Wait, no one got voted out, right?
I kind of don’t like the way they seem to be creating the drama this year. It feels to me like they deliberately kept the twins (some designers went home that I thought were better) just so they could create the drama of the one hour challenge (& the ensuing drama also probably)
I have a closet full of pants that look pretty much the same. Seriously, how many different ways can you design a basic pair of pants? Some have put shorts or skirts over pants, but the pant itself is still pretty much the same. Why is Michael being so dramatic? He needs to let Margarita handle her own “battle.”
I thought Claire’s design looked good on her client and her print was transferable to a Dixie cup, but I liked Kentaro’s dress best.
I thought Claire’s print looked like tire tracks running asymmetrically across the models legs, but the shirt was very well done and Both pieces were tailored beautifully. From a fashion perspective, nothing seemed really innovative, but Kentaro’s pink and orange gown and jacket was far better. I loved the fan of pleats in the back and how it peeked out from under the jacket.
Claire winning that challenge seemed so staged, didn’t it?
Just saw a photo someone posted on another board—Clarie’s top looked a lot like the top of the dress Shawn was eliminated in (2 shoulder slits, though Shawn’s was solid in the middle).
I don’t think Claire should have won, but that is not up to Michael or Margarita (or sadly, me because I should be consulted). Claire can copy other designs, repeat the same outfit week after week, glue everything together, use only black or do whatever else she wants to do, and if the judges buy it as the best, she wins.
A week or so ago the judges didn’t think it was cheating for Claire to spend all her time helping Shawn and then do a bad job on her own outfit, so why would they think it was cheating to ‘design’ a blouse that was just like something another contestant made, or to copy a pair of pants from her own closet? Not original but not cheating.
I thought the designers’ outfits were weak across the board with the exception of Kentaro this week. He should have won.
I don’t think it is about copying Margarita as much as it is about the pants. Michael mentioned the pants and I thought he mentioned j. crew towards the end? There was chatter about her having similar pants in her room and seemed to imply she was measuring them. I know in one season a contestant was kicked off for having pattern books. Would this be deemed cheating, then, especially if it wasn’t done in the workroom? I thought all work had to be done in the time allotted and in the workroom so if she was using existing pants as a pattern and measuring them outside of the allotted space and time, is that being construed as cheating? I did notice no other contestants were speaking out to defend Claire nor did they seem surprised by it all.
I just don’t get Kenya’s design aesthetic. Once again, I though her design was horrible. Very unflattering the the woman’s body. That top - the fabric and style - yuck. She basically created a boob shelf.
I agree with @doschicos . Margarita snd Michael spoke to each other (quietly, in Spanish, in the workroom) about finding Claire measuring a pair of pants in the bathroom.
Didn’t Margarita dye her fabric at the apartment? I wasn’t paying close attention so maybe it was in the workroom.
Honestly, the pants weren’t that great and seemed fairly simplistic. The only challenge was getting the design in the right place.
Why would measuring pants be cheating? If I were designing a pair of pants, and I didn’t have my pants sloper, I’d measure a well-fitting pair of pants I owned and use that as a basis of design. That’s how patternmaking works.
@swimcatsmom, that’s also my criticism of PR, I hate the “drama” in part because I think it’s mostly manufactured by the production team. The show would be just as good, if not better, if it stayed focused in its entirety on the clothes and getting to know the designers.
@“Cardinal Fang” – measuring an existing pair of pants and then duplicating the measurements on a pair of pants made as part of the competition seems like cheating to me… kind of like plagiarism for designers…
Measuring pants and then duplicating seems like unoriginality. But the problem is the duplication. Duplicating pants without measuring is equally objectionable, and measuring pants and then adding ease, pleats and so forth shouldn’t be a problem.
I don’t know… there had been a designer earlier in PR history who was kicked out just for having a pattern book in his room… but I’m not an expert in these matters…
How does that differ than from pattern books, which are not allowed? A contestant could just bring a whole host of clothes with them and use them for measurements for all kinds of garments which would then be modified. Doesn’t seem to be in line with the spirit of the contest at the very least.
The point is to produce original garments, right? If you don’t produce original garments, you should lose. But what is the preoccupation with HOW you produce the original garments?
Apparently, rightly or wrongly, the show does have rules. I guess we’ll find out next week how they apply in this instance.
When you talk about “pattern book,” do you mean a book with pictures of a lot of different garments? I can see banning that-- it doesn’t help the designer to construct the garments, but only gives ideas, and presumably the designer is supposed to have her own ideas. But actual pattern pieces of basic garments are different; having those allows the designer to construct original garments that fit.
I’m not sure really, @“Cardinal Fang” and you have a broader knowledge of sewing than I do. When the guy got kicked out in a past season, the reference was to pattern-making books. With the word “making” included, I assumed it was more to do with the building of the garment than the design.
This references a portion of the rules for that season:
http://ew.com/article/2006/10/05/project_runway_/
And some explanation of the incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Michael
Project Runway is entitled to have whatever rules they want, but the one against pattern-making books makes no sense to me. It’s like complaining that a British Baking contestant consulted cookbooks while preparing their recipes. So what-- judge the result, not the method used to get the result. If the result is an original product of the contestant, that would be good enough for me.