Ignoring the ugly plaid (which is nigh-impossible for us), that top doesn't seem to go with it at all, and the silhouette just ain't all that. The pants are weirdly balloony. Had they been a full straight-leg trouser or a skinny pant, we could have gotten behind this look more, but as it is...nope.
And the gloves just don't work with this look.
Lorenzo really liked this look, but Tom was only halfway there. It's...interesting. A nice shape and color, but that's about it. We kept waiting for her to unzip and show us what's underneath but apparently that's the entire look.
OhmiGOD. This is AWFUL. The hat, gloves and black hose coupled with that color call to mind a bad eighties bridesmaid look. The length and silhouette are unattractive and for god's sake, why would she send this girl down the runway in this dress sans bra?
Back on track. A very pretty dress in a very pretty color. We like the detail on the neckline. If it didn't have those weird saddlebags that Sweet P insists on, it would be perfect.
An almost-but-not-quite. A nice design and a beautiful fabric, but that bust seems way off to us. It camouflages her chest rather than highlighting or enhancing it. And again, the gloves do nothing for the outfit.
Leah's a good model but even she couldn't make this work. Again, it's those horrid saddlebags. We don't get that at all. No woman in the world would want that effect. Even without them, the design is fairly plain and uninspired. A strange look to end the show on.
In the end, the collection had some serious problems but her high points were enough to surprise us. Sometimes Sweet P makes pretty clothes that woman would want to wear and sometimes she heads off the rails into ugly town. Like her work during the competition, this collection was highly erratic and left us wondering just who she is as a designer, which is exactly the opposite result one would want from a collection.
This was where I knew Sweet P was a decoy because the second half felt so discombulated, as if she had hit the point in her preparations where she looked around her studio and muttered, "Oh crap, what have I got left that I can throw out there and be done with my PR servitude?"
I like Sweet Pea, but I have to say this collection left me cold. I don't hate the plaid as much as you all do, but every ensemble in this half of the show seemed not quite right, somehow.
This collection was pretty representative of her on the show... I liked her as a person, and adored some of her designs, like the denium challenge and the prom dress, but I truly, I would have perferred to see Kevin or Kit's collections go down as decoys on the runway. Oh well, she's a very sweet person, it seems
Sweet P's collection wasn't great, but from what I could gather, she seemed like she didn't have the time or the resources of the others. I think she mentioned that the Project Runway people called her while she was in China and asked her how she was coming along on the runway collection (and she didn't know she'd be doing one!). Sweet P was already working when she realized that she had to do this. In addition, I think it should also be considered that while designing her collection, she knew she couldn't win. I doubt she put her all into it.
The color palette is not too bad, I think like every other designer she's deeply affected by the Mets challenge. Her last few dresses looked a bit like her peacock dress. The saddlebags are a bit worrying but I don't hate her collection.
I agree: a real mix of highs and lows, just as it was during the competition. Sometimes she hit one out of the park, and other times she was all at sea. As a contestant, though, I found her likable.
But. . . PLAID. . . why are so many designers showing so much plaid this season? If I start seeing canary yellow plaid, I'll have to go lie down in a dark room and stay there till next spring.
I dont get the hate on the red plaid or the saddlebag hate. I feel the plaid fits in perfect with Sweet P's kitsch/campy aesthetic. The saddlebags are just a step away from jodhpurs or bubble skirts. I liked that she worked with a new silhouette. Though that short blue dress is awful.
The saddlebags are a definite No. The black-and-gold dress would possibly be a good choice for a woman who WANTS to minimize a larger bust--that's actually a good visual effect for someone with that type of figure. I agree that it shows that the collection was almost an afterthought. Still, she did pull something together for the runway on seemingly short notice, so kudos for a few fine pieces.
7. I like the fabric and shape of the trousers, and the piping on the seams. The blouse is okay, but not really anything new. I some of the pictures I can see the color relation between the plaid and ombre stripe, in others not so much. 8. This one just doesn't go. I liked this shape in the 80's (I wonder if it has big spongey shoulder pads). She should be wearing giant tubular silver hoop earrings. 9. Everything about this is wrong, from the hat, to the fit, to the color, to the workmanship.Didn't it have some weird zipper issue, too? 10. Pretty. I like the peg skirt on this one. The only thing is the shape of the side seam is a little unsophistated, like I can see were she slashed and spread the pattern to add the fullness. 11. I don't get it. 12. I hate the pants and hat. The blouse would have looked good with the plaid pants. I also don't understand why she closed with this look, or how the colors fit with the show. Over all my favorite looks were the first two and the two plaid pieces. She should have had some more transitional looks between those two groups and a few more looks within those groups, and it would have been a more like a "collection".
