PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 11, Briefly, And Ep 12: The Prints Of Ties

A brief recap of PR All-Stars 5, Ep 11 … where the challenge was to create a wearable piece of avant-garde art with a $400 Mood budget and two days to work; here’s the breakdown …

KEN [top left] was empowered by an artist who is empowered by empowered woman; his piece, with a slit for the model to see into the light, was the only thing that resembled avant-garde — though I agree with the judges who said it should have been longer — and so he wins.

KINI [top middle] created a gown, a very pretty gown, but the only thing avant-garde about it is the pretention … having the model wear a full black body suit. Other than that it’s just a Kini gown.

DOM [top right] took a mosaic piece of art and created a mosaic dress; the dress itself isn’t avant-garde, but the coat does give it an edge. So I guess it was Dom-vant-garde?

SAM [bottom left] saw a digital image of an owl and made a rainbow flag kite — as Alyssa called it — because nothing says LGBT equality like an owl? But his sad, draped mishmash nothing of a dress is safe while …

EMILY [bottom right] was inspired by the colors in a painting and created an almost literal translation of the piece; it’s not avant-garde, though it is cool, though not enough to cool down the producers love affair with Drapey Sam who should have gone home; Emily gets the boot.

Now, onto the last episode … PR All-Stars 5, Ep 12 …

Alyssa meets the designtestants on the runway wearing a digital billboard to advertize the show — seriously, talk about product placement. I figured this week would be the Electrified Design week, but, alas, I was wrong.

However, before we good get back to Billboard Alyssa she introduces special guest judge, Nina Motherf**king Garcia, Creative Director of Marie Claire and project runway diva icon judge, and even I begin to tremble.

Nina tells the designtestants that our iPhones and tablets and notebooks and whatever else you call your electronic thing-a-mah-bobs, are the new fashion accessory and that Otterbox — I’m such a luddite I thought it was AutoBox — uses fashion designers to create phone cases; to that end, one Barbara Meyer from Otterbox, steps onstage — and then quickly disappears … never to be seen or heard from again — to tell the designers that this week’s challenge is to create their own prints and then pair that print with another print purchased from Mood and that the winning designer will create an Otterbox case to be manufactured and sold worldwide. Um, Okay?

Let’s rip …

DOM

It’s clear Dom will win this and the producers don’t even bother with an Oh no! She’s going home! edit … though we get a mild scare when Zanna says she doesn’t really like Dom’s idea of painting stripes on the white leather coat.

Dom took her print and her Mood print and made a side-mullet dress worn under a longish leather zebra-stripe-looking coat … not my favorite look … the dress.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Nina Garcia likes the look, and Dom’s print, but she’s with me on the side-mullet. Alyssa, however, loves the asymmetry of the wrap dress though she wishes it wrapped the other way … which I think it could, given that it, um, wraps? And, naturally, Isaac and the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ love the way Dom mixes prints and prints and prints and stripes.

KINI

He wants to give Dom a challenge — good luck with that — but then he returns to what he does best: an 80s-inspired Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan gown with starship shoulders and a tight fishtailed skirt. In a visit with former All-Star winner Anthony Ryan Auld, he’s told to sex it up because, well, grandma-looking.

Kini’s print, a leaf pattern — which was evident in his computer sketch but less so on the actual fabric — makes up the tuxedo-esque coat, while he uses his Mood print for the long skirt.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loves the silhouette though she thinks Kini needs to reign himself in a bit, and Isaac agrees; he is not a fan of the “cheap” fabric lapels on the coat. Nina says she knew at once this was a “Kini Dress” but she also agrees that the look is over-designed.

KEN

He’s nervous; Ken don’t do prints! And he isn’t good at designing prints either, because he created a sad looking gray “textured” print that he used only on the top half of his look, and used his Mood print — a better looking one, I might add — as the skirt.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ says “there is a lack of polish” in his look, which is odd coming from Ken; she also doesn’t care for his prints, both handmade and store-bought. Isaac thinks the proportions are off saying the skirt could have, should have, been shorter, and Nina says she likes the Mood print much better than the Ken print. Ken, I thought, would explode, but this new Ken simply nods and agrees with the judges … no one’s life is threatened during the critique.

SAM

I liked Sam’s print; it looked a little Hawaiian shirt, though he pixilated the print and made it seem more modern. But then he ruined all that by going for that same tired neoprene mesh he’s used challenge after challenge and making a jumpsuit like he’d made in at least three other challenges this season. He tried to justify both choices by saying he loves the mesh and that a jumpsuit is his “signature piece.” I think that means “I make the same look over and over until I get it right.”

