Let's wrap this one up, bitches!

Ugh. We're so over this challenge. Let's rip through the dresses and get to the fun stuff at the end!

Lorenzo loves it, but Tom is bored. It's just alright. Not really avant-garde and as much as we love Judy's noodles (especially after her BP show), we think she may have returned to that well one time too often.

The back's nice.

Next!

Suede watched I Dream of Jeannie as a kid and thought it was avant-garde cinema.

It's lame, it's silly, and Suede should have gone home for this totally uninspired look.

Oh, it's also badly made.

Next!

Fucking ridiculous.

We will give her credit for one thing only: she understood that one way to approach avant-garde fashion is to really go to town on shapes and silhouettes. Unfortunately, the shapes and the fabrics she choose gave us an Evil Queen from a Disney movie. Bleh.

And if you're going to make such outrageously large sleeves, you should at least make sure you make them both the same size. Then again, delusion ruled the day with Veronica this episode.

"Looking around the room I'm not impressed with anyone's design. Mine is the only one that looks avant-garde. And I feel like I got this challenge in the bag."

Yeah. The air bag.

"I thought it turned out really cool."

"Ha. 'Cool,' she says. She looks like a goth clown. There is nothing 'cool' here, let alone avant-garde."

"Excuse me? I'm, like, young and pretty and shit? I think I know what's cool. See the flower in my hair? Cool."

"Oh please, Bettie Page. You wouldn't know 'cool' if it threw up all over you. Which, incidentally, reminds me somewhat of this garment. Vomit. A big plaid bag of it."

"Now, Nina - can I call you Nina? I know you're, like, Miss Fashion Editor or whatever, but I really don't think you get what I've done here."

"Oh, honey.

Mommy's face is still swollen, so I'll just sit here and let the other bitch handle this one. Michael?"

"It's INSANE! The whole thing! YOU'RE insane! I think it might be making ME insane!

INSANE!"

"..."

"Yes. I think we're done here."

"Stupid, lazy American cow. Telling ME I don't know where the boobs go. I fucking made my fortune off these tits, bitch."


[Photos: Barbara Nitke/Bravo - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

Donna Summer and Veronica Lodge

NEWSFLASH: TERRI MAKES ANOTHER PAIR OF PANTS!

Certainly, if you do something well and you're in a competition, it makes sense to return to that well often.

And it helps if you're thin enough to try them on for fit

But kittens, we are getting so tired of the TerriPants. Especially when they're always the same pair of high-waisted, flared leg pants.

The coat is nice - but she's made quite a few of those, too.

And the fabric for that blouse is kind of ugly. Yes, we know it came from DVF but she didn't HAVE to pick it.

Face it, if this came down the runway and you had to guess who the designer was that made it, you'd all guess correctly. Terri's good, but because she keeps returning to the same silhouette and the same basic 3 pieces, it makes us question how good she is.

We admit it. We've been a little mean to mean girl.

Well, she kind of softened our hard gay hearts this week. Her crying jags were utterly real and kind of sweet and charming.

Unfortunately, the dress was kind of bleh. Pretty, but nothing spectacular.

First off, the fabric choice. It is a nice print, but we're not sure we'd want to see an entire dress made out of this print. It's a bit overwhelming.

There's just nothing to get really excited about with this dress. It's pretty, but that's about it.

Yeah.

That's about it.

We can understand wanting to keep things simple and make one killer piece but this wasn't really killer. Not bad enough to raise the judges' ire, but not good enough for a win, either.

Well, that's not true. One judge seemed a little irate.

"That's it? This so-called 'dress?' You thought you could get away with this kind of laziness? A good German girl could have clothed an entire family in the time it took you to make this thing! I am disgusted."

"I like the dress."

'It's actually made beautifully."

"Very simple, but very chic, very wearable, sellable."

"Don't pay attention to Heidi. She's feeling a little German today."

"Stupid lazy American cow."


[Photos: Barbara Nitke/Bravo - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot]

Two Big WTFs

Holiday or no holiday, we've got dresses to rip, bitches!

We admit, we felt a little sorry for Mean Girl when the fabulous Shannone dropped out on her unexpectedly. She was the best model in the bunch and it's tough when you have to adjust your design mid-challenge for a body you're not used to.

Although not even Shannone could have sold this bizarre lampshade of a dress.

There's just no way around this one, kittens. It's AWFUL. In fact, it's so bad that it's almost hard to believe it's Kenley's.

Not that Kenley hit the mark every time, but her work has been fairly consistent up till now. This is such a weird design. Totally unflattering.

We don't get it. Was she going for whimsical? Is that it? If that's it, then...Big Fail. It looks tacky and ridiculous when we suspect she was going for witty and lighthearted.

Seriously, kittens, help us out here. Trying to figure this one out is making us cranky. It looks like something a ten-year year old would make on her Fashion Plates when she's had too much sugar. There are too many elements and taken as a whole, the look just isn't grown up or sophisticated.

It's that frikking zebra skirt thingy she did. It's like she was in mid-design and had some sort of seizure and this is what she wound up with.

And what's going on with the fit in that bodice? Where are her boobs?

No, poodles. We can't say we like this one at all. We thought early on that Kenley had the goods, but with her last couple of entries, we're forced to rethink that evaluation.

Although, credit where it's due, we thought her outfit was really cute. We're not total bitches, you know.

And continuing with our WTF theme, can someone please explain to us exactly why the judges loved this one so much?

There were some aspects of this that we liked. We think Jerrell really WAS trying to do something witty in that she kinda does look like the interior of a luxury car and we suspect that was deliberate.

We thought he showed great sense in choosing the materials to use and we did like the way he used the metal trim. Here endeth the complimentary portion of our program.

Our problem is twofold: First, the proportions on this thing and the way it's structured does very strange things to her body.

And second: the styling on this gal was way too over the top. We're just not feeling the Mad Max meets Luxury Car vibe he seems to have created. We get it; it's futuristic. But we think a clean, minimalist face with some silver highlights would have gone better with the look rather than this Bang Bang, I am the Warrior face she's sporting.

And what...why is... how did... what was he...? Just what the HELL is going on there? Did the dress give her a spinal deformity or something? Why are her boobs deflating right in front of our eyes? Why is she all hunched over like that? Is it because the dress is barely covering her? Too many questions, darlings!

And then the way the bodice flares out over her hips and the way he placed the seams in the skirt keep reminding us of lederhosen for some reason.

He started with an interesting idea and to be fair, he almost got it right, but there are some proportion and fit issues that are so overwhelmingly weird and unflattering that we're a little surprised the judges praised it as much as they did.


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[Photos: Barbara Nitke/Bravo - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]
[Additional Pictures: Courtesy of Lisa Gilpin/Saturn/Rethink Design]