought it was a little bit of ego salve. Seeing that blue see-thru nightmare makes me think he was uttering an utter truth. Because his coat was fun enough to redeem the sweats for me.

Marie

Having fallen asleep in the middle of this episode and awakened at the tail end of the judging, I missed out on these two outfits. I'm glad I did.

How the hell did Daniella not go home for that? Oh wait, that's right, JP's outfit sucked worse.

WOW! I knew Daniella's was fug from the outset, but man...in full light, it is truly AWFUL!!!! She should have gotten sent packing for that. Blech!

I cannot really add much more than the comments already made by TLo and the fine peeps here, other than I abhor both of these looks.
Is it Halloween yet?

Total agreement with TLo -Bows should not appear on any part of the anatomy of a grown
woman.

Gotham Tomato, I'm pretty sure it's spelled "farkakte," a variant of "verkakte." Sadly, the only "cock" in it is in the reader's imagination.

OK, I'm no fashion expert, so could someone explain to me why Merlin went home and these two stayed in the competition?

For someone who goes on and on about how much she knows what's out there and the others don't, she surely has sent her share of fugliness down the runway, hasn't she?

I used to think that Johnny was the Vincent Libretti of The Fashion Show, but I was wrong, he's worse.

Johnny's is pitiful but Daniella's is painful. That is a beyond hideous hot mess and I think Isaac and Fern should be ashamed of themselves (oh and Kelly, too. Sometimes I forgot she is there. Or why she is there).

Yes, my extensive Yiddish experience suggests verkakte as well. But Yiddish is...fluid, so spell it how you like, everyone knows what you mean.

I must say - week after week, TFS makes me appreciate PR so much more. A crazy amount of work (and some luck) must go into casting, creating the challenges, editing the show, finding judges, etc etc. Week after week TFS fails to deliver on every level.

The designs for this challenge were so awful, I can't even remember what the challenge was. When in PR did you get such design failure? Especially this close to the end when the cream designers should be rising to the top? Just fugly.

"Gotham Tomato, I'm pretty sure it's spelled "farkakte," a variant of "verkakte." "

Since it's Yiddish, and Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet, there are any number of transliterations, all more or less valid.

That net thing of Johnny's is like a shorter, floral version of the singers' costumes from Cirque du Soleil's Alegria. Those folks can carry whimsy off.

Hated Daniella's outfit. It wasn't the worst, but her outfit was worse than Merlin's.

Referencing the facockta issue:
If you think this is a controversy-
take a look at the Torah.
Every passage has a bunch of commentaries to tell you what it all means. So if our own GT wishes to be the Rashi of this blog - so be it. Facockta it is then, the...um...*up* side is that it keeps it within the spirit of this blog. So - lighten up. It's just Yiddish. Amen. With love.

Referencing the facockta issue:
If you think this is a controversy-
take a look at the Torah.
Every passage has a bunch of commentaries to tell you what it all means. So if our own GT wishes to be the Rashi of this blog - so be it. Facockta it is then, the...um...*up* side is that it keeps it within the spirit of this blog. So - lighten up. It's just Yiddish. Amen. With love.

Daniella's model has great legs. Maybe that's what saved it. Other wise... bleech.

In my world, Daniella was in the bottom with JP, and they both went home.

It's MY world, I make the rules.

After catching a glimpse of Johnny's...thing in the preview vids, I was horrified. I was surprised that I didn't hate it as much as I expected. I still hated it -- those colors! The badly-done cage or net or whatever. At first I thought, he needs to reduce the fullnes of the skirt, but then I thought - why in the hell would you do that in the first place? Ick.

Daniella's is just fucking hideous. And it reinforces one of the major problems with this crazy judging scheme - on PR (or any competition that makes sense) the judges would be keeping an eye out for POV...which for Daniella seems to mean "navy" and "crap fabric." She has taste issues.

And yes, brassieres on parade is one of those "fashion" trends that's too embarrassing to revive.

Danella's ho' on the top, granny on the bottom should have put her in the bottom two. Johnny's while fug, was not as bad as J-P's monstrosity.

Maybe being a "fashion industry insider" in New York is equivalent to being a "model/actress" in L.A.

Daniela's skirt looks like it's made from virtually the same fabric as those ass-ugly pants she made the other week.

