NADINE
At the outset, Nadine is pissed off … dishes in the sink, nobody cleans up and she got a plus-sized model. And you know, prints on a plus-sized model are the worst, according to Nadine. My issue, though, is she’s a designer, and as such, wouldn’t she know the right print to pick, and shouldn’t she be able to create a print garment that is flattering on a curvy girl? Isn’t that her actual job?
But still she vents …and model blames, and shames. She says she loves her outfit but doesn’t like it on her model … “You’re tall enough. You’ve got long legs. You’re supposed to be able to take some long strides. You’re moving your shoulders too much” … and goes all drill instructor, ordering the model to practice at home. But, is it the model …?
Christian says she needs to make it encourages her to make it "modern Golden Girls" and he calls it “waist heavy” but Nadine disagrees and then says “curvy girl” for the thousandth time, while Christian suggests she celebrate the curves.
WHAT SHE SAID
Here I come … it could have been better, with the way the pants fall over the shoes [but] she’s not a very good walker.
WHAT I SAID
Don’t blame the model, blame that hideous print and those hideous pants and that why-is-it-there hood.
‘WHAT THE JUDGES SAID
Brandon calls out Nadine for explaining her own look, her own design, her own print choices, on a curvy girl. Nina hates the balloon pant and the leggings and thinks the look seems “improvised”; she also questions Nadine’s taste. Karlie was also offended that Nadine blamed it all on her model, who agreed, saying, “It did feel like was insinuating that since she had a curvy model, she couldn’t reach her full potential as a designer.” Guest judge, designer Adam Selman says none of it works and he gets dizzy looking at it. As Nadine grows defensive, Elaine reminds her that the critiques are there to help, and they want to lift the designer up … and perhaps off the show?
RAKAN
He’s a mind made up guy; at Mood he picks a boring houndstooth print and when Christian says he might want to go bolder, Rakan rebuffs him and sticks with his first choice. And it might have worked except for the design. But Rakan says the fabric reminiscent of his grandmother and for that reason it stays.
And becomes a very long jumpsuit with ruched legs and arms and the idea of it all overwhelms Christian … “There’s a jacket happening?” He also worries that the look seems a little, um, old. And, as with Christians concerns about the print, Rakan is not having this critique and it ends up looking like two people with nothing in common sharing a meal.
WHAT HE SAID
She looks fabulous. I love the volume of the pants and the drape.
WHAT I SAID
It just looks patched together. I know there aren’t safety pins but I’m feeling like this is a pinned together mess.
WHAT THE JUDGES SAID
Elaine wondered why that print, if it was, in fact, an actual print, and Adam was onboard with the whole Not A Print line. Brandon was confused by the messiness of it all and gave us a Michael Kors-worthy quote: IT looks like the cat got lost in the drapes.” Nina thinks there are “stellar”—like the back of the jacket but calls the pants “unexplainable.” Karlie thinks the knees are odd—safety pins?—and calls the whole look “monotone.”
GARO
Garo loves this challenge since he used to be into the rave scene where everyone was in “stripes and crazy prints” and he’s the New York designer, and he’s picking a bold stripe while the others are going mellow, and he has this.
Which is PR code for, he does not have this. But his ideas seemed valid; he was going to match the stripes, miter the stripes, and create a whole new pattern, but then I think he kinda fell short.
WHAT HE SAID
I think it looks pretty good … the corkscrew sleeve. I know I’m not in the bottom.
WHAT I SAID
The stripes could have been good, and cool and edgy, but these look like prison stripes washed in hot water with a red sweater that bleeds.
WHAT THE JUDGES SAID
Elaine hates the print, though she wasn’t so mad at the superhero pants. Adam thought the fact that it was the boldest, though most dated, print on the runway worked against Garo because there was so much going on. Brandon thinks it’s less raver and more “jazzercise” and if it is from a rave, he wants the drugs to wear off as he stares at the mitered crotch. Nina thinks it crossed the line from kitsch to costume but admits that Garo has ideas.
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