Project Runway Season 3

I want Michael Knight to win because his name is Michael Knight.

Lol. I'm sure he'll make a guest appearance or something.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/scp_v3/viewer/index.php?pid=16685&rn=245724&cl=580428&ch=580397

Keith is so hawt.

*laughs hysterically*1

1) (I worked on the show)

Malan is awful.

You mean Bradley Baumkirchner? I really, really like him, to be honest. His interview (on the Bravo website) and Bio Video are both hilarious. He strikes me as very "I'm in a experimental noise band based in Williamsburg" though. Maybe it's the beard.

and this malan fellow. my jaw is hitting the floor.

who has this in a bio?

"Inspired by a friend, one of America's foremost couturiers,"

clearly, he is a renaissance man:

"Malan has also been a part of the entertainment industry since an early age, learning his craft from costume mistresses along the way. He has appeared in theatre, film, and television, worked as a professional model and has danced with Paula Abdul and others."

i hope he's the one they ask to leave.

Vincent should have gone! That hat! I totally hate Stacey for some reason so I was okay with her going, but still. I loved how pissed-off Vincent's model looked while he was fitting her. She had a total, "I guess I'll be leaving next week" look on her face.

Malan Breton is the single best thing to happen to me in months. He's the bastard child of Alan Cumming and Bud Cort.

The architect lady is the baddest, awesomest lady ever. She's Manhattan in a good way.

Oh man why can't I just watch the whole season now.

How is it that Michael from the ATL made an entire and completely credible dress out of coffee filters and no one was even like 'nice job' to him? thatsracist.jpg

I, too, was stunned by this.
And, I like crazy Vincent. He's so visibly freaking out all the time. He reminds me of many of my best friends. he's like Dave from Top Chef!

Kayne is a treat! Angela is interesting too. I really liked Keith's dress and Ule's was my favorite this week. Looks like from the previews Keith will prob be the love-to-hate person who definitely makes it to fashion week but behaves rather badly on the way.. he seems really talented

I liked her too, but I wonder if she can break out of her style as the season progresses. She's one-note (and it's a good one) but I can't see her as a finalist.

I agree that she's way self-satisfied, but I think she's earned it. She has this Gloria Swanson-ness about her to which all drag queens strive, but none can achieve. And she's classy, has great taste, and is smart as hell. Fuck, I'd be egotistical. The best was when she said "Ohio! I've always wondered what goes on there." WHO SAYS THAT TO SOMEBODY?

Anyway, I find myself drawn to egotists. I would rather have a beer with the scruffy beard guy or with any of the younger girls, but they're not as good television.

Wow, that was coffee filters? I had no idea.

I looooove that they roomed him with Malan. LOVE IT.

Lots of people have said similar things to me when I tell them I'm originally from Montana. I hate it when New Yawkers act like any place devoid of a mob must be devoid of excitement. That said, I either LOVE her or HATE her. Can't decide. She's definitely going to be great for lots of entertainingly snobbish comments.

I thought I would like rock-n-roll hooded designer, but I'm pinning my hopes of hate on him (I always find reality shows a lot more fun if I can seethe over someone).

I looooove that they roomed him with Malan. LOVE IT.

ha, did you catch how Malan looked totally terrified during his initial conversation with Michael?

I just read Tim's Take, and he compliments Michael's coffee filter dress. He was surprised it didn't make the top three.

Did architect lady have a big portrait of herself in her apartment?

The burning question for me is who does Tim Gunn ask to leave? I bet it's penis-head.

btw, robert is kinda sexy.

Best quote: "Where are you from?" "Oh...everywhere." (THEY MUST NOT LEARN THE SECRET OF MY FAKE ACCENT!)

IMO, that's why he deserved to win - he didn't trip over himself trying to show how clever he could be using unlikely materials, he made the best possible dress given the circumstances. Which means, grab everything in the hotel room that's most like fabric and use it like fabric to make a quality garment. It was cute, and the buttons were great.

my money's on him consistently knocking out tim gunn and mike kors finding some way to keep him from winning any challenges

5 kids manhattan mom's house looked like a fuckin magazine shoot that had a mob of kids accidentally broke into.

and yes there was at least one GIANT portrait of her and possibly more??

http://defamer.com/hollywood/reality-tv/project-runway-3-contestant-may-have-cheated-his-way-into-heidi-klums-heart-187875.php

I loved Michael's coffee filter dress and the opulent absurdity of Laura's fur-trimmed jacket. Keith's bedsheet dress was very well made, but extremely "safe" -- his style seems pretty undefined so far, which makes sense since he's a menswear designer.

Jeffrey got the dressing down he deserved, I thought, though I'd like to see him try a more polished look instead of that tired deconstructed look. I wanted Vincent gone, too, but my guess is that they'll keep him on for his neurotic hijinx -- I'm really not surprised he left the fashion industry during his previous stint.

Also, Lost-Little-Blond-Girl relies on her own cuteness too much; she doesn't move her facial muscles when she speaks in a way that creeps me out.

They've got to have obvious people to whack in the first rounds.

i read the spoiler. it cleared things up.

http://bloggingprojectrunway.blogspot.com/2006/07/note-from-keith-michael.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060719/en_tv_eo/19537

-- elmo argonaut (elmo.oxyge...), July 18th, 2006. (allocryptic) (later) (link)

he is kinda tasty, hmm!?

i have to survive on podcasts because i don't have cable and can't watch the actual show.

Maybe so, but that was still a pretty ill-fitting dress. With Always wings for extra protection.

I agree with Keith that Angela used Vincent's horrible attitude as an excuse to do nothing, but there's no conceivable way that she was more to blame for anything than Vincent, who was caustic to her. I think when the judges see the episode, they will think very differently about their choice of Vincent over Angela.

Malan's top was a nice idea poorly executed. The top looked leaden, and didn't flatter his or anyone else's model. He didn't listen to Bonnie or Tim, who both said as much. The bottom was too short and was unfinished. However, with some editing, it would have been a vastly superior dress to Vincent's, and he treated his teammate and his fellow castmembers with all due respect.

This reminds me of last season when Daniel Franco went home instead of Santino, but unlike that incident, in this case the more interesting designer went home.

I thought Uli's dress was much nicer than Kayne's.

Also, Keith is a fucking arrogant creep.

malans dress from last nights ep was ok. it looked like he was thinking 'runway' rather than 'pageant'.

i think angela or malan's assistant should have gone. malan is what I call a 'production casualty' ie keeping the crazy hated people = guaranteed drama.

favorite moment - when miss USA referred to her boobs as 'action'

I still find it somewhat shocking that Angela made it through. She basically decided that she wasn't going to do anything as soon as the challenge was announced - looked to attach herself to the winner (and managed to annoy everyone else in the process; note how she was the last one picked), didn't even try to come up with her own design. And then only tried to get Vincent to change what he was doing.

