Life's A Bitch
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trinityvixenOr maybe just Laura is.
If I didn't have a good reason to hate Laura after tonight's show, I would use the completely shallow one of I WANT HER DAMN APARTMENT, Holy Crap Do I Ever. But, luckily, I DO HAVE A REASON TO HATE THE BREED MARE. Basically, Laura says Jeffrey's cheating. His garments are too good, to well sewn for him to have possibly done it all within the deadline given them. Now, excuse me, Mommy Bitchiest, but just because you couldn't finish your simple dress with feather/bead/sequin glue-fest before Fashion Week doesn't mean Jeffrey couldn't. His designs aren't as ornate in detail as yours. He sewed to fit his models, probably was very specific about the size he wanted, and guess what? HE CHOSE MODELS THAT WERE THE RIGHT SIZES FOR HIS CLOTHES. It's lazy, maybe, but it got the job done.
And, from what we saw, Jeffrey didn't throw anything out. Laura had to scrap a garment and fill it in again, but Jeffrey had his look almost entirely completed by the time Tim Gunn showed up. Now, okay, the show is trying to make that seem suspicious, but fuck that. Laura is sniping because her outfits are hideous bores covered in flashy details, which, no doubt, took her forever, but don't improve the look overly much. The fact that the show effectively made me anxious for Jeffrey with the scenes from the finale is a testament to their skill at editing (is that happy crying? didn't seem like it!), seeing as I know for a fact that he got to show at Fashion Week.
So, what's the deal then? Will this be like what I thought would happen before, where four people (due to time/scheduling problems) would actually show their collections, but the TV show would ignore the one that had been kicked off in the last challenge? Because if so, they're ignoring the strongest collection. I've seen all the pieces, and, yes, I know I'm biased all to blazes, but Jeffrey's is the strongest. Michael's looks like cheap hoochie wear; Uli's is decent, but has few stand-out pieces; and Laura's is so ugly (SERIOUS UGLY, WOMAN) and outrageous and bland at the same time it hurts my brain to look at some of her stuff (the shiny, shimmery black to silver dress with the GOLD WIDE BELT THAT IS SO GOLD THE GOLD PIXELS BURNT OUT ON MY TV, would be one of many I don't like). Jeffrey's collection, on the other hand, has its share of bland pieces, but for the most part is very Jeffrey and very good. Fashion-y good, not necessarily wear-worthy good (not for me any how, though I do like the green and white stripe dress a lot).
If Jeffrey did get other people to sew his clothes, then fine, kick him off. Even Jeffrey won't have a problem with that, as he clearly said Keith should be auf'd for the pattern books, which makes me think they all probably did a re-read of their contracts after to be sure that they'd be within the rules from there on out. If he didn't and he overstepped, it sucks, but I guess he can use them at his label that he already runs and doesn't hurt for money with. But if this is a bogus attack from the little red-headed blimp that could, so help me...
I just don't see what Laura means. Jeffrey's sewing skills on the show were governed by a time pressure and a constrictive creative environment. Without either, I can fully believe that a guy who puts out collections already has a good grasp of that process and how to streamline the thing where he gets his idea, his sketches and his immediate materials quick enough to give him time for sewing. Never once on the show has Jeffrey backed off a design he came up with, so there's more time saved (NO NEED FOR HIM TO SACK THE CHARTREUSE MONSTROCITY, COUGHCOUGHLAURACOUGH) in not scrapping ideas. That and he's got six weeks for his garments--hell, that's three and a half days of as much work as he wants to put into them as opposed to the time limits at Parsons. That's like twice as much time for his garment making, which means it should be much better quality. What does it say for the rest of them that they didn't also produce that much better on their collections?
Okay, I shouldn't crow too loudly--watch, next week, he'll be shown to have cheated and I'll be pissed that he fronted about it, but still. HATE. LAURA. HATE.
If I didn't have a good reason to hate Laura after tonight's show, I would use the completely shallow one of I WANT HER DAMN APARTMENT, Holy Crap Do I Ever. But, luckily, I DO HAVE A REASON TO HATE THE BREED MARE. Basically, Laura says Jeffrey's cheating. His garments are too good, to well sewn for him to have possibly done it all within the deadline given them. Now, excuse me, Mommy Bitchiest, but just because you couldn't finish your simple dress with feather/bead/sequin glue-fest before Fashion Week doesn't mean Jeffrey couldn't. His designs aren't as ornate in detail as yours. He sewed to fit his models, probably was very specific about the size he wanted, and guess what? HE CHOSE MODELS THAT WERE THE RIGHT SIZES FOR HIS CLOTHES. It's lazy, maybe, but it got the job done.
