How do these designers expect to make any decent clothes when they start with awful drawings? MN's original sketch of his horrifyingly ugly dress looks like one of those crappy Barbie cakes they make for 5 year old girls. And how do the judges justify MN being in the bottom 2 five times...but not selling his talentless ass home?

I don't understand this show...

I think Irina might have blown it by showing her stank personality on the runway. Her design was the best.

I thought when you said Carol Hannah reminded you of somebody else you've seen on TV that you were going to say Adam Lambert! They wear about the same amount of eye makeup.

I really didn't think Logan's was that bad. At least it was SOMETHING!

Gorgonzolacheesehausen's was B.O.R.I.N.G all the way.

For that matter so was CH, Althea (bitch for trashing CH), and MN. At least Irina's was interesting as well.

Poor Logan. Heidi wore her fugly pants to deflect the magic coming off Logan's silver pants.

Is this not the lamest season of all? Even watching S3 isn't so bad 'cause you had the crazy & mean.

Hahahaha. I laughed out loud when you said "Heidi has lost her f*cking mind" b/c that's exactly what I thought when I saw her in that clown outfit. It really looked like it belonged on a clown in the circus. It kills me that she can sit there wearing that and criticize anyone else!!

I just can't understand why they keep keeping MN. He is SO bad. At least Jordy gets to stay another week. Are two getting eliminated next week? Is that why it's the last challenge?

The sucky people are still there because they keep rotating judges. Seriously, no one but Heidi knows how bad these folks blow- and you see how she's dressing herself this season, so...

Best. Recap. Ever.
Flipit you're a genius!!!

here4beer...you make a great point about the rotating judges. But why wouldn't Heidi think to comment, "You know, this is the fifth time he's been in the bottom 2." Or they could at least provide the judges with the scorecards from the previous weeks...or pictures of the craptastic dresses that were produced.

If they hadn't prematurely tossed Elvis (Shirin Askari), maybe MN would be gone already. I still can't understand how Chris has survived over her.

Now I worry that somehow that shit will end up at Bryant Park and they'll have to double the size of the tent just to accomodate the volume of his gowns.

With the silver bermuda shorts, I totally thought that Heidi's judging outfit had been designed by Angela from season 3! LMAO
Anyone else thought of the doggy challenge from that season when they saw this?

So I´m typing this in between running to the door to hand out candy (and holy shit is my neighborhood popular with trick-or-treaters) and I swear that any of the princess/cheerleader/vampiress Wal-Mart costumes I'm seeing today is better-looking and more tasteful than the shit MN sent down the runway yesterday. OK, so SG sucked big time, but really? More than Winnie-the-Pooh? Everything in that dress looked saggy to me: the boobs, the cockroaches, the dress that was being vomited by the other dress... Ah well, I can't get worked up over SG's ouster anyway. He sucked. But obviously MN sucks somebody harder.

One thing is for sure, though: no matter how hard this season sucks, Flipit will bring the funny even harder. And that's good.

FYI: The guest judge was Kerry Washington, an actress. She was in the movies Ray, I Think I Love My Wife, Fantastic 4 (Silver Surfer one), & others.

Okay, as the only straight guy watching this show, I need to point out that there was an actual nipple shot when the hacks were dressing the models. (When Irina was dressing her stick figure.)

I'm hoping someone from the FCC noticed it too and Lifetime will have the shit sued out of them for putting this truly boring show on the air.

Seriously. I find it impossible to watch an episode all the way through, I keep falling asleep. Even Models of the Runway is more interesting than this show.

Time to hang it up, I say.

I think the only reason they keep MN is because they're afraid he going to do that fake crying/praying thing he does and his nose will melt off.

Speaking of noses... it appears that one of Irina's nostrils has collapsed.

At least they finally got rid of 'Straight' Guy. I could design better than him, and it takes me an hour to sew a button.

And I might have believed he was straight. Until he pulled out the shiny silver jeans and shiny silver sneakers. To me he just looks like one of those glue-sniffing homeless hooker kids who show up in documentaries all the time. He's straight sure. Until it's time to earn breakfast.

Is it me or is Logan looks like drummer Larry from U2?

Great recap Flipit!!

Bedzia, I agree on the Logan/Larry Mullen (U2) resemblance...and Carol Hannah looks like a skinnier Tonya Harding to me.

Flipit, I love your ability to kill Irina off in new ways, but would be very cruel to plants, to have Audrey II suffer the chewy rawhide texture and bony gristle that Irina would probably give her. It would most likely give her horrible indigestion.

I can’t believe we're so close to the end and the best outfits walking down the runway look like mall fare.

And what is with these people and their hatred of color? Black, gray, white, over and over. Occasionally, nude and brown. How effing boring are these guys? Even there smack-talking lacks any proper cred, considering they all pretty much suck, though in different ways.

