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Darlings, we just may be coming around to loving this challenge.
Because watching Rami getting his balloon popped (figuratively speaking, of course) has proven to be riveting entertainment.
He draped hot pink spandex, all the while moaning about how this isn't his aesthetic or his type of client. We don't know about you, but around here, we call that comedy.
And we call that tragedy.
Good lord, kittens. The "aging stripper" line is an overused one, but is there honestly anything more appropriate to say here? "Hooker Barbie," maybe?
"I Dream of Slutty?"
"Pink is the new whore?"
What? What else can we say here? This was HORRIBLE.
And for the love of GOD, Rami, could you JUST ONCE give a woman a matching set of tits? The boob on the right looks like her implant exploded.
Seriously, it's about as awful as it gets. Clear case of a designer being forced outside his box and having absolutely no idea how to handle it. Rami's not a tacky designer but this is just about the tackiest thing we've ever seen on the show. Ugly color, unflattering design and completely lacking in anything approaching style or fabulosity. With the possible exception of Chris, none of the other designers seemed particularly comfortable with this challenge, but you know what? They stopped moaning about it and just went for it. Rami just couldn't put himself where he needed to be.
And the results were so bad that Nina wound up questioning her life choices.
"Shit. I've destroyed my career, haven't I?"
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You're Nina comments are always the BEST!!!
The comedy/tragedy bit about killed me.
I was getting a bad community theatre production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" vibe off of the outfit. But that's just the Broadway in me talking.
Your analysis of the Titscrepancy was also devine.
Whatever one might have thought about Ricky or Sweet P's designs, if these guys really were judged and auf'd on only the challenge at hand, this would have been Rami's week to say "bye bye."
And seriously, we know they aren't his body part of choice, but what exactly does he have against tits, anyway?
Seriously, how fug was this?? A) the worst titscrepancy yet, and B) a skirt that looked like it was bordered in ric-rac!
Seriously, that skirt looks like the kind of tacky drape Joan Steffend makes on "Decorating Cents" to hide the garbage can in your kitchen.
I love Rami -- I don't think he's nearly as one-note as others do -- but this was heinous.
What really sent me over the edge was the skirt. It was bad enough with the skirt off, but with the skirt on, it's like he's managed to turn a wrestling diva into Stiffler's mom.
I get how it's sort of a wrestling outfit and Ricky's really wasn't, but Rami's outfit was far and away the fugliest thing on the runway last week.
LOVE the picture of Nina! I'd love to see Rami get his bubble popped on the finale. I'm just so tired of his designs at this point. Enough with the freakin' toga party already!
Why does everyone think bottle blondes look good in pink? and HOT pink at that?
Yes, Rami does seem to have a breast fetish in a weird way - in that he makes them look weird. The boy needs to step out of his "mature woman" box and kick it up a notch - embrace the laughability of designing for woman who beat the crap out of each other - wrestling is real after all when you wear a weave and 25 lbs of make up!
(My daughter was upset this didn't win - but she thinks Barbie should always win!)
I was waiting for you guys to comment on this one. Hooker Barbie is right.
And the first thought in my head was, I can't believe you are trying to drape spandex!!! It's kind of a contrary approach with this kind of fabric and those breasts.
Speaking of which, I cannot believe such a major act of Titscrepancy could be committed on those pair. His draping powers are truly dominat and overwhelming...lol
actually there really was too much pink all around. You had different textures but all the same color. so of course it will trun into a hot mess. Some white accents or trim would have really softened it. She's suppose to be the all amercian girl next door not an over inflated tacky Paris Hilton.
Frank
LOL at the Stiffler's mom comment.
"i dream of slutty?" "pink is the new whore?" i almost died.
This was terrible. Ricky's might've been a bathing suit, but the color looked good on Layla, and it fit her like a glove.
This was ill-fitting, ugly material, and makes her look 45 years old.
By far & away the ugliest outfit. Really, if it wasn't for Ricky not meeting the idea of the challenge, Rami would've (& probably should've) been gone.
But Nina keeps giving him more chances. He better not drape next week or I can't imagine how the judges will validate keeping him for the final 3.
If the judges hadn't fallen in love with Rami early on he would definitely have been auf for that one. The only thing approaching it in ugliness was Ricky's gold toga, but this was worse. Does he not have a concept of boning or control in bras? If she tried to wrestle in that thing her bazooms would have killed someone. And that SKIRT - whatever possessed him? And even my 6 year old granddaughter, who looooves pink, would hate that color! Come to think of it, with the skirt it looks more like a dress-up outfit for a 6 year old who loves frou-frou.
I haven't heard the judges say "She/He knows about a woman's body" at all this season.
"With the possible exception of Chris, none of the other designers seemed particularly comfortable with this challenge, but you know what? They stopped moaning about it and just went for it."
