Make It Work

MAKE IT WORK, CARRY ON, HOLLA AT CHA BOY

This week the designers were taken atop a double decker tour bus for a tour of The Big Apple. They each were given a camera and an hour to capture a bit of inspiration from the city for a "night out on the town" look.

What they came up with was interesting to say the least. A lot of surprises in the mix, including the winning dress by Kenley. To me, it looked like a retarded tulip. The judges (which including very-bored looking Sandra Bernhardt) said that it reminded them of an 80s Dynasty Joan Collins look. Big shoulder pads and a weird puff of tulle popping out of the right hip. The judges said it would be great to hide a ... It was a surprise because Kenley says she's so inspired by the 40s and 50s but this was straight out of the 80s. In a bad way. The print on the fabric was absolutely hideous, and I don't think anyone but a model could pull off the look. As Joe so aptly put it, it was a bit "Fort Lauderdale lawn cushiony."

Tanlicious Blayne came up with a neon getup that I thought was the worst of the bunch. The fact that he picked flourescent colors was not a surprise considering his hot pink dress last week and the neon pink sweatshirt he had on during this episode. He taught Tim a new catch phrase: "Holla at cha, boy." It was funny watching Tim try to say it. He said, "Hollar at your boy? Hollar? Hello?" Classic Tim.

No surprise that Blayne had to make his presence known to the camera by visually stalking Kenley while she was working on her dress. He kept saying to her, "I'm gonna eeeat you" and giving her a look like he was a demented bobble head. He's probably hoping Bravo will start selling a Blayne bobble head on their website. Organic Leanne decided to scale back her hyper-creativity and organic-ness and wound up making a gorgeous black layered skirt. I didn't like the finished look all that much because I wasn't crazy about the top, but the skirt was so pretty. Heidi loved it and said she'd wear it in a heartbeat.

We now come to Stella. Oh, Stella. You make me laugh the way Christian made me laugh. Your comments are quickly becoming classics. This week as you banged grommets into your leathah with a hammah, annoying the other desingers, you said, "What a gay little grommet" to the uncooperative remnant and I nearly spit out my dinner. You then followed up with a warning to the other nearly-deaf designers, "If you don't like it, get the fuck outta heeya." But not before you said, "I am rock and roll and I'm gonna die rock and roll." Your finished look was impressive. As someone who knows a little about sewing, I know how hard it is to make a pair of pants, especially ones out of leathah.

I absolutely loved Terri's outfit. She was inspired by graffitti and stret culture, and made a gorgeous open-back dress with black pants underneath. I wasn't crazy about the print of the dress, but overall the look worked beautifuly.

Keith was inspired by a delapitated magazine he found on the ground and made something that Michael Korrs referred to as looking like "toilet paper caught in a wind storm." If it had been more fitted and accentuated his model's shape, I believe he could have made something really pretty. Emily's dress got her awffed. She said she was inspired by "the movement and energy" of New York but she made, as Tim put it, "a black dress with a great big oversized corsage." Tim warned her, but she didn't listen and let her big rainbow-brite prom dress go down the runway. She kept saying how underground she is, but this is something that could be easily sold as a prom dress in JCPenny circa 1989. I also thought it looked a lot like Blayne's blinding dress.


As far as everyone else goes, I loved Daniel's dress (again), and Suede "rocked it" as usual.

Next week we get to see the designers go on a big field trip that will cause what looks like fabric stealing, Beatles-inspired fashion, and slurs against the gay community. Carry on. . .