The designs:

Althea: I know her model can strut the hell out of clothes – she’s clearly the best walker left, especially now Kojii is gone – but someone get this girl a damned bra! Her girls are not defying gravity. Good lord, they are hypnotizing, bouncing around like two kittens fighting under that thin tank.

The look is basic, but well done. I crave the sweater – I’ve had a cold and that looks like a perfect sweater to curl up on the couch to watch “The Shining” sort of sweater. The pants are cute; they’re riding pants. What more can be said? I’ve seen better fitting ones. The white tank top, however, needs a damned shelf bra to contain the sisters. I can see why it won (Nina hates brocade hooker dresses and put her foot down on Irina winning, is my thought, although I'm sure that Kors was taken by Irina's reuse of his particular shade of tan.)

Straight Guy: Well, we know he’s authentically straight: he has one pair of shoes he likes to marinate his feet in until they fall off like a starving Victorian orphan boy (albeit a starving Victorian orphan boy who spends his time hanging around the Hellfire Club’s doors panhandling). As for his look … wow. It’s a look.

Flip, you said, Kojii doesn't know whether she wants to drink, run, or whip someone, and those are activities that should never be done at the same time. I’m thinking Kojii could manage it; she’s Irish, dontcha know. :)

Gordana: Huh? I wasn’t a huge fan of the first dress, but it had its merits, its sparkle. How the heck did she take a short gray dress with sparkle and turn it into a drab suit-off-the-rack-at-Ross? It was so cheap looking. Why not make an LBD version of the first dress and then add the jacket (fitted better at cut at a different length, it could have been OK).

MN: A float? How many emo carnivals are there out there? Goth parades? Even a sad emo girl wouldn’t pull this thing on. Look, it’s clearly a David’s Bridal gown that some evil bride thoughtfully added tinfoil too to make her girlfriends look more hideous and wider about the waist than than she. Brides are entitled to do this to their sisters because everyone should look the most beautiful at their wedding. It's appropriately hideous.

And it does look like a birthday cake. A sad, over-the-hill birthday cake.

I do not get why this depressing cake dress did not get MN’s arse sent home when it was nothing but a bad rip-off of poor Elvis’ losing design that got her booted for looking too costume. Only MN’s has much cheaper fabric. And more of it. A gross injustice that this fool is still around when Shirin and Louise are not. I felt like kicking something when he stayed and Gordana and Straight Guy Logan were left on the block. Sure, SG’s was ugly and Gordana’s was a bit too Ukrainian clerical worker and made no effing sense in relation to the first dress (unless that black skirt was a besequined LBD? Why wasn’t it? Where is the originality this season?), but at least there were some touches to the outfits (frayed edges on the jacket, Logan’s stupid zipper collar o’ controversy). It’s not like Logan should have been there in the first place, but I am sick to death of MN’s little boy in the city wonder tale. There’s no crying in fashion, bitch. Get over it or go home.

CH: “light and fresh and not boring at all.” It’s also a take on the tutu dresses by Pat Fields, Betsey Johnson, Maggie Berry and most recently (about two seasons ago) Alice & Olivia. There is nothing fresh about a tutu dress. Anything worn in SaTC’s opening sequence isn’t fresh. And black isn’t light. That said, cute dress, just not groundbreaking. Though, at this point, expecting anything groundbreaking from designers who have sent down the runway everything from lace chaps to ill-fitting bubble skirts is a bit of a stretch.

Irina: Irina invented over-sized sleeves y’all. And Al Gore invented the Internet. Eh. Evs, it’s still brown and boring and very much a Pretty-Woman- Hooker-Trying-To-Be-High-Society outfit. It would sell like hotcakes in Moscow. I don't mean that in a bad way, either; it's a very Russian look. And compared to the other designers, it was pure genius. And not black or white, so it probably looks refreshing to see baby-poop beige strutting down the catwalk. I didn’t mind the brocade dress as much as Nina did; I’ve had the same dress (in gold and burgundy) hanging in my closet for ages. And it has better texture and probably cost more in its heyday than Irina’s would today (about $400 in 1998). I didn’t like the fur cuffs on the sleeves of her sweater – they looked a bit hurriedly done – but overall it was a nice job and tied in to the first look well. This design also prompted the best line and face of the night from Nina, when she said the brocade made it look like a hooker’s dress and Heidi chirped in “I would wear it!” The look on Nina’s face said, “Exactly my point!” Awesome.

As for Over-sized Sweater Gate and Zipper Collar Gate, I love the attempt to draw us into a controversy, no matter how stupidly contrived to distract us from the fact these designers suck rotten eggs (and the feeling that MN and SG are sucking someone’s rotten eggs in order to still be in the game this long).