I disagree--I think Sweet P reacted the same way as Rami.
I take some real talent to turn 'Muscle Barbie' into 'Hooker Barbie'.
That Nina screencap and caption are PRICELESS! I was falling over at home watching her face while this was on the runway, and I *knew* you guys would capture it.
I though this episode was quite entertaining, considering that this season has been semi-comatose. The wrestlers put out quite a show on the runway and showed plenty of entusiasm when parading down the catwalk. I wish the models had the same vivaciousness...
Rami's design was awfully tacky and surprises me that the designers did not get the "fun" aspect of creating costumes for the ring. It does irk me that they think that this is beneath them, considering that they are on a freaking reality TV contest!! The whole idea is to catch them off-guard and see how they deal with the chalenges - once again CHALENGES!
This was a very interesting episode - not high fashion - but fun TV!
Pumpkin Man
http://www.little-pumpkins.blogspot.com
I though this episode was quite entertaining, considering that this season has been semi-comatose. The wrestlers put out quite a show on the runway and showed plenty of entusiasm when parading down the catwalk. I wish the models had the same vivaciousness...
Rami's design was awfully tacky and surprises me that the designers did not get the "fun" aspect of creating costumes for the ring. It does irk me that they think that this is beneath them, considering that they are on a freaking reality TV contest!! The whole idea is to catch them off-guard and see how they deal with the chalenges - once again CHALENGES!
This was a very interesting episode - not high fashion - but fun TV!
Pumpkin Man
http://www.little-pumpkins.blogspot.com
Perhaps Rami can parlay this into a job costuming the straight to video flick "Legally Blonde 3: Drape It & Shake It."
Elle Woods (now played by a more affordable Sarah Michelle Gellar) has been caught up in a Lesbian Congressional page scandal, lost her job on Capitol Hill, been disbarred, and moved to a trailer park outside Baltimore where she finds work as a dancer at Torpedos, the local strip joint.
Ever the perky trouper, Elle makes the most of it, vows to be the best pole dancer ever and soon rises to the top of the stripping profession (que strip montage - many outfits - Rami's chance to shine).
In no time, Elle is headed to the World Stripping Championship in Vegas at Caesar's Palace (Rami has a multiple orgasm induced aneurism at the thought of redesigning all those drapey togas for the cocktail waitresses and hotel employees).
Elle makes it to the finals where she will compete against, you guessed it, a little showgirl named Nomi played by Elizabeth Berkley...
I can't wait for it! Can you?
Is Whorible a word? It should be.
I assume that he must have thought "wrestling is tacky, so I'd better junk this thing up". I so hated this design! What a mess. I have to say I've never understood all the Rami-love—his aesthetic escapes me entirely.
That poor girl's cheeks must have hurt from all the fake smiling. Can you imagine having to walk out in that thing!
When the word "I'm going to drape a pair of shorts" came out of Rami's mouth, I almost died.
This is even tackier than Nascar Barbie (tube top, daisy Dukes and a case of Bud)
This really was the worst outfit of the bunch. And it gets worse with each reviewing. The only thing good about it was knowing it would become "TLo Chow." And it did. Hee.
Best post of season 4 and best screen captures too! Had me ROFL. THank you TLo
Bill, you have a fantastic imagination!
"And the results were so bad that Nina wound up questioning her life choices."
Haha!!
The worst thing about this design is that it's so completely unflattering. Rather than highlight his model's many assets, poor Rami made every wrong decision: no support for the breasts; horizontal lines bisecting a serious six pack; and a skirt that shortened, rather than lengthened, muscular legs. A tragedy in pink.
Hilarious.
And what's up with those ties around her midsection? Chris and Jillian both managed to make finished, strong-looking straps. These looked like the stuff that comes off those little circular crochet looms for 6-year-olds.
I loved Nina's face best when Heidi introduced the judges. She looked pissed. Dismayed. Like it was taking every ounce of control to keep from running screaming from the room.
"Hooker Barbie"
Actually it made her look like one of those bimbo housewives from OC. One of those hooker housewives would wear it to chaperone their kid's prom.
--GothamTomato
>>I haven't heard the judges say "She/He knows about a woman's body" at all this season.<<
thank gawd!
"Shit. I've destroyed my career, haven't I?"
ROFLMAO.
I agree with Bill, your Nina comments are the best!!
If anybody else had designed this, he/she would've been aufd, no doubt about it.
I don't understand the Rami jones among the judges. He's just too limited and singular in his approach. They raked Santino over the coals for an entire season for pretty much the same thing, but Rami they love. Must be the accent.
As for this outfit -- bad enough with the titscrepancy but to hang flags off the sides of those girls was absolutely horrifying -- and ruffled tits (!!!!) may be cute on toddlers, not on female wrestlers.