It seems like color and fabric are stumbling blocks for most of TFS designers--and many on PR, IMO. I am really good with color, so it always baffles me when a trained designer can miss so badly.

Johnny's design at least had a couple of interesting ideas, though his colors and execution let him down once again. Daniela's was devoid of anything interesting. How can someone "play it safe" (which I believe she was doing by going back to the sheer jacket/shirt) and still come up with something so horrible? The phrase "hot mess" was coined just for this outfit. Not only were the pieces ugly (or bland, in the case of the coat), but they did not even go together.

Did the judges bitch-slap her for repeating herself?

Merlin was the only designer to visibly refer to the theme of his tarot card. Anna may have as well, since her cute little dress could be seen as evoking "love." JP mentioned that he was trusting his intuition, which was part of what his card said. But did the others even attempt to refer to their tarot cards? I don't see "travel" in Johnny's? And what was Daniela's supposed to convey? Ineptitude on every level?

SO does anyone know who is going to be the one that HORRIFIED the judges in this weeks controversy for copying?

I'd say based on Johnny's repeatedly saying that he knocked off designer A or B, etc, that he'd be the odds on fav?

Am I really the only one who is familiar with the "cage skirt" trend? It's very big on etsy right now, especially. It's not supposed to be sewn onto the dress or anything. It's a completely separate piece that is worn over skirts. Surely there's been one in someone's collection somewhere?

As soon as I saw Johnny's dress I yelled, "Oh my god, he did a cage skirt!" I loved it. I did not love the rest of the dress, but the cage skirt? Awesome.

Daniela's skirt looks like it's made from virtually the same fabric as those ass-ugly pants she made the other week.


At first I thought it was exactly the same fabric. The pattern she used this week is another hideous cacophony of pastels that belongs on patio furniture, and even then it kind of sucks.

I had forgotten what Daniella made, and now I know why. It was too awful to remember. Is this her idea of fresh and modern? She needs to get her money back from that school she attended.

Johnny's outfit looked cute and fun on television, but close up, it looks like something from Fashion Bug.

I've done my share of bitching about TFS, but I've still managed to find some fun in it. Now I'm disgusted. There were three designers who put out total crap in this episode - JP, Daniella, and Johnny - yet Merlin got sent home. I call shenanigans.

"Save_The_Hobbit said...

Am I really the only one who is familiar with the "cage skirt" trend? It's very big on etsy right now, especially."


One more reason to hate it.

These outfits are hideous. That's what pisses me off about this show. They would NEVER get away with these monstrosities with La Nina and The Duchess. BUT the audience would buy one in every color.

Seriously, and I mean, seriously, what is Johnny still doing in the competition? He was giggling when they made fun of his unfinished piece of garbage for the mini-challenge.

Oh gosh, I didn't see this episode and it looks like it's for the best. I'm not in the habit of keeping a barf-bag by my couch on Thursday nights.

Those are both TERRIBLE designs. Oh, dear Lord...

Blogger Save_The_Hobbit said...

Am I really the only one who is familiar with the "cage skirt" trend? It's very big on etsy right now, especially. It's not supposed to be sewn onto the dress or anything. It's a completely separate piece that is worn over skirts. Surely there's been one in someone's collection somewhere?

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It's not that Johnny made a cage skirt, even if it does have a sort of Foreever 21 feel to it, it's the fact that Johnny made an ill fitting cage skirt. It made the skirt it was over gather in a very unflattering way.

Both Daniella's and Johnny poodle head's outfits were just awful.

And for the record, the word you are all searching for is "fakakta." According to urbandictionary.com, it means shitty, and derives from a German term for "f*cking."

A very apt term for these two entries.

They both make me so verklempt.

"Am I really the only one who is familiar with the "cage skirt" trend? It's very big on etsy right now, especially."

OK, I was completely ignorant of this "cage skirt trend," and thought this was a joke at first. So I googled.

Now, granted, my research wasn't exhaustive, but from what I found, this "trend" looks very much like an artsy-craftsy ultra-junior street fashion thing. (And didn't Merlin get dinged for leaning junior?)

Yes, some designers can successfully incorporate street fashion into their designs...but Johnny's stupid rag still looks like ass. And appearing in blogs and on Etsy doesn't exactly give the "trend" big cred.