But really she and annoying (but good, IMO) Keith are the only ones who've shown something negative.

Malan was pretty freaky, I think. Lots more boring people who could've gone.

I felt really bad for Malan, but they were correct in pointing out that the dress wasn't executed well and that it wasn't really appropriate for the competition. I just don't think he should've been booted over that.

I really liked Laura's dress but she picked a color that Miss USA explicitly told them not to pick--what was that about?

I liked Uli's dress a lot better than Kayne's but Kayne's was more pageanty.

My top 5 right now:
Michael
Laura
Robert
Uli
Kayne

LOL

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Angela seems kind of awful, but dudes, Vincent is CRAZY.

Also, I just remembered that Keith touched Miss USA's boobs! what the fuck?

They should have just kicked both Vincent and Angela out, and they should have given Malan the stern talking to about overdesigning and unflattering fits. The dress actually would have been okay if there was less going on near the action, and if the bottom was finished properly.

i hate to agree with vincent but whenever i watch pageants its the green dresses that really impress me. most seems to pick black, white, red or (inexplicably) orange.

I support Malan for being honest about who should go and taking it like a good fruit. Fuck Angela, that bitch can go to hell. Vincent may be bonkers but he's not hateworthy.

Is anybody else already sick of Laura reminding everyone that she's really an architect?

Maria said ta-tas!!! Awesome.

Vincent reminds me of my neurotic high-school drama teacher; self-absorbed, pretty imaginative, but wicked flaky and unable to handle either stress or criticism.

Yeah, but I love her otherwise.

maybe because his week 1 dress was in a style totally different from hers, but still really good?

but I don't see any evidence that Laura was thinking "Michael will argue with me 'cause he's black."

xpost: yeah, no one gives a shit about model elimination, Project Runway! Also, I'm sad because Heidi no longer says, "Models, this is also a competition for you as well." She's dropped the "also."

But she really should have figured out a better way to defend herself than saying the dress was bad, because it cleary wasn't that bad. not that I liked it, but Malan's was hideous. though in seasons past they'd usually give a pass to the designer with ambitious + interesting idea poorly executed vs. mundane idea half-decently executed. Sad about Malan though, I thought he would be painful to watch a la Daniel Franco but he's just extremely GOTH.

Laura is v thoughtful and talented, I bet she ends up in the top 3. And Ule too.

(Oh how funny, I wrote this post before I scrolled up to read the end of the thread!)

"This is when the producers pulled me out. They said, 'Your ire against Vincent is so strong and so profound and so evident to all the other designers, this isn’t good. We can’t have the designers lose confidence in you. And through this unbridled support for Angela and for Angela, poor Angela—' And again, I upon reflection, she was definitely part of the problem. She wasn’t the poor victim I was making her out to be. I was going to have to work with Vincent by hook or by crook anyways... and I have to say, Zulema he is not... I will take Vincent over Zulema any day!"

See, I saw this potential in Malan. And I didn't hate his dress, either.I thought it was -- literally -- interesting.

Kayne dodged a bullet not picking Angela for the challenge. I wonder what Angela would have come up with if she had done ANYTHING for this challenge. Gloves, at least.

I keep being fascinated by the architect's bony chest. I like her, I've decided.

OMG, Keith's come-hither stare when he pitched Miss USA (or more like come-thither)...

The problem with his dress wasn't so much that it was fug (although it kind of was), but that it was not remotely suited for a pageant. He failed at that whole "designing for your client" thing, which I remember from all the lectures Santino got last year is pretty important to the judges/producers/message board posters. I totally thought Kayne's was the best because it looked like a Barbie dress, and that's what pageant ladies wear.

I read the posts on here about that show before I saw the show and I even knew Keith's creepiness was coming and he STILL made my skin crawl when he leaned in to tell Ms. USA about her gorgeous legs. Now THAT is condescending to the client.

She totally did, ha! that was one of my favorite parts.

I don't think anything about Kayne's manner in this episode was condescending. He seemed entirely genuine. I don't think he's going to be in the final three, but I totally love him.

And Malan, well, I have to say, I felt bad for him big time during his farewell speech. When he started saying how he had no friends growing up. Sad!

Angela = awful

For example, I cannot begin to express how awful this dress is:

http://www.malanbreton.com/images/IMG_1743.jpg

Is a dusty pink herringbone tweed suitable for an evening gown? No. Also, the explosion of pink ostrich feathers coming out the ass? No, Malan, sweetie. Just... no.

Oh, Malan. Stick to your short films and contemporary jazz standards (in the bio section).

http://www.malanbreton.com/images/IMG_1758.jpg

ok so several of those (ok most) needed work but is anyone else more confused by the claim that you can hear him doing voice over work on ESPN?

http://www.malanbreton.com/images/IMG_1813.jpg

He loves Olivia Newton John. Somehow, the universe just made sense.

http://www.malanbreton.com/images/IMG_1735.jpg

yes!

whatever you do, don't read his blog.

Also WAY TO GO NOIZE NECK TOTALLY PICKED THE CORGI

SRSLY I'm much more interested in weird poufy shiny skirts with rosettes created for a crazy modern Lucy Snowe than I am EVER interested in yet another outfit made for yet another rich heiress, an art gallery owner, a socialite, or a fashionista in Japan.

1. Uli
2. Bradley
3. Michael
4. Robert
5. Laura
6. Bonnie
7. Allison
8. Jeffrey

I hate to go with the crowd, but Angela is Awful.

I seriously think she should have been eliminated from the competition just because she keeps wearing this sort of outfit and thinks it looks hip. It's like she was frozen in time in 1989.

Meanwhile....why does Laura continue to slide by uncriticized? Her approach this time was painfully literal; I'm sorry, the way to coordinate with a dog is not to make yourself furry. It's CERTAINLY not to make the dog more furry. Weak and unappealing. Uli's designs continue to not do much for me but I think her technique is impeccable and I understand why the judges keep going for her. Alison's outfit was the best IMO, but I guess I can see why they went with Uli. Meanwhile, Michael continues to be robbed and Robert has descended completely beneath the radar (although it looks like he's involved in next week's drama...? No spoilerz plz!!!!!!!)... and Vincent's airtime drops dramatically after his spike last episode, while Angela remains on the chopping block.