Zanna loved the print, hated the mesh, hated the jumpsuit, and with good reason. The jumpsuit was a sack, and the mesh looked like those things you put under area rugs to keep them from sliding — and I know this because one of my chores while at my Dad’s house was to put the non-skid mats under the rugs.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa liked the print … as a phone cover, while the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called it “challenging” and the jumpsuit a bit lifeless. Nina likes the coat but not with the jumpsuit and Isaac … Thank You Missus Mizrahi … called out Sam for using the mesh again!

The judges deliberated for TV and then, surprise, Dom wins! She’ll make a mini-collection as will Kini. Quelle surprise.

Then they talk losers … Ken or Sam … and that’s when I note that the show is ninety minutes long this week and so I assume they’ll have Sam and Ken do a Sudden-Death-Redesign-In-A-Hot-Minute Challenge. And they do! Seriously, I saw that coming at least a mile away.

Suddenly, there are two “mystery” boxes with giant question marks on them, and a whole workroom behind Ken and Sam … as if we’re to believe that the producers decided at the last minute to have a Sew Off. Ken and Sam will have one hour to take a winning and a losing look from a previous challenge and make an all-new creation. Ken gets his winning look, and Mitchell’s losing look, from the Baroque challenge, while Sam gets Asha’s winner, and Alexander’s loser, from the Fairytale challenge.

Sam makes a micro-mini — Hi Fine China — dress and then, using Asha’s pants as sleeves and Alexander’s bodice, makes a jacket. But, as per usual, Sam’s construction is a hot mess — I haven’t seen so many loose threads since my crocheted thong unraveled at a pool party last year … just saying. Plus, even though the judges liked the bodice-backed jacket, it looked like a coat worn the wrong way; not a fan.

Ken used his original dress, but made it shorter and removed the beading and added a cap sleeve and tall collar with chiffon from Mitchell’s look. It was all Ken; sleek, sexy, strong … and well-made, given the hour he had.

And so, as the tick-tock begins I am thinking that if the producers send both to the finale I would cut a bitch … and make her into a sport coat … but in the end … sigh of relief … Sam’s out and Ken’s in.

Ninety minutes for this? Seriously, enough with the faux drama and the pre-planned OMG last minute redo challenge nonsense.

That said, I’m glad Sam is out; during last week’s episode when Ken went off on him about how all the other designers work and create and sweat while Sam basically drapes and pins, I knew I wanted Sam gone. It’s true; the others really worked at their looks week after week, while Sam draped and made circle skirts and jumpsuits. I’m happy with him gone.

And ... that said, I did think it was nice that Anger Management Ken took Sam aside and apologized for going off on his; he didn’t mean to be so harsh, though at least this time he didn’t hurl an iron. If only Kini had the balls to build a bridge and get over I Made That Look Gate.

But. Really PR? Why the return of the former All-Stars winners? Oh yeah, to fill ninety minutes. I mean, it was nice to see them all — mostly Mondo, whom I love — but it seemed like a colossal waste of time … airtime and my time.

And Ken will get many Lines of the Night for calling Dom the “Queen of Prints” and the “Goddess of Prints” and the “God of Prints” and then the “Prince of Prints” — that that last one stung a bit since Ken brought up the recently departed Artist Formerly Known As Prince.

I’m looking forward to the finale because these three will really put on a show and there will be fashion. And there will be blood … metaphorically speaking.

What did YOU think?

PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 10: Does Anyone Really Know What A “Badass” Is?

Well, it’s the Final Six, meaning there are no more Safe designtestants; everyone’s a Top or a Bottom … and I’ll leave that there. Still, let’s leave it to Sam to cite that age old Reality Show Mantra: “I don’t like being safe.”

Yeah, we’ll see about that. Alyssa Milano meets the designers on the runway to talk about the “Project Runway All Stars” tradition of giving back. To that end, she introduces Yvonne Niami, founder of n:Philanthropy, a women’s apparel company that gives 10% of its profits to fight pediatric cancer through the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Yvonne says the winner this week will design an exclusive look for the n:Philanthropy summer line.

The designtestants will have $250 and one day to create a modern, sophisticated summer look with a “badass” edge, and we hear every from Ken to Emily to Asha to Sam say that they only design for “badass” women.

