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Friday, March 8, 2013
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Hey Gasmii! Last week was just awful, wasn’t it? If you follow this show, you just always know that when the designers have to make something for a real person, it isn’t going to be so great, but OH, THE HUMANITY! I mean… I’m not even going to bother briefly reviewing what happened, because I think we’d all like to pretend last week didn’t happen at all. So let’s just get started!
We begin with the boys over at Atlas, and Stanley, Tu and Daniel have been blessed to have Dick move in with them. Stanley (along with the rest of us) is surprised that Amanda didn’t go home. The women are having a similar conversation over in their apartment, but out of politeness it’s less focused on the fact that Amanda didn’t go home, and that Benjamin did. Kate tells us that Amanda is the next to go. Amanda herself tells us that she was just as surprised as everyone else, and that she’s going to draw from that experience. If the other times she has been in the bottom group of designers didn’t give her anything to draw from, I’m not really sure how this particular experience is going to give her a boost, but I guess we’ll see.
At Parsons, Heidi leads a duck on a leash out to the runway!
And his name is Fred!
We learn an interesting tidbit about Daniel: he used to have a pet duck. I want to know if he also had a roommate that had a pet goose. We also learn an interesting tidbit about Tu, the most laid-back, positive contestant on Project Runway: he hates ducks! Really, really hates them! Apparently a friend of his had a pet duck that tried to bite him once. It remains to be seen whether or not the duck had good judgment. Heidi tells them that the duck is a clue to the next challenge, and Layana offers to us the weirdest guess possible; she hypothesizes that the challenge is designing something for farm animals. I would have gone with designing with feathers, or down-filled coats, but okay, Layana. Farm animals. Sure.
As the designers arrive at the work room, it is filled with every variety of Duck Tape that there is! Zebra stripe, butterflies, penguins, neon orange, and classic silver, it is all there. Tim introduces the guy who runs the company, and the only thing about him that isn’t boring is that he’s wearing a tie made of Duck Tape. Tim tells the designers that they will be making a fashion-forward prom dress out of the tape. Daniel is elated, because “how can you go wrong with a prom dress for a 16-year-old girl?” He obviously wasn’t at my prom: my dress was admittedly awful, and I wasn’t the only one with an ugly dress. Wish I had a picture to show you guys, but I’m pretty sure I burned them all years ago.
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Send your 16 year-old to the prom in a dress that can torn off in strips. Great idea.
Oh…and I would like to point out that Kate thought Tu’s design was all wrong because it wasn’t full length, so they had to go with Kate’s design. And for what did Kate’s design get criticism? For being full length.
I won’t miss either of them.
I felt bad for Kate. There she was thinking she was safe, then boom! Heidi-hacked!
As a parent of a prom-age kid, they DO want the long dresses.
I am so sick of hearing reality show contestants complain that they can’t complete a challenge successfully because they didn’t personally experience that exact event. You’re on a show that is based in creativity, so show some! You do not have to have attended a “prom” to know that it’s a teenage formal dance, and that you should thus create teanage formal dancewear. Tu bowing to Kate’s vision because he’s never been a “girl who went to a prom” is ridiculous–you’ve also never been a ballroom dancing senior citizen, a supermodel, or Miranda Lambert, but that didn’t stop you before. And Heidi claiming that she didn’t have prom in Germany so she doesn ‘t know what to judge them on–when has she never had an opinion, albeit usually a poor one?
While I’m on my rant, Top Chef’s Lizzy claiming that she couldn’t complete in the fried chicken challenge because she weren’t born here was poppycock. You may not have eaten fried chicken as a child, but you grew up in a country with a fish and chips shop on every corner, so extrapolate.
Pozer throwing shade at Nina over Kate & Tu’s dress was hilarious.
Then both Kate & Tu were auf’ed.
See Pozer – that is why you don’t mess with the Nina.
For the record, 90% of the girls at my prom wore long dresses. Prom is exalted as a fantasy where you’re meant to dress extravagantly. I saw a lot of long dresses in either bold colors or prints, with statement accessories. Long dresses are totally popular, so I had a total disconnect with the judges this week. I wasn’t sad to see Kate and Tu go, but I did feel a little bad for Kate: she got the tearful hug with Tu and thought she was safe, but Heidi just had to burst her bubble. Oh well.
