It looks like a paintball competition will play into choosing fabrics. Blake get to pick the first member of his team and the other team’s first member comes from the button bag. It’s Candace. For some reason Ashley is the last one picked. There is a boys team with Merline (who they picked over ASHLEY!) and the rest of the girls are together. Heidi and I are both mystified by this behavior. Ashley has won TWO challenges It was my homeboy who choose Merline! I’m not feeling him at the moment. Ashely is pissed.
Paintball looks painful. Ashley is the only person with paintball experience and she rocks. Blake stayed on the sidelines and never took a hit. The twist is the paintball jumper is their primary fabric.
Edmond already has a great idea. The guys are ready to go. The women are being women. Ashley is not giving her ideas because she is still butthurt. Ashley knows her team is scattered and unfocused and she doesn’t feel like her voice is being heard. The girls are in trouble. Candace is bossing everyone around. The men are working in harmony.
Tim tells the girls all they need are some bunny ears for their Easter Egg pageant. The girls try to regroup but things just get worse. All the girls hate each other at this point.
One of the girls whose name I don’t really know, the pretty, quiet black girl on the team (edited, her name is Laurie) tells Ashley that if they lose they are going to throw Ashley under the bus. What a bunch of bitches.
The boys’ dresses were all very nice. Even Blake has a pretty dress this week. It’s kind of a miracle. I’m not a fan of Merline’s side mullet but her team should keep her in. Edmond did another ball gown with a halter top. Very nice.
The girls are in trouble. I like Ashley’s look as much as one can like this color palette. It looks well made, but as we saw last week, that doesn’t seem to matter to these judges. Laurie is the girl’s name that tipped off Ashley. Her look is very pretty. I actually like the girls designs once you get used to the purple. Amanda has made another maternity dress but this one is a mullet.
The guys are all complimenting the hell out of each other’s work. The guest judges love Homeboy’s dress. The judges are over the moon. They do not name a winner. Instead they call out the losing team.
Candace comes out and makes up a bunch of shit about “their girl” being from San Francisco. Candace needs to go home for simply being a bitch. Amanda needs to go home for her look. Go Laurie! Call her on that shit. Laurie let’s the judges know there was never a clear vision. Candace lies and says that they did get along. Kelly Osborne goes on Candace a bit and so does Nina for trying to defend the whole San Francisco bullshit. Ashley says nothing until she is asked. She says it was a rough challenge, she was picked last and she felt excluded from the group Laurie sticks up for Ashley and basically in the kindest way said every else was a bitch. Kelly says that you have to have a thick skin in fashion.
Heidi calls out Kelly. And she also points out that Amanda made another maternity dress. Kelly O rips every single one of them. They even get called out on the nails. Kelly the stylist, Lindsey, Amanda and all do as Laurie said they would and through Ashley under the bus saying she has the worst look. This is very disturbing. What a bunch of bitches. Before they even get to Candice, Kelly O interrupts and says that this seems like a bitchfest where they all blame one person instead of taking any blame for the collection. Amanda shake her head as Kelly O. is talking. You know, Amanda, the fucktard with the maternity mullet dress. At that point, Candice throws Laurie under the bus saying she is not a fan of culottes. Because she knows the mean girl plan has been uncovered. Ashley is crying. Laurie is seething. Ashley and Laurie both say their least favorite is Amanda’s maternity mullet dress. Because OBVIOUSLY.
They do not choose a loser. They send everyone to stew in the waiting room. Blake redeems himself with me by sticking up for Ashley and calls the bitches mean girls. They deny it. Homeboy encourages Ashely to speak her mind. Merline seems to be crying too. This is not the kind of show I wanted to see today.
The guys go out to have a winner chosen, but I want to watch the camera in the waiting room instead. Oh it’s just the models out there with the judges. Everyone else is still in the waiting room. The top three guys are Edmond (aka my homeboy), Swapnil and Jake. I actually think Blake should be in top three this week in place of Jake.
Nina was the only judge that seems to have any sense at all when picking from the bottom. If these fucktard judges send Ashley home, Tim Gunn better save her or I am DONE.
Edmond, my homeboy wins again. I’m fine with that, but he needs to stop doing the same damn thing every week. Swapnil has shown more range.
The bottom three are Candace, Amanda and Kelly. YES! Candace and Amanda were bottom two. I’ve paused my DVR just to make their pain last a bit longer for me. I hope they BOTH go. But since only one can go, Amanda is Auf’d.
Cordon bleu vs things that shouldn’t be done with fabric?
