Auf-Wiedersehen!

Goodbye, girl so low-key we couldn't come up with a nickname!

Okay, here's your daily allotment of really mean T Lo bitchiness. As we said in the Congratulations post, we only saw the first ten minutes or so of this episode before heading out the door to catch our train. We really only needed to see that much for Tom to turn to Lorenzo and say "She really needs to go." Lorenzo responded with, "Well, now that you've said that, she's probably going home tonight." So, blame us, kittens.

Model: Cerri McQuillan

Scratch that. Blame her.

Look, she seems like a nice enough girl and there's just enough raw talent there that she could actually make a go of it in this industry. As Tim told her when he was shoving her out the door, she should be proud of how far she made it considering how little in the way of training and experience she has.

When we agreed that she needed to go, it wasn't because she pissed us off or anything. It's just that it was obvious to us that she'd gone as far as she could in this competition. She was churning out some very similar looks each week and she had a clear and obvious lack of technique.

This was not a horrible outfit by any stretch of the imagination. We loved the soft iciness of the colors; loved that detail at the neck line; loved the vest and the shorts. But it's so obviously not a covergirl outfit. Not even close. We could see Heidi wearing this walking down the street somewhere with her husband and their 16 children tagging along. A sunglasses and shopping kind of look, not a cover look.

She seems sweet, but she's too much in her own head and this outfit reflects a certain mechanical approach to her designs. She's not putting out pieces that have a lot of personality to them.

One more thing about the judging: they praised these shorts, and from a design perspective, they are pretty cute. But they so obviously didn't fit her properly (hello, insane crotch). That's one thing we've noticed about the judging this season. We don't know if Nina has consciously toned herself down or not, but she's letting an awful lot of things she would have criticized mightily in previous seasons pass by without comment, specifically fit and execution.

Extended Judging:

Tim Gunn's Workroom:

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Girl on the Bottom, Girl on the Top

It's All Live Girls, All The Time, here at T Lo Entertainment, International.

Remember how we said Anna's inside her head too much?

Remember how we're right all the time about everything?


Because honeys, that is not the dress of a person who's making more than occasional visits to reality.

A lot of people seem to think that Anna should have gone home over Jesus. We can't say we agree with that and you're gonna sit there and listen to us tell you why.

See, the most damning criticism of Anna's work here is also in a strange way, its saving grace.

Namely, that she didn't design for her client. That has got to be one of the least flattering garments we've ever seen on this show.

BUT.

It's not actually a bad garment, all things considered. Don't shoot us for saying this, but: picture this on a size 2.

Stop yelling at us! We're just saying what's true here. This would be an almost-cute dress if it had been designed for someone much smaller and younger. Granted, she could have edited out a half dozen of the design elements too.


But the point is, we think that's what saved her from going home before Jesus. The judges could see that at least this dress was designed, even if it was designed for the wrong person. Jesus' dress was just a bunch of tacky cliches.


Okay, so Mila said she wanted to go with the star element because it's in the Campbell's logo?

Um...where?


As for the dress, we don't get it. And when we say "it," we mean, "the judges' reaction to it."

Mila's won the role of Teacher's Pet because apparently, everything she does is fresh and exciting to those bitches.

It's not that dress is terrible. We do like the straps and the treatment at the neckline.

But those stars, kittens. Maybe we're just all dragged up, what with RuPaul's Drag Race back on the blog, but this just looks like a well-made drag queen costume. We can't imagine a real woman actually wearing something like this to a gala event, unless that woman is Wonder Woman, of course.

And frankly, the fit left something to be desired. Not just across the back, but also across the front.

We defended the judges loving her track suit of last week because it was bold and graphic and editorial. Well, she's still working with the bold and graphic, but like every design element, it's about how you use it. We just don't think this usage is particularly sophisticated.


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Emilio & Anna

Last but not...well actually, yeah. Kinda.

"We could've been more innovative but I'm working with someone who has very little experience so I had to scale down just to make sure we had a gown on the runway."

These two didn't make a very good team. They were pretty much drama-free, but that doesn't mean they were bringing the best out of each other. She's too much in her own head and he doesn't seem to have much patience for her inexperience. Result?

Model: Cerri McQuillan

Mediocre.

Once again, the crass question that we need to ask: Do you see 500 bucks here?

And where is the technical skill we've come to expect from Emilio?

And where's the sense of fun he brought to both of his previous garments?

