Wednesday evening, I had Adam and Brad over and prepared a salmon dinner (see previous post). Last week I was skeptical about this season; however, that changed w/ the second episode. I didn't feel like they stuffed too much in the first ep and everything was kind of glossed over. Wednesday's episode didn't play out that way, and I feel like I have a better idea about each designer's personality. One thing I know for sure is that Keith is an arrogant ASS.
The second challenge for the designers was to create a dress for the current Miss USA, Tara Connor (a/k/a Tiara Tara), to wear during the Miss Universe Pageant. Naturally, there was a catch, and it was that they had to work in pairs. It's always interesting to see how the designers on this show work w/ others, especially when they have conflicting personalities.
Each designer did some sketches (w/ the exception of Angela – who doesn't do sketches apparently, but I think that's because she doesn't know how to design gowns) and presented their ideas to Tiara Tara. She selected the designs she liked and those seven designers were "team leaders." Those team leaders then had to choose their partners. Here were the teams:
Kayne/Robert
Jeffrey/Alison
Malan/Katherine
Laura/Michael
Keith/Bradley
Vincent/Angela
Uli/Bonnie
The majority of the teams seemed to get along well enough, but, of course, there was one nightmarish pairing. That would be the groovy Vincent and the "feminazi" (as she was dubbed by another designer) Angela. As I reported earlier, Angela didn't take the time to do any sketches (she says she never does sketches - she draws insipiration from fabrics and mood) to present to Miss USA. Instead, she spent "sketch time" trying to convince Kayne to choose her as his partner. Because of this, nobody wanted to even pick her. Vincent ended up having his name drawn last to choose, so he was stuck w/ her.
Vincent let the whole "team leader" thing go to his head a little and became rather stubborn, in my opinion. He kept, annoyingly, reminding Angela that "[he's] the team leader" during every dispute they had. This was his design, his dress and they were to execute his way. That did not sit well w/ Angela. She ended up not doing any work on the dress at all. She basically just sat around and complained about how it wasn't her design and she wouldn't attach her name to the dress because it isn't "different enough." So these two basically bickered back and forth the entire show, so you knew that they would be in the bottom two…which they were. Also, the dress is flawed..especially in the shoulders...
The other two that had trouble were Malan and Katherine, although it had more to do with the execution of the dress than them butting heads. They didn't see eye to eye on the design, but they didn't argue over it. But, due to the many issues w/ their gown (color, length, etc.), they ended up in the bottom two groups, as well.
The bottom two designers were Angela and Malan. Angela was there because she did absolutely nothing to assist w/ the dress and wasn't willing to work in a team. Malan was there because of the poor execution of the dress and not listening to what the "customer" wanted.
The judges decided to nix Malan instead of Angela. While I'm not a Malan fan at all (considering how transparently fake he is), I think the judges made a mistake in letting him go. He worked hard on his dress, and, even if it wasn't exactly what they wanted it to be, he at least worked hard. Angela, meanwhile, sat on her lazy ass and did absolutely nothing at all…aside from annoying Vincent. I think if you don't do the work, you shouldn't get to stay. Obviously, the judges and producers felt that producing nothing at all is better than an ugly dress being created. That, or they felt Angela would be a better source of drama in future episodes.
The winning team, was, naturally, a couple of gays. John Best and Kayne. It was Kayne design (since he was the team leader), and, it's a good thing he won considering he design pageant dresses for a living. This is actually a huge win for him. He's already the youngest pageant dress designer and now he can say that he designed a dress for the Miss Universe Pageant. Back to the dress...while Tiara Tara wanted earth tones, Kayne decided that he would go w/ a purpleish fabric that Jeffrey called sherbert. She wasn't too keen on it at first, but it eventually won her over.
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Kayne looks like he belongs with the elves in LOTR.
Upon reflection I think that Miss USA had no taste at all and Uli's dress was the best. You need to subscribe to the Tim Gunn podcast, there is soooooo much we don't get to see and its so juicy!
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