Also, I think both Chris and Christian enjoyed this challenge. Christian seemed a little tooooo into it at first.
What a fun challenge to watch.
Seriously - why does Rami think that women always need to have a bunch of crap glued to our boobs? Especially when the crap looks like, well, crap.
What was wrong with Rami's eyes during the judging? Was he crying? Having an allergic reaction to all that silicone?
Andrea said...
The worst thing about this design is that it's so completely unflattering.
That's exactly it. Fine, make her look like a whore, but a sexy hot whore not a geriatric one.
I really wish Rami had done what The Duchess suggested on the runway - a gingham outfit sounded really cute and appropriate.
Rami could spend a lifetime moisturizing himself on TV and I still wouldn't like his designs. His hatred of the left boob borders OCD.
I remember that before the episode aired, everyone chuckled amongst themselves "Well, good, another challenge Rami can't drape anything. He wouldn't drape spandex." When the episode aired and he said he was going to drape for his clien, it was like a horror movie, watching the impending (fashion) victim and knowing that there was nothing you could do to stop it.
I really hope you can do a whole thing just on Nina's face for this challenge - it has such huge comedic potential.
Tackiest ever? I dunno, I still think Santino's lingerie was the tackiest offering ever on PR. It's just so hard to beat.
But when it comes to Rami, boys, you've hit the nail on the head - he drapes; he does titscrepancies; he _______ uh, perhaps doesn't really do anything else?
I'm still not a big Christian fan but I so loved how they showed him saying to Tim how much he ended up enjoying this challenge. You've got to go with the flow, embrace the challenge. Then you will be able to apply your aesthetic but still come up with a successful product.
Resistance is futile....
When I saw what Rami was about to do, I wanted to be in the workroom to gently clasp his arms by his side, look him straight in the eye and say "Son...are you high?"
Rami doesn't seem to realize that not every garment can or should exude the feeling of ancient royalty.
This would have gotten just about anyone else aufed. He definitely should have been bottom two, at the very least.
"Shit. I've destroyed my career, haven't I?"
"Rami doesn't seem to realize that not every garment can or should exude the feeling of ancient royalty."
LOL. Oh my God I love this blog!
And one quick question: Did Rami pack more than one pair of jeans? He looooves those jeans, doesn't he?
Rami consistently shows bad taste. Poor workmanship and questionable judgement. He should have gone home for this. He should go home THIS WEEK for this. His consistent record of poor performance, lack of taste and talent needs to be addressed.
This is why I don't believe anyone who says that designers are judged on the single challenge before them. If that were true, Rami would be sitting on his shapely ass at home right now. Ye gods. The woman loooks like a bottle of Pepto-Bismol threw up on her.
"hooker housewives???"
They were hookers?
"The tackiest thing we've ever seen on the show" is right. And "aging stripper" is very right as well.
Elle Woods (now played by a more affordable Sarah Michelle Gellar)
Oh come on, Bill. Surely, Reese Witherspoon would be willing to work at scale for the opportunity to play that role. She'd be a lock for another Oscar.
Rami, Rami, Rami,... You tried so very hard to embrace the tacky, but you got all wrong.
A word about lycra or spandex stretch fabrics though-The light weight ones are seriously drape-able (poor mans silk jersey). I thought it was kind of funny when they showed him draping the bust of that costume, but it would have looked better than what he ended up with. The flutter sleeve with a racer back is a big no-no. The shorts weren't that bad, but the skirt was too long.
I was wondering why he didn't mention Barbie when he was getting a hard time about the pink hot pink for the "girl next door". Gingham would have been an even worse choice (can you imagine). Anyhoo, the whole challenge was pretty repugnant.
You'd think Rami would know that pink doesn't work well with orange, as a general rule.
There is just nothing redeemable about this hideous, tacky, unflattering thing.
If Nina didn't have moist panties for Rami, he'd have been auf'ed so fast it would have made his little bald head spin. Which is not to say I'm not glad Ricky went. He was past due. But Rami has been turning out some serious clunkers and getting away with it far too often.
Hey boys,
I don't kn w why my last comment just simultaneously posted four times, but if you could clear out the extras, that would be great. Thanks!
Bill: Love the premise of the Elle Woods show! Also agree that the TLo/Nina moments are priceless. I'm sure that someone could do a flip book with Nina carrying on a converation without saying a word.
As for my sweet Rami, I have always liked his designs and admired his construction skills, but that skirt or whatever it was supposed to be, was just a whole pile of ass.
In his defense though, that woman (while I'm sure that she's lovely in real life) had the most unshapely T&A that I've seen on a woman in a long time. Just oversized and all out of proportion. I honestly think that had a lot to do with just how awful that pink looked on her. He could have chosen a different shape and color and done much better.