Yeah, we’ll see about that, too; let’s rip ….

THE BOTTOMS

KEN

Since “badass” is Ken’s aesthetic, he’ll be making a bell-sleeved top and a skirt because nothing says “badass” like a look inspired by The Flying Nun. Trouble is, Ken then switches it up from a dress to separates to pants to what ends up looking like a jumpsuit after Zanna and Yvonne Niami warn him that his look needs more edge and more sex. And maybe more time because once again Ken is stuck at the last second scrambling to make a top for his look … “badass”?

WHAT HE SAID

Let’s keep in mind, I put this together last minute.

WHAT I SAID

It’s chic, but it is so not “badass”.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ calls it a summer badass, but then, to Georgina, a stark white jumpsuit must be a gang uniform; she does call Ken out on the cheap looking belt, but he did create it in about 90 seconds. Guest judge, actress Debi Mazar, felt that the top was giving her a sort of medical vibe; she clutched her throat and I seriously thought Ken’s look would kill her. She also felt the model's but was more wedgie than edgy. Fellow guest judge, designer Zac Posen, said it was neither fashion forward nor “badass” and called the pants badly constructed,  while Alyssa had trouble justifying a white jumpsuit as a Top Six design. Isaac called Ken out for the too-long pants — to which Ken snapped that the model had no trouble walking. Isaac then said, “It’s not easy for me to be the biggest bitch in the world,” causing the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ and Alyssa to say, in unison, “Really??”

DOM

She spent a great deal of time telling anyone and everyone that she’d been in cancer research for three years before giving that up to do something more worthwhile like fashion design; she says she is inspired by rubber gloves and stainless steel … and I’m also gonna leave that there without comment.

She doesn’t want to do lightweight fabrics even if this is a summer look, and picks metallic’s and brocades and silvers and ribbons to create a Dom Textile. The skirt that she quilted from lamé looks suspiciously like the pants Layana created for the athleisure wear challenge last week and yet no one called her out on that. Zanna and Yvonne did, however, call her out on the heaviness of the fabrics and the length of the skirt, though Dom didn’t shorten it at all because of the neck-high — I kid, it was thigh-high — slit.

WHAT SHE SAID

That slit is too high!

WHAT I SAID

It’s a space-age look that doesn’t say summer, or sophisticated or edgy or “badass.”

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Debi Mazar loved the inspiration — she dubbed it “butterfly” — and called it chic and elegant, but said it lacked a waist. Zac said the slit was too high—uh, duh—and wanted some movement in the skirt. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ agreed that the skirt was too heavy and that the look was over-thought, while Isaac called the top an “inside/out aluminum foil” mess and felt that Dom let them all down.

ASHA

She also rode the I Design Badass Train into the workroom, and opted to create a strappy leather top with nude illusion because she was inspired by Josephine Baker. For reference, Josephine Baker used to wear banana leaves while she danced so I didn’t quite get straps of leather to mean La Baker!  Especially straps in dark oxblood leather, which Asha called fresh for summer. Um … okay … until both Zanna and Yvonne called Asha out for the heaviness of her fabrics and the color palette which screamed fall … into the Bottom.

WHAT SHE SAID

It’s such a cool take on this challenge.

WHAT I SAID

The skirt seemed bunched up at the waist because the fabric is so stiff that it won’t lie down; plus, from the rear, the print creates a vah-jay-jay-esque look which isn’t pretty.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said the look wasn’t at all Josephine Baker because La Baker was playful with fashion; she called the look strict and buttoned up and said the harness needed to be juxtaposed with something flowier. Alyssa did, however, love the neckline and the back, but agreed that the fabric was too stiff; Isaac called it “not summer” and “moderate.” Debi Mazar it was dated, like Brigitte Nielsen in the 1980s — and Miss Nielsen was over in the 80s, so, yeah, there’s that.

THE TOPS

SAM

His aesthetic, like Ken’s and Asha’s and Emily’s, is “badass” and so he’s going to make a seersucker jumpsuit because that’s what all the “badass” girls are wearing in Boston in the summer … of 1919. Seriously, you’d really have to know “badass” to make seersucker edgy.

And that’s what Zanna and Yvonne  say, though Zanna adds that she’s seen a jumpsuit from Sam before … and before that, too, and called it safe and the Hamptons … and we all know how “badass” the Hamptons can be. So, again, Sam shreds his look and starts over, and then mutters something about how he’d rather be risky than safe … which begs the question: then why do you always start out making something safe? He ends up with a deconstructed tuxedo that he says a rock star would wear to the VMAs … if they had the VMAs in the 1920s.