I just can't muster any feelings either way about Keith. His work is generally good, certainly the bratty vibes come through loud and clear, but I just can't be bothered to hate the guy. I need more than him being stubborn about his self-righteous conviction that dressing up dogs is beneath him; after all, nearly all of the Top Chef final four spent the first half of the series kvetching about the concepts of the challenges being insulting and demeaning!

I'm intrigued by the idea upthread that Malan will return to replace someone who leaves mid-episode. That happened on Top Chef, after a fashion, so there's a precedent of sorts.

I really liked Katherine's outfit and was bummed that she went home.

I thought Bradley's outfit was AWFUL, and was mindblown that he wasn't in the bottom three. I'm glad he's still around, though. And then when Katherine went home instead of Angela? I barfed in my mouth a bit.

I would think Katherine would return, since she was the last to be eliminated. That's what happened on Top Chef.

Angela was bonkers and terrible yet again.

What about Vincent's dress? Oh Vincent! I love how his outfits look as crazy as he actually is. That maniacal laughing at the photos? Well, he's cuckoo, but endearing.

I honestly liked Uli's dress, a lot. Laura hates dogs so I hope she fails. The dude with the tattoos on his neck looks like a penis, and he picked the most penis-shaped dog, which was indeed pretty cool, even though the fact that he looks like a giant, talking penis makes me furious whenever he comes on screen.

The real question for me is when will handsome, talented, excellently named Michael Knight get some gd screen time??? I've really liked everything he's done, immensely, but he's never in the top three or whatever. It's making me sad! I want to here him talk about his garments.

I still can't believe that Bradley's dress was better than Michael's.

hahahaha

But... Nina Garcia would let them shoot it for Elle? I DUNNOT BELIEVE IT.

This was pretty funny, too: Bradley’s dog, Stanley, was my personal favorite, because he was so emotional and needy -- you just wanted to give him a big, soothing hug. Frankly, I felt similarly about Bradley...

I wish Tim Gunn were my dad. *sigh*

My theory about Michael is that he's going to end up one of the finalists, top three maybe, so since he'll get a lot of screen time later, they are playing him down now. He's too damn good, and some of these other people are just too damn sloppy to go early on in the game.

I love that bradley threw together some bullshit at the last minute and ended up in the top 3. a man after my own heart.

I think next week they should have to dress ferrets.

i agree with the first two, but why vincent?

http://bravomtdb.console.net/_mt/timstake/_blogImages/2006/07/timstake_vincent_220x338.jpg

i was surprised his wasn't one of the worst this time.

initially i'd hoped he'd be endearingly wacky, but as time goes on i find him increasingly annoying.

It seems kind of unlikely to have a model switch though, no? Why would someone dump their anonymous personality-free model they've been working with in favor of another's?

His design aesthetic is weird. Most of what I've seen so far would be a good outfit if not for his weird 80s-club/Logan's Run thing he seems to substitute for actually thinking about the pieces and the task given.

*SPOILERS*

Captain Crazy Hat

*spoilers*

vincent

HAHAHA! Awesome.

I mean, I know a million girls sighed last year when Daniel came out, and wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened this year.

that letter makes me love vincent.

aw i'm sad about katherine. i actually liked her dress, the judges clearly just hate "the sporty". i thought the look was nice, if a bit "coming from tennis" but i was way more ready to believe hot woman coming from the gym with her dog than most of the people's "stories".

i hope bradley can become more confident about himself over this result.

angela needs to be destroyed, soon. SO MANY MANY TIMES WORSE THAN KATHERINE'S OUTFIT! alright - scrunched up fluffy purple skirt, you will be destroyed later. so horrid. i just wanted her to leave before katherine. grr.

mandee et al.: spoiler herein

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The big question for me is whether Angela was saved by her team or whether she actually did restrain her impulses and produce a decent design. Possibly a little of both, but certainly the rosette situation got reined in by the minions, and I strongly suspect that in general their expertise in construction helped turn a middling outfit into a very very good one. Alison and Noize got a partial pass for the circumstances, IMO - the little loopy things on the bottom of their top were just dumb. This was also the first challenge without a 100% terrible outfit - both of the losing teams had some serious problems, but both were also wearable in the right configuration (basically, lose the jackets).

How do we feel about Kayne at this point? He took some little confessional jabs, and came off as sort of a tattletale re: the Keith matter - but then again, the show really beat us over the head with the blatant not-okay-ness of Keith's actions, so that probably gives Kayne a pass. Or does it? Somehow he just isn't rubbing me the right way - and neither is Robert, whom I liked back in Episode One. I can't really remember why now. Alison is still adorable and continues to also showcase very high-quality work, while Noize kind of laid low with the obnoxiousness this episode. Bradley seems to really be settling into the role of the dippy but good-humored stoner; his lone character note is "spaces out, time will be an issue." He's going to need a little bit more going on story-wise if he's going to make it to the end, I think...

Kayne was right to call out Keith for the books, I suppose - but what pissed me off was after Keith said he was kicked out and apologized and said he understood why they had a problem, Kayne and Robert continued on like "Don't you see how wrong you are?" I hate that kind of behavior. The situation's over, so maybe it'd be courteous to, you know, STFU after you got the guy got kicked off and he apologized to you.

I'll be surprised if Angela or Bradley are still on after the next 3 shows. Angela is all about the brilliant flash of inspiration, and lacks the consistent execution skills. Somebody needs to wake Bradley up, and tell him there's a competition going on.

actually, i can't remember if keith ever admitted to being wrong--he certainly acknowledged the situation but more in how it would impact him by ruining his reputation and such. and how he never really used the books anyway.

angela is fucking looney, but she has good construction skills. i'm starting to wonder if she's going to be toning down her rosette fetish to something reasonable and sticking around for a while. i hated that cropped jacket. though really, i didn't much like any of the clothes tehy made.

This is also the first challenge without anything approaching an awesome outfit, also. Granted, some of that is the fault of having to design an outfit for INC being the challenge. I loved how the dude from INC was pretending their shit isn't as badly constructed and cheap-looking as Robert/Bonnie's stuff!

Angela's outfit was, sans scrunchies"rosettes" was something that I could put together myself...by GOING TO MACY'S AND BUYING ANYTHING INC HAS SOLD IN THE PAST THREE-FOUR SEASONS. It was well put together and looked good but was the challenge to blatantly rip off what INC already sells or take INC's "style" and twist it? I mean, even just some color besides the pink and grey "Empire State Building" WAHT? theme. Keith's team did that (the twist of INC's already existing stuff, not the interesting color scheme stuff), but that top looked really dumb. The pants were completely, completely awesome though and quite honestly I kind of think they should've won and the reason they didn't was because it would be vindication for dude who just got kicked off and Bravo put the kibbosh on that idea.