I felt like Sweet P was trying too hard to go high fashion here. She's obviously most comfortable designing supercute daywear, and she should stick with it! There's nothing wrong with being commercial--I for one would totally rock the little dresses she made for the denim challenge and the avant-garde/everyday challenge. I have to say, too, that look #10 (the gold dress with the neckline sparklies) almost made me forgive her for the rest of the collection. Almost.
Seems our hippydippy has a problem with hems. Also the static cling on the black & gold dress was off-putting. I would love to hang with SweetPea, but wouldn't wear her clothes. -Wimple
Did Sweet P used to be the costume deigner for the Pointer Sister? This second half of her collection has me so excited that I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control and I think I like it. I'm so excited, I just can't hide it, I know, I know, I know, ...
Seriously, if saddle-bags are back and on-trend, and people wear saddle-bag pants in plaid (which never really goes out), I will have to stay in bed for the entire next year.
My reaction is mixed. I did like the yellow/purple, but seeing the second half of the collection singled out by itself really does drive home your well-made points.
No to the saddlebags, and NO to the naked zippers (here or in anybody's collection).
Naked zippers to me are like when bra straps started to show every where, or when women stopped wearing slips underneath sheer dresses. It's basic stuff your mommy taught you not to do. It forces the look to beg for more attention to detail and takes the eye away from what's important.
I agree about the plaid. Yikes! Forget about the Pointer Sisters, Bill, she was dressig her models to be extras in a Bay City Rollers video.
I think the reason her work is so discombobulated is that she doesn't her own voice, and she (as even other designers have said) has 'taste issues'.
She has an idea that she wants to be a designer, but doesn't really have a grounding in what that really means or is. So as she is grasping around for what to do and what to be, she makes all the wrong choices. It all looked cheap.
Her collection was like her process on the show, where she was always needed the heavy direction of others, because she had no through line herself.
Her collection was like her process on the show, where she was always needed the heavy direction of others, because she had no through line herself.
I think P has ideas about what she wants to be as a designer, and ideas about what she thinks are interesting and look good, but you're right. Ideas don't automatically equate to an aesthetic, or the ability to execute consistently.
And not everyone has that -- and that's fine. Not being able to create a line doesn't mean you can't sell some nice clothes. It's not the path to fame and glory, but you can certainly make a living off of it. I have a feeling Ms. P wouldn't know what to do with fame and glory even if she got it, though.
A strong vision tends to go hand-in-hand with the desire to have that vision recognized, no? Just look at Christian.
I think the plaid (previous dress & this pant) could have worked in the collection as a quirky little bump, if she'd only paired them with some of the main color elements in the collections (mustard/gold/green solid-tights for the dress and clashing top for the pant). The effect would've been quirky rather than looking like a jarring throwaway mistake.
The styling is (mostly) so awful. Solid colored tights would've worked better. The gloves - no.
I think a more nervey approach, would've helped her here.
Yep. To me, this is what lack of cohesion looks like in a collection. I wonder if we didn't see the real Sweet P because the judges scared the 'wearable' out of her. I hope that's what was going on because I'd like to think Sweet P has more talent than this.
I did covet the boots the model wore with the zipper dress. Put me in those boots, one of Jillian's kick-ass coats, and on my way to meet Chris for cocktails and I'm a happy woman.
I finally figured out the plaid thing. Back in 1980 or so I had a pair of fucshia and black houndstooth plaid wool/acrylic blend pants, complete with saddle bag hips, that I bought at Benetton in Italy (before they had invaded every nook and cranny of the US). I thought that they were the bomb back then, in a sort of pseudo-punk fashion rebellion, rudderless, delusional way.
This whole collection reminds me of that kind of sensibility...jarring color combinations for the sake of the clash, unflattering silhouettes just to be contrary, etc., etc.
It also reminds me of Marc Jacobs' 'Grunge' collection for Perry Ellis (for which he was canned)...the aesthetic of rebellious kids who throw thrift store purchases together.
But would any mainstream customer want to pay good money to look like they rolled out of a jumble sale?
I like some of her fabrics, I'm just not crazy about her designs for this collection. She's talented and there's a market for her clothes, so, she'll do well.
There really wasn't any look in this entire collection that I liked. There were pieces here and there that I could get behind -- the cape in the first half of the collection was quite nice, as was the dress with the ruffled sleeves and sash -- but even there, as you mentioned, Sweet P. managed to throw things off track with fit issues and/or horrible accessories.
