Hello Designers! It's party city this week as the designers must create an outfit out of party store supplies. With party queen judge Betsey Johnson, and a whole lot of excitement chills from Tim, this is just the kind of fashion challenge that makes me giddy with anticipation, and hopeful for a minimal amount of pinata disasters...After a quick stop and shop at Party Glitter it's back to the workroom, which quickly becomes littered with party hats, pink paper plates, Mardi Gras beads, paper cups, streamers, etc. It's like a birthday party exploded in here, but thankfully I'm also seeing some serious innovation and clever uses for napkins, paper plate edges, and shiny fringed streamers...
Someone call PETA! Do you know how many stuffed animals Casanova maimed in the making of his garment?...Between him and Gretchen's unsolicited opinionating I can't wait for Tim to burst through the door already with his suave brand of comic relief critique in the form of some very notable quotables this week...Beginning with Kristen, Tim peruses a packet of odd circular trims she is using for her garish creation and comments on the name- "Animal Wooly Balls?? sounds better in French...!" which then sends Tim, along with Kristen and myself, into tearful fits of laughter...
Five minutes later and Tim is still chuckling to himself with tears streaming down his pink cheeks. Who knew the impact of an innocent ball joke on Tim??!!... A short while later a composed Tim informs Peach on her uptight design- "It's like you have a piece of coal up your rear end.....make it into a diamond and pull it out!" Eloquence personified Tim x
Casanova is frilled
It's judging time and the designers' garments fly down the runway, some looking sensational, and some looking like beat up pinatas. My top three favourites? Christopher's champagne napkin dress with splashes of colored confetti was elegant and extremely wearable, Andy South's black woven ribbon dress (which he barely finished thanks to some generous help from a couple of fellow designers) was fabulous and very Versace, and Valerie's monochromatic napkin cocktail dress was perfectly executed and oh so chic. The worst offenders of this challenge included A.J.'s pink 'everything but the kitchen sink' dress which threw up birthday cake all over his model, Kristin's seaweed pinata, Sarah's 5th grade plastic and paper cut-out palm tree frond project, and of course Casanova's Jekyll and Hyde ode to frilly table cloth couture. I literally laughed out loud when judge Michael Kors called Casanova's model "a transvestite flamenco dancer at a funeral." Brilliant. Though I may sometimes be uninspired by Michael Kors' immaculate sportswear design aesthetic, I will NEVER tire of this man's quotables...
And the winner of this challenge is... Thankfully not Gretchen again, though her three piece metallic chevron-cut streamer skirt, rumpled paper bag biker jacket and tank top were pretty darn impressive... It was Andy South's intricately dark ribbon stunner! Congratulations you deserved it!Meanwhile Sarah's palm tree cut-out dress was OUT as we sadly say goodbye to one more designer. Auf wienerderhausenzein! (one day I'll get that spelling right)...
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