Also, I hated Michelle and Amanda’s dress. Mostly for the droopy bustline and the HAIRBOW. Are you shitting me with that, Michelle?
Oy. Prom. Our son went in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. He always dated a senior girl until his senior year, when he took a junior from another school. At least all we had to do was rent a tux. 4 times. And as for ‘duck tape’, we make him carry a roll in his car – it’s hot, HOT pink. On his senior prom night he got into a fender bender. Well, he taped that fender up with the hot pink tape and kept on rolling.
Good times.
And why did they not announce a double elim? Was it really a last minute decision?
I did like Stanley and Layana’s, even if there was a bit more side boob action than the average high school girl can handle. All my son’s proms did NOT allow strapless dresses so most of these wouldn’t have been allowed in the door. ‘Course, they all worn uniforms too so perhaps it’s not really average. And I was liking Richard and Daniels until they added all the ginormous ruffles. Someone needs to be a voice of reason.
Michelle & Amanda’s dress would have been rockin’ with a mo-hawk style hair do. Just something more punk rock.
I forget which designer said something about pink and black&white animal print, and how it was hip and who wouldn’t want it. All I could think about was Snooki from MTV.
As odd as Patricia’s dress was, it looked the most comfortable for being made all out of duck-tape. I can’t imagine how hot that full length tight dress was.
I don’t understand why nobody used any bright colors. I didn’t go to prom, but my older sister went 3 times. Her dresses were all long, 2 were yellow and 1 was baby blue. She also had someone where the same dress as her at 1 prom. She didn’t care because everybody told her she looked better in it.
I think what Chris meant about Richard and Daniel’s dress was that their attempts to make it look like fabric, with all the detailing, worked against them.
So far I haven’t cared about anybody who’s been sent home. And the ones left I just feel meh about it. None them seem to be sticking out so far. They’re all so inconsistent with their work.
I don’t get how the dress that the high schoolers picked (you know, the ones that are GOING TO PROM) didn’t win and the one they obviously didn’t like, at least from the editing, won. And the one that was THE most “prom” lost and that atrocity of gold didn’t. Granted the long dress wasn’t much fun and an ugly color but still….it wasn’t as bad as that gold ruffle mess, which looked pretty cool till they threw up ruffles on it.
These judges don’t know teenagers AT ALL. Every girl I know that goes to prom wants the long dress.
I don’t think ANY of the dresses looked like prom dresses, with the exception of D&D’s gold ruffled mess. And you’re all right, and Zac was right – at least when I was in high school, it was all about the long dress. Barring any actual prom-approximating dresses being created by the designers, I actually really liked Amanda and Michelle’s dress, though it pains me to say it.
Timgunnssister- damn, your son must have had some game! Dating a senior girl every year? That’s the stuff of legend!
sagittariuskim- yeah, I don’t know who to cheer for either. So far, Layana has been the most consistent good designer, so maybe I’m cheering for her? But unfortunately, I don’t feel too attached to any of them.
Well that’s the problem with doing all team challenges: we don’t really know the designers well enough to get attached. Even though some are good at maintaining their aesthetic in every team challenge, we still don’t get their clear point of view, ya know? At this point, Patricia is the only one I can readily identify: the others are just blending too much to pinpoint their points of view.
You started awesome but you’re just getting better and better at this. Hilarious. I laughed spit right onto my phone. Twice! Houndstooth? Becky? That’s how far I am and I’m dying. Thanks!
Cap code is bath towel. They need a terrycloth challenge. Let’s see what these yahoos can make out of towels! Not only fun to watch, they’d get to pimp a department store for their linens. Gah.
BTW, “Stuck at Prom” is a real contest put on by Duck Tape brand. Go to their web site to see some very inspiring fashions.
http://duckbrand.com/promotions/stuck-at-prom/2012-top-10/
And the only dress Molly Ringwald wore in “Sixteen Candles” was to the little high school dance and then her bridesmaid dress. Did they mean “Pretty in Pink”? Because it looked NOTHING like her dress in that movie.