All things considered, IMO the worst garment of the season. Even Marion's Pocahontas dress had a sort of bedraggled dignity compared to this eyesore.
"sewing siren said: Gingham would have been an even worse choice (can you imagine)."
I actually thought it was odd that Duchess referenced 'Americana' (not once, but twice). And the look on Rami's face when he did; I couldn't figure out if he was startled or just didn't understand what it meant.
--GothamTomato
Hilarious post, guys! This was so tremendously awful. I loved the look on Nina's face when she said, "Not my favorite Rami, sorry." I laughed out loud. I truly think Rami should have been in the bottom two.
GothamTomato said...
I actually thought it was odd that Duchess referenced 'Americana' (not once, but twice). And the look on Rami's face when he did; I couldn't figure out if he was startled or just didn't understand what it meant.
--GothamTomato
It looked like he didn't know what it meant. It was pretty funny, actually.
Not my favorite, Rami, but I have to say, one of my favorite posts ever, Tlo!
The only thing I can say in Rami's defense is ... yeah, Torrie probably really did love that color. She's all about the screamingly bright pastels. But even she would have had the vestigial taste to alleviate all that pinkness with some different color here and there.
Other than that ... I honestly don't know what to gag the hardest at. The misshapen boobs? The pipecleaner trim? The sequin abuse? (Wrestlers don't actually wear a lot of sequined stuff, probably because they don't stay on when you're being bounced all over the ring.) The skirt that manages to be just precisely the most unflattering length? If I didn't know better I'd suspect Rami of deliberately fucking this challenge up as thoroughly as possible to show his contempt for it.
You know Tim must've thrown up a little in his mouth when he said 'Spandex House.' I was laughing out loud, though.
That all went away when Mr. I'm So Much Better Than You decided to 'drape' spandex. I was screaming at the tv...He really needs to add some new tricks to his repetoire. Maybe he could put Christian in his pocket and learn a thing or two.
This outfit is fairly awful, but I'm not sure why everyone thinks he should have been aufed--in my opinion this doesn't even come close to the dreadfulness of Sweet P's. That looked way cheaper, more poorly sewn, and less what the woman wanted. My boyfriend, who is into wrestling, saw Rami's wrestler come out, and he said, "Wow, that outfit is really her"--whatever Kors wants with Gingham, apparently this lady does like bright pink. But I guess we'll get to complaining about Sweet P in due time.
I was actually very annoyed with Nina's "I'm sorry, Rami" comment. I mean, I know they all love him in that Daniel V sort of way, but could have she been more obvious?
This was definitely the most hideous thing I've seen on PR, ever.
I desperately want to hear the judges use the word "titscrepancy." But no, they love Rami; however I think it's no coincidence that the first challenge he won was the first challenge of the season, and the second challenge he won was the only one where he didn't make the model look lopsided.
Rami got through this challenge on the basis of his earlier work. The word "ugly" should have come out of at least one judge's mouth.
Rami to his customer, "I know what let's do! Let's make your boobs look JI-normous and spectacularly saggy! After all the time you spend on body building and toning I know you are going to love the "Help! Gravity is sucking my tits downward look!"
Speaking as a woman whose girls require some support, I have to say I am surprised his WWE model didn't slap him to the mat and put him in a hammerlock.
"tlo said: Rami's not a tacky designer but this is just about the tackiest thing we've ever seen on the show."
The funny thing is; I don't get why he was so uncomfortable with this challenge. His shop is in Los Angeles. He must be used to plastic, bottle blondes with fake tans walking into his shop every day of the week. How could this have thrown him so much? It should have been right in his comfort zone.
I think hearing him use the word 'modest' was the key to understanding his mindset, and where he went wrong. I don't think this outfit was the tackiest. But, I think it was whatever mental block he had, that prevented him from embracing the tacky, that made this outfit fail.
He just got really lucky that there were 2 other designers who were obviously worse this week.
--GothamTomato
shem said...
The only thing I can say in Rami's defense is ... yeah, Torrie probably really did love that color. She's all about the screamingly bright pastels.
That screamingly bright pink must have made all the other pastels on the shelf whimper in pain. Ouch!
Don't forget that Christian, who I couldn't stand until this episode, said this was his favorite challenge too, so Chris wasn't the only one who got into it. I loved this challenge! It was so fun to shake the designers out of their element.
Oh my god, Rami's outfit was FUG!!! He's lucky the judges love him so much because his was waaaay worse than Ricky's outfit.
"Anonymous said...
"hooker housewives???"
They were hookers?"
At least one was a Playboy Playmate....close enough.
"And this is tragedy."
roflmao. agahahahha i lOVE you BOTH! outfit was FUG-LY.