Oh, and what was Nina Horrible Whine going on about with the cowl necks? I've seen quite a few of them in the stores recently (LIKE FOR EXAMPLE IN THE INC SECTION AT HECHT'S), what was her vendetta against Bonnie's top? The top was the best part of that outfit.

i dont' remember the pants from keith's outfit, because i was so distracted by the loopy things from the "convertible tank top". i didn't understand that at all.

* MariaD- I was on the phone with Sandi, and she has nowhere to watch PR - please accomodate her with reruns, etc., xoxo

she and vincent both should have been cut in that ep where they were working together.

It is also pretty obvious without podcasts that almost all of the designers hated Keith.

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What did I just say above about guy from INC having a lot of nerve going on about how cheap and poorly constructed the two losing teams' outfits were? They made the outfit HIDEOUS--and the prices they're charging are unreasonable, considering, like, the better looking, handmade, "expensivey" version Angela & Co made cost waaaay less than the mass-produced version? Holy shit.

besides the kayne and whathisface post-apology bitchiness, it was pretty funny how allison and noizeneck, and some others, were complaining that keith was doing absolutely nothing on the challenge and as soon as he left it was all 'oh no! how are we going to do this without keith!'

designs: noizeneck's pants were beautiful. also, i loved the black thing (dress or skirt and top, maybe?) with the pointy white collar. gorgeous! the jacket did suck but the dress was infinitely better than angela's outfit. empire state indeed. how are these fashion "pros" impressed by that shit?

finally, does anyone else want to slap vera wang? why so snarky? and that other bitchy judge too.

this is evil, but I think I mostly hate Angela because of her face. So hatchet-y.

You're right Ally, INC made the outfit really dreadful and cheap looking! now it looks like JC Penney! that pale grey is all wrong because the pink is wayyyy too pink. very disappointed, I am not a huge fan of Banana Republic but they wouldn't have screwed it up like that

Actually, to be totally honest, I'd probably vote for Angela's 2-years-out-of-style puff skirts and Bananarama crap than the stuff on her own website so at least she's improving.

Vincent is a shithead, come on! Tim Gunn certainly thought so. And I don't think Kayne's appeal is likely to grow as the season progresses, let's say..

pattern books make an enormous difference. my flatmate, who does costuming stuff for a living, was explaining to me how intricate a process it is to design/make clothing from scratch. it's really difficult and involved to figure out the proportions of things so that a design will fit a person reasonably (though once you have the measurements of a pattern, it's much more straightforward to adjust it for differing sizes). if you're studying with/working from a pattern book, you have an idea of the various measurements to base your garment on already, which basically allows you to skip a complicated and work-intensive step of the process.

keith was one of the better designers, and constructed his garments well. he was incredibly stupid to fuck up his chances on the show by having those books, whether or not he used them.

in tim's podcast, he mentioned that it was bradley that shared a room with keith, not kayne, and tim seemed to think it interesting that kayne was nonetheless the one who seemed to discover that keith had books...

http://www.bravotv.com/blog/timstake/_blogImages/2006/08/timstake_angela1_320x240.jpg

AHHHHHHHHHHH! I was charmed by her youthful exuberance during the show, but in that photo, she looks like she's getting ready to EAT MY BRAINS>

As for Angela, she would have messed up that entire outfit if she had done what she had wanted (putting the rosettes everywhere), had her two team members not put the kibosh on it. From day one she's been totally conniving. Boo to Angela. She's a fashion train wreck.

All the blogs are so angry Michael isn't shown more. It's because he's so mellow.

Oooh, who? I adore Survivor.

She didn't bat an eye.

Cool how apt most of the icons were. Too bad the room wasn't filled with 20 actual fashion icons in person and all wrinkly.

Bradley was being extrahippycharming this episode, so I was kind of sorry to see him go but holy shit. That outfit was dreadful.

michael: "I don't want to be all.. Captain save-a-ho.."

Angela's dress was gorgeous..

OTM

Michael's was so hot, I couldn't fucking stand it.

Robert's fashion icons: Barbie and the Golden Girls

so y'know, if that's how you want to look, call Robert

Call me crazy, but I really, really loved Vincent's design. Should've been top 3 IMO. I love what he did with the sleeves.

The way Jeffrey continues to hoodwink the judges confuses the shit out of me. The people I was watching with this week speculate that because the judges are all in the high fashion world, they're completely unaware of the existence of Hot Topic and find all attempts at "rock and roll" fashion to be unbelievably cutting-edge. Next week look for them to go ape over a white belt, skinny ties, the combination of black and red?!?!, and the liberal use of buttons advertising various bands and sassy sentiments.

I'm so glad Michael won! His outfit was on fire it was so hot. And did anyone else see him do that little dance on the runway when they proclaimed him the winner? AWESOME. My favorite.

Bradley's gone. Good. Dude was dead weight.

Laura is good, her styling and construction are nearly impeccable, but she needs to add some goddamn COLOR to her designs. All of her outfits are like: tan, nude, taupe, blah, oyster, beige, yawn, tan, brown, chestnut, beige, beige, beige. Come on, lady, live a little.

i loved the diana ross one too, uli's i think.

i liked what angela did with the material of her dress, and it turned out well overall, but her fucking fleurchons make things look too ruffly/puffy/something. they weren't as overkill as they can be but ugh. she's got to find a more subtle way to add detail to her designs.

vincent's dress was odd, though not as bad as the judges made it out to be--but the pockets looked ludicrous.

tim's blog has pics of each garment he's discussing this week. yay.

http://www.angelakeslar.com/collections/prodimages/BlossomBag375.jpg

... if georgia o'keefe designed handbags.

UGH.

And Jeffrey probably should've won.

jeffrey and michael both made awesome dresses. but what was up with the great praise of laura's? it seemed flat and dull to me.

"She looks like a brioche made of paper!"

"KUDOS"

1. Uli (a little boring, but beautifully boring)
2. Michael (never really my style - and Jeffrey's right, he takes only subtle risks - but consistently creative and well-done)
3. Laura (if you're gonna be too much of something, tasteful is probably the right choice, and she's still my favorite character)
4. Jeffrey (adds the fun back to Michael's invention, but too much of a dick to be higher)
5. Robert (despite being a Kayne-enabler and excessively inoffensive; I think I have a love-hate relationship with his neo-Princeton-undergrad thing)
7. Kayne (I don't completely hate him anymore, I just hate his clothes)/Vincent (i like his style, but see no evidence of substance)
8. Angela (...)

