Yeah, Oliver was very annoying in this episode. And I get that some high-fashion designers do think of their work as 'art' rather than 'clothing', but come on. It's unreasonable to expect not to at least occasionally need to consider the human body as the frame rather than a hanger.
Exactly. If you're going to reduce the woman wearing the thing to a framework, then you need to be showing in art galleries, not on runways.
And what does he think his income will come from as a designer? It's not the haute couture customer, it's the woman on the street wearing the ready-to-wear version of the clothing that went down the runway. He's going to have to wrap his head around hips and breasts at some point. I sort of hope that they do another challenge where they design a runway version and a ready-to-wear version. (At least, I think they did that before?)
He hates working for a customer. It ruins the purity of his artistic impulse or something. And he hates "fat" people and breasts and...
But I was also ticked off by how the judges tore into the tastes of the women whose ensembles were in the bottom three. "You want to carry your cell phone in a pocket? What the hell is wrong with you? You like that dress replacing the one lost in transit? You look like a grandmother crossed with a cheerleader." Those women came out looking so jaunty and two left looking beaten. (Boobie Monster and Wife weren't affected.)
I liked the pockets on the pink dress. They were placed low enough that they didn't make her hips look bigger. Compare that to this Miu Miu outfit (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26154094@N03/6110275087/in/photostream).
I know! I do see some of the judges' points, the ones where they basically said "this isn't high fashion, this is something you can buy anywhere off-the-rack," but the rest was ridiculous.
The contestants came into this knowing their tastes would be judged and verbally beaten to the ground by judges, but I doubt those women did. If the woman likes the dress but you don't, save it for the judges-only confab, don't continue to verbally batter her to try to make her agree with you!
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And what does he think his income will come from as a designer? It's not the haute couture customer, it's the woman on the street wearing the ready-to-wear version of the clothing that went down the runway. He's going to have to wrap his head around hips and breasts at some point. I sort of hope that they do another challenge where they design a runway version and a ready-to-wear version. (At least, I think they did that before?)
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Hopefully without the contestants being put into teams again
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But I was also ticked off by how the judges tore into the tastes of the women whose ensembles were in the bottom three. "You want to carry your cell phone in a pocket? What the hell is wrong with you? You like that dress replacing the one lost in transit? You look like a grandmother crossed with a cheerleader." Those women came out looking so jaunty and two left looking beaten. (Boobie Monster and Wife weren't affected.)
I liked the pockets on the pink dress. They were placed low enough that they didn't make her hips look bigger. Compare that to this Miu Miu outfit (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26154094@N03/6110275087/in/photostream).
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ugh.