WHAT HE SAID

I’m so happy that I decided to shred that initial jumpsuit.

WHAT I SAID

This is the hottest of all hot messes. I can’t even begin to figure out what it is.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac liked the seersucker, though he called it anemic and felt the top looked a little baby bjorn. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ liked it, too, but thought the front piece — the bjorn — was too heavy. Debi Mazar called it a homecoming queen sash, but she did like the shoes … if only this were Project Runway: Pick The Right Shoe, then Sam would win! Zac Posen said a skinny pant and cool top are not enough, and when Sam said this was his second try, Zac said it looked like a save. Alyssa didn’t think seersucker was “badass” and said the design didn’t go far enough.

KINI

Kini is taking a risk; finally, someone is taking a risk, though I am kinda scared. His risk is a genie pant with a swimsuit top and a yellow hounds-tooth cropped jacket. Risk, yes. And he worries that maybe it’s too crazy for the judges, and it doesn’t help when the other designers call it crazy and asks what it is … Seersucker Safe Sam called it an iguana.

Zanna and Yvonne says it’s a lot going on and ask that he tone it down and take away what Zanna called the “disco banana.” So, Kini dyes jacket into an ombré fabric that looked good but did not tone anything down. In the end he loses the jacket and keeps it as a simple white top with genie pants.

WHAT HE SAID

I’m so happy I scrapped the jacket.

WHAT I SAID

While I liked the jacket, without it the look seems edgier and a bit more summer.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Zac loved the 50s throwback, which I totally do not see but … and Debi Mazar loved the draping on the pants, calling the look both edgy and feminine; she also stole Sam’s line — that he uses to describe his own looks — and says the model is “serving it.” The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ was perplexed by the look, but intrigued as well because she liked the risk. Isaac said the look had wit and was edgy and ballsy and summer time.

EMILY

She designs for the “badass” girl and is a “badass” herself, though I think blue hair molded into horns and pink eye shadow under and over the eye is more “look at me” than “badass.” And I disagree with Emily that black is “badass,” even in summer; I also disagree a palazzo pant and structured vest power suit is “badass” and I cringe at the idea that she’ll handpaint it.

No handpainting, please! Luckily I get my wish when Zanna and Yvonne love the idea of the suit — minus the pant — but think it needs to be shorter to create that edge. Emily then takes the sheers to the palazzo pant and makes culottes. I’m worried … because I loathe culottes.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love it. I think she looks great.

WHAT I SAID

I’m not getting summer, but there is an edge to the look. And the culottes are so wide they seem like a skirt, which I like better than culottes.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa wants to be the girl who’d wear that look, saying it has a punk quality to it, and that she loves the feminine culottes and the masculine vest. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loves the deconstructed, rebellious schoolgirl attitude and believes that Emily has come into her own as a designer. Zac hated the shoes … again, if this were Project Runway: Pick The Right Shoe, Emily would lose, and Isaac called it tongue-in-cheek sleazy, and said he didn’t get it, but that if Emily could make him feel like an old geezer with her designs she was doing something right.

Ken’s very safe white jumpsuit, with the too-long pants and the wedgie ass are safe, while Dom’s refusal to do a summer textile, and Asha’s use of fall colors for a summer look land them both in the Bottom. In the end, the non-Josephine Baker look of Asha’s sends her home.

As for the tops — and I think there should have been a Bottom Four to include Sam — Sam’s seersucker suck of a look is safe. It comes down to Kini’s risky genie banana pants and Emily’s punk-edge culottes look. And the win goes to Emily.

I would have given Kini the win just for the risk and the fact that his color palette read summer, but, Emily did step it up this week so I’ll give her props. 

Now … Sam really needs to go for several reasons: he always plays it safe, then he says he hates being safe; that little pat on the back he gives himself after he completely scraps a look and starts over is annoying. Howsabout doing something right the first time and not relying on Zanna to give you direction? Plus, that little cutesy wave he gave to Zac Posen was just another attempt to seem flirty and fun though he comes off desperate. Plus, he like says the word like, like every other like word and it’s like the most like annoying thing like ever. Like, stop it.

Dom gets off a couple of Lines of the Night — mostly at Sam’s expense — when she says:

“I don’t understand Sam’s woman, He designs for, like, fifteen year olds.”

“The challenge was not to create a jumpsuit for a breast-feeding mother.”

