Challenge: 13 look collection featuring 1 uncoventional materials look & 1 new look: a machine washable look.
Judges
I wanna steal Kerry's dress so bad. So freaking cute. In certain light, I like Heidi's dress cuz it looks bronze. It other light it looks green which makes me not like it. Nina please wear a dress. That's cute, but this is the finale. Step it up.
Mentor
Not so crazy about Tim's paisley on plaid. He's usually spot on when mixing prints. He's not here.
Work Room, Mood, Backstage, etc.
Tim I love the plaid as always. I want to buy those shoes for my hubby. Brandon, if it weren't for those shoes this outfit would be soo boring.
Yay bow ties. Dom you look straight out of the 90's, and I don't mean that as a compliments
Finally Justin looks chich and not just comfortable. That leather blazer is dope.
You can't out cute wedge booties with your workout attire & think you've saved the outfit. You haven't. Save it for the gym.
This is one of her many pieces from her massive collection that she nixed. Good thing. That looks like a little girl's nightgown & gym capris. Did you get all your kids at the camp to do the sewing for you or something? You made soo many pieces.
I love the bow tie & pink shirt, but the texture in that suit makes it look old.
Really cute if it were either belted or used as a beach coverup.
Alexandria-Inspiration: Neo Nomadic Punk
Unconventional: Phone books. Stunning. Such an amazing attention to detail and sewing skills. I hate the hats & headpieces however.
She also made all the headpieces & hats-well she got her kids at the camp to help. Does that count as child labor? lol jk. A bit too simple and not really designed. I'm so sick of capris. I want to burn all capris in the entire world.
I like the cutout in that back of the tank. I think it's unusually done, but that vest looks so cheap. It looks like that rubbery/plastic stuff that comes in shipping boxes when you order electronics online.
This outfit & jewelry piece is pretty chic, aside from the hat which looks like a Burger King cardboard crown cover in feathers with a bill attached.
I like the top half, but I'm not sure who can wear that color. The bottom half is weird. Capris. Grrrr. Weird asymmetrical button tab which makes it look like your hiding something big in there. ;)
Tide Machine Washable Look
She did have 1 look in color. It was purple- vest, top & pants. That's the only thing that bothered me with her collection. Most of the looks were the same 3 pieces- similar pant with similar top with similar vest/jacket. Not enough variation. A collection needs to look like it came out of the same woman's closet. If a woman had that many pairs of the same pants & tops she'd be on what not to wear. In fact it kinda reminds me of the Beryl episode. I still appreciate her aesthetic & would wear some of her things.
Knowing me I'd put change in the right pocket & lose it.
Booty on the runway. She forgot to line this. Couldn't you get arrested for indecent exposure for wearing something like this? The vest would be cute if it wasn't cropped. I don't like it when vests are cropped below that waist. It does nothing for a woman's figure.
I love the material-a really soft leather that she made look airy & easy, but the tail in the back looks like a mistake.
I love this except for the weird slit in the back. I'd be showing cheek in that.
Bradon
Inspiration: First sign of Spring, specifically Crocus flower coming out of the snow.
I agree with Zac on this one. It would've been a better illustration of his inspiration if the skirt had been white cuz that top is a Crocus print. He hand painted the Crocus print.
Cohesive but others were not. I think any of his pieces that had the idea of Spring juxtaposed with more of a Winter harshness, like this floral print with the hard metallic & snowy white worked. The blue draped tide look & the blue tye dye dress didn't belong at all.
This doesn't belong. I get winter from the pants but the top in tribal print. Those pants are also butt ugly. They look cheap and ill-fitting.
If you're equating the metallic as not belonging in the collection then you don't really get the collection. The inspiration is the Crocus growing out of the snow. The metallic is like snow. I live in a very snowy area & am a florist as well in my day job so I get his inspiration to a t. The metallics work. What didn't belong were the blue draped things (the Tide look & the tye dye dress & the tribal print of the blouse of the previous look). For me though, on a personal level, I liked the shorts til I looked at the back. I'd like both of those pieces separately but not together.
Tide Machine Washable Look
Doesn't belong in his collection. It also looks unfinished. I'd be afraid to machine wash this too cuz I'd be afraid it would unravel.
People on the forums expressed that they thought the material of the jacket made the model look wide. I don't think it's the material. It's where the V stops. It meets the ruching in the sleeves which makes that whole section look wide with just a horizontal line b/t the 2 pieces imitating a princess seam in a dress which is usually not a flattering silhouette on anyone but a child. I do like the outfit itself though. It just needs to be pulled in the middle visually with a thicker tabbed waistband or longer arm length or just no ruching.
Unconventional Material Dress: Basket weave
This is beautifully done. It looks like a wearable, fabric dress. u could get away with wearing this in public and no one would know it wasn't fabric. Painting on basket weave it very difficult. The strokes of the painting look exquisite. No broken lines. I just wish it was a dress. It looks like a top & skirt.
