Yeah, I know, the new eppy's tonight, but I just haven't been able to muster the interest to post about last week's. This show is a fiasco — the producers OBVIOUSLY dictate who stays/who goes based on who makes the best “TV.” You know what? Crying does not necessarily equal good TV.
Speaking of crying, Ricky opens this episode by complaining that everyone's telling him he's not good enough to be there. Here's a news flash, buddy: You aren't.
Christian thanks the losing model “more than life.” And now it's Tim Gunn Field Trip time.
Our intrepid designers show up at an East River pier building with a big Port Authority sign. The doors open and the warehouse is shown to contain more than 500 pairs of Levi 501s. Their challenge: Create an iconic denim look using 501s and white cotton.
They get three minutes to grab materials after a sprint. Chris manages this run better than the one at the first episode, but Sweet P loses her shoe and gets a very dirty foot.
Back in the workroom, Tim tells them they have until midnight. Ricky tells us he MAKES HIS HATS. Off with his head!
Christian is driving everyone crazy. Off with his lopsided head!
Jillian is annoyed that Victorya is also making a coat; like a denim coat is the most original idea ever.
SP is making a wedding dress. How this translates to 501 iconic, I do not know.
Ricky, feeling insecure, rolls out his resume.
Christian wonders why Chris talks to himself. Everyone else wonders why Christian talks at all.
Rami's borrowing Jeffrey's zippers-as-detail idea from the season three finale. Heck, it worked for Jeffrey!
Tim thinks SP's wedding dress is “happy hands at home granny sewing circle.” SP looks horrified.
Jillian has cut herself and has a meltdown at her sewing machine. At midnight, nobody's done.
The next morning, everyone rushes to their glue guns. Oh, and Christian calls Tim Gunn “TimmyTim.”
Jillian thinks Victorya's outfit looks too similar to hers, though J's model consoles her that it's “Not cute.”
On the runway: Heidi's dress is uglier than anything we're gonna see on the models, and that's saying a lot.
Sweet P is always so excited when they introduce the guest judge; I think that's cute.
Speaking of cute, Rami's outfit is the only one that isn't butt-ugly. Jillian's isn't bad, but it looks like she threw it together in 15 minutes. SP shortened the wedding dress and will probably get to stay to sew another day. Victorya's coat looks like it would best be used to catch feral cats.
The judges love Christian's biker outfit. No love for Chris, though… ooh, “home sewn!” They love Ricky. He cries. Kors says the Amy Winehouse influence is evident. Apparently he means this as a good thing, but to me it construes “crack whore.” They love Rami. They think Jillian's is like flowers on Valentine's day: too much, yet not enough. Kors thinks SP's is “chic.” But Victorya's jacket is stupid and the judges say as much.
Kors says Chris's outfit is “Joan Cusack in Working Girl.”
OMG Ricky wins and his dress will be sold on Levi.com. The other designers look like they want to have a mass suicide right there on the runway.
I thought they'd bump Chris (“home sewn” is usually the kiss of death), but now I think it'll be Victorya. Yup, she's out. The girls hug, and neither ice queen shatters. Amazing.