In addition, I think it should also be considered that while designing her collection, she knew she couldn't win. I doubt she put her all into it.
I don't know if that's true. She might have been rushed, but I certainly hope she put her all into it -- this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Sweet P., even without a shot at the PR prize.
And remember, Kara Janx knew she couldn't win in season 2, but collection was still fantastic -- in fact many thought that she did better than the actual final three.
Ich habe am meisten von Sweet P Sammlung gemocht, gibt es einige Fräulein aber insgesamt es ist sehr nett. Sweet P ist zaftig in den Fotos erschienen.
And to think I'd even attempted to defend the plaid looks in Sweet P's collection in other postings. After having more time to study the images I can only say that I think the woman needs some serious design/styling instruction or a mentor or something. The plaids could have worked, but the coordinating pieces and overall styling of the looks were dreadful. Poor Sweet P. I'll bet she worked her ass off for this, too.
P.S. Loving the "what 80's style influenced this look?" posts. Personally, As a babe of the 80's I floved my Marithe & Francois Girbaud pieces. I owned two plaid blazers in very sinilar fabric as Sweet P's plaid looks. Let me tell you, I wore them to death and thought that I was totally awesome in my head-to-toe Girbaud!!!
Gotham Tomato is so right that she doesn't have a real vision here, and maybe throughout, so she can't just come in and have something "sewn up" as Christian, Rami, Chris, or Jillian did. It's a valiant try and maybe some of these could work with just a little tweaking of colors or fabrics.
The black/gold dress looked like it had a napkin stuck in the front and became the skirt. The black/white outfit is from the 80s and Joan Collins is missing it!
The gold dress is a highlight, but that's not saying much. The teal dress could have been better but what's with the sailor nekkerchief? and the bad knees of the model (I'm the same way but I'm not a model) are too exposed.
I'd like to see what she's doing/had done for the Chinese company.
Thank you Lilithcat for making think I'm not insane. I'm not entirely sure why, but the 11th look is one of my top 5 favortites of any of the fashion week collections.
Wrong! There's nothing bad about the way that Sweetpea shapes her skirts. You call them "saddlebags," but they are a very interesting way to drape fabric and create a pretty line when viewed from the side. It's obvious that they are not the model's real shape, but a design element.
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This was where I knew Sweet P was a decoy because the second half felt so discombulated, as if she had hit the point in her preparations where she looked around her studio and muttered, "Oh crap, what have I got left that I can throw out there and be done with my PR servitude?"
I like Sweet Pea, but I have to say this collection left me cold. I don't hate the plaid as much as you all do, but every ensemble in this half of the show seemed not quite right, somehow.
This collection was pretty representative of her on the show...
I liked her as a person, and adored some of her designs, like the denium challenge and the prom dress, but I truly, I would have perferred to see Kevin or Kit's collections go down as decoys on the runway.
Oh well, she's a very sweet person, it seems
I liked Sweet P, too, but this collection didn't really do it for me.
Sweet P's collection wasn't great, but from what I could gather, she seemed like she didn't have the time or the resources of the others. I think she mentioned that the Project Runway people called her while she was in China and asked her how she was coming along on the runway collection (and she didn't know she'd be doing one!). Sweet P was already working when she realized that she had to do this. In addition, I think it should also be considered that while designing her collection, she knew she couldn't win. I doubt she put her all into it.
The color palette is not too bad, I think like every other designer she's deeply affected by the Mets challenge. Her last few dresses looked a bit like her peacock dress. The saddlebags are a bit worrying but I don't hate her collection.
I agree: a real mix of highs and lows, just as it was during the competition. Sometimes she hit one out of the park, and other times she was all at sea. As a contestant, though, I found her likable.
But. . . PLAID. . . why are so many designers showing so much plaid this season? If I start seeing canary yellow plaid, I'll have to go lie down in a dark room and stay there till next spring.
I dont get the hate on the red plaid or the saddlebag hate. I feel the plaid fits in perfect with Sweet P's kitsch/campy aesthetic. The saddlebags are just a step away from jodhpurs or bubble skirts. I liked that she worked with a new silhouette. Though that short blue dress is awful.
The saddlebags are a definite No. The black-and-gold dress would possibly be a good choice for a woman who WANTS to minimize a larger bust--that's actually a good visual effect for someone with that type of figure. I agree that it shows that the collection was almost an afterthought. Still, she did pull something together for the runway on seemingly short notice, so kudos for a few fine pieces.
7. I like the fabric and shape of the trousers, and the piping on the seams. The blouse is okay, but not really anything new. I some of the pictures I can see the color relation between the plaid and ombre stripe, in others not so much.