BLUGH.
heehee
I learned to sew in 4H and pretty much suck at it but will say I've made some Halloween costumes in my day that had a similar execution of that little skirt. And believe me, that is NO compliment!
Her boobs looked bigger but in an unflattering way.
But seeing that capture of the back of the top, I thought those lines were kind of interesting. The only thing I like about the design.
And the look on Nina's face: priceless!
It looks like a disregarded Dolly Parton outfit from the early 1980s.
"I actually thought it was odd that Duchess referenced 'Americana' (not once, but twice). And the look on Rami's face when he did; I couldn't figure out if he was startled or just didn't understand what it meant.
--GothamTomato"
Hi G Tomato,
I sure didn't get that comment. I half expected her to turn around and have an American flag plastered somewhere on her snuggie a$$.
This was horrid. It looked like greek peptol bismol or something like that. What was Charlie Brown head thinking?
"At least one was a Playboy Playmate....close enough.
Oh, you mean Jenna, the really sweet one who was a Miss July in like 1978, who is now a multi-millionaire real-estate broker with three kids? The one who was married for 26 years to the professional baseball player.
Oh yeaaaaaah. I'd call her a hooker.
Idiot.
It was a terrible outfit. That said, I enjoyed it more then Sweet P's, which just bored me...and how you can produce something boring with this challenge, I dunno...and I preferred it to Ricki's. Because he made a bathing suit. Which was in a color as horrible as this pink. I think I'm one of the few that appreciate Rami's style, and I'm sooo glad he didn't get auf'ed because of this challenge.
"I don't think this outfit was the tackiest. But, I think it was whatever mental block he had, that prevented him from embracing the tacky, that made this outfit fail. He just got really lucky that there were 2 other designers who were obviously worse this week."
This was the tackiest. Ever. Period.
And he was VERY lucky that there was ONE designer who was judged worse than he. The ONE who got eliminated.
LOL
"Pink is the new whore"... LOL!!
Ugh, being hot has its advantages, because Rami's had the worst thing on the runway, it was a joke.
Did you notice that he copied elements from other outfits? The gloves from Chris and the twisting under the breast from Jillian. Of course, his were poorly made.
Okay, the thing that really got me riled up was that Nina actually APOLOGIZED to Rami during the judging because she didn't like his garment. WHAT?!?!? Since when do the judges apologize to the contestants b/c said contestant did sh!tty work? Does she know him outside of the show.. are they friends or what?!? The outfit was hideous in color, and the weird flouncy skirt in no way said sexy or wrestler. If it had been made by anyone else but the tight-bod-god Rami, it would have been in the bottom two, FOR SURE, and the judges would've ripped it to pieces. Why, why, would Nina quietly say "Sorry Rami, it's not my favorite." Argh! Rami needs to GO - If he's in the final 3 I will be so disappointed in this Season.
~muellersdayoff
Great post and great comments (as usual).
The most interesting thing to me about Rami's critique during this challenge was when Nina actually apologized for not liking his outfit. Since when do judges apologize for their opinions? Have I missed a trend?? Made me realize how much Nina likes Rami's work. (And your screen cap for the look on her face was PRICELESS!)
Anonymous 12:24,
HA! We must be on the same wavelength!
Regarding Nina's "apology": I don't think it was an apology AT ALL. I think it is one of those things people tend to say when they want to acknowledge that what they are saying might be difficult to hear. Perhaps she even says it often when delivering a critique.
I was at a critique once and one of the panelists simply said "I'm sorry, it's boring". She certainly wasn't apologizing for criticizing (she seemed to like it a little too much, frankly) and who knows, maybe she meant "I'm sorry it's boring"!
This was so ugly coming down the runway that I actually gasped. The skirt took a bad thing and made it infinitely worse.
Clearly, Ricky had to go, because there was no way he was going to show at Bryant Park and there was no way Rami wasn't.
But if the judging had been on this episode alone...
Admittedly fugly. But Barbie seemed to dig it anyway. I still love you Rami! Truth is, Ricky should have been gone awhile ago and the judges realized it. They didn't want a full collection from him because he had disappointed them too many times.
"Did you notice that he copied elements from other outfits? The gloves from Chris and the twisting under the breast from Jillian. Of course, his were poorly made."
YES!!! Hideous. A Travesty. WHY WASN'T HE ELIMINATED????
I'm sure it's a plot ... some demographics courting, a cabal of the judges. I read he's in close with the producers.
He so deserved to be eliminated.
"Since when do the judges apologize to the contestants b/c said contestant did sh!tty work? Does she know him outside of the show.. are they friends or what?!? "
Yes. It's pathetic.
"If he's in the final 3 I will be so disappointed in this Season."