Ken’s scoop-neck-pec-revealing t-shirt was a little distracting … in a kind of a good way.

So, last week I said it was Emily’s time to leave and here she is a winner. So, maybe next week she goes? Nothing against her but I don’t see her showing a mini collection. I wanna see Dom and Kini show, and then Ken, though I think they’ll keep Sam around for the drama. Unless they let all four show … ?

What did YOU THINK?

PR All-St★rs 5, Ep 7: Ah, The Old Switcheroo!

Oh the twists and turns of PR All-Stars!

Alyssa Milano inside Mood! Yes, because, as she tells the designtestants, they have been making some pretty awful fabric choices, so this week she’s handing out envelopes telling them what fabrics to use.

The designers will use these random fabric choices to create a high-end evening resort look, but the trouble is, most of the designers — save Alexander who got upholstery fabric — like what they’ve been given so how is that a twist? Just you wait …

Alyssa Milano inside The workroom? Yes, because now she’s pulling what she calls a bait and Stitch, forcing the designers to give up the fabrics they’ve chosen and use another designers’ textiles.

Cue terror; let’s rip …

THE SAFES

left to right

ASHA went from Neoprene to Dom’s Jersey Knits

It’s cute, though it gathers weirdly at the floor … and there’s a turban. Is Joan Collins a guest judge?

KINI went from Brocade to Sam’s Lace

Evening wear is a sheer lace cover-up over what looks like a swimsuit? Is there a buffet in the pool?

ALEXANDER went from Upholstery Fabric to Denim

Yee Haw!

THE BOTTOMS

EMILY

She was given Denim and then took Alexander’s Upholstery fabrics and then cried and whined about them. Of course, she was stuck with a little bit of red fabric and a whole lotta sheer fabric covered in large polka dots.

She is stuck, and angry and bitter and weepy, and when Zanna sees the look that mood doesn’t change. Zanna wants it amped up, sexy, resort evening.

WHAT SHE SAID

I think she looks adorable.

WHAT I SAID

Uh oh. There are some good ideas, but the execution is awful.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ wasn’t feeling the crop-top, the cut-out, or the midriff, and wished Emily had done more with the sheer; she did, however, give Emily props for standing by her design and said that it had a “good attitude.” Isaac loved the top, while guest judge, Alyssa wishes the shorts were more high-waisted because there was a lot of skin. Isaac suggests during deliberation that Emily be removed from the Bottom and made a Safe.

LAYANA

She was given Lightweight Cotton but then snagged Ken’s Silk Charmeuse.

And so here we are: another week, another challenge, and one more time for Layana says this is her win because no one can do what she does … like make a jumpsuit.

An old-fashioned gown of a jumpsuit, according to Zanna who wants Layana to infuse it with a more youthful vibe.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love the way it flows … beautiful … feminine.

WHAT I SAID

It’s a gown, still … a nightgown.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac hates the shoes, and said the look needed flats because, as the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ pointed out, the hem is off and should have been to the floor, or at a higher more modern level; she also said the dress was made for a flat-chested girl, and Broadway star Megan Hilty — love her — agreed; she loved the back but was afraid of major side boobage since the front was cut so narrow.

VALERIE

She was handed a bolt of Linen fabric and then forced to choose Layana’s Lightweight Cotton because some of Layana’s colors were similar to the ones she’d chosen.

And she, too, will be making a jumpsuit and adding a turban because the look is for resort-wear for an episode of Dynasty circa 1983, I guess. Zanna is less than impressed and says the look needs a wow, and a lotta cleavage doesn’t necessarily fill the bill.

WHAT SHE SAID

It’s comfortable … easy … simple.

WHAT I SAID

Valerie describes it like it’s a tampon, which may be accurate because this look shouldn’t be seen in public.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called it sweet and loved the back though the fabric appeared cardboard-like. Alyssa wasn’t feeling it at all, calling it too simple and saying only the giant cleavage path was at all evening, Isaac suggested the look lose the pockets and the necklace and the turban and then go back to the workroom and star over … say on a Sumnmer’s Eve? He said it was retro and not vintage and he loathes retro. Megan Hilty loved the back … that’s all.

THE TOPS

SAM

He was given Lace and then, as the last to choose, had to switch with his arch-enemy Kini for Brocade. And he bitches about the colors and the prints and the fabrics and the lighting and his hair and anything else he can bitch about … except for making another jumpsuit because, as Kini points out, that’s what he does. And Zanna points it out, too, but calls this look Disney Cruise.