When that little twit Blake is the one schooling you on your behavior in the waiting room… THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU! I can’t believe Candice actually went through with that fake ass story. FYI… San Fran may be a little out there at times, but I have a relative there who has worn some fashion forward stuff home, but she wouldn’t be caught dead in that shit. (Actually, maybe the culottes. I think they are making a comeback)
I adore Ashley. Want her to make it to fashion week. But she DOES need to redirect her but hurt and let it fire her up. She should have gotten pissed, and designed a revenge outfit… do something so spectacular with her own design that all the judges rave about it even if there isn’t cohesion with the group. Candice and the other mean girls would have to eat crow.
Candice is NOT from San Francisco. I’ve lived here 33 years and the second I saw her house on the road to the runway show I knew she didn’t live here. I googled her and she lives in Silicon Valley, one of those suburban towns where people not only have pools, they have backyards to put them in, flat ones which no one has here, plus it’s way too cold to swim anyway. Its like living in Connecticut or Pound Ridge and saying you’re from NYC. I liked Candice at first but she showed her true colors, trying to cut out Ashley since she knew those weaker girls would weed themselves out soon enough. So glad her evil plan backfired on them all. Kudos to Laurie, she has class and character.
I was thinking the same thing, that Tim better save Ashley if she is voted out. Glad it was Amanda
That “bitch fest” as Kelly O. so aptly put it was awful to watch and I wish that all three of those idiots could have been Auf’d. Great example of bullying and on television no less. I love Edmond and Swinpol (did I spell that right?) and Ashley. The rest can go home now.
I forgot about Blake…I can’t stand his work either or his total lack of personality. I don’t understand anything that he says or does.
I like that Blake had Ashley’s back though. Same with Laurie. I like the three you named but add Laurie as well.
Love your recap on this show TT. I haven’t looked at it in a long time, since Heidi wasn’t on there full time anymore, but I am going to see if I can get this episode online (or maybe the network will repeat it) and set my dvr for future episodes. Thanks TT!
Heidi is on full time. At least since I’ve been watching, five, maybe six seasons. She’s not part of PR All Stars but that’s a different show which Alysa Milano hosts.
I think the girls were trying to get rid of Ashley in a team challenge because she is such a strong competitor.
Candace was playing a game. She can take down Amanda at any time, but Ashley is better competition.
Just my take.
I’m sure they’re threatened by Ashley as competition but they were just being mean girls. It doesn’t make sense that they would purposely lose a team challenge attempting to get Ashley out when the odds were against it anyway (6:1). They threw her under the bus at the end simply because the four didn’t want to vote against each other. Candace knew she couldn’t vote for Ashley too so she threw Laurie under the bus since she’s not really part of their little clique either. That was despicable. I’ve never seen something so obviously harsh on PR before, team challenge or otherwise.
I was going to be extremely pissed if Ashley went home because of the hot mess from the girls. Ashley tried to get them to come up with a concept rather than each woman deciding what she was going to make independently without thought to anything being cohesive. No one would listen. That’s why it looked like Barney the purple dinosaur took a dump on the majority of it. Some of these girls are starting to sound like Real Housewives. Nothing is ever their fault and when they screw up they point the finger at one person and throw them under the bus. I’m glad Amanda went home. Candace would have been my 2nd choice.
I strongly believe ashley will be in the final 3 (she’s the one to beat so far)…That being said,she was a huge baby this episode.She did NOT try to help them come up with a concept.She would merely mention how awful things were going or that they didn’t have a concept,Yet offer no help or solution to the problem.
Candace did try to hear her out in the beginning,but Ashley made it clear she wasn’t helping. thus the comment from candace saying “i’ll make your outfit too”
It was clear Ashley wanted the team to fail,she was being vengeful because they picked her last,and at the same time covering her own ass by mentioning they needed a concept only to be able to say later on (while being grilled by the judges) “I told them so”.
It was pretty shitty of her,but fair play…she got what she wanted.
btw i’m team Merline,she’s the most innovative one there.
Tamara’s homeboy im not too crazy about…nothing he makes really excites me :s
Ashley may not have been overly vocal because she felt like she wasn’t wanted on the team, however, she did try to get the team to pull it together and they were all extremely rude to her. When she said they needed a concept they all brushed her off as if it were a terrible idea and it seemed like the entire fiasco made her lose her confidence and focus. I absolutely do not believe she WANTED the team to fail. The four of them seemed to think they pulled it together at the end but there was no way they were beating the other team. Not even close.
The girls team was horrible, and Candice was the worst of the mean girl, and made a dress disaster. Dress had bad style and awful construction. If Amanda wasn’t consistently on the bottom and on Nina’s last nerve, Candice should have gone home.
Men and Merline did a great job, Swapnil has been a contender with every challenge. Blake definitely stepped up both in design and how he defended Ashley. Edmond too with defending her.
As a former fatty (I had