And, from what we saw, Jeffrey didn't throw anything out. Laura had to scrap a garment and fill it in again, but Jeffrey had his look almost entirely completed by the time Tim Gunn showed up. Now, okay, the show is trying to make that seem suspicious, but fuck that. Laura is sniping because her outfits are hideous bores covered in flashy details, which, no doubt, took her forever, but don't improve the look overly much. The fact that the show effectively made me anxious for Jeffrey with the scenes from the finale is a testament to their skill at editing (is that happy crying? didn't seem like it!), seeing as I know for a fact that he got to show at Fashion Week.
So, what's the deal then? Will this be like what I thought would happen before, where four people (due to time/scheduling problems) would actually show their collections, but the TV show would ignore the one that had been kicked off in the last challenge? Because if so, they're ignoring the strongest collection. I've seen all the pieces, and, yes, I know I'm biased all to blazes, but Jeffrey's is the strongest. Michael's looks like cheap hoochie wear; Uli's is decent, but has few stand-out pieces; and Laura's is so ugly (SERIOUS UGLY, WOMAN) and outrageous and bland at the same time it hurts my brain to look at some of her stuff (the shiny, shimmery black to silver dress with the GOLD WIDE BELT THAT IS SO GOLD THE GOLD PIXELS BURNT OUT ON MY TV, would be one of many I don't like). Jeffrey's collection, on the other hand, has its share of bland pieces, but for the most part is very Jeffrey and very good. Fashion-y good, not necessarily wear-worthy good (not for me any how, though I do like the green and white stripe dress a lot).
If Jeffrey did get other people to sew his clothes, then fine, kick him off. Even Jeffrey won't have a problem with that, as he clearly said Keith should be auf'd for the pattern books, which makes me think they all probably did a re-read of their contracts after to be sure that they'd be within the rules from there on out. If he didn't and he overstepped, it sucks, but I guess he can use them at his label that he already runs and doesn't hurt for money with. But if this is a bogus attack from the little red-headed blimp that could, so help me...
I just don't see what Laura means. Jeffrey's sewing skills on the show were governed by a time pressure and a constrictive creative environment. Without either, I can fully believe that a guy who puts out collections already has a good grasp of that process and how to streamline the thing where he gets his idea, his sketches and his immediate materials quick enough to give him time for sewing. Never once on the show has Jeffrey backed off a design he came up with, so there's more time saved (NO NEED FOR HIM TO SACK THE CHARTREUSE MONSTROCITY, COUGHCOUGHLAURACOUGH) in not scrapping ideas. That and he's got six weeks for his garments--hell, that's three and a half days of as much work as he wants to put into them as opposed to the time limits at Parsons. That's like twice as much time for his garment making, which means it should be much better quality. What does it say for the rest of them that they didn't also produce that much better on their collections?
Okay, I shouldn't crow too loudly--watch, next week, he'll be shown to have cheated and I'll be pissed that he fronted about it, but still. HATE. LAURA. HATE.
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Date: 2006-10-13 01:37 am (UTC)My friend Di, who was on last season, would have long, often tearful conversations with other season 2 contestants after each episode lamenting how awful Bravo made them out to be. Di herself was made out to be a)a huge geek (which is true) b)socially inept (not really true) and c)a moron who is incapable of forming and/or expressing any remotely complex ideas (far, FAR from the truth -- girl could've gone to MIT if she wanted).
Then again, you probably watch this show as if it was fiction. A lot of people see reality TV contestants as characters in a show, in which case, whatever the show portrays is its characters, not the real people. Makes sense, really, in a way.
That being said, MAN do I hate reality TV. :)
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Date: 2006-10-13 02:26 pm (UTC)I also hate reality TV, pretty much exactly for this reason. The first few shows that did it--the first Real World, the first Survivor--were fairly real, or at least not wildly staged, but those days are over. People applying to be on these shows aren't naive, they've seen how people win on other reality shows, and they go into it prepped for anti-reality reality. Don't see the point. I got hooked on PR because it had a reasonable goal--get people who want to be designers to try and be designers--and it's always fun to critique fashion that doesn't have the protection of "Well, it's a LABEL, so SOMEONE likes it." Also, I now love Tim Gunn to blazes, so there's that.