I was disappointed with the tv vs fashion split during the episode, but i'm holding out hope that things improve as we narrow the field

and yeah, allison's wasn't so hot, but wtf was vincents?? he wrapped her up in paper and glued bits to her, and she couldn't even walk! and whoa, laura afterwards too was like "WTF!! Your model couldn't walk!!!" daaaaamn

Jeffrey's dress was outstanding.

Laura beatboxing with Michael was the second best moment of my life. First best was Heidi saying: "There's a thin line between innovation... AND INSANITY."

And what was with Heidi's anti-fat-girl remarks (i.e. "She looks like a plus size model")? Bad form, Klum! Eat a sandwich!

Vincent or Kayne needed to go this week, preferably Kayne.

Right now I think the top 4 are going to be Michael, Jeffrey, Laura and Uli.

Vincent is extremely entertaining to me, especially when he's saying stuff like "it turns me on" as a justification for his weird weird ugly clothing, but c'mon! It's just too obvious that he's being floated along, and realistically, he should have been ditched in the first week.

I deeply loathe Laura - she's just a repugnant human being, and so is that queeny weasal Kayne. I'm in Michael's corner all the way, though I do think Jeff should have won this week, even if I normally can't stand that guy.

Also, Laura is a one-trick pony.

Jeffrey is a loathsome tool but he's undeniably talented.

Laura's big plus is that she designs clothes that look nice all the time. Her big minus is that she has no concept of when her two cents on other people's lives is desired (ans: never).

allison was ok. she should go design for urban outfitters or something. cash minus stress.

i hate laura and vincent equally now. theyre both so incredibly whiny and boring and way too much up in other peoples business. also, laura was being a magabitch last night. i like to think that final shot of her arguing with vincent, where the camera is at the right angle to catch a very droopy boob, was instant karma.

i think vincents downfall will be concentrating too much on what everyone else is doing and not enough coming up with his own stuff and laura's, hopefully, will be that she has one style AND its been done a million times before. boring.

michael is my favorite and i truly think he'll make top two but that dress last night was just awful. i dont get the judges at all.

That said, Michael and Jeffrey both made great dresses, but I'm glad Michael won because I liked his design the best and I love him special. I wish Vincent had gone over Alison, but I also think that Vincent is going to LOSE HIS SHIT before too long and that will be awesome to behold. It did suck that Kayne got to stay on the merits of his previous work but Alison got the boot based on one horrificly misguided decision to put a giant bow of hair on top of her fat model's head.

Laura's reaction was almost exactly the same as Daniel Vosovic's pathetic reaction to Santino outlasting Nick & Kara, which pains me as a sometimes-Laura fan.

Then again, Vincent sucks.

haha yeah! i loved how he kept saying that the dress and the way she walks in it "gets him off"

Also elmo OTM. Guy gives effete lunatics everywhere a bad name.

also: kayne vs robert. who's the top?

This jumped out at me too, partially because Michael Kors had the same line about Michael last week. "And when he talked about it...you could tell he really thought about it!" Astounding! "He sure is ar-tic-u-late!"

But I hope that it comes less from any racism on the judges' part and more from how incoherent and short-sighted all the other designers are. If there's one thing you'd presumably learn to do in the design profession, it's to have an idea in your head and be able to articulate it to people! What we see of Michael's explanations isn't that sophisticated, but it's certainly better than what anybody else is offering. I suspect Bravo may be dumbing down the discourse on the show considerably, which is a shame. In which case, it's just typically heavy-handed editing solidifying Michael's main plot points for right now: he's funny, he's doing well, and he's smart.

Just wanted to chime in before the backlash swamps you, elmo.

That Jeffrey guy may a more artistic designer but all of his stuff looks like something that should be costumes in Underworld or Blade.

Vincent seems like he should be one of Kramer's friends in Seinfeld.

"You know Jer, you should wear one of his shirts, Vincent is very artistic."

KAYNE.

i was expecting jeffrey to win (i was surprised since i hate him), but michael's was great too.

in tim's podcast he talks about how the designers were really shocked and kind of angry that allison got voted off. he mentioned many of them being very vocal in their reactions, really tearing into vincent. the clip they showed of laura sounded like it was the end of a heated discussion among a bunch of them that otherwise got edited, making laura look like more of a bitch.

At least though, in the recycled materials challenge, tattoo fuckneck guy FINALLY designed something that SORT OF lived up to his own high opinion of himself.

-- gabbneb, August 17th, 2006 10:10 AM. (gabbneb) (link)

Oh right I forgot that in your fucked-up world being a "successful professional" gives you the right to be a cunt to people whenever.

I didn't say it "gives you the right to be a cunt to people whenever," I said that working in a high-pressure job WHILE being a parent of 4 is likely to make someone an in-charge type unhesitant to share their feelings, something that perhaps might go unappreciated by the single 20- and 30-somethings on the show (though Vincent's 49 (?) and a parent too). It reminded me of the Doonesbury on my Mom's office door (my Mom is not like Laura) about how in middle age Joanie Caucus talks to her kids and her mother in the same tone of voice.

I wonder, however, where else I have expressed the opinion that "being a 'successful professional' gives you the right to be a cunt to people whenever," or if I have "be[en] a cunt to people," and, if so, who those people might be.

and yeah, i guess i'd rather have someone say something to my face than make fun of me behind my back (& on national television).

i liked what she did this past week, but didn't really like the overall shape of her dress. it was one of the better ones nonetheless.

am i the only one that thinks that laura is very direct, albeit harshly so at times, rather than being a total cunt/bitch? (xp)

Oh well. Way to go, CrazyPants.

1. Michael
2. Uli
3. Kayne
4. Vincent
5. Laura
6. Jeffrey

WTF WAS ROBERT THINKING??????????????? (besides "hmm, Great Pumpkin!")

I think the fact that Jeffrey & Vincent are so far the only contestants who seem to think it appropriate to make any kind of gesture to the auf'd folks next to them on the runway is pretty telling as to why I like them better than most folks do.

My attitudes towards the 3rd & 4th best designers left on the program are pretty well summed up by Jeffrey actually tearing up when Robert was auf'd instead of him, vs. Laura opting to throw F-bombs at Vincent while Alison was saying her goodbyes.

"what would look good on a 250-gallon boiler?"

yes

He's so this season's Daniel Vosovic

hell no. he has actual creative talent rather than mere taste, skill and adolescent-girl-appeal.

Michael is great (so is Uli) but they're both...boring? Santino really set the standard last year, I think, for interesting stuff

YES

I wondered a little if part of the reason Michael didn't win this time is that his model was thin, which gave him too much of an advantage. Also, winning three times in a row would be a bit much, I guess.