Absolutely. And Bravo will lose ALL credibility!!
Babies...
This was pure and absolute side of the freeway aging, second rate stripper wear.
BAAAAAD.
Rami was a breath away from auffing.
Love,
Milla
BG - I think Nina's apology was totally weird, and sort of struck me as inappropriate since usually she's hard as nails. It sounded to me like she was saying, "Sorry Rami, I'm forced to say I don't like your garment here on TV because I need to keep my credibility in the fashion world, but don't hate me because I still think you are H-O-T and I'd like to continue our secret trysts backstage. But don't worry, darling, I'll still get you into the final 3."
TLo Said: "With the possible exception of Chris, none of the other designers seemed particularly comfortable with this challenge, but you know what? They stopped moaning about it and just went for it."
Rami was an ASS ... and his garment LOOKED like ASS.
Honestly, I prefer the orange bathing suit to this. This piece of walking Dreck, this laughable excuse of home-sewn costumery was so lame, so offensive, it's amazing to me that he can look any of his fellow contestants in the eye.
It was so hideous, so lacking in taste, talent, wormanship, such an affrontery to professionalism, that I'm embarrassed for him.
How could he possibly show at Fashion week with this kind of performance?
LOVE the Nina comments!
And you're right... he draped spandex? Then made it worse by putting on sequins and cheap lace?
Oh... my.... do I hear Pahrump Trailer Park?
I look at his outfit again I realize probably what derailed him and Sweet P is that they equated theatrical with tacky.
When you come right down to it, in order for a costume to be designed successfully, there has to be 1)a good combination of fabric and color choices 2)wearablility 3)look good on and fit the personality of the person wearing it.
That's really not any different from the needs of most fashion designs. The only way a costume will differ from most fashion outfits is that it has to be theatrical.
Chris, Christian and Jillian clearly got and embraced that. This allowed them to actually come up with real designs for their divas that expressed their points of view. Think about how deliberate and thought out the 3 of them were in their concepts.
The end result was they came up with something that was bold and over the top but enteratining and well made. While Rami came up with a hodge podge that looked tacky and did have a focused idea. The way his diva worked the runway gave the outfit more of a story than the outfit itself did.
I will grant him though that the material on the back of the top was kind of interesting and he probably should have used more of that in the front.
Frank
Dang, I am so late. All the snarky comments I might have made have already been posted, so I'll just say -- great recap, TLo. Love the Nina screen cap at the end. I knew you'd comment on the titscrepancy (I have added that word to my online dictionary!) and have been looking forward to this post.
sorry imeant Rami's did not look like it had a focused idea :)
Frank
How Rami was able to make a hot pink wrestler's costurme look dowdy is a puzzler. The overall design just looks frumpy to me. Also, gingham is more farmer's Daughter than girl next door. Americana does not really describe the girl next door either. If he had draped her in the flag she would have come off as Wonder Woman.
It had to be the fact that the judges are still so hot for Rami (and the guest judges couldn't help but fall for him too). What else to explain his getting away with this billious schmata. It reminded me of baby doll pajamas from the early 70s.
I thought Kors' comment that he didn't see any "all-American" in the design was interesting. Rami has made snarky remarks about European sophistication compared to American non-sophistication a couple of times, and it's fun seeing him hoist on that particular petard.
I always think that everyone in the world knows what "all-American" means in an iconic way because of our movies and TV shows. Maybe they don't.
Gotta laugh at the "Legally Blonde" thing because that's my favorite movie ever. This outfit is so trashy Elle! And little Bruiser would need a matching outfit. But we must have our Reese. She could make it work, to borrow from Tim. Hopefully Rami's just laughing about all of this now, all the way to the bank.
Rami seriously needed to get over himself for this challenge-moaning about designing a tacky outfit. How about LISTENING to your client?
The skirt, I thought, was especially ugly.Just a whole lot of serious fug here.
Actually it made her look like one of those bimbo housewives from OC. One of those hooker housewives would wear it to chaperone their kid's prom.
Gotham, not only would those women wear this, they'd be trying to seduce every boy at the prom....
This was so fugly, we need another word for it. By the way, love WHORIBLE!! LOL.
Rami is a one-note designer very talented, but is afraid to explore uncharted territory.
What wrong with Hooker Barbie anyway? I think it was totally appropriate for this challenge. :)
I didn't hear any moaning from him during the episode. Hmm...
To be honest this entire challenge was camp. If you've ever watched this women's wrestles show (I have) part of the entertainment is when their tops get ripped off. No joke. So again Hooker Barbie...right on! :)
I'm liking Rami more and more.
Anonymous said...
Rami is a one-note designer very talented, but is afraid to explore uncharted territory.
