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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 9:41 am
My favorites are Michael, Uli, Laura...in that order.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 10:34 am
As someone who has had clothing designed for her, and who has designed evening gowns and had them made, can I just say... If Jeffrey had been my designer, I would've fired him in two seconds. The customer is always right. Period. In his case, he completely steamrollered over Angela's mom's preferences and did what he wanted to do. And the end result was a very unflattering outfit that truly was "matronly." I dunno if he just extended his dislike of Angela to her mom or what. But his rudeness was completely and totally uncalled for. I truly think he should've been eliminated just for the way he treated his customer. When a designer is contracted to create an outfit, that designer consults the person wearing the design. Personal likes and dislikes should be taken into account. The fact that Angela's mom clearly stated she liked darker, richer colors, should've been taken into account. And when she mentioned that she didn't like the colors, he should've listened. I don't care how many "obstacles" someone's overcome to be who they are today. That doesn't give you a free pass to be a jerk, or just do whatever you wanna do. I would've fired him in an instant. Aside from the fact that the outfit truly was ugly, IMNSHO.
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Bigsister
Member
09-02-2001
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 12:30 pm
Heads up, everybody!! Heard on Larry King CNN last night that Heidi and the folks from Project Runway are going to be interviewed on his show tonight!! Friday, Aug. 25 CNN 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central
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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 2:43 pm
Lexie, I agree. Double standard there. Bigsister thank you! I have that on my Tivo. I never would have know. 
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Zummat
Member
01-31-2006
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 9:20 pm
Robert's "model" didn't look very happy, she didn't smile at all and in my opinion was not convincing when she gave her answer. I agree with the judges on this one, it was really boring. Two huge pieces of fabric and the red was just too much in your face; that's all you saw coming down the runway. Tough choice for the judges this week. Jeffrey's design, if you can call it that, was equally bad.
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Cdbga
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10-04-2004
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 5:39 am
Thanks Ladyinatl (I'm actually in Atl, too!), I'll have to check out the podcasts. About the next week's promos. I'm not sure I was correct with what I said previously. I'll put this in a spoiler box, too, though I'm actually not sure promo content qualifies as spoiler material, I'd rather be safe... Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | In the promo, it looks like the contestants get personal criticism on the runway, Tim handles the auf'ing...they just say someone else handles it, then show Tim. But, they cut to an interview with Michael who says something like "Someone has to go", which is why I thought double-elim...as someone goes every week, so there wouldn't be that kind of surprise about a normal elim. But it is possible that there is only one, just that it is handled differently...so they weren't expecting it at that time. | I only caught the last few minutes of the Larry King thing last night. At the end Larry quickly went through each of the remaining designers and had Heidi, Tim or Nina say something about each one. It was mostly Heidi, but when Larry brought up Vincent, the camera was on Tim...the look on his face was priceless at the mention of that name and he really had nothing to say (in that "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" kind of way)...so they cut to Heidi who said nice things.
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Tuzza
Member
08-19-2005
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 2:50 pm
After finally watching the show, my opinion on Jeffrey was that he was pissy from the moment that he got Angela's mother. It really would not have mattered if she was the sweetest woman in the world, he was over her the minute he met her, because he can't stand her daughter. I also think he was the most negatively vocal about designing for a fuller figure. I think her size made him dismiss her even more. I felt the most sorry for his own mother. ETA: I thought Laura's mother was difficult to work with but Angela wasn't mean to her.
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Beth4freedom
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10-24-2003
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 7:32 pm
It was interesting on the Larry King Show to hear the interviews with the Season One and Season Two winners, but the end was very rushed...they had a foul up with starting the tape to show Kayne, and seemed to have too much footage of each contestant so didn't have time for all of them....they never even showed Angela and Keith as still in the running!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 7:47 pm
Keith is not still in the running ...
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 8:48 pm
Is it possible that the designers themselves vote out one of their own? 'squeek'
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 6:18 pm
oops...didn't mean Keith, meant Jeffrey above!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 8:00 pm
Anyone else think Angela looked like Sally Field's Sybil tonight? Her outfit was terrible. Right decision to let her go.
