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November 25, 2007
Two from the tube
I caught a promo yesterday for a miniseries event for Hogfather. I just had to set a timer for it. Very cool, I thought. If you're into the Discworld thing I'd recommend it for sure. Although I can't vouch much for accuracy, cuz I Hogfather is one I haven't yet read. I guess I'll have to expedite it up the list now.
But I know you didn't come here for happy pseudo-xmas material. You came here for Runway dish. And let me tell you, I called it. Usually I manage to pick either the winner or the loser, at least as long as there aren't a huge mess of dresses to pick from, but this time I was right on on both counts.
The loser dress was easy to pick. It looked so sad and horrible, and every time you can see boobies through the top you know it's gonna get picked on. The poor guy who got eliminated looked so sad, like a little boy who dropped his ice cream cone. It was also funny seeing Christian (who has the most annoying hair EVER) getting called on his overly 80s retro dress. Twice as funny actually, considering that the guy is only 21 so he probably has no idea how 80s that look really was. I knew he wouldn't get eliminated though, because even though the dress was kinda icky and the retro was wrong the design and the execution were much stronger than the grey mess that did the actual losing.
I kinda feel bad actually, because I can still only remember a couple names. But if you saw it you know who I'm talking about, and if you didn't then either you will soon or you don't give a crap. So never mind that - on to the winner.
Here's the thing - of the top two, I liked the one that didn't make it but I knew that it just wouldn't win. I didn't really care for the winning design. It looked bland to me and it didn't give me even the slightest bit of wow. But I could tell by how they reacted, and also by comparing it to the glimpse of the little folder the designers got in the beginning, that the cute little vest on the winning number was what sold it.
I liked Elisa's dress so much better. It was dynamic and amazing. Elisa is the crazy girl, and she is very likely to get herself eliminated in a few episodes. She is just too wacky and it seems inevitable that she is going to weird herself out of the competition in a spectacular way. I am so glad she didn't get the axe in ep 1, because I knew that she could do something new and amazing, and she did it this time. It's a good thing that poor Sweet P got stuck as her teammate, because without somebody to ground Elisa and get the technical details right, that dress would just never have been. It would have been a Santino nightmare.
So, here's to hoping that Elisa manages to get another amazing and crazy design or two out of her head before she goes down in flames. I haven't yet picked a real favorite, or someone that I want to see slapped around the work room - we'll just have to wait and see.
Posted by damyano at November 25, 2007 11:39 PM
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Posted by: Esther at November 26, 2007 09:50 AM