8. This one just doesn't go. I liked this shape in the 80's (I wonder if it has big spongey shoulder pads). She should be wearing giant tubular silver hoop earrings.
9. Everything about this is wrong, from the hat, to the fit, to the color, to the workmanship.Didn't it have some weird zipper issue, too?
10. Pretty. I like the peg skirt on this one. The only thing is the shape of the side seam is a little unsophistated, like I can see were she slashed and spread the pattern to add the fullness.
11. I don't get it.
12. I hate the pants and hat. The blouse would have looked good with the plaid pants. I also don't understand why she closed with this look, or how the colors fit with the show.
Over all my favorite looks were the first two and the two plaid pieces. She should have had some more transitional looks between those two groups and a few more looks within those groups, and it would have been a more like a "collection".
I felt like Sweet P was trying too hard to go high fashion here. She's obviously most comfortable designing supercute daywear, and she should stick with it! There's nothing wrong with being commercial--I for one would totally rock the little dresses she made for the denim challenge and the avant-garde/everyday challenge. I have to say, too, that look #10 (the gold dress with the neckline sparklies) almost made me forgive her for the rest of the collection. Almost.
Seems our hippydippy has a problem with hems. Also the static cling on the black & gold dress was off-putting. I would love to hang with SweetPea, but wouldn't wear her clothes.
-Wimple
I agree that this was just not a cohesive collection. When you're picking out this one, but not that one, it's not hanging together.
On TV I liked numbers 2, 4 and 5 from this group but I see that the construction/fit on 4 and 5 don't really hold up on closer inspection.
I had (conveniently?) forgotten about the red plaid pants. yikes.
Did Sweet P used to be the costume deigner for the Pointer Sister? This second half of her collection has me so excited that I just can't hide it. I'm about to lose control and I think I like it. I'm so excited, I just can't hide it, I know, I know, I know, ...
If the red carpets of late are any indication, the saddle bag silhouette is on-trend. It's gross, but on-trend.
Seriously, if saddle-bags are back and on-trend, and people wear saddle-bag pants in plaid (which never really goes out), I will have to stay in bed for the entire next year.
What's next in the time warp - can't touch this?
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My reaction is mixed. I did like the yellow/purple, but seeing the second half of the collection singled out by itself really does drive home your well-made points.
No to the saddlebags, and NO to the naked zippers (here or in anybody's collection).
Naked zippers to me are like when bra straps started to show every where, or when women stopped wearing slips underneath sheer dresses. It's basic stuff your mommy taught you not to do. It forces the look to beg for more attention to detail and takes the eye away from what's important.
I agree about the plaid. Yikes! Forget about the Pointer Sisters, Bill, she was dressig her models to be extras in a Bay City Rollers video.
I think the reason her work is so discombobulated is that she doesn't her own voice, and she (as even other designers have said) has 'taste issues'.
She has an idea that she wants to be a designer, but doesn't really have a grounding in what that really means or is. So as she is grasping around for what to do and what to be, she makes all the wrong choices. It all looked cheap.
Her collection was like her process on the show, where she was always needed the heavy direction of others, because she had no through line herself.
--GothamTomato
Her collection was like her process on the show, where she was always needed the heavy direction of others, because she had no through line herself.
I think P has ideas about what she wants to be as a designer, and ideas about what she thinks are interesting and look good, but you're right. Ideas don't automatically equate to an aesthetic, or the ability to execute consistently.
And not everyone has that -- and that's fine. Not being able to create a line doesn't mean you can't sell some nice clothes. It's not the path to fame and glory, but you can certainly make a living off of it. I have a feeling Ms. P wouldn't know what to do with fame and glory even if she got it, though.
A strong vision tends to go hand-in-hand with the desire to have that vision recognized, no? Just look at Christian.
I think the plaid (previous dress & this pant) could have worked in the collection as a quirky little bump, if she'd only paired them with some of the main color elements in the collections (mustard/gold/green solid-tights for the dress and clashing top for the pant). The effect would've been quirky rather than looking like a jarring throwaway mistake.
The styling is (mostly) so awful. Solid colored tights would've worked better. The gloves - no.
I think a more nervey approach, would've helped her here.
-- desertwind
Yep. To me, this is what lack of cohesion looks like in a collection. I wonder if we didn't see the real Sweet P because the judges scared the 'wearable' out of her. I hope that's what was going on because I'd like to think Sweet P has more talent than this.
I did covet the boots the model wore with the zipper dress. Put me in those boots, one of Jillian's kick-ass coats, and on my way to meet Chris for cocktails and I'm a happy woman.
