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Now that we're five weeks in, I can safely say that I haven't been wowed this season. I can't figure out if the designers aren't very creative or if the challenges suck or both.

Shawn's black leather look was boring and cliche.

I love Kentaro but his design looked like a white tank top that had some anemic looking pink draped around the hips.

Margarita's evil look was just a black dress with feathers on the sleeves. But I do like that she finally put that model in something that wasn't totally covered up.

I don't even know how to describe Brandon's pieces of fabric pinned together. He is really turning into a one way monkey. And why were the judges praising his fabric choice? That pink and beige striped fabric looked like a fugly couch you'd find in your elderly aunt's house.

Samantha cursed herself when she said fairy tales are her thing. That dress did not say fairy tale or evil to me at all. But I disagree with Heidi saying it looked like an 80 prom dress. It's annoying when people lump everything ugly as 80s, especially from people like Heidi who actually lived through that decade. That dress did not look like anything from the 80s. 80s prom dresses were Gunne Sax, bubble skirts, brightly colored satin, poofy sleeves, etc. 80s prom dresses didn't have weirdly patterned fabric combined with visible zippers.

Aaron's pink abomination looked like he pinned a bunch of streams to his model. And that poor model had to tug at the bodice on the runway to keep from having a wardrobe malfunction. An all those unfinished edges - WTF?!

Michael's gold dress was evil without being all black or totally cliche.

I liked Amy's silver cape when it was closed but the pink dress underneath looked poorly constructed with bad material. It looked like a shitty homemade version of Gwyneth Paltrow's dress when she won an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.

Batani's dress looked like a decent but unremarkable red carpet dress. It's the kind of red carpet dress that people would say was pretty but boring.

Shawn's outfit looked so cheap, some of which was due to her fabric choice. That shiny fabric she used was the same kind used for the  tacky $20 mall shirts I used to buy at Charlotte Russe in college so I could wear them to bars and not care if they smelled smoky or got beer spilled on it. The sheer skirt over the white shorts is so faux risque aka boring and cliche. The top also looked very ill fitting. Did she make an actual dress? Because the top looked so weirdly bunched up that it seemed like she tucked a tank top into a skirt.

Ayana's didn't look like it fit the challenge at all. What was good about that? The cream colored lace? The seam under the butt where she sewed the big net looking fabric to the top of the dress poofed out in an unattractive way. Has she had the skinnier models all season? I can't imagine how she's going to use her skin tight designs on one of the bustier models.

I'm so tired of peplums but I liked the wine color that Kenya chose. I wasn't a fan of the long tuxedo ruffles on the front. Minus the ruffles on the sleeves, it looked like something you could already find at the mall. But it fit the model really well and looked good on her.

9 hours ago, Snickerdoodle said:

Aaron's...oh my. I thought it looked like streamers. With my very limited sewing ability, I tend to judge by "I can sew that."  That's what I thought about Aaron's...I could sew that, and that's not good.

I can't sew for shit but when I look at a dress like Aaron's and think, "I could staple some shit together and make that myself," that's a sign of a terrible design. Same goes for Brandon's look. I could cut up one of Mr. EB's dress shirts and staple together two large pieces of shelf liner to make his outfit.

9 hours ago, Yokosmom said:

My question is, why hasn't anyone openly confronted the twins on their behavior in the workroom? A simple request for them to use  their "indoor voice" would be a start. 

Heh, maybe someone needs to use Ross's "quiet down" sign!

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