Who designed the zipper collar first? Althea or Logan? I’ll take Commes des Garcons or Versace, personally, over the PR dunces. Both have done the zipper collar to death for years and recently (Versace Summer 2009 had great zipper ruffles that made to look like hearts; CdG had zippers collars sometime in 2008). Galliano has done it, Chanel has done it, name some big name and you can probably find someone’s take on Fun Things To Do With Zippers when you’ve already done Fun Things To Do With Shoulder Pads and Fun Things To Do With Buttons last season. It’s not new. And I don’t think Logan was smart enough to try and gank Althea’s style. Let’s be honest, he looks like he only barely knows what day it is. He probably thought it came to him in a dream, handed down to him by Gianni Versace himself, instead of him having seen it on a mannequin a short week ago.

And as for Irina thinking her cowl neck sweater looked anything like Althea’s over-sized shrug, ridiculous. Unlike Logan designing a zippered collar which Althea clearly did prior to him, Althea designed an oversized shrug while Irina designed a baby-pooh brown cowl neck with cutout back detail that could have walked in 1990. If anyone invented the cowl-neck sweater, it is the Catholic church. Go on, Irina, take on the Hammer of God, why don’t you? I long to see you smited in His sight by lightening. Could be fun.

Thanks for the recap, Mr. Flip--I read it on Fri but didn't have a chance to comment, so I'm not as fresh (go on, joke away, hee)

Itchy, that last paragraph, wow!!! Tell us how you really feel!

Bedzia, agreed, but like the Kids in the Hall used to pinch your head, it looks like they only got half of SG--anyone notice . . .

So, I don't think he belongs in this kind of fashion outing, and should just fold under another designer, but I happened to like the Judy Jetson look, and I think it was the best thing he did all season . . . was a perfect look for Koji too.

Absolutely ridonk, and bereft of any creativity was MN--c'mon dude, I think you are in no way ready to do a whole line, and yet, they seem determined to have you do one. Not sure whose gone next, but I have a feeling it wont be him, brace for more nose clutching and pleading from wonder boy . . . (well said whoever said that)

I think it's the last show becoz they have a dummy line (the final lines have been google-able for a year or so-tho there's no names attached) They may cut one before the tents . . . .

For me, Irina is still on the old lady side, I found that dress fug beyond. Not a fan of brown to begin with, but the brocade just made it granny tastic to me, and all the droopy extra fabric shit just seems "designy" "excessive" and "Mahogany-ish" (Yes, I'll say it again!)

Color, color, color--they could do one long camera sweep of all the "creations" from this season and it would just look like a shutter opening and closing-white, grey, black, grey, white -oooo-beige . . .

Hopefully Gordy will see that's it's one more cut, and really step up and out--do something red, for chrissakes!!! Hard to see it as anything other than her or MN . . . tick-tock . . .

Lastly, seems a lot of generation referencing has been done here, mostly 80's, and Jenna has a clear backround to hone in with, but for me, Irina is 70's and bleeeech!!! It's not time to bring back that awful loose Sonny and Cher shiott!!! Kah!

juddfan, you just hit it on the nose for me when you called Irina's style granny. I didn't know what was bugging me about her style, but it turns out it's the same thing that used to happen when I watched a commercial or a bad movie in the 1990's and a stylish Italian lady wandered by in it, always, ALWAYS! dressed in the Sofia Loren / Gina Lollobrigida 1960's big shades and kerchief tied under the chin thing. As a recent European transplant, knowing no one there would get caught dead in those getups, I used to laugh my butt off at it. Irina's stuff is just so... old and done. I can't tell the difference between her stuff and old photos in 1970's and 1980's magazines. I am probably all kinds of wrong about this, but I'll go with my own feeling of truthiness on it.

I was just thinking: as much as "The Fashion Show" sucked, didn't they actually have much better challenges in that one than PR has had this year? The design an outfit inspired by a shoe? Pay homage to legendary fashion designers? Did they also have to make lingerie, or am I dreaming that part?

Itchy...you're not the only straight guy watching PR...my boyfriend suffers through it every week while I watch. He hasn't paid attention to anything all season, but he pointed out the nipple shot as well!

I'm so tired of hearing MN whine and cry and remind every one every chance he gets that he is not professionally trained. For the love of all things holy, READ A FREAKING BOOK OR SOMETHING! Audit a design class. If you're truly that passionate about learning, find a way to do it.

I can't wait for the show to get back to NYC and back to regular judging. Taking Nina and Kors out so often and so early has really hurt the show in terms of who should still be there and who should have already been auf'd (yes, MN, I'm talking to you).

Finally, GREAT review as always Flipit. I find myself reading your take on shows I don't even watch!

itchy,

I don't think it's against FCC rules to show a mannequin's naked body. the models don't qualify as live...or lively.