I know he's been a predictable one-note designer, but he's a one-note designer whose clothes I love. He's perfect for the red carpet divas.
And somewhere in Paris, Catherine Malendrino is sobbing over this reDICulous mess!
Okay I know I already posted, but when that mental image hit I just had to share.
Rosie's Girl
i seriously wonder if rami just doesn't really do pattern drafting well -- hence the constant draping. he drapes well, and some of his draped designs have been nice -- but enough already! isn't draped spandex sort of an oxymoron? and the titscrepancy...
the outfit was seriously fug...
"And somewhere in Paris, Catherine Malendrino is sobbing over this reDICulous mess!"
Hee hee. That just reminded me of how Vincent was hitting on her. That episode was way funny.
Let's say the obvious. If there was a challenge (out of the one's on the show) that any fashion designer would pick to not excel in - it would be the WWE costume striper challenge done for entertainment and promo purposes. lol
It was fun and silly to watch though.
I agree. It's not going to make or break him, you know?
"Anonymous snf in va said...
Oh, you mean Jenna, the really sweet one who was a Miss July in like 1978, who is now a multi-millionaire real-estate broker with three kids? The one who was married for 26 years to the professional baseball player.
Oh yeaaaaaah. I'd call her a hooker.
Idiot."
Hi, Jeana!
Allen said...
It looks like a disregarded Dolly Parton outfit from the early 1980s.
Didn't Ms. Parton once quip "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"?
That pretty well sums up this challenge.
I watched a repeat of this episode last night and paid extra attention for the few seconds of preview. There was a quick shot of PP doing something which looked like one of his runway looks; a very ruffled black cape or jacket. I wonder if the next episode is like the Season Two episode where the designers went out in the streets to snap inspiration images (I think Zulema was auf'd on that one.) Since the new episode is at the Met, obviously Rami picks a Greek statue (quel suprise!)
TLo, your Nina thoughts are my favorite. The screen caps are so well chosen and the commentary fits them perfectly.
The off-the-wall challenges are great because they snuff out those designers who can do one thing really well, but have no versatility. And they give the less-talented designers nowhere to hide. That's why I thought it was great having this one near the end.
The real problem with this outfit was that I missed the next couple of minutes of the show, as I was too busy rolling around, laughing hysterically, crying, "Oh, my god, he IS draping Spandex!"
The only thing that saved Rami was that, unlike Ricky, he at least tried to design a wrestling costume.
Rami's problem is that he really doesn't have much imagination.
He's got Vision -- but no imagination.
Sweet P and Ricky have the same problem, I think.
He draped hot pink spandex, all the while moaning about how this isn't his aesthetic or his type of client. We don't know about you, but around here, we call that comedy.
Yeah, but were you LOL? (We were.)
The skirt made this one of the worst outfits ever. Modest Hooker Barbie.
The best recap of the whole episode is the Manolo's.
You know something went on (in the nature of selling a soul to the Devil or similar) to guarantee Rami's getting to the tents, in order to get him on the show in the first place. There is no other explanation for some of the things we've seen from him.
As someone who watches the WWE I can say that it was pretty obvious that Rami had NO CLUE and was just being really hoity-toity about the whole thing. I mean, seriously? He could have used his skills to do something, well, more appropriate. Very easily. And he could have made the pink work.. if he made a kick-ass pair of black bottoms to work with.
He likened Torrie to a Barbie early in the show and that's the problem, spot on. He thought of her as a Barbie doll and couldn't get to the point where he needed to realize that these are women who fight with one another and just go around causing general extra drama on a TV show. A TV show primarily watched by teenage boys. I mean, I know he doesn't like women but he ought to have had enough experience to know what teenage boys want! T&A!!
I cannot even comment on this challenge and think I will skip all the rest of the looks from this WWE episode.
This is a joke and really unfair to ask these talented designers to do this.
I think the challenge was designed to give Chris a win.
This entire episode simply does not belong on a fashion inspired show.
This is one of the ugliest things I can think of from all four seasons. It's not even funny bad.
My daughter (or son, for that matter) could have done better than Rami's ill-conceived home ec project.
"What?" Let's hope his much hyped "what?" in the previews means we who love breasts will no longer suffer from his hate of mammary tissue or from his obsession with Greeks.
I think many commentors who are dissing this challenge, or the one who implied it was a throwaway to SissyBear, forget that the competition is actually conducted in a tight timeframe.
TLO or another one of the cognoscenti can verify or correct what I'm propounding. I believe that up to the episode that identifies the Bryant Park participants and sends those final contestants home for a few months of frenetic designing the competition takes place in about a month's time.
