You've Been Such A Bad Boy

Last night's challenge was to design an outfit inspired by one of today's hottest accessories. In his podcast, Tim Gunn said that we'd never guess what it was, although I had a pretty good idea. I think the buzz around the internet had narrowed it down to either an iPod (since they've been giving them away as prizes, it was thought to be another way of plugging Apple more) or a dog. It turned out to be the latter.

They each picked out a dog, and, (not so) surprisingly, they each kind of looked like the one they chose. I'd show pictures if I could locate better pictures of each dog. If I do find some, I'll post them.

Now that they had their dogs, the designers had to come up with a story about what kind of owner it had. Some worked:




"I imagine a Japanese business woman in the fashion industry. She travels a lot..." - Alison







Some didn't:

"She has a sporty life, but needs to dress up occasionally." - Katherine

Some were humorous:




"She's a Park Avenue gal about to go into rehab and needs someone to watch her dog for the weekend." - Robert Best





"I created a dress for young, hip girl who isn't afraid of colour. She like party. In fact, she went party last night. She got up at twelve o'clock and she is meeting her fabulous girlfriends and they are gonna have lunch and then they are gonna go shop for more fabulous clothes." - Uli (she's German, so her English isn't perfect)

And one was completely absurd:

"She's an assistant to the director of an art camp. She is throwing a birthday party for [enter dog's name here - I don't recall], the camp's mascot. The camp is for 6-12 year olds." - Angela

Keith, as I predicted, has let his win in the first round go to his head. All he did was whine about the other designers. Whine about how having to design an outfit for such a beautiful dog "...is so stupid!" I mean, come on. Does this arrogant ass not know what he was getting into? He had to have obviously watched Project Runway prior to applying for the show. He should have known what to expect. When it came down to it, he grabbed a bracelet off their accessory shelf and turned it into a collar, refusing to create an outfit for the dog. Creating anything for this dog to wear would only detract from it's beauty. puh-leeze.



Angela's dress was, aside from apparently being beautifully made, a wreck. For God's sake, there was no real creativity infused into it at all, as the designer looked to be wearing the same skirt. Heidi even remarked that the model "looks like she is going where you're going." Keith, who lambasted just about everyone else's design, said, and I have to agree, it looked "like a big bag of Skittles. Purple...and pink...and scary." And that ridiculous story about an assistant to a director or some load of crap. Ivanka Trump, the guest judge, was right to say that she looked like a street walker. Actually, I really loved Ivanka's comments about all of the designers and their dresses. She is very astute. I loved how she knew Keith was lying when he said that he had actually created four outfits for the dog and then opted not to go with anything at all. Finally, somebody who sees through the bullshit.



Poor Bradley. He really struggled with this challenge. I'm hoping that his mind was just elsewhere since the runway challenge would be held on his birthday, but he just couldn't get a design down. He contemplated not even sending a dress down the runway at all, but, after the model arrived and reminded him that he wouldn't be the only one affected by his decision, he scrambled to throw an outfit together. While it was completely unflattering to the female shape, both Vera Wang and Nina Garcia loved the dress. By the expression on Vera's face when the model initially walked the runway, I thought she would have said the complete opposite. And I don't fully believe that Nina loved it enough to shoot it for ELLE. I think Vera's love of the dress impacted her reaction a little. Maybe it was a birthday present to Bradley, I don't know.




In the end, though, it was Katherine that was sent home. Her dress was deemed too simple and uninspired. Although I have a feeling that if the execution of the dress had been better ("It leaves a lot to be desired..." - Nina), I think she probably would have stayed over Angela (who, once again, was in the bottom two). She definitely has talent and a future.






Auf Wiedersehen!

The winner was Uli. Despite the fact that, aside from the colour and fabric, there is very little variation on the actually structure of her dresses, this one was beautiful and deserved to win. The picture does not do this dress justice, so, if I find a better one, I will post it.



Mistress Heidi