I thought Jeffrey was being horrible, because when you're dealing with someone's mother you should generally be as nice as possible for as long as possible, but I'll bet Angela's mom is one of those passive/aggressive types with like, Munchausen's by proxy for drama and unrest. I don't have anything to base that one except a hunch, though.

Oh, and Uli was robbed - again.

And also what Tombot said.

phew! vincent makes me cringe quite a lot but he seems like a decent guy, just extremely flaky.. is there some generational thing here too, like he grew up and got into art/fashion before anyone discovered postmodern irony and he has no idea that even happened. cool

No way dude, no way. Boo. We're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. Newspaper dress = way hot.

also, in re: newspaper dress; I agree that it was cool, but remember that J.S. (whose name is just one vowelsound from the way my brother's full name is pronounced, ouch) said that he's already been doing dyed newspaper in his own work -- it was kind of like if Stereolab was in a music contest and they announced "you will be doing something very challenging, each of you must come up with a 10 minute long song in 12/7 time, using only electronic sounds and 1960s jazz-funk loops, and the lyrics must be in two languages vaguely critiquing capitalist culture" and the other bands would all be like OH CRAP

Seeing the closeups of the last challenge dresses on the Bravo website make me REALLY wonder why Crazypants won over Michael and Uli.

I was sympathetic to Angela's mother, and naturally got fed up with Jeffrey about two seconds into their interactions, but I do think PTCF has a point here. Maybe she didn't sign up to do yadda yadda yadda, but the fact is, in life (unless you never leave the house) you're going to meet some people who are rude to you, and you need to be able to hack it. If I'm allowed to judge the rest of the cast based on their heavily-edited behavior in an artificial situation, then I can judge Angela's mom too. The conversation between her, Angela, and Jeffrey's mom was absolutely fascinating as a microcosm of Angela vs. Jeffrey - you saw A&J's whole lives for a second, everything came into focus.

Vincent's weird pasted-on collar was iffy, but it was a decent dress overall and clearly belonged in the top tier. I also thought he displayed the best attitude this episode, and it's the first time he's really gotten to shine as the positive guy in any of the drama. "THESE are the people who'll actually buy and wear your clothes" === 1000x OTM.

Thank God, Robert is gone. Why did he get so many second chances? This was only the latest in a long series of completely underwhelming outfits, and the Jackie O. monstrosity was arguably even worse than this one. Would that he had gone early enough to spare Bradley or Alison for another episode, but so it goes. Can we lose Kayne next please? He's grating on me and I feel like he's run out of tricks design-wise (ditto Laura), while Uli, Michael, and indeed Vincent do at least try to make a different garment each episode.

To some extent I wonder if some of the lesser designers on the show have just plain given up in the face of the competition. I got that vibe from Robert a lot - he talked about having to work hard, but I didn't see it, and I wonder, if you find yourself in a room with Michael and Uli do you just go "...shit, I am WAY out of my league"? Because you know that, dollars to donuts, you are not going to actually win the thing.

The editing was well done to make Laura likeable in this episode, I think. It was kind of funny how Uli's and Laura's moms both had the same very unusual shades of hair as their kids, though, is it natural or did they dye it for the show or what?

That being said, Jeffrey is still the most wrong in the fight and he shouldn't have acted like an 8 year old about the whole thing. I hope he and Angela start pummelling each other at some point though.

I am not even sure who I'd like to win. Obviously it is completely stacked in Michael and Uli's favors at this point in the game. Jeffrey is basically a complete asshole, Angela is a harridan with really questionable taste, Kayne is a barely-even-tolerable-to-watch backstabber whose taste is also becoming more and more obviously questionable, Vincent is just balls-out insane, and Laura is a busybody who makes the same outfit every week. I wish Malan and Bradley would come back, regardless of their actual abilities. I like Jeffrey and Laura better than the other two assholes on the show because they're a lot more honest about being total dicks, which is better than nothing.

There's nothing much to say about the clothing from the last episode because pretty much every outfit was pretty boring, and none were really particularly AWFUL in my opinion. Tho yeah Great Pumpkin etc.

I don't know, but Laura's mom looked exactly like my grandmother on my mom's side.

i hope that either jeffrey or angela get voted off soon because the drama between them is just stupid. i don't fucking care--just design something interesting, ffs. which neither of them did this week.

THAT WAS SO AWESOME

1- Don't be a shit to someone else's mother. I don't care who it is. It's just bad form. That being said, I hate both Penishead and Horseface in equal measure. Sidenote: Angela totally had the VagBag on Laura's mom (see above).

2- I am not blown away with anyone this year (which is a bummer). I have never once said, "well, godDAMN!" this season with any of the clothing (behavior yes, clothing no). Uli's stuff is pretty and well done, but I fear she too is a one trick pony, but of the hippy-dippy bohemian sensibility, which isn't all bad, is just boring when it's done week after week.

I hate to say it, but now that goofy Bradley's out, I'm not feeling any empathy. I just don't love any of them. Hopefully, that'll change.

Did you notice that penisneck's mom said he used to be an alcoholic, but he said he used to be a junkie? Penisneck and Angela's mom were a match made in hell. Whoever upthread said she should be more assertive by now cuz she's a mom is off the money -- peeople don't necessarily gain in confidence with age. She probably would have never opened her mouth to penisneck if Tim hadn't been asking her opinion without him there. Jeff is just screamingly insecure that his whole house of rock and roll cards topples the minute anyone questions him at all. What a jerk. His mom seemed pretty awful too. Tight-lipped denial lady.

I don't hate Laura, but man I wouldn't want to be her kid and hear her say "what does it matter, just another kid to toss on the pile."

If I was her son at fifteen, I'd be all YOU SUCK MA; if I was her son at thirty I'd be all HA HA HA HA YOU ROCK MOMZ.

Also, the Parisian models totally put the PR models to shame (besides Jia, Marilinda, and maybe Nazri).

I can't believe Vincent spent all that smack talking about how he trained in couture and then broke out a bottle of glue.

Michael's dress was bad but at least he actually sewed detail into it as opposed to gluing nonsense on it.

Kayne's dress looked fantastic on television; I have no idea how it would have come across in real life but the camera totally loved it, possibly because the lens/lighting combo toned down the top.

Michael did get a pass, but God how awful would it have been if, after all the amazing things he's sent down the runway, he was out because he gambled and lost while The Gluemaster once again sent an ill-fitting piece of junk out there and got to stay? I would have cried!

Laura's dress was pretty rough, but I'm glad she got to stay for personal reasons - I've grown rather fond of her and her 42 year old pregant gut hanging out there.

