Elena
Damn you, Underbitch! Another excellent job, and hers is by far the strongest output over the first two challenges. I'm happy for her, I like Elena, but I'm kinda pissed, because Underbitch isn't an appropriate nickname for someone who's putting out this kind of work. I'm pretty sure I can't just call her Bitch either. I'll get back to you on that one. Anyway, another kickass Elena design. And I say Elena design because it really is kind of a list of all Elena's favourite elements: the colour blocking, the neutral colours (admittedly with pops of bright colour here and there in this case,) the silhouette (aggressive and a little cocoon-like,) the structured shoulders, the length and a kind of....deliberate chaos she likes to achieve through symmetry. But d'you know what? I don't care. They all work, and they're put together beautifully. There's a lot happening here, which again is very Elena, but she has a real talent for pulling it all together. I've looked over this thing a hundred times and the one thing I don't like are the yellow panels on the back of the arms. Other than that, it's amazing. Love the shoulder spikes and I can see the bug the best in this one, even maybe a little too well. But it wouldn't have won, just because it wasn't as avant-garde as I'd like. It's right at the edgiest part of wearable, which is perfect for Elena, but when the challenge is avant-garde I need more somehow. Another amazing look, Elena, now for the next few challenges please retire: colour-blocked leather and outerwear. I love them, so do the judges, but you might get labelled repetitive. Keep going strong and, if the competition isn't an enormous fix, you may have a shot.
Melissa
Melissa
Oh, sweetie, have you booked your ticket home for next week? Because if I were you I'd get right on that. I am, by the way perfectly aware that not only are they not reading this but "next week" happened several months ago. It's just fun to pretend. Anyway, this is so wrong. I do think Daniel made the worst look for this challenge and the worst pair of looks, but the judges could have sent Melissa home with no complaints, not from themselves, not from the other contestants, not from many of the fans. There was the tiniest hair's breadth between her and Daniel by all accounts. The one thing that saved her in my eyes was that she has taken risks and tried to push boundaries. God, this really is awful. Actually, no, it's a perfectly fine dress, a fairly good Melissa creation in a lot of ways. But this is an avant-garde challenge, and much as I hate to agree with Alyssa Milano, there is nothing avant-garde about a little black dress. This has, at most, achieved a slight edge to it. The straps are really cool, but there should have been dozens of them grabbing the model's arms. The weird thing on the back is God-awful, a real "what were you thinking?" moment. There's just not a lot of anything happening, except the straps, which should have been taken farther, teh back detail, which was taken way WAY too far and various conventional LBD details. It's dull, and it's disappointing, but the judges wanted Daniel to go instead, and I'm fine with that.
Irina
In my judging session, this was the clear winner. Yeah, it's weird and it is borderline ugly, but at the same time, it's strong, statement-making, dramatic, disturbing (in a good way given that it's a bug challenge,) sexy and I can't stop looking at it. At one point she had plans to use both the yellow and black of her bug. I'm so glad she didn't. A textured black gown is very Irina, but this is like nothing I've ever seen before. Maybe it's not quite avant-garde, but apart from possibly one other design (you know which anyway) it's the closest to avant-garde and I can actually see certain risk-taking Hollywood ingenues wearing it on the red carpet. Apart from the brass back zipper, which I don't understand the thinking behind when EVERYTHING else is black, I love this from top to toe and think it should totally have been the winner. Good job, Siberia.
Jeffrey
What the hell do I say about this? It's bizarre. It's over-the-top. It's actually a fairly good answer to the challenge. What the hell was Isaac Mizrachi talking about, it having to be wearable? Yeah, he's strictly RTW, but with avant-garde, it doesn't necessarily have to be wearable, surely. Anyway, it was never ever the challenge winner, but i'm not sure it deserved to be on the bottom. It's a cool, interesting and new design, and I can actually see the violence and poison of the bug. It's the only one that goes farther than Irina's, maybe a little too far, but to me it would have been safe, for at least trying to push something.
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