I keep wishing that they would send two or three designers home in one episode. Not only to get rid of the dreck but to put us out of our misery.
The judging is inconsistent and scattered (not unlike the designers) and that makes it maddening.

Thank you Johnny unbelievers for the guffaw. I needed/deserved a laugh after a hard day! Never mind about Mr. Winky, it's about Johnny's TRANNY hair, as the fiercest one would say. I so loathed his granny bun/Cyndy Crawford on an oil slick contaminated beach hair pony fug day that I had to look away a lot. I so don't miss this show.

I am sure it ("TFS") is a snippet of out takes from the Gangs of New York movie of a few years back, the New York Five Points days, and not anything relevant to this century. Naw, couldn't happen. It's a techno glitch of some programming sort. And tho offended,truly, I am over it! Never happened.

There are some standards that have been put in place for transliteration from Yiddish into English, and sorry, I know it's hi-larious, but "cock" would not be one of those transliterations. They generally don't use the letter "c" at all. I know, lighten up, whatever.

"No sooner had the ink dried upon the line..." Hey, buds TLo, thank you for letting us air vent, it feels fantastic to get normal after the abuse from TFS, but how're the bloggers gonna ever know what made me laugh when the comments are gone gone gone? My we're sensitive. Love ya, your gal from Glad, HMistress of Normalcy

The facacta comment was funny as hell. Everybody got it. No need to dissect.

I hate to say it, but I suspect that Johnny will be in the top three, as the designer Isaac referred to as having "learned so much" from being on the show, especially about fabric.

I'm seeing Johnny, Anna, and Daniela as the final three, with Reco getting the boot this week. I HOPE HOPE HOPE I am wrong. The only good thing about it is that it would put an end to this dying show once and for all. (Maybe Daniela gets the boot.)

Okay so here's what I googled about "cage skirts" -- http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21562268 . Go see! Go see! What a crock. You can order it in any number of fabrics and colors and patterns, etc. to wear over skirts or slacks or leggings, AND the site takes PayPal! isn't THAT a stroke of luck! That's just so much butt ugly fug, although still not as bad as Daniela's see through ho blouse with large neon ass, or JP's poopy droopy sad colostomy sack of a "dress". This was the most pitiful week for fashion that I can recall on this show, where none of the real crap outfits were even discussed by the judges, and one of the two outfits most liked by posters here was dismissed out of hand and given the "buh bye darling" by Heather under Very Suspicious Circumstances. Tragic. I stopped watching weeks ago and now rely totally on TLo and you all to let me know what's going on. Don't think I'm actually missing anything, though, and I no longer have to listen to Heather and Kelly, which is a blessing in itself. Thanks for the screencaps, TLo, to give the viewers at least a fighting chance of seeing what Bravo is trying to hide with their quick edit shots and atrocious lighting schemes.
warmheartedgirl in Seattle

I'm happy with the judging this week.

Johnny's outfit seemed like a collection of etsy-hip and on-trend, it's true.

The top, for a Wilma top, was successful, I thought, because it fitted the style of his obvious clientele; not too overworked, not too fussy, comfy-looking and simple but a bit more extravagant that, say, the graphic t-shirts that Jay's been hawking at his online shop (if we're going to stay with the Johnny = -Jay theory).

The skirt with the netting thing and even the sweet bowbelt also seemed to come from this same stylebook and from that perspective, I though the outfit, while not my own taste, passed.

I'm wondering if the audience recognized his style influences and judged the outfit according to what they think his clientele would want. Johnny's just out of the reach of expectations with this sort of audience, I reckon. They're too hip, too CITY, too hardcore compared to Johnny and that may throw them for a judging loop. I think they'd bend more to his vision than trying to deconstruct it to shove it into their own familiar and personal fashion view which is decidedly *not* etsy-hip.

I could understand a lot of them saying to themselves, "well... not my taste but I can see where his taste is coming from and it's not all that bad for that kind of style, I guess. The separates could sell somewhere that isn't my store."

Daniella's outfit... the jacket was passable. The colour was fine, the silhouette just in the border of urban low key elegance, the sleeve length was interesting enough to notice but not squint with disdain at seeing. Nothing jumping out that roars 'oh-oh, no, no, no, no, noooo.'

