Wednesday, February 14, 2007 by
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Kittens, we've looked at so many shitty dresses this week that last night we dreamed we were drowning in a sea of muslin, rick-rack, and Rit dye.
Yow.
That is one poorly-fitted dress. It looks like Daniel soaked it in water, wrung it out, and handed it to the model 30 seconds before she walked down the runway. "Don't worry! It's drip-dry!"
Design wise, it's fine. A little basic and a little slutty, but it's fine.
It takes a lot of thought to make something as humble as muslin look tacky, but to the delight of Amish hookers everywhere, Daniel found a way. That trim is a bit much and a bit weirdly placed.
Guh.
See? We can't even form words anymore! "Yow." "Guh." These shitty dresses are making us go all caveman, darlings!
It's not that we don't like Kara's dress. It's cute, actually. We like the proportions and the fullness of the skirt. We're not fans of big floppy bows, but it works here.
It's the rick-rack, poodles. We can't help but recoil from it.
Oh, it's fine for some sort of artsy-crafty, felt-and-glue kinda project, but not on grownup clothes. Never on grownup clothes.
Even if she's trying to be ironic with it - sorry, no can do. But doesn't that skirt look great from behind?
Our first thought with Andrae's outfit was that she looked like she was walking down the runway in underwear. Someone else's, judging by the poor fit. But we're just going to have to suspend that criticism retroactively for every entry because every designer clearly struggled with it, given the nature of the challenge and the almost total lack of time for alterations.
So this really didn't jump out at us when we first saw it, but looking at the screencaps, we noticed that there's a lot of nicely rendered details in this garment and it really requires a second look.
We get why some of the designers chose not to dye their garments - they could argue that they were letting the designs speak for themselves. Andrae however, should have invested in a couple boxes. This is prettier and more wearable than a big chunk of the entries, but it was so colorless and deceptively simple that we - and apparently, the judges - passed it right by.
Sixteen shitty muslin dresses! Done!
[Screencaps: projectrungay.blogspot.com]
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This challenge certainly didn't give us many clues about the real talent of some of the designers. Some of the best simply didn't rise to the occasion.
However, it is interesting how the lower tier almost instantly seperates from the pack each season.
- Barnaby
WHEW!! Good, now we can get to the nice clothes. Muslin sucks, it only works for covering flats and even then it suckes when you glue it. Yargh, Maddie hates tech.
i remember watching this episode for the first time and wishing that they would've sent daniel v home. i absolutely hated his dress. thank god they didnt.
daniel v's dress is ugly.
Daniel V's is just plain bad--he's not getting off to a good start.
Would really like Kara's without the trim, or at least with something more chic than rick-rack. I'm sure that for $20 bucks, you can come up with more than thread & a few yards of rick-rack. Or better yet, would love to have seen her jazz it up with some interesting colors.
Andrae falls into the just ok category for me this week.
Muslin may suck for actual clothing, but I kind of like the idea of giving them something so plain to use as a starting point (like the white knit they used last season), to see who can make the plain fabric rise to a higher level. Not many of them did, unfortunately. But it does create an even playing field that allows us to fairly compare their creativity and skill levels.
As far as the bad fit is concerned, since they were sewing for unknown models, would it have killed Bravo to give them a little more time to fit and adjust their garments?
...but to the delight of Amish hookers everywhere, Daniel found a way
ROFL! Thanks for brightening my day. Seems even sixteen shitty muslin dresses cannot surpress the patented PRGayboy humor for long.
I actually love Kara's dress :O
Daniel V's is hideous
and Andrae's it just works for me
I'm glad we are done with this week's episodes. I'm also glad the designers stepped it up after this episode, because when I first saw this episode it scared the shit out of me for how the rest of the season would turn out. I think only a couple of the designers realized their potential in this challenge.
thank you for scarring yourselves for us, we are so not worthy! I had forgotten how weirded out I was by this episode too...all these repressed feelings are floating to the surface again. But thanks to you walking me through it I can now look forward to another wonderful season. Thanks boys!
OHDEARGOD. Those dresses are ugly. It's hard to believe that Daniel V. actually designed this.
He is a very talented designer. Kara does not impress me much.
Andrae is hit or miss with me. He has some dresses that are absolutely genius and others that are absolutely crap.
Speaking of crap, Andrae is producing a dance piece called "Bathroom Follies." He did the costumes. Go check it out on BPR.
Daniel V's dress looks like it owes much to S1 Robert's bad bathing suit.
The story with Daniel V's fit is that he was in the middle of moving when he recieved the challenge information, and his dress form hadn't made it to his new apartment yet, so he had to use himself as his model for the dress.
No joke.
Yeah, Daniel's was definitely in contention to be aufed.
Absolutely loved Kara's. I thought it was one of the best, even with the god-awful trim.
"It takes a lot of thought to make something as humble as muslin look tacky, but to the delight of Amish hookers everywhere, Daniel found a way."
ROFL. With liquor!!
I'm underwhelmed (and tanning as we speak).
Geeez, that was one fugly episode, but still, what really bugs me is that these people had 8 days to design their gowns. They designed far better dresses in one day on the show. What happened?
Calgon! LOL. I expected "I dreamed I was making catty remarks about ugly runway dresses.....in my Maidenform bra."
There, that shows my age.
Loved Andrae's dress. It's cute and playful.
Kara's was also nice.
Ugh, hated Daniel V's. The bunching in the front bothers me a lot.
Kara Janx, basically, is selling a version of her dress here but without the whickety whack rick rack.
I can remember thinking that Daniel Vosovic was lucky to still be in.
I would wear Kara's sans bowl. Daniel V.'s? Ouch! Andrae's? Waaaaay too pretty.
Killing me softly with ric rack,
Cover my whole dress, with ric rack, killing me softly.
You must admit: the challenge was bad. Why work with muslin? It's a cheap, awful fabric.
The fabulosity quotient was 'meh.'
i liked Andrae's - plus his model (can't remember her name) was the cutest thing ever. I think he is really talented. Kara's Ok - but WTF with the giant bow? Hated hated hated Daniel V's. "Amish Hooker" Ha!
CP
I can't wait for your take on the second episode, it's sooooo much better.
I thought dear Andrae's was adorable, considering the lineup of wrinkly garbage trotting down the runway this time....
1. On Valentine's Day, I certainly would not want to be an Amish Hooker
2. If I were an Amish Hooker I think I could find a sexier way of working with muslin to at least find my element of working the stalls at the Amish Market.
3. If I were working the corner, the PRG boys might kidnap me and bring me to fashion reform school where I would be transformed into Pretty Woman!
4. If I were an Amish Hooker, I would have the sense not to be dressed in raw muslin, no matter how desperate i was!
" These shitty dresses are making us go all caveman, darlings!"
Blogging: So easy a caveman can do it?
LOL! Love you boys!
Between the fug muslin going down the runway this week and the horrible boxes on Project Top Design, I'm really feeling for you guys this week.
And yet you still find ways to make us laugh:
"...but to the delight of Amish hookers everywhere..."
Hysterical!
Andrae is adorable!
I used to be an Amish hooker and we always dressed better than that. Puh-leeze- you guy boys may know from fashion, but not Amish fashion (snort).
Anyway, I liked Kara's dress a lot better when I thought she used thread and some decorative stitches on her machine. I loved the movement and flirtiness of that dress. Still do, but rick rack... oh lawdy...
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