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Zummat
Member
01-31-2006
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 10:02 pm
Julieboo, you're right about the Sybil ! And I also thought Angela's outfit was awful. I may be eating my words in a couple of weeks, but I don't see Kayne or Vincent making it to the final four. Jeffery is insuferable but that won't keep him out of at least the final four. I will really be surprised if Michael doesn't make it to the final three.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 2:27 am
Jeffery is just plain mean! It's one thing to have creative differences, but the glee he took in continuing to keep talking about the last challenge was just cruel. And then to take on the 'what? it's not personal, i am only talking about the last challenge' was just so childish and manipulative. Man, in the previews, doesn't it look like Laura's belly popped way out? I know you show more each time but how far along is she supposed to be?
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Fruitbat
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08-07-2000
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 4:59 am
This episode seemed disjoined. They did not tell them that that would be traveling in what they designed, for starters. Had they, Laura and Uli would have been wearing something very different. You do not travel in a cocktail dress even if you are going to a party immediately. Designing clothes for an airplane would have been too dull thus the omission, I am sure. Jeffery is likely to make it to the end because he is skilled. Kayne will not survive many more challenges. Both Laura and Uli will get some heat about staying within their comfort zones and asked to step out. At this point I see Michael, Laura and Jeffery in the final 4. The other could be Vincent. If not it would have to be Kayne or Uli and they are on thin ice.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 7:23 am
I missed the second half. Who won?
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 7:34 am
Mean boy won 
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 7:56 am
Kayne really wears his emotions all over his face. When they compared his outfit to Elvis, he looked shocked and hurt. He may make it to Fashion Week, if he learned from this and toned his stuff down. I don't know if his show at fashion week would be a runway show, or a pageant!
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 8:13 am
Note to Angela: When Tim Gunn says your outfit looks "Holly Hobby", that is NOT a good thing. I was glad to see her go. She seems like a nice enough person, but I had seen enough of those "rosettes". And what WAS she wearing when she got out of bed? Oh, and Kor's face when she was showing the Angela signature details on the back of her cargo shorts had me laughing out loud. I was glad to see Jeffrey (aka Mean Boy) win. Winning a challenge just seems to mean so much to him. And his outfit was perfect for the challenge...it was definitely his point of view, but still modern and travelled well. I was glad Kayne didn't go. I couldn't have handled losing him the week after Robert. I am really starting to like Vincent. He seems like a fun sort of crazy. Laura looked gorgeous on the runway and her dress was beautiful. Good to finally hear the judges say what I've been saying for weeks about Uli. Really, can she make anything else? (I just updated my blog. A little later than usual, but I am on vacation, so I slept in. I usually update it at work)
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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 9:14 am
Go to the Bravo site and watch the scenes that didnt make it on the show and come back and tell me how you like Vincent! He is a nut! He was furious that his shirts were laundered instead of dry cleaned. Dry cleaning is not good for shirts anyway, surprised he does not know this. He threatened to quit the show and had producers up with him until 2am.
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 9:44 am
I felt sorry for Angela. But for the life of me I was soooooo tired of the dumb rosettes.It would have been the "tatto" man that she lost too, I am so sorry that worked out that way. I like Laura,Uli and Michael. Poor Kayne, he needs to tone it down, or bring it down a notch or two.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 10:30 am
Initially I liked Kayne, but he seemed a little too vehement about getting rid of Keith, who was my real favorite. Sooo, I lost a little love for Kayne. ABOUT TIME they booted Angela! Like we didn't see this coming week 1!! The only thing of Jeffrey's that I have liked this year is the recycle challenge newspaper dress. I think Jeffrey should have won that one and that Michael should have won this one. Michael's recycle challenge outfit is the only one of his outfits so far that I have not loved.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 12:07 pm
Cdbga, thnaks again for letting me read Tim's take at your site   
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 12:43 pm