The hair bow was ridiculous. Here they had a very angular dress and then stuck something so girly and curly on top. She should have had a “punk rock” hairdo, instead.
Dear Patricia, I’m sorry for all the mean things I’ve said about you. I loved your dress. I also feel so bad, that I advise you to have your thyroid checked. Like now. You still have time to correct your levels and get your eyes back in your head. Also, I wanted to punch aMANda when she said you had time management issues…ummm I don’t think you have ever sent anything unfinished down the runway. Fugly? Yes. Unfinished? No.
Kate is so boring. I bet she is a rich bitch. No one would wear that to my prom…yea well no one wore duct tape to my prom either. Also, at 23, you are still super old to 17 year olds. And it wasn’t yesterday, it was 6 years ago. If you went to prom. Also, my teenage nieces all have worn long prom dresses, so you were right there. Short ones are for homecoming and slutty girls.
I’m also so bad at math, that I didn’t even realize it took math to create the houndstooth design. What teenager wants to look like an old soccer mom who embarrassess her kids by having her stomach out and hot pink hair (looking at you Gwen Stefani)?? Also, I aMANda considers Maroon 5 a “rock group”…which would explain a lot of her reasoning.
Sorry for the extra “s”…I really should stop eating ssweet and ssour chicken over my keyboard. Makes my keys sstick.
I also caught that Stuck At Prom was a real Duck Tape Contest but I was too lazy to look it up. Thanks beebs for posting the link. The teen designers put the PR designers to shame in the creativity dept – and Duck tape tuxes too! Impressive.
BTW I was also puzzled by the judges complete disconnect with what kids wear to prom and why. Zac of all people seemed the most tuned in. Interestingly the length split on the winning looks in the actual contest looks to be about 50/50. Fail on the PR producers part – where we’re all the young female fashion bloggers they’ve trotted out in some recent episodes? ( that should be ‘were’!)
So, I just facebook-stalked my three cousins that are in high school to look at their prom photos from last year (& winter formal from this year). Surprisingly most of the dresses are short for prom and long for winter. In one group shot, about 20 girls, only 2 had long dresses. A bunch were knee length but poofy. Then there were some girls with super tight and short dresses. So short and tight I wonder what type of parents would let their daughter out of the house in that dress. This was for a public school. But another cousin is at a private all girls school and it was about 50/50 on long vs short. Nothing super short or tight in her pictures but that might have been part of the dress code.
Isn’t aMANda’s brother in Maroon 5? I am guessing that might be why she was cast this season.
My 28-year-old son is visiting and indulged me by watching PR this week. It was a fortuitous episode because he and his date did Stuck at Prom outfits in 2002. They worked on their red-and-black (school colors) outfits for weeks and weeks, and used existing clothing as a base, so he was impressed with the speed with which these outfits were completed. It’s been 11 years since that prom, but he agreed that a lot of girls liked to wear long dresses because they want to look elegant and classy, and the top designs didn’t seem to be appropriate for a prom.
I thought Tu was very sweet in his final confessional, but I’m not sure he really was PR material. I kind of have a soft spot for Daniel, but I think that’s because he’s such a character (or is “caricature” a more appropriate term?). Other than that, I’m not especially invested in any of the designers. I agree that this team concept isn’t particularly successful because you don’t really get to know the designers and their aesthetic (well, except for Patricia, who for some reason just bugs the bejezus out of me). The rationale behind this concept seems to be that designers have to work together in the “real” fashion world, but I prefer the “go-it-alone” format. I guess some genius producer decided to “fix” something that wasn’t broken in the first place!
At all of my son’s proms, it was about 80% long dresses. And we’ve seen duct tape dresses at 2 of them – he’s 18 so these are recent.
Haven’t had time to read yet but Laura Ashley dresses were all the rage at my prom. And, I’m not close to any teens so, these were alien creations to me.
And I was LOVING it when those two queens got shot down! Off to Ikea (for fine European furniture).
Be back later to read.
It finally came to me who Daniel, and more specifically Daniel’s voice, reminds me of: Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie.
@Pegaliscious:Tu is Project Runway material because he fulfills the “Asian Pinocchio” casting requirement. It’s a fairly new thing–in the past three or four seasons, I think–but it is definitely now a part of the PR formula.