It is my understanding, I think from TLo's interviews with The Fabulous Laura Bennett last year, that it's basically a day-after-day whirlwind of Challenge, Make It Work, Judging, repeat, repeat and repeat. Remember, the presentation of the 'next' challenge I think usually is right after the previous challenge's decision and auf-ing. The remaining designers have to change their outfits, try to look perky (at some gawdawful hour of the night) while Heidi prances in with her chirpy 'Hello!' No wonder the invariable lack of enthusiasm is palpable. They're all pooped.
In any event, if that is the case, and the whole shebang spins out over a brief period of time then....
All of the challenges have been dreamed up by the creatives at Magical Elves and Bravo well in advance of the Month o' Designer Madness. This is only logical as they have to line up venues, the outsider who's the linchpin for the particular challenge, and they have to secure the appearance of the guest judge(s). None of this happens overnight, let me assure you. This is scheduled in advance.
This is all by way of saying that I cannot believe that more than three quarters of the way through that month the Powers That Be decided all of a sudden to dream up a challenge that would be right up SissyBear's talent alley and pitch a juicy one right over the plate to him. That's especially true since this challenge involved installing the ring at Parsons and lining up the six WWE 'divas' to have them available for two days of appearances at Parsons.
Serendipity for SissyBear? No question. A fix? No way.
All the best,
NDC
Aw c'mon...y'all gotta admit that at least Rami provided us with alot of entertainment this episode!
Typical Rami FUG.
Just wanna add that the wrap-around thingies? I feel like Rami saw that Jillian and Chris were doing wraps around straps and criss-crosses and thought "Hey those look pretty cool, I should do some.."
GAG.
And my god, look at Torrie trying to smile it up. You know she totally didn't REALLY wanna smile in that getup.
I just had a horrible image pop into my brain....perhaps Rami's outfit might have been worn by June Cleaver as a Valentine's gift for old Ward....
MY EYES MY EYES
Ok...please pardon me, for the off-topic, but:
The funky-exchange which keeps occurring with poster names: Ms Sangrail, snf in va, and Jeana are frankly ....distracting and odd. not in a good way.
I don't know the entire history..and am ambivalent about the outcome...but the overall *tone* is dah-stupid.
As Heidi once said" What's up with you?"
....carry on ~~~
Sal
Truth is, Rami's diva outfit may have been the worst thing on that stage... but really it's a toss up between his outfit and Sweet P's and Ricky's. I am glad they auf'd Ricky since I sure as heck don't care about seeing what he would design for Bryant Park. You know it would just be 12 more of the same lame little lingerie-sized baby doll dress bullshit.
" Sally said...
Ok...please pardon me, for the off-topic, but:
The funky-exchange which keeps occurring with poster names: Ms Sangrail, snf in va, and Jeana are frankly ....distracting and odd. not in a good way."
Sally, I apologize on behalf of our resident troll, who doesn't seem to understand the meaning of harmless snark....I started out commenting here with the nickname "snf in va", which I then changed to blogger "Ms Sangrail" as a result of this impersonator...I have figured out how to differentiate myself from this other person now, so hopefully it won't happen any more. At least not with me.
You two are the only people who can have me weeping with laughter early in the morning. Hooker Barbie - too funny!
Rami's designer was the most confusing design of the lot. The hot pink was his first mistake. And what was all that ruffley, fringe-y, sparkly stuff all about? In a strange way it reminded me or of Angela's "travel ensemble/romper-whatever" with the rectum florets on the shorts. Blech.
bitchybitchybitchy said...
I just had a horrible image pop into my brain....perhaps Rami's outfit might have been worn by June Cleaver as a Valentine's gift for old Ward....
MY EYES MY EYES
Sorry for this, but it brings to mind the old joke: "Ward, don't you think that you were a little hard on the Beaver last night."
Gingham would have been an even worse choice (can you imagine).
I think gingham could have worked very well, with a brief skirt and then white pants underneath that would have looked like underpants. Could have looked naughty and sexy!
Hooker barbie? Please. I used to dress my barbies up as prostitutes on a daily basis and they were still fucking fabulous. I would NEVER have put my barbie in something this horrible.
HA! I just re-watched on youtube and I had forgotten that Rami admitted his outfit looked like he was smoking crack. So very true.
The last picture of Nina Garcia is alone worth the price of admission to this blog. Rami's top looks like it has an exploding vagina on it. It's like something out of a John Water's movie.
Amen! This should have been on the Chopping Block beside Ricky's. Sweet P's outfit was way better, and I don't care if her diva wanted stars and sequins down her cape and she didn't deliver! Geez Louise, have you ever seen uglier, less flattering and more nauseating than that hot pink nightmare?
I wouldn't expect Rami to be auf'ed over it, not when Crazy Ricky was still around and had such a mediocre body of work behind him, BUT he should have been one of the worst two.
The breasts looked like huge, pink, skinned watermelons.
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