I have to say... Kayne's was probably my favorite, too. It was kind of busy up top, but it was so flowy and pretty and the back was awesome. It looked better on his Parisian model than that chatty American woman.

Hmmm... Dan P and I are almost Project Runway twinz.

I would never wear Jeffrey's dress but that really isn't what this challenge was about and I like what he did.

Laura -- UH wtf

I think claiming there is a "fix" in for Michael because he's sent one (1) kind of crappy thing down the runway and they didn't kick him off is kind of balls out insane, considering how much shit Kayne has sent down the runway yet has been kept around because he can construct things really well. See also: how long freaking Robert and Angela were kept around.

Vincent's dress was really, really badly fitted. On one hand I feel bad about that situation for all the designers because, uh, YEAH, the models in Paris were not the same women as in NY! So expecting these people to create a couture handmade tailored to a model dress in two days and expect it to show on two different models within that time frame is like completely sadistic. That being said, everyone else managed to refit their dress okay enough and Vincent's fit kind of poorly to begin with.

Uli's dress was really pretty and you can tell she thought she was going to win. Everything she designs though looks like her entire line would rightfully be called "Uma Thurman's Cast Off Oscar Gowns".

uli's dress was gorgeous and she should've won. not that I don't appreciate what jeffrey did, it was really fun.. but.. eh, just a matter of taste.

I didn't dislike laura's. it's laura. it was much better in paris, but the judges were right, has been done before.

The problem with Uli's dress is that it's the same dress she always makes but in a different color. They've gotten onto so many people for that this season, and I think that cost her points with the NY judges. She was the one Malandrino gave the highest scores to though, no? It was a nice dress but, I don't know, I'd like to see her even go, like, knee-length or something.

It does seem like from all the ads that Laura is next to go, doesn't it? But they love to do that and fuck with people. So I bet that means Kayne is next to go, because there's pretty much no way the top three aren't Michael, Uli, and Jeffrey, unless one of those three like has a horrible accident or something.

SHOULDER PADS. every single design he does seems to have some element of the 80s in it. and not in a good way.

i like ally's idea about a laura/uli challenge.

I would like to see the same thing from jeff and michael.

a prophecy of teh final TWO????

Also, 2 DAYS to make a couture dress? That's almost as absurd as Vincent's final product. I'm glad he's gone. He was getting mighty cocky during this last episode! Poor insecure dude, trying to over-compensate. Sad.

Michael
Jeffrey
Laura
Uli
Kayne

That is unbelievably cruel!

So did anyone mention Jeffrey's tattoo on here and I missed it? That's his son's name: Harrison Detroit. Underneath it says "love of my life" in Italian but rumor on the internets is that he spelled it wrong.

I don't know Italian so cannot check, but I do hope so much that he spelled it wrong. I am a little relieved that he didn't have "Detroit" tattooed on his neck because of a fondness for the city. Not that there's anything wrong with Detroit, but on your neck?

I also hope that his poor son didn't get his father's uncanny resemblance to a penis, poor child.

he kept misleading me and made me think Michael would get kicked off this episode

That's unbelievably cruel!

As for the dresses this time - I really didn't see whatever it was the judges saw in Laura's dress that made it so youthful and modern. It looked to my eyes remarkably similar to a dress she herself was wearing a few episodes ago! Yawn. I was happy for her, though, as dull as she is she does her schtick well and should give herself credit for it. And I certainly know more people who would choose to wear Laura's clothes than Kayne's or Jeffrey's. But Michael was robbed.

Speaking of which - I know I've been crossing my fingers for Kayne's departure for ages, but Jeffrey deserved to go this time. The judges seem so out of touch! Jeffrey's problem isn't that he can't go beyond "edgy," it's that he can't go beyond Hot Topic! The POS he sent down the runway...augh. It's not clear to me whether Kayne got the axe because his dress was bad and betrayed wack ideas about how to do "tasteful" (which it did) or because he failed on technical grounds to complete the challenge.

For as close as we are to the end, and for the presence of a potentially major twist, this was a surprisingly dull episode. :( And they torment us with a little thumbnail of Alison in the poll! :( x 2.

Not for one second. Re-introducing those two was cruel to the contestants and not even any fun for the viewers. OF COURSE they weren't going to be able to hold their own. They never could. Laura's speech to Angela was probably unnecessary given the circumstances, but not incorrect. Everyone knows that the only reason she won that challenge was because of Michael and Laura. And the reason Jeffrey won that challenge was because... actually, I'm stumped on this one. I hated that outfit more than most of the other crap he's turned out. Why accentuate a middle-aged woman's growing gut? What's good about that, for anyone involved?

I'm assuming you mean Vincent here....Jeffrey won the jet-set challenge and the couture challenge. I really thought Vincent's "everyday woman" dress was okay - glued-on collar or no.

My friend Mark and I were talking last night and he pointed out that for the finals, Laura and Uli are effectively competing for the same slot. They're both the "predictable" designer with a signature aesthetic - you know what their full spread is going to look like. Jeffrey always does the same genre of crap, but the dresses are individual designs. And Michael, of course, takes each dress as a new piece - which may be a handicap! Does he need the narrow rigidity of the challenges to produce excellent work? Does he have a signature "style" beyond being really fucking good?

But anyway - either Laura or Uli has to go next to make the final anything but a total snoozefest, and I'm beginning to suspect it's going to be Uli. I liked her for a long time but her gowns have grown stale and more importantly she has no personality arc. Laura's mood swings and arch attitude make her some fusion of Dave and Tiffany from Top Chef - there's something to work with there. Uli hasn't had any fights or much face time, and the judges have gotten tired of her. I think it's bye-bye.

duh. Yeah, of course, thank you.

"Angela, we respect your talent and wish you the best. Auf wiedersehn."
"Vincent. Auf wiedersehn."

Laura, on the other hand, is becoming dear to me and I hope she is in the final three. I still want Michael to win, though, because he's awesome in all ways.

I agree it was kind of cruel to bring Angela and Vincent back just to toss them out again, but it was nice to see how irrationally upset Jeffrey was to see Angela. I think he's actually in love with her. Only love engenders that kind of firey hot hate.

Everyone seems to have their own schtick which they don't seem to deviate from at all, except maybe, Michael. Kayne, however, seemed to do just that last night and he still ended up getting shitcanned. I just don't get it.

And how sweet is Michael to come over and help sometimes tragically tacky Kayne?

wow, did I hate Jeffrey's dress. I'm sorry, his whole aesthetic was maybe sorta still fresh 25 years ago. MAYBE. what a reactionary. rock is so conservative.