It's basic and dour and not particularly well made.

Model: Valeria Leonova/Alison Gingerich

And while this is at least a much cuter dress, it wasn't without its problems. For one, what the hell does this have to do with Maya and Jay's dress? It shares not one similar design element except for color.

And it too, is pretty damn basic.

Cute, absolutely, and well made. But basic.

And we're not crazy about the sheer skirt.

And that's about all we have to say about that.

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Very Good, Good, Not So Good

We're running the gamut, kittens!

Gotta say, after the first two episodes, Emilio is the clear front-runner from where we're sitting.

Model: Holly Ridings

Because THAT is a knockout of a dress. And all the people who had less-than-kind things to say about Holly's looks can shut it because that bitch's walk can knock a house down.

More than just having superior technical skills and design skills, Emilio's also got a surprisingly strong sense of style. She's the epitome of looking put together.

We like how he used a technique similar to the one he used last week - overlaid panels of a contrasting fabric - but made a dress totally different from the previous one.

And it fits her like a glove. Shouldabin a top 3 at least.

Speak up, Ben. No, really. "Quiet" gets you auf'd. Loudmouths get camera time. Honestly, do we have to teach you everything?

Model: Sophia Lee

It's alright. Ben described this as a classic dress that can be worn now or ten years from now. Well, we kinda had a strong negative reaction to that idea.

This is, after all, a design competition. When you deliberately go for a design that's so classic it doesn't fit into any time period, that's another way of saying "I'm playing it safe."


There's nothing really wrong with the dress. It fits. It's a pretty color. It's cute. But it's just kinda boring.

And we don't think he accomplished the "upside down tulip" thing he said he was going for.

Anna seems sweet, but she really needs to take a deep breath, find her center, and lighten the fuck up.

Model: Cerri McQuillan

Because while this dress demonstrates a technical precision, it is one morose-looking garment. A Dorothea Lange photograph in dress form.

And we don't think it's the dye job. She actually wound up with a subtle, sophisticated print and she could have gone in a lot of directions with it.

But going the "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" route was probably not the best use of it.

Not to mention, the fit wasn't all that great. It kind of hung on her body. And that drab ribbon was a horrible choice for trim.

We think her earnest, intellectual approach has a place at the table, but in the end, you have to make clothes that people enjoy looking at and want to wear. These over-studied pieces of hers aren't going to keep her in the game.

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Last But Not Least

Wrapping this mother UP, bitter kittens.

"I would say that I sort of define myself as an artist and I'm working in the direction of fashion design."

Feh. Too much was made of this fairly innocuous (coming from a recent college grad) remark, we say. Hello? She's like a fetus. Give her some breathing room. You said shit like that when you were fetal too.

Model: Cerri McQuillan

And uhhh....thus ends the "defending her" portion of our program.

Hey, we're all for simple. But here's the thing about that: if you're going to go very simple in form, then, a) It should be a tasteful and interesting material,

and b) It needs to be FLAWLESS.

She kinda failed on all counts.

It's a dull dress and a poor choice of fabric for it. Somehow she managed to make glitter look depressing.

"The most famous pirate you can probably think of," Jesse?

Captain Hook? That guy on the rum bottle? Help us out here.

Model: Megan Davis

And while you're at it, help us out here. Because man, we just don't get it.

She's like a business woman, then? With the pencil skirt and the plaid and all that?

But her shoulders get really hot? Is that it?

And she slept in this outfit last night? Is that the story? Or wait, she put on everything upside down for some reason? We're confused.

All joking aside, we really didn't get this look at all and we REALLY didn't get it when he went on and on about his tailoring skills being evident in the piece. Credit where it's due: he did make three pieces and lined one of them. It doesn't excuse the bizarre fit and incomprehensible concept behind the outfit, but points for ambition.


"I like fashion that takes risks."

Okay, fair enough.

Model: Monique Darton

We'd argue that slapping a big ruffly fungus on a dress ain't exactly unheard of in the fashion world, though.

Like so many of this year's crop of designers, she's gonna have to figure out how to self-edit on the fly. We like the basic concept of the dress and we like the way she used the colors, but that piece is simply way too big. One third the size and she'd have an almost perfect look.

But there's a second problem here besides lack of editing. This dress fits her terribly. Tight around the ass and weirdly loose in the front. That looks like a technical issue rather than a design issue. The basic dress is as simple as it gets. She should have been able to pull off a better fit than that.

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