PR All-St★rs 6 Ep 5: There Will Be Dragon Blood

Ah, a Product Placement Episode™ with a bit of a reach.

Alyssa Milano greets the designtestants on the runway to remind them that they’ve been working with some of the biggest brands in the fashion business … like the Rodial skincare group, with leads to introduction of Rodial boss, Maria Hatzistefanis who has envelopes for everyone. As last week’s winner, Stanley, gets first pick and then passes out the rest. When the designers open their envelopes, they find cards inside with wonky words and phrases on them:

Stanley gets smoky, while Amanda has pink diamond. Anthony has dragon blood and Helen has 24 carat gold; Merline is magic gel and Char is bee venom and Josh is concealer. Edmond draws contouring and Kimberly gets illuminating, while Ken gets super acids …WTF … and Fabio is given snake.

Maria Hatzistefanis says the phrases are associated with Rodial’s “hero” products to encourage women not to just think outside the box but to realize there is no box. Um … okay. Alyssa then reveals the challenge: superheroes. Each designer must create an “elegant, high fashion” look that celebrates a woman’s inner superhero, and they must create a secret power inspired by the Rodial product they found inside their envelopes.

Um … okay. They will have $150 and one day to create their superhero looks.

Let’s rip …

SAFES

left to right

CHAR I didn’t hear her story, but I really liked this look. The way the stripes fluttered as it walked, and the different fabric underneath were very cool.

HELEN She said something about this not being slutty but the nekkid pockets on each side were too wide and too low not to be able to see things you don’t need to see.

JOSHUA Speaking of slutty, this isn’t it’ the challenge was an elegant high fashion look, not the underwear beneath the look.

KIMBERLY Helen said the bottom part, the legs, looked like My Little Pony Hooves. Be like Helen because she nailed it.

STANLEY It’s a typical pretty dress from Stanley, and I kind of wish the overlay sheer fabric had more pleats and movement to it.

TOPS AND BOTTOMS

FABIO 

He has snake, and aria tells him that it means powerful and Gothic, and luckily Fabio likes the Gothic part, but isn’t taking the snake too literal.

He does take it quite literally when Anne Fulenwider critiques his dress and calls it ‘grandma.” Luckily, Fabio and Ken and Anthony have formed a bond and Ken and Anthony tell him to follow his design, and that his dress makes Anthony smile.

WHAT HE SAID

It’s impeccable … the paper bag waist is fun.

WHAT I SAID

Now I know what a paper bag waist is, and I like the look, though his choice of shoe—which he was so proud of—seems more Mae West than Gothic snake.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loves the textile and the cut of the top of the dress; she calls it modern and gorgeous. Isaac Mizrahi loves that the look is both dressy and casual, while guest judge, supermodel Karolina Kurková loves the pockets and the versatility of the removable skirt. Alyssa calls it innovative yet wearable and not a literal snake.

MERLINE 

Once again, she’s going Star Trek, as Anne points out; sadly, Merline takes that as a compliment and doesn’t realize Star Trek means costume. But, she does listen to Anne and once more changes her look into something we’ve seen just about every week.

And, to top it all off, she says her woman’s superpower is to melt stuff with a liquid that oozes from her mouth, pores, and eyes.

W.T.F?

WHAT SHE SAID

I love the silhouette and I love the shoulders.

WHAT I SAID

Seen it. And one would think that if she’s making the same choices week after week she’d be able to execute them better.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ hates the proportions and the wonky seams, while Karolina Kurková calls it “clean and modern” but also loathes the messy waistline seaming. Alyssa is simply disappointed to see the same shoulder again and Isaac says he knew it was a “Merline’ the minute he saw it and that’s not a good thing; he hates the seams at the breasts and at the waist and he’s annoyed she’s still making the same mistakes.

ANTHONY 

Maria tells him that the dragon’s blood crème was inspired by Game of Thrones and is both edgy and cool. He says:

“You can tell this a luxury product because you can smell the luxury.”

I think Anthony and Maria are nuts. And I think it’s odd that the idea of dragon blood leads him to create a white dress with huge billowy sleeves that will help his superhero take flight.

WHAT HE SAID

There’s a dramatic simplicity to my look.

WHAT I SAID

Those sleeves are amazing, and it’s a gorgeous dress but I am not getting superhero or dragon’s blood.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Alyssa asks if he can make the dress for her and says she loves the neckline. Isaac loves the back neckline even more and says Anthony is on fire this season. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ loves the billowy sleeves and how Anthony achieved them. Karolina Kurková loved the sleeves and called the look fresh. Isaac did say he had one “annoying bitchy question”:

“Is it too pretty?”

Georgina replied:

“You can’t say something is too pretty.”

Isaac snapped back: 

“You’re too pretty.”

AMANDA

This was her lost week; she couldn’t really come up with a superhero power or idea, but instead chose to focus on the words on the back of the pink diamond box. And that was no help. Her color choice—pink—was one she doesn’t normally use and so she bought paint; what?