Didn't like the cut of Uli's - those sleeves! too much. or the print.

This everything bagel with lox and cream cheese is totally rock and roll. This $1 off dishwasher soap coupon is so LA.

GAH.

lol, i was like "where's bon jovi?"

maybe my taste level isn't high enough, but i actually thought (the front of) Kayne's dress was really cute

We've got Jeffrey confessing a little bit of respect for Uli and running around the workroom in her design in-progress - a typical Uli print albeit in a color we haven't seen from her before. Is she going to differentiate enough to squeak through, so we can see 12 of the same dresses coming down the runway at Fashion Week? Definitely worth checking out.

I respect Laura for speaking her mind and calling out Angela for the group win, especially in this case. Laura's crying bit and moment of insecurity was totally preggers hormones talking, I bet. She probably would just be napping if she could. The first trimester is tiring.

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/Product.aspx?p=3&e=0&pg=1&am=-1

Uli's collection seems like it's the mos coherent (SHOCKER that the woman of one dress is the only one sending down a coherent vision).

i watched the heidi klum jewelry hour on QVC yesterday. she sold out so quick they cut the show short by 30 minutes. it was really ugly jewelry too. all clovers and shit.

michael's looks are so not my bag. but, again, totally different aesthetic. he's going to be v successful.

you know, I get the impression one thing abt michael is he usually designs for curvier silhouette and then when he has to work with runway model figure, it's just off.

It's between Jeffrey and Uli IMO. Michael's collection... OMG. Those belts... what was he thinking? There are some great pieces (I love the Uli-style print gown, it's goregous. And I like that fuschia short-thing and the short white dress).

Laura's collection is good, but I can't get over all of those garish rhinestones she pull all over the gowns. Ugh.

I love, love, LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Uli's collection. LOVE!!

so much fun!
this too

Lots of people seem to like Uli's and be disappointed by Michael's. I admit I don't really think about and can't really get my head around what it would be like to wear them, but I fail to get it here. Yeah, Uli's longer dresses are nicer than I thought on initial inspection, but they're still a little gaudy, and those short dresses look like the girls are wearing towels. Meanwhile, the objection to Michael's seems to be a) I'm too body-conscious to wear them, therefore they're bad, and/or b) they're too hiphop-flavored (i'll put it charitably), therefore they're bad.

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/21688/

This week: final challenge, top three revealed
Next week: reunion show?
Week after: Song and dance?
After week after: 2-hour Extravaganza?

also, i dont really understand why the judges were so into uli's dress. it was ok, but not great imo

the most disappointing thing at this point in the season is that we've seen the best from all these people now. There's no more surprises, Uli making a dress that ended higher than the ankle is the last of that.

And yeah, the dresses were boring. Jeffrey's dress look like it had a potato sack attached to the bottom of it.

I AM SO BORED WITH ULI. Hippy dippy is not the style for me. Who wants to wear tye-dyed anyway?

O! T! M! I really don't think Uli would have won using a different model. Nazri took that vasted hippie dress and made it awesome. And her picture playing drums with the band was great and also 100% Nazri. It sucks that she's not Michaels model anymore because now, if I want Michael to win, I have to want Nazri to lose.

Life is so unfair sometimes.

You're not the only one...(this is a "kick me" sign I'm placing on my back - use it well)

it still looked like an angela outtake, but still

When they said to pick three words, I predicted that Jeffrey's would be "rock and roll."

I don't think Nazri loses anything by having this amazing exposure to model scouts.

I actually hadn't thought of this and it makes me feel better. Which makes me think I'm a little too attached to this show.

Does anyone else think that the "everybody stays" twist was cooked up specifically because they had planned to kick off Uli and then found they had no justifiable way of doing so?

I'm not holding my breath that the reunion will be anything good. In Top Chef it was a genuinely unpleasant viewing experience, watching real people trapped in a room with hosts insistent on keeping them to their official story roles. Not easy when the show has elected to typecast you as "the bitch" and everybody else has decided to play along with the circus. Also, watch as people who were kicked out early try desperately to raise their profiles! (Looks like Malan will be sticking pretty close to his schtick, for example.)

xpost obviously. Malan showed at Fashion Week!

I want Bradley Baumkirchner to win. I'm probably the only one.

the top chef reunion was such a trainwreck, but drunk Stephen was 100% adorable

Um...not sure how to respond to this really. It's reality TV, one, so we all know shit is created out of editing, and two, it's a bullshit gendered narrative anyway. Men "playing to win" and "not there to make friends" = strong competitor, smart, confident - woman with same lines = "bitch." There were a few specific points at which Tiffani actually did something genuinely rude or otherwise semi-evil, but as a general rule, when the editing, the ads, and the recap are beating it down your throat "REMEMBER WHEN TIFFANI WAS SUCH A BITCH?" it's a sign that there wasn't really all that much going on drama-wise and they had to make the most out of what they had. It works fine as entertainment but breaks down considerably when you get the people in "backstage" mode, brought in for a reunion, and they find out they're expected to play up to the role that's been crafted for them. It's all well and good for Dave to interrupt people and declare "I'm not your bitch, bitch" and get his airtime, because he knows he's been cast as the victim of her aggression and so he can win points by being loud and shouting over her. It's a no-win for Tiffani, who never did anything wrong on the show and has the sense of self to refuse to apologize and fulfill the script.

Everyone on the show thought she was a bitch. I mean, everyone. Did you even watch the show? I mean, sure, the producers created a character for her, and she's probably not nearly as bad as depicted, but she also was the least popular person on the show other than Ken among the actual contestants. She chose a Zulema-like approach of "business, not personal", but without Zulema's sense of humor or personal flair. During the reunion, even Harold, ever the politician, recoiled at her touch.

This is not to say that Dave isn't a piece of shit, because he quite certainly is.

OTM

and FUCK FUCK FUCK jeffrey. any ex-junkie who remains an asshole wasn't humbled enough by the experience. maybe he should have another go-round...

omg. I had a argument with my sister about whether or not one of the judges on the show said this exact thing...and now I realize I was actually quoting Todd Swiss. :(

I'm sorry. You want her as a what?

Why the saddy face? Todd Swiss is obviously the new Michael Kors.

Yeah, actually.

I do hope that Malan's really an actor - can anyone really be that affected?

ell - oh - bloody - ell.

It's posts like this that have cropped up more and more often that make me really wonder why the hell I waste any time here at all?

kyle, I liked the dress too! Though yeah, wtf was he talking about with the sewing and crying thing?

I wish they'd done a montage of Jeffrey saying "rock and roll."