I can’t say I personally loved any of the designs, but I thought Samanta’s and Patricia’s look was the most interesting. I hated Amanda’s and Michelle look, I thought the dress was hideous and the styling was completely wrong. I don’t understand how the judges are always on their case about styling, especially Nina, yet they expect us to believe a punk rock girl would wear that rebellious houndstooth dress with their hair done up into a bow??? And Nina please don’t disrespect Gwen Stefani, she would never wear such an atrocity. I don’t understand how they won when 20% of their score was based on the high school kids, and the high school kids didn’t love it. Wasn’t the point of having the teenagers judge was to get insight into what kids would actually like? If the teenagers aren’t voting for that design, then guess what panel full of \I never went to prom judges\ then maybe you are wrong about this so called fashion forward dress. I need for both of them to go home. They are so cocky for no reason. Michelle and her dated ass style is tacky and Amanda is boring, but they think they are like two of the best designers there. Stanly and laylana dress for me wasn’t that great. I actually liked the silhouette, but that zebra trim was soooo tacky, I did like the exaggerated pink bow, but not with black latex look, and zebra trim, it was way too much. Daniel and Richards dress started out good, but then they turned it into an exact replica of Molly Ringwald’s dress, so there was that. I thought Kate an Tu’s look was safe, it wasn’t horrible, it was just safe. I was sad to see them go, I rather Dated ass Michelle and Lame ass Amanda leave, but oh well.
I feel like for formals (winter formal, spring formal, sometimes homecoming) people will go short and fun, and then prom is much more of a….princessy, fantasy affair and people will go long and eleganza and extravaganza.
I think preferred length is also pretty regional too though. I have friends from the south and midwest who have pictures from prom, and it looked like girls wore more long dresses that were modernized by unusual colors, prints, embellishments, detailing, accessories, hair, whatever.
And then in more metropolitan places, I do notice shorter dresses being more fashionable for prom. My sister just went, and her dress was short….it was a heavily embellished bustier on top and then really poofy and sparkly and intense on the bottom. It was also gold hahahah. Many of her friends wore similar things. Almost no one in her pictures had on a long dress, and if they did, it was beaded and jeweled for the gods.
Anywho, I burst out laughing when Kate got sent home.
She totally deserved it because that dress was hers all the way.
I feel bad that Tu was caught in the crossfire though, because I think he has a cool and interesting aesthetic and it would have been nice to see that more. I thought it was funny/scary how he was starting to adopt Kate’s rich bitch personality too. During confessional, he sounded like she had shoved her hand up his ass and was using him as a dummy.
Michelle has really bad taste and I can’t wait to see her go home.
Amanda too, with her untalented self.
They can take whiny ass Layana with them as well. I hate that she’s not a bad designer because now we have to put up with her annoying baby voice for another week.
At least we’ll get half-naked (all naked?) gorgeous men in the bargain.
The runway looks like it’ll be really good too…I haven’t seen Nina get so excited since they had that all you can eat baby buffet last season.
Zac Posen was grinning ear to ear too LOL. MK is gonna be so mad he missed this one.
Also, did ya’ll peep Skripper Lisa from ANTM in Patricia and Samantha’s dress?
She looks so good!
And Bianca said that a skripper could never be a model.
@chaos, I agree with you about Tu’s aesthetic; if this had been the usual format I believe he would have gone further, but his conciliatory personality just didn’t fit in this team atmosphere.
It occurs to me that the judges weren’t looking at the prom designs; they were judging the most creative use of Duck Tape. That’s a completely different challenge.
Agreed, all . . . the kids in that link had such great creativity, but again, a ton of time to accomplish it in.
I didn’t hate anything, and I thought a double-elimination for a boring, but perfectly fine, dress was way over the top harsh. They should have pulled out the killing instinct in previous challenges . . .
Kate is a young, full of herself, designer, but she didn’t suck as much as some of the others still standing.
And Nina, . .. . ugh, that eye roll you gave Zac for defending long dresses for prom, speaks volumes about who you really are, and how you really feel. It was disrespectful at best!