Stylista: Strike a Pose on a Cadillac

Congrats to Megan for winning the assistant challenge. She's definitely the one to beat for the big prize. For all her week-to-week bitchery (which, admittedly, has been toned down in recent weeks), she's the only one who consistently shows that she knows what she's doing.


Incidentally, did anyone else think the dress was kind of bleh?


Megs rightfully decided that the only thing that was going to make that dress pop was a bod bodacious enough to make any boring dress look good.


Danyelle shoutout!


Y'know, we can't say that we loved Richard Ruiz's line that much...


...but Johanna, honey, you don't go around saying stuff like that right in front of the designer. A far more diplomatic "I don't think that works for what we're doing" would have been a better idea.


Once again, though, Megan smooths things over. Let's face it: she's the only one that actually acts like a junior editor at Elle. If she doesn't win this, the show will be seen as an even bigger joke than it already is.


As for the fashion show, it seemed to go off fairly smoothly.


But we have to say, we don't love the page they came up with. For one, the layout was kind of uninspired.


And that header makes no sense.

Let's look at his Fall 2008 collection, shall we?

[Pictures removed by request of designer]

It's alright. Some decent pieces, but for the most part it's a little boring. We have to say, that Egyptian print looks tacky as hell.


[Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]

Stylista: We Protest!

Well, it's always nice to see the show veer unexpectedly towards the actual fashion world. Not that this was the most realistic challenge - editorial assistants, after all, aren't in the habit of mounting fashion shows all by themselves - but it did really put the contestants through their paces and gave them some valuable hands-on experience.


So, everybody wanted Jolibe.

There's a reason for that: the clothes are to-die. Just ask Natalie Portman.

















Not that we love every single piece, but the overall look is structured and tailored and very urban and modern. We approve.


Anyway, they got the best designer and still managed to fuck it up. Let's examine how, shall we?


THAT's how.


Oh alright. Sure, Ashlie deserves her share of the blame, but Dyshaun was being his usual pushy self and the decisions they were (he was) making were pretty lame.


Although they both deserve blame for snatching up all the shoes. Sure, you could argue that it was fair game, but if you're making that kind of argument this late in the competition, then you're supporting the idea that strategy is more important than talent.

Anyway, back to the bad decisions.


"We're totally thinking out of the box with hair and makeup."

Uh...no, you weren't. That look couldn't have been any more standard and boring.


And for all the smack talk about how they knew what they were doing, that fashion show didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Lots of dead air and lots of instances of models looking dazed as they're shoved out on the runway in poorly styled outfits. Color us underimpressed.


Unfortunately, the lameness continued back at the office.


To be fair, this page was bad due to a team effort.


Once again, Ashlie shows no ability to visually edit and she shoved too many small pictures on to one page.


We're not all that crazed about the big block of black, either. Your eye doesn't know where to go.


And once again, Dyshaun makes an egregious error in the copy. This is...what? The third or fourth time he's done that? And he's applying for an editorial position. You couldn't get a job as a proofreader if you did that once, let alone 3 or 4 times.


In other news, Zac is cute.


And Ann is wearing slightly better outfits although the color does nothing for her and we don't think she can pull off heavy jewelry.


This was a bullshit blue-boxing. Dyshaun has made so many mistakes and showed so little talent for the position while Ashlie has been a frontrunner from day one. Besides, "too many pictures" is a problem that can easily be fixed while "typos in everything" is way more of a red flag.


[Photos: Jolibe.blogspot.com - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]