Fashion Show: Tulle Academy

This week on The Fashion Show, how do you make a socialite that looks like she spent a dollar on her clothes look like she spent forty? And when did the America Ferrera look catch hold?

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Ugly Betty, you just got schooled!

The opening clues us in on the dumdums we're about to spend an hour with.

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Try one with words in it. You might learn something.


Previously, this happened:

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I can't remember anything else.


There's a clip of Isaac saying he was dazzled by something on the runway, and I don't remember that happening. Didn't he tell everyone if he was Joan Collins they would all be fired? You know what? Let's not live in the past. Moving on to this week...

We open with my favorite kind of shot. Someone crying.

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My clothes may have been ugly, but they turn into compost in less than a year!

Last week I was calling this girl Organic Clampett cuz of her hair, but she toned it down so now she's just Organic. Damn. That name needs some work. She's all upset about being in the bottom two and tells us that the competition is reeeeally haaaard. She was so hurt by Isaac telling her he doesn't know if she has the stones to make it here that she is going home!! WHAT?!?! WHAT A WUSS!! If at first you don't succeed, just open your own online store without a comment function I guess. See ya LOSER!

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Whole Foods probably needs some cashiers, and they have very positive attitudes over there. Maybe you could make some baby doll dresses out of their cloth bags or some shit.

You know who really deserves our respect? The underwear designer.

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Now that's talent.

As some of the boys eat breakfast in the AM, Kinda Almost Pretty talks about Organic Clampett leaving. Merlin, who is in a headband after his Tai ChiChi La Rue class, pouts "Che was so cute!" Kinda Almost says in his thick Midwestern accent that this competition wasn't the place for her cuz "she deyadeen't heyave the skeein for it." Kinda Almost is hairless and wears a lot of makeup. He tries to show off his professional eye shadow application, but comes off looking like a disappointed mom.

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You don't want to go to college? Fine. No really it's fine. I'm not using any tone, it's really fine. I just dreamt you would be better than the rest of us and now my dream is dead. But at least you're happy. Really. It's fine.

They all get to the workroom, where Isaac tells them they will be competing in teams again. YAY! I don't hear the rest cuz I have to press pause and take a look at everyone's outfits. Look, I'm gay (are you shocked?), and I'm all for people being out of the closet and I get that gayness is straightness in the fashion world, but when did it become ok for dudes to put on girl's clothes and makeup to go to work? WHEN? Especially in the fashion world, cuz there are so many gay guys and gay guys aren't attracted to women, they're attracted to men. I don't know if what I said just made any sense. I'm babbling cuz I don't want to diss my own people for being who they are, but they're making it very difficult. It's like the whole community is being broken up. There's always been gay, bi, bi curious, transgendered, pre op, etc; but now there's a whole sub-section of thirtysomething men who want to start all over again and pretend they're twelve year old girls on their way to a Jonas Brothers concert. Exhibits A, B, and C:

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The manliest one in the room is Not Beyonce.

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Since James Pole was last week's winner (with experimental rectangles, no less), he gets to choose someone to move over to Team Tube Dress, which is now down two members. They look scared, but I don't know why. Whoever they get has to be better than FortyHawk and Organic Clampett, right? Wrong. This is the Fashion Show, and I'm already learning that someone worse is always right around the corner.

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Daniella, the chick who dresses too old for her age, doesn't want to be on the same team as Merlin again. I don't understand why! He's so pleasant!! See?

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You on my teem agayn and I kill u boobies.

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Comments (19)

briar:

I tried, Flip, but I can't stomach an entire episode. Love the recaps, though, which I'll continue to enjoy. Thanks for taking one for the team by suffering through this crappy show.

Snootchy Bootches:

I have to nitpick one tiny thing, sweetums. Old Young Lady didn't make a dress. It was hotpants. Still slutty, but not quite as bad as a dress THAT short.

How the eff did Gayvitz not get sent home? That was the most horrendous pile of dog vomit that I have ever seen! Actually, I take that back, because at least dog vomit would have had some shape. That was literally a big piece of fabric wrapped around someone and belted to keep it from falling off. Then he stuffed some shoulder pads under it. NOT acceptable. Anywhere. Ever. He should have gone home and been stoned to death by his fellow London College alumni.

I didn't think that Witchy's dress was that bad. I sort of liked the tulle even. The back was horrible, but if she cut out that mesh in the back, it wouldn't have been so terrible. Definitely better than most of the dresses there. And even if she left the mesh in and just made it FIT, it wouldn't have been as bad. But it was just sagging there. Gross.

And that is what pisses me off about this show (and other design shows). How can you be a frigging designer and not know how to fit a fucking garment? Even if you have someone sewing it for you, you need to understand how the garment is made when you are doing the original design. You can't just draw a pretty picture and then hand it to someone else and say "Figure out how to make a dress that looks like this." Granted, that is probably what some of the top designers do... but they didn't start at the top. It is beyond ridiculous. And as a costumer, it pisses me off every time! Ok rant over. :p

Another wonderful recap, Flip. Thank you!