And since Amanda loves to color block, Anne warned her to bring something bright and colorful to the look; she also needed to bring something for her model to try on because she was so busy with her hippie patchwork nonsense she had no clothes for her model.

WHAT SHE SAID

I commend myself for doing something a little different, but it still has my stamp.

WHAT I SAID

It looks like she made those stamps out of potatoes and then painted the potatoes and stamped the dress. It’s the same old Amanda.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

After delivering her story, which was totally made up on the fly, Isaac says the waist is too loose and needs to be cinched. Alyssa said it was a lot of lines that don’t work, and The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ called the fabrics “drapery fabrics” and said they look heavy and sad, and like her great aunt made it on a farm somewhere … in 1974, Alyssa added. Karolina Kurková simply said she would never wear it.

KEN 

Ken’s superhero can shed her skin and reveal her inner beauty; which, to him, translates to a flowy jumpsuit in red, with fluttery “super acid” sleeves … or was he on acid when he designed the sleeves. I don’t know, it’s all a blur.

Anne, however, loves Ken’s aesthetic and says his look, and most of his designs, have a “subtle elegance” and that she loves that he’s working with color.

WHAT HE SAID

I love the bold color and the way the sleeves are moving.

WHAT I SAID

It was hardtop tell, but in addition to the bad cap … why? … was there kind of a fabric breast plate over the cleavage, because that looked off to me.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Ken talks of burning flesh and inner beauty and The Beauty Georgina Chapman™ says she doesn’t understand his story, but she doesn’t care; she loves the look—minus the condom on the head—and loves the sleeves, though she pointed out some issues with the finishing. Isaac said the bald cap didn’t scream superhero, and that the look didn’t work perfectly. Alyssa loved the softness and the volume and didn’t notice the condom because she only saw the garment.

EDMOND 

As much as I find Edmond adorable, he does have one POV … sexy glamorous goddess; and that doesn’t always translate in the challenges. His superhero, though, glamorous and sexy, will use her powers to inspire other women to appreciate their inner beauty.

That seems to be a recurring theme in PR Superheroes.

Anne seems confused by the look, finding the model too covered up by the cape, and to confused by the sequins and the leather. But Edmond has a POV and off he goes …

WHAT HE SAID

I really love this cape … the light hits the sequins just right … a little bit of skin but still covered.

WHAT I SAID

I saw a lot more skin once that leather shower curtain came off.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID

Isaac.Hates.The.Cape. He calls it Kardashian and drag queen and says everyone has one, but he doesn’t think it should send Edmond home. The Beautiful Georgina Chapman™ feels like the dress is unresolved but likes the way some of the sequins were used in the gown. Karolina Kurková thinks the cape is all kinds of wrong, but that’s the part Alyssa likes because she’s never seen it in leather … Kardashian? Drag queen?

It was a tossup between Anthony and Fabio, and this time Fabio got the win. As for the loser, it came down to Amanda and Merline and, well, patchwork hippie dresses don’t get you to The Tents in 2018 so Amanda was sent packing.

I was certain Merline was going because she keeps showing the same kinds of looks with the same bad seaming and the same, or very similar, stupid shoulders. But I’m not mad Amanda went because her clothes always just seem off the rack and not very inspired.

Still, Merline needs to go soon.

I loved when Stanley was passing out the envelopes and handed one to Anthony with a “Here darling,” and Anthony said:

“I have no clue what’s going on, but any man who gives me an envelope and calls me ‘darling,’ I’m just going to take it and just see what happens next.”

I also liked that Fabio was able to quickly get over Helen’s Under The Bus comments from last week and be so helpful; very adult. However, I loved that Anthony was not having Helen at all. In the workroom, as he is sneezing and coughing Helen says it makes the workroom “tranquil.” Anthony thinks her comment is rude and says:

“I think that adults who act up in public are no different than children. I think she should be dealt with accordingly.”

Snap!

And i enjoyed when Anne kinda smacked down Josh’s underwear look and he got all pissy and muttered something about how he could make a look out of baseballs, before he added:

“Anne, it’s challenge five babe, we’ve been through this now. Like you know trust the McKinley magic.”

That magic that has kept him safe for five weeks; no Bottom comments, but also no winners, either.

I loathed it when, and this happens on every reality show, Merline said:

“It’s getting real.”

Um, no, it was real from day one, dear. You were just too busy watching Star Trek to notice.

The Tents? Well, it might just be me, but I’d like The Sister Wives—as Fabio, Anthony and Ken call themselves, though Fabio says Sister Wives to No Husbands. 

I’d like Edmond to go to, just to see him in red again. Yummy! 

Helen? I think I’d like to see someone literally throw her under a bus; I loathed when she made fun of the Sister Wives and said she didn’t understand how they could be friends during a competition. That says volumes about Helen. 

Of course, Merline is out, and Char and Kimberly, too. Stanley has a shot if he steps up from just pretty things.

What did YOU think?