Some of the forum ppl thought this looked old. I don't think it's old. I'd wear it, & I'm in my twenties. It's nearly see through. That's not old. My problem is that it doesn't go with the rest of the collection. If it had been in the same shade of purple as the Crocus print & ombred from the purple on top down to white then it would've made sense with the collection cuz it would've been an abstract interpretation of the Crocus coming out of the snow. But that random blue just didn't belong. The back also keeps it from looking old, but the hair style makes her look old (and bald) imo.
My favorite dress in the collection. I adore the seamless blending of these 2 different prints.
That gold is so cheap on a cute maxi dress that doesn't fit it his collection. That back sewing technique looks like back fat.
Dom
Inspiration: Blade Runner, The 1960's vision of the future
She designed all her prints. I love this-The print, the color, the styling, the clutch & the back is really cool. I've never seen that before.
I wanna steal this. I'm a little obsessed with jumpsuits. I wanna wear the jacket on a rainy day.
I like the print, but the double sleeves & high neckline make this look constricting while the back looks like it's about to fall off.
Beautiful and original. The only thing I don't like is the ruching on the back of the dress. It looks messy.
I like the print and the backside, but the front makes the model look wide. I think it's cuz the sleeves need to be cut a bit narrower.
The swimsuit has a great print, but the weird tan-lines the cut outs would give you and the unflattering fit makes this a throwaway pieces. I do like the cover-up though, and I appreciate her attempt at showing more variety in pieces.
I like both but not together. That dress is gorgeous. It's old school in cut with a very new shade of silver.
Yay for jumpsuits! I question the target on the butt though.
Tide Washable Fashion
Lol did you look at the back? Most women can't wear that. I don't judge clothing or design based on what the average woman can wear btw. I just mention it cuz someone on the forums said how it would flatter all types of women. Only a very fit woman can wear this. This girl is a bit thin so the back isn't flattering and makes her look boney. A larger woman wouldn't look good either. My very athletic sister would look amazing in this tho. Plus the hook in eye looks weird & cheap. I love it from the front though. I'd have to seriously tone up my shoulders and back to wear it.
Unconventional Materials-door hinges
Beautiful aside from the booty on the runway. Poor model. I'm glad she put this on the red head. It really pops with her hair.
Justin
Inspiration-Journey of a deaf man. The first 1/3 is being deaf for 18 yrs. The middle 1/3 is the chaos of hearing everything all at once after he got a cochlear implant. The last 1/3 is the peace he has made with it & his hearing.
This is the start of the "deaf" part of his collection. He made all the jewelry in the collection using 3D printing. I love this from lips to toe. Though the hair is an improvement on the monk-tastic hair he had before, I think a blunt straight bang wouldn't looked modern & edgy but still normal and not crazy. She looks like she tried to trim her own bangs and sneezed.
Love. I wonder if the 3D printing will stay but it made on the runway so that shows promise. I love the pleated on this too.
Weird. Though I liker her hair. The proportions are off. The pants are too short and baggy, the top is too lose, and that lips in the back of the vest make it look like a woman's labia. Sorry I went there.
This is the chaotic part of his collection representing when he got his cochlear implant. Aside from the sound-wave print & the belt, I do not like this. I think the whole dress should've been in this print with the belt in th middle. It should be a dress too, not a top & skirt. The shape makes it look very Juniors.
This is perfect. The look before this should've been cut all together and just keep this.
Is this a top & pants. If so I hate it. If it's a jumpsuit I'd like it if he weren't for the splatter paint. It looks like the models with the splatter paint on the bottoms of their outfits jumped in mud puddles before the show or spilled their coffee on it like Bradon's model. The #D print doesn't fit wither. It's not jewelry. It's a print. It's supposed to be seamlessly introduced into the outfit. I like the vest just not styled with the rest of it.
Transition into being at peace with sound & his cochlear. Love the print & the whole look from the front. From the back, she looks like she wasn't painting her house and the drop cloth stuck to her clothes on the way out the door.
Stopping jumping around in the mud. All your clothes will get dirty.
I love this except for the length. Too short.
Inspired by his favorite sound, the sound of rain cuz the gown sounds like rain when it walks. Lose the print. It distracts from the beauty of the dress.
Overall thoughts
Yeah I wish Alexandria used more color. My problem with her aside from that, was the fact that if you look at her design portfolio before she was on PR RW, you will see most of her finale collection already in there. She repeated. This show is to make you grow. I think Dom did that. She usually used other ppl's prints other than the HP challenge so she did all her own prints for the finale, & she finally was able to marry her 2 design aesthetics together. She seems to have a penchant for the 70's-80's & for futuristic. Whenever she went forward I liked her things. Whenever she went backward I didn't. She married those 2 styles perfectly together in this collection. Bradon's wasn't a collection. Justin's was quite beautiful, but he needed to push himself to use color. He said he's afraid of color. Look at his life and all that he's accomplished? Is color really that scary compared to all that he's gone through? Plus he knows Nina loves color. Do 1 dress or something in a color you like as a designer that goes with your collection. If you don't have at least 1 item in a color you will not win cuz Nina won't give you a high score. If he had used color somewhere I would've said that Justin should win, but since he didn't Dom is the clear winner imo.
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