I’m not surprised Laurie went home. That was pretty awful.
All that time, and Laurie managed a straight skirt and yucky top. I’ll miss her, but who would wear that top?
After watching last night’s show, I found this blue faux fur vest in an email from Dillard’s. How timely.
http://www.dillards.com/p/cece-by-cynthia-steffe-faux-fur-vest/505602433?di=04573826_zi_silver_pin&facetCache=pageSize%3D100%26beginIndex%3D0%26orderBy%3D1
@musicmom1215 Did you buy it? ; ) It’s not quite as stylish as the one last night.
Laurie needed to go. Sorry.
Does Zac have it in for Swapnil?
It was actually refreshing to see the judges disagreeing last night.
I can’t really figure out where they’re going with Swapnil. Keeping in mind this is TELEVISION, I think they seem to feature one person and a certain storyline each week, like Ashley and the mean girls a few weeks ago. Then it was Swapnil’s supposed laziness. But he had been in the top nearly every week until then while reportedly only giving 40%.
I think that the cookie monster vest would’ve been cuter if it was cut shorter. And maybe a little pocket or something.
I felt like it wasn’t trendsetting, it was just … weird. Trendsetting would be a shape we haven’t seen, not just running a vertical seam on leggings.But oh, Laurie! Don’t bore Nina! You were toast from the moment you made a pencil skirt…
Can’t wait for a real-women challenge! Real shapes! Real needs! Real attitudes! I think Swampnil will crash and burn. Ashley and Kelly should shine…Edmund? His instincts are great. Can’t . wait.
The real woman challenge is next week! I wonder if there will be a “big girl” that Ashely would like/prefer to do instead of the usual rampage for the thinnest real person.
I personally don’t like the real women’s challenges for precisely that reason. The designer who gets the thinnest “real person” model gets a huge advantage, since clothes show better on an elongated figure.
And the clothes are hardly ever flattering on the “real women” models, which is depressing since they were designed specifically for them.
I wonder if Zach actually sees Swapnil’s potential but does not see Swapnil taking advantage of his own challenge. So Zach gives him an especially hard time.
I liked Laurie but the past two weeks were total fails. I kind of wondered if Tim would use the save on her - starting to wonder if/when he will use it!
Whenever they have these challenges where an item will be mass produced and sold I can’t help but wonder if the winner is really chosen by the company rep who will sell it. They have the largest voice in a challenge like this.
I thought Ashley’s look was very junior - and take away the jacket, it was too simple and nothing special.
Here’s the link to Edmond’s winning dress on the JustFab website. It looks very similar to the original. Price is $39! At that price point, the winning design had to be pretty simple.
I feel so bad for some of the designers. Some of the staff, with no fashion sense, are just critical.
You feel bad for the designers??? Of all the “real woman” challenges they’ve had over the years, I think this was by far the easiest. The staff members were young and attractive, and none of them had any particularly bizarre or unusual demands.
I wish one could say the same for the designers . . . Swapnil, in particular, was - from the get go! - absolutely unwilling to listen to his model. He knew what he wanted her to look like, and that was all that mattered. (And his model’s demands were so outrageous, weren’t they? She wanted her arms and legs covered . . . ohmygosh!!!) @gouf78 asked earlier if Swapnil is really as arrogant as he appears to be. Well, if this episode is any indication, he’s not only arrogant, but a misogynist - if a woman isn’t willing to confirm to his image, he has no interest.
Maybe Swapnil has learned that not all women want the “bombshell” look. I really thought Tim would use his save on him, though.
And I’m sick of Ashley’s poor pitiful me crying all the time. Good grief.
Well, by now we all know who was gone. I’m glad Tim didn’t see him. I think Tim is waiting for one of the best, like Edward, goofing up at the end. I still think Ashley makes it to the finals, as there was a plus size showing at Fashion Week. I too am tired of her tears, and really didn’t like her look tonight.
Ashley’s fabric choices look like stuff you’d see at Walmart. And that peplum didn’t do any favors to the chubby girl’s silhouette.
No way was Tim going to save Swapnil. He was so furious at him that he barely spoke to him at the end there. He usually has a kind word and a hug for the departing designer but Swapnil really got the cold shoulder last night.
Really? I saw just the opposite - Swapnil brushing past Tim without a word. I have no doubt that if Swapnil had reached out to him, Tim would have responded . . . but Swapnil had NO interest.
And now I can say what I couldn’t say last night . . . good riddance!!!
I don’t get Ashley’s fabric choices. This week and last both really odd. I am surprised at all the crying since she started the season appearing pretty confident. It’s like that one episode where she got picked last just wrecked her self-esteem. I still would be interested in seeing her “real woman” fashion show though if she does make to finals. I think she will work better away from the pressure and maybe make better design decisions (like at the beginning of the season).
I really liked a lot of Swapnil’s work. I think he had very bad luck getting Jen as his client (she might have liked Merline and her first boxy coat better, but I can’t see her liking anything Candace or Edmond or Kelly might have made her either.) I think Jen was very difficult—cover the arms, cover the legs, but no real direction otherwise. She obviously didn’t like tight clothes or cleavage either. So what–a muumuu? A baggy suit with a turtleneck?
He made her 3 outfits! THREE! And she hated them all. I think any designer who ended up with her would have struggled.
I also didn’t like how she laughed and smiled while the judges ripped into him.
This challenge is always frustrating. “Design for the client. Give them what they want. But make it you, we need to see it’s you.” I would love to see Candace make a terry cloth sweat suit that’s “her”. Would she just trim the heck out of it with leather?
Well it’s real woman challenge. As a real woman of true ave. size - I wouldn’t want a higher than at the knees and I always look for sleeves, don’t feel my best in sleeveless. I didn’t think Candace’s fabric choice much better than Ashley’s. As an aside, seems like in lots of seasons, designers have not done well in challenges that are suppose to be “their” thing. Must be a mental block in a pressure moment.
I agree about that peplum being unflattering. I looked at it and immediately thought “why”?