And she’s right; the jumpsuit is hideous and so Sam bitches about it and flops on his work table then scraps the look and drapes another brocade on the mannequin, puts a couple of seams in it and calls it “Gorgeous.”

WHAT HE SAID

I am at a loss for words at how good my dress looks.

WHAT I SAID

I wish he’d be at a loss for words more often, but let’s talk the dress: it moves well, but it’s a simple summer dress and nothing more. It’s less Lido Deck and more Garbage Barge.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac liked that the brocade wasn’t a heavy scary brocade and called the look fresh. Alyssa, who Sam used to love, called it homemade, and not in a good way; she was bored, and said it was the same silhouette and that only the fabric — which Sam didn’t pick, made it interesting at all. Megan Hilty again loved the back but hated the high front slit. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loved it from the side profile and called it buoyant.

KEN

As the winner last week, Ken was given his fabric choice first: silk charmeuse, but at The Switch, for some odd reason, he took Asha’s Neoprene, a fabric he doesn’t like in a color he hated. Um, okay?

But he’s going big silhouette, big gown, big color, all things Zanna finds to be wrong. But, as usual, Ken does Ken and keeps the look relatively the same — he does go one shoulder — and it’s … big.

There was a moment of terror when it became Ken’s turn to bust a zipper before the runway but Ken, yes, Ken, stayed calm and fixed it in a jiffy.

WHAT HE SAID

I’m a little bit nervous because it’s simple.

WHAT I SAID

It’s sort of ball gown to me and I am with Ken about the color. But he worked it to his benefit I guess.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ said it was totally Ken, and loved that he had a clear aesthetics, while she did think the draping at the top was too heavy; she wants more. Isaac, on the other hand, was crazy about the whole design, including the color and urged Ken to keep doing it. Alyssa loved that he took a sporty fabric and turned it into a gown, while Megan Hilty loved the color and the shape and the texture.

DOM

She was thrilled when she was given Jersey Knits but a little less so when she took Valerie’s linen. But she works it, taking two of the fabrics, cutting them into strips, and making her own striped fabric. There were some scary moments, I’ll call them Beetlejuice moments, when the striped fabric looked like a coat, but Dom used a simple white for the top, and then threw on a black-and-white belt.

Zanna’s one critique: Don’t be safe. Dom wasn’t safe, she was on top.

WHAT SHE SAID

I love my look! I love the striping and the drape.

WHAT I SAID

I didn’t quite get “evening” but I got beach-y edgy resort. Loved it.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ was shocked to learn that the striped fabric was created by Dom — “What? No! Stop!” — and called the look incredible; she loved that the top had all the drama in the back while the skirt had all the drama in the front and said this look makes her want to see a Dom collection. Isaac loved the textile and the striped belt, but said it was a lot of look, while Megan Hilty loved the drape of the back and said it took her breath away. When Alyssa mentioned that the striped fabric looked like a beach towel Dom said she it was intentional.

With Emily saved by Isaac it comes down to Dueling Jumpsuits: Layana’s jumpsuit that she was sure would win, or Valerie’s one-note jumpsuit that was neither here nor there.

Valerie gets the axe and Layana lives to brag about herself for another day.

As for the winner, it comes down to Ken and Dom — Sam’s nothing dress is not considered worthy. Ken scores for the drama abut Dom gets points for the wow and the creativity … and gets her first win of the season. And the added bonus of having Megan Hilty wear her look at a Broadway event … Broadway Goes To The Hamptons? Maybe.

I loved when Alexander revealed his Upholstery card and even Alyssa was like, WTF? And then Alexander also gets the Line Of The Night when he said this about Kini’s look using Sam’s fabrics:

“Kini may be in trouble [but] it’s not his fault he had three yards of sh*t crappy lace.”

I am glad Dom one because this look was a standout in a sea of kinda one color nothingness. And I agree with the Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ that a Dom Collection would be cool.

I am also glad Valerie took her defeatist ass home; her constant whining was gnawing at my last nerve. And when she seemed annoyed that Dom won using her textiles I screamed at my TV:

“Maybe it was your fabrics, but there wasn’t a chance in hell you would’a used them better.”

And the turbans? Ken? Honey? No. Not even you could pull it off.

Next week Fairy Tales … and I don’t mean the stories Sam and Kini tell about one another as their Bitchfest rages on.

What did YOU think?