TheMiki:

So I have to Tivo this show and then save it and wait to watch it until after your recaps get posted. Without your snarky commentary going in my head I just can't make it through the whole hour. This show is to Project Runway what Hell's Kitchen is to Top Chef. Double the drama and an eighth of the talent.

michigan:

Oh, Flipit, I'm not even on page four yet and I had to comment on the In Living Color reference! I used to have a t-shirt with those two dudes on it. That guy needs a tiny hat!
Two snaps up, Flip!
Carry on...

michigan:

Okay, I'm done.
Hilarious as always. But, come on people! Do you even remember the last season of PR? Suede? That perma-tan dude? It was worse than this. Even so, I'm seriously only watching it so I can be prepared when I read the recaps. It's like studying for a final!
Love.

Y3KPhenom:

Dear Sweet Flipit,

I LOL'd the entire time I was reading this recap - kadooz to you! And I used to be a fan of The Critic, too, but that diaper dress was hideous. Oh and didn't Fabric Cancer leave one little plane on the hip of her dress?

As much as I hate to admit it - I am really starting to like this show.

J-Mo:

LOL, "Fuggies" are going to be a new national brand, I can feel it already!

Mexi-Jay is so fucking annoying and if I could say only one sentence to him it would be "Suave only costs a dollar, honey." My TV screen starts to buckle from the smell whenever he's on screen!

love to you, Flipit, let me know when the PB&J book comes out, K?

love, J-Mo :)

rubinia:

Loved the recap, Flipit, especially the "Supermarket Sweep" reference...

J-Mo:

"My TV screen starts to buckle from the smell whenever he's on screen!"

I'm dying!

bigjr6633:

Flipit I agree with what u saying about being gay and kind of shocked of how obviously gay these ppl are. There's nothing wrong with being out & proud but sometimes It's a little too out and proud like do these guys actually where this shit on a regular basis. Anyway Great Recap Flipit!!!

juddfan:

So funny, Flip it, so great you can make this funny!!! This really got me too!

"Witch smiles like "yes! My earthworm, old lady blood and Riccola concoction worked!"

J-mo, I cry for your TV--I too smell something, and you know what, there's some people I just don't want to look at, and he's one.

I found Witchy's delusions too funny, articulate . . . I loved that even the producers played back everytime someone told her "NO RED TULLE"

Guess the winning look was okay, the cut on the jacket was cool, but I think I liked the black dress with the piping best.

They are lucky I have no life and nothing better to do on a Thurs, or I'd , i'd . . . just read the recaps, dammitt!!!

here4beer:

Flipit, you have outdone yourself with this one. Even the title had me cracking up... "Tulle Academy!" LOL!!

I don't see how anyone can not love this show. (Hooray for double negatives!) It's delightfully tacky.

shantigal:

You're so right about Gayvitzs' toupe. Now I can only picture him bald when I look at him. And Merlin honey, wrapping your gradmother's boiled wool jacket around your head and buttoning the sleeves together, does not a fashion statement make.

Although not as articulate, the statements Reco makes have made more sense than most of the rest of them.

I give it two snaps up.

itchy:

Between MexiJay and Merlin, I'm certain I caught an STD just from watching this trainwreck.

They don't call me itchy for nuttin'.

juddfan:

oops, forgot, how bout calling kinda almost pretty Snipe--fans of Harry Potter might see what I mean . . . just a thought tho . . .

fierytopaz:

I wanna know: why do the judges leave and go into some crappy back room to converse? They're the judges! It would be much more fun to see a Top Chef-esque stew room where the contestants could get drunk and yell insults and blame each other for bringing down their team. Maybe next season...wait, do we really want another season of this drivel? Kind of, yeah! :)

pixielated:

Belushi's toga in "Animal House" had better draping than Gayvitz's horror. That thing looked like it was made from a bedsheet.

I love your recaps, Flipit. And I share your confusion about the young gays dressing like pre-teen girls. (It's been going on for awhile; I worked with a guy who dressed like that almost ten years ago at a call center.)

If those exploited, underpaid Asian kids can learn to cut and sew, so can you, MexiJay! I would have voted him off just for exploiting little Asian children. Offensive much?

soapboxx:

The show is a hot mess! Loved the Fuggies, rat face comments. And AbFab reference? You are after my heart! MexiJay looks like a fat John Cusack with a toupee. Gayvitz's dress should be the first entry into a Fashion Hall of Shame opening in Little Rock Arkansas where diapers are acceptable with the poor man's speed ball crowd (Red Bull and Tylenol PM over ice). Thanks for the har-hars and snarks.

totallydifferenthead:

Hilarious - especially the caption for the 'battling gaygamel' screencap

zbird:

Okay, I know I'm a bit late to this party (a month? A year?) but I'm dying laughing over here, and now I have yet another bit of TV drivel I must watch because of my beloved Flipit.

Truth be told, I'm only on the first page, but this is a gem that I simply had to comment on before I continued: "You don't want to go to college? Fine. No really it's fine. I'm not using any tone, it's really fine. I just dreamt you would be better than the rest of us and now my dream is dead. But at least you're happy. Really. It's fine."

*Flashes back to my teenage years*

You, sir flipit, are classic. Simply classic. L.O. Freakin L.

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