I finally figured out the plaid thing. Back in 1980 or so I had a pair of fucshia and black houndstooth plaid wool/acrylic blend pants, complete with saddle bag hips, that I bought at Benetton in Italy (before they had invaded every nook and cranny of the US). I thought that they were the bomb back then, in a sort of pseudo-punk fashion rebellion, rudderless, delusional way.
This whole collection reminds me of that kind of sensibility...jarring color combinations for the sake of the clash, unflattering silhouettes just to be contrary, etc., etc.
It also reminds me of Marc Jacobs' 'Grunge' collection for Perry Ellis (for which he was canned)...the aesthetic of rebellious kids who throw thrift store purchases together.
But would any mainstream customer want to pay good money to look like they rolled out of a jumble sale?
Sorry Sweet P...this missed the mark.
I covet that black and gold dress.
FWIW, I might be wrong, but recall that it was speaking of Jillian (not Sweet P) that Christian questioned her taste level. Yeah, I know...
(I think it was a snarky comment to EW.com where C offered that J had mad skills, but .. taste?)
-- d'wind
Lea walked for Sweet P and Christian? I didn't realize that.
It was another hit or miss collection for me, some fab, some fug.
I like some of her fabrics, I'm just not crazy about her designs for this collection. She's talented and there's a market for her clothes, so, she'll do well.
There really wasn't any look in this entire collection that I liked. There were pieces here and there that I could get behind -- the cape in the first half of the collection was quite nice, as was the dress with the ruffled sleeves and sash -- but even there, as you mentioned, Sweet P. managed to throw things off track with fit issues and/or horrible accessories.
In addition, I think it should also be considered that while designing her collection, she knew she couldn't win. I doubt she put her all into it.
I don't know if that's true. She might have been rushed, but I certainly hope she put her all into it -- this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Sweet P., even without a shot at the PR prize.
And remember, Kara Janx knew she couldn't win in season 2, but collection was still fantastic -- in fact many thought that she did better than the actual final three.
Bill, you crack me up as always. Sewing Siren, I owned dress #2 in the 80's. It was a Betsey Johnson and I wore it to death.
Blanche
Ich habe am meisten von Sweet P Sammlung gemocht, gibt es einige Fräulein aber insgesamt es ist sehr nett. Sweet P ist zaftig in den Fotos erschienen.
So this has nothing to do with Sweet Pea but did anyone else see our little winner on 'Make me a Supermodel?'
Ach du lieber Gott! Sweet P ist gar nicht zaftig.
-- desertwind
Sweet P. suffers from "curl in the middle of the forehead" syndrome: when she's good, she's very very good, but when she's bad she's horrid.
Sadly, she's horrid a little too often.
Miss hit or miss. Not impressed!
And to think I'd even attempted to defend the plaid looks in Sweet P's collection in other postings. After having more time to study the images I can only say that I think the woman needs some serious design/styling instruction or a mentor or something. The plaids could have worked, but the coordinating pieces and overall styling of the looks were dreadful. Poor Sweet P. I'll bet she worked her ass off for this, too.
P.S. Loving the "what 80's style influenced this look?" posts. Personally, As a babe of the 80's I floved my Marithe & Francois Girbaud pieces. I owned two plaid blazers in very sinilar fabric as Sweet P's plaid looks. Let me tell you, I wore them to death and thought that I was totally awesome in my head-to-toe Girbaud!!!
Well, I didn't hate the collection but I sure didn't like much of it.
I quite like the last one :p
Gotham Tomato is so right that she doesn't have a real vision here, and maybe throughout, so she can't just come in and have something "sewn up" as Christian, Rami, Chris, or Jillian did. It's a valiant try and maybe some of these could work with just a little tweaking of colors or fabrics.
The black/gold dress looked like it had a napkin stuck in the front and became the skirt. The black/white outfit is from the 80s and Joan Collins is missing it!
The gold dress is a highlight, but that's not saying much. The teal dress could have been better but what's with the sailor nekkerchief? and the bad knees of the model (I'm the same way but I'm not a model) are too exposed.
I'd like to see what she's doing/had done for the Chinese company.
Thank you Lilithcat for making think I'm not insane. I'm not entirely sure why, but the 11th look is one of my top 5 favortites of any of the fashion week collections.
Can't deal with the plaids, though.
Wrong! There's nothing bad about the way that Sweetpea shapes her skirts. You call them "saddlebags," but they are a very interesting way to drape fabric and create a pretty line when viewed from the side. It's obvious that they are not the model's real shape, but a design element.
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