Mychael
I'm coming around on this. At first I had all kinds of "this is unacceptable. Get him back and remove his win NOW" planned for this critique. But it's pretty cool. In fact, it's kinda beautiful. Love the colour combo, not colours I'd use but he used them well. The cocoon idea is nice if not particularly avant-garde, but something about the way it seems to be clenching but releasing, and the bright colour hidden under the neutral tone does speak to his point of inspiration and it does go to an interesting place. Here ends the complimentary portion of the critique. I liked a lot of the makeup this week, but the milk-moustache lipstick she seems to have going on here is very wrong. The draped pieces in the back looks a little sloppy and the way the neck goes up into the headpiece in the back makes it look like a karate headband. But there's one thing Mychael always gets wrong. It was a problem in his series, a problem in the all-star challenge, a problem last week and is still a problem now. His skirts seem to always be too tight, and it can make a great design look tacky very easily. Look at this. From the knee up she is showing her face, her hands and two tiny slivers of her back. But the skirt being so tight instantly cheapens it and makes her seem slutty. It seems to be the skirt silhouette that he likes, and I guess it would have been ideal to make a really tight skirt for his cocoon inspiration, but an avant-garde version of the tight skirt would, I think, be tighter, and look deliberate. At this level of tightness it seems like it's just his personal taste in slutty skirts. I don't agree with this winning at all, especially because one of Mychael's big things seems to be playing with the boundaries of sexy, and I would consider this a failed experiment in that. But I'm not totally mad about it being top 3 any more. It's not a bad effort.
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