Warning - very different opinion here Last week the ordinary woman challenge - I do believe that Angela was delighted that her mother was giving Jeffery a hard time and I believe she encouraged her to continue doing that. I feel the whole challenge was skewed and invalidated by the judges - they should have just announced the thinnest model would win. I did not like the dress that Vincent designed, it was dated and unattractive, but Uli's mother was very attractive and I think that sold the outfit. I think Michael's outfit was entertaining, but then again, he had a normal looking model - duh. Now there was a real challenge for RObert and Jeffery, first the women were not overweight, but morbidly obese - a body type not easy to design for anyway and few designers could make them look like anything. I could see where Jeffrey and Robert were just trying to survive the challenge. Robert did a boring outfit by going along exactly with what his client wanted, even though there was little left for imagination and innovation. Jeffery added a light blue fabric which was flattering and got beat up by his client for it. Why were the clothes so poorly fitted for the overweight woman - well, they did not exactly fit the forms that were available to the designers and the "models" were not avaiable for touching all day, the clothes were made from measurements - can you imaginge where this would have gone if jeffery had fitted this to her figure? She did not want tight clothes and she did not get tight clothes. It is not exactly like any of the designers had experience with morbidly obese designs, that is a specialty niche and it would only be fair if all the models were equally obese. Michael's mom and Kayne's mom were just overweight and still workable. Nope, my issue was with the judges for unfairly judging an unfair competition. This week, the contest was just handed to Jeffery - (unpleasant as he seems to be, odd though in the video where he is not talking, he seems to enjoy interacting with the different contestants). How many times has he said that his clients are rock musicians who have to travel a lot, not to mention his own personal experience. Since I assume he made his own costumes, this was a done deal. Angela's horror outfit was a shot of her personality now that she did not feel restrained by the challenge - she should have realized that it would fail with the Holly Hobby comment and the fact that she did not understand the jetsetter she was designing for (i.e. not really herself). Vince should have been eliminated though because he did a non-design that I could not see anyone wearing outside of the bedroom, it was just pajamas, folks! He also copied the pants he was wewaring for a pattern, I am not sure that is leagal in the context of the contest and may cause his dismissal in a later show. Laura's dress was plain and suitable, I think simplicity is her style. I think it would have looked nice in a patterned fabric, though. Thesse were 2 one day challenges, how much could they expect?
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 2:14 pm
I agree with a lot of what you said Sadiesmom. I think I had mentioned last week that they should have given them workable dress forms as it had to be difficult designing for a size/shape you weren't familiar with when you couldn't really see what your results could be. It was just hard for them to visualize it all. I found it interesting that the designers shown talking positively about designing for an average woman (or being critical of those complaining about it) were the designers with the slimmer models (Vincent, Laura, Michael). of course Vincent didn't see the big challenge, HE had Uli's mom. Oh, and from the bonus footage from that ep, it really sounded like the challenge was a surprise to the moms/sisters as well...like they had no idea that was what they were there for, especially the runway part. I can't imagine that. I know that when my weight is up, the LAST thing I'd want to do is walk a runway on TV, especially as part of a challenge like this. Seems like a mean thing to do to these ladies, who were all very good sports under the circumstances. Fruit, Uli said all along that she was a jetsetter and that she travels in dresses like that all the time. Given that she designs the same dress almost every week, I doubt her design would have been too different no matter what the challenge criteria was. Laura's was great, but she probably would have chosen different shoes! The person who might have made really different choices was Angela...but even if she'd have chosen more appropriate fabric, she probably still would have covered it in those rosettes. Regarding Vincent and the crazy footage, I don't know if I can watch that now...I'm running REALLY low on people I like on this show and I might prefer to keep him on that list for at least another week! But I probably will check it out eventually. In Tim's Take, he says that Vincent use of his pants for a pattern (called a rub-off) was smart and efficient, so I don't think any rules were violated. I found it interesting that Calvin Klein guy loved Vincent's outfit so much. He probably gave Vince high scores and the outfit did travel well, which seemed to be the only criteria in Paris. I don't know that I feel that this was handed to Jeffrey just because it fit his niche. I'm sure they'd have had the same challenge even if he'd been eliminated sooner. And the Miss USA challenge was Kayne's niche. Too bad there wasn't a Barbie challenge this year. (I still miss Robert). And I hate these 1-day challenges. Anybody remember Michael's Pam Grier outfit? If that had been a 1-day challenge he wouldn't have had time to re-evaluate the dress and make hot pants. I like to see the designers given time to do something great and also time to re-think what they've done and recover from it. I also wouldn't mind giving them a second trip to Mood on the 2nd day.
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