The shirt was well-made and complemented the colour of the jacket. Sure she'd worked in sheer fabric before. But not in front of *this* audience. I wouldn't be surprised if she got points for construction. Certainly not office attire (and, really, that's what she seems to consistently send out... Washingtonian slightly edgey (slightly) office, evening and weekend wear) but easily remedied with a camisole. But if she'd added that, then whatever sex appeal she was going for would be totally gone. It's such an *obvious* remedy, though. I wonder if the judges thought so, too and basically shrugged that off as a major problem of the outfit since the cure was so easy.

I didn't find the skirt ugly as much a just... uninspiring. Uninspiring and familiar. I've seen skirts just like this on racks now in 'A' mall stores and 'B' malls in worse fabrics (but similar sewing techniques). But some black tights on that model and the skirt looks 'm'eh'. Not *fAsHiOn* but commercial. I wonder if some of the audience recognized the kind of person who may buy her stuff from their coterie of support people in their businesses worlds.

So I could definitely see why these two didn't inspire but didn't bomb, either.

Which left James Paul - an easy target, and Merlin.

I've already written this before; his jacket was in a nice colour but there were a couple of misteps with it (too junior-junior when paired with the rest of the outfit), that useless doodaddie thing on the shoulder for no reason and I still think there were some overconstruction issues on it.

But he put it on those sweatshirt fabric pants that suffered two horrendous blows: cheap-looking sweatshirt fabric (when that yoga pant-like fabric would have been much better) with badly done quasi-pirate breeches that I saw three years ago on the first Project Catwalk season (and even then the look bombed). I mean, those pants were glaringly ugly (as opposed to uninspiring but somehow familiar). He managed to hit the trifecta: cheap, badly thought out, trend done to death already.

I'm guessing that the judges inhouse at this point figured James Paul may be some kind of genius savant if inspiration can just hit him at the right moment in the near future, Merlin... yeah. Nice clothes but as the Wonderous and Luminous Ms. Peggy Lee so eloquently stated, "is that all there is?" And they decided, "yeah. Maybe that is all there is for him in this competition."

Could there be any worse eye punishment than these? Maybe Sarah Palin wearing them.

To quote the great philosopher, Ricky Ricardo, 'Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!'

The 'fercockt' spelling comes from a Yiddish/English dictionary.

It was a JOKE! Gad!

--GothamTomato

UGH. I can't believe Johnny didn't go home. That outfit was TERRIBLE (and I loved Merlin's coat). Grr.

That nasty ensemble made by that bitch Daniella was BEYOND fuckin' ugly.

I'm convinced she's paying the audience.

I'm glad you boys were able to get screen caps b/c I swear that Daniella's dress went down that runway so fast in the dark that I didn't even remember what it looked like. Major editing there to make her dress not look that bad... I still think JP or Johnny should have gone home, but her dress was horrific.

I'm beginning to think that Strawberry Shortcake made the right decision. Who wants to compete against this?

"flame-retardant skirt"

ROFLMAO. You boys fucking rock!

Johnny in no way resembles the delightful Jay McCarroll. Johnny is a whiny, smug, non-sewer who seems to find no joy in what he's doing. Jay had some difficult moments, but he was always so much fun to watch. Maybe it's the way TFS is edited, but at least Jay made some truly lovely things that showed how much he loves what he does. Johnny. . . well, you kinda want to punch him in the eye, and then burn his "creations."

Daniella? Please stop. She too comes off as so negative and strange, and I honestly think she is just designing the same tired stuff over and over. That skirt looked like a pot holder from an early rave. . .

I'm very fond of Reco and Merlin as characters on a TV show, and usually think Reco's stuff is constructed well and sometimes lovely to look at. And, you have to admit, the models (yes, there are models on this show) always look good in what Reco makes.

It seems that we're not getting any backstory to these contestants. I don't know anything about them, except the shabby, dark way they end up looking after editing. So, I don't really care about any of them, or who wins.

When is Project Runway back? I've worn out my season one DVD's.

... Johnny, love the top, bow, belt, and colors of those three. HATE the skirt, net, bunching, and colors of those three.

Daniella- Love the jacket, and when she had it on I though I might like the entire. Then she took it off, and I scrolled down really fast!

Love you guys!

