TFS: Highs and Lows

Merlin's tiny tie says, "Hit it, bitches!"

Yowza. That is BAD (and not in the Michael Jackson sense). The color, the length, the fit - everything here is wrong for this client.

"She thinks her hips are wide so I'm making an off-the-shoulder dress just to give her a very sleek long look."

From what we can tell, her hips look fine. Sometimes a person isn't the best candidate for assessing their own body. That's something a designer should be able to do. You name a body part and there's a woman out there obsessing over hers, but if there's such a thing as the Number One body part that women obsess over, it would have to be their hips. When a client tells a designer that she hates her hips, the designer should take it with a grain of salt and assess it objectively.

It seems to us that if there was any part of her body that needed to be taken into consideration, it was her shoulders. She's broad up top and there are certain necklines that aren't going to accentuate that in the best way.

Like this neckline, for instance. A great look for square-shouldered women is a halter and we can't help thinking that if this dress had one, it would have been immeasurably improved.

It doesn't help that Angel apparently forgot that this woman has breasts. The whole top of the dress is badly proportioned and terribly fitted.

And that belt/sash thingie is ugly and too complicated.

Gotta say, Reco knocked this one out of the park.

They never showed him talking to his model. We suspect that for all of his shade-talking, Reco is probably very good at dealing with clients. Since there was probably no drama in the interaction, we never got to see it.

Lorenzo does not love this look. He thinks there's a - as Nina would say - "taste issue" with a lot of Reco's work.

Admittedly, that top is perhaps a bit too clown-like (especially when she has the vest on), but the overall look was so well rendered and well designed that we both agree that taste is really a secondary issue.

Love the trim detail. You'd never know he whipped this up in a matter of hours.

Yes, it's super-tight (a little too tight across her stomach), but it really is a sassy little look and for our money, it was miles ahead of the frumptastic disaster that won this week.


What a disaster.

Chicken Diva, what has happened to you? All the promise of drama and well-made clothing that you demonstrated in the first episode has totally evaporated. Instead, you've been quietly producing one bad look after another.

This was just another in a line of big missteps for Merlin. Pretty much everything about it is wrong.

For one, the proportions on this look were terrible. The jacket was too heavy and too broad and the skirt was outrageously tight.

Look at her. That is the face of a woman in fear of organ failure. Or perhaps it's just fear that she's going to wind up splitting her skirt in front of a room full of people and cameras.

There was no reason at all for this to be so tight on her. We're confused as to how he could have been so off-base. Presumably, he took her measurements and when you take into consideration his demonstrated technical skills, it makes no sense that he would be so far off.

Okay, that's two down: proportion and fit. What's next? The fabric choices.

Kittens, that is some seriously ugly fabric. Cheap-looking and in ugly colors.

Even worse, the fabrics just don't go with each other. That houndstooth is nice, but what does it have to do with that skirt?

Overall, it's Merlin's worst entry yet. Step it up El Pollo Loco. Without you and Reco, this show is going to head straight into the toilet. We expect bitchery and fabulous clothes from here on out. Do not disappoint us.


[Photos: BravoTV.com - Screencaps: Projectrungay.blogspot.com]


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