"Okay so here's what I googled about "cage skirts" -- http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21562268 . Go see! Go see! What a crock. You can order it in any number of fabrics and colors and patterns, etc. to wear over skirts or slacks or leggings, AND the site takes PayPal! isn't THAT a stroke of luck!"

I don't understand this comment at all. Is there something noteworthy that I'm missing about the site taking paypal? Or that you can order various colors and fabrics? Why is that a "crock?"

Cage skirts make me think limi feu, spring 2009, but that doesn't make Johnny's outfit good, by any means.

Anonymous
7/7/09 8:41 AM

I'm very fond of Reco and Merlin as characters on a TV show, and usually think Reco's stuff is constructed well and sometimes lovely to look at. And, you have to admit, the models (yes, there are models on this show) always look good in what Reco makes.


Agreed. Entirely.

"Man, that is one flame-retardant skirt. It should have a little "Brought to you by the fine folks at DuPont" label on it because that's not fabric, that's a chemistry experiment."

Ugh. It's not even a chemistry experiment, just a hot bloody mess.

How they got all over EPL's look, even so far as to say he wasn't a "real" designer, and let this shit slide is beyond me.

This is what I do not understand and maybe it is just me, the photograph or the lighting; The bra appears to be a true navy, the sheer fabric appears to be true navy, the blue in skirt appears to be true navy and long jacket appears to be true navy. Therefore, why on earth would you wear charcoal black tights? Even the styling sucks out loud.

TampaBay

I agree on the general wtf about Daniella's garments.... but I also see what her inspiration is. Marc Jacobs' fabulous spring/summer collection had a similair type of fabric. Very fab. But then Miss Jacobs can do very little wrong in my book.

"Anonymous said...
Anonymous
7/7/09 8:41 AM

I'm very fond of Reco and Merlin as characters on a TV show, and usually think Reco's stuff is constructed well and sometimes lovely to look at. And, you have to admit, the models (yes, there are models on this show) always look good in what Reco makes.


Agreed. Entirely."



No, not always. The models, and by that I mean Dayna, always make his stuff look great.

Daniella is a very talented designer but she needs to bring her ego down a notch and learn a lot more before she can say that she's fashion forward in her designs.

Most of her stuff looks like Balenciaga knockoffs.

gamera - what stupidity.

BTW are you blind? you can hate her politics but she is a beautiful woman. oh maybe that is the problem.

ann

Anonymous
7/7/09 10:24 AM gamera - what stupidity.

BTW are you blind? you can hate her politics but she is a beautiful woman. oh maybe that is the problem.

ann


Cover up, toots. Your slip is showing.

I like how you keep coming here to get offended.

Anonymous 10:24
BTW are you blind? you can hate her politics but she is a beautiful woman. oh maybe that is the problem.

ann

Thank you, Ms. Coulter! Beauty is as beauty does. You could learn that from watching this show.

So, looking at Johnny's skirt I do like it. The basket thing needs some help but it's kinda cute I thought. Daniella's skirt wasn't that bad I thought. The Hookers at the Point top tho-wtf.

I continue to maintain that the lighting is so bad that I really need to see stuff on your blog before I can decide. Unless they are hooker clothes. James Paul's was the fugliest this week regardless.

Man, Daniella's outfit was awful! I agree she should have been in the bottom two for that.

I kind of liked Johnny's skirt, though.

Can't stand Johnny, but I gotta say I like where he was going with this.

Daniela's was pure crap. I forgot how bad it was till I saw it again.

I liked Daniella's look. The fabric of the skirt was nice. The sheer top -- seen on the runway a lot in menswear a few seasons back. Short-sleeve jacket, on trend. No reason why it should have been in the bottom.

Isn't Daniella's skirt made out of the same fabric she used on those whacked pants last week?

Yep Anon 7/7/09 10:46 AM

Therefore she is still beautiful and you are still a non.

Ann
(not coulter, but you like throwing stones behind your hood.)

Since when has the kkk been after hateful blonde b**ches?

Palin is an attractive woman but not beautiful by any means.

Daniella should have had to speak to that and Reco was right when he said her top was a repeat. And that skirt was almost a reapeat of the ugly pants she made when she was teamed with Reco. I'm sorry they like the Drama she brings and that's the only reason she's still there.

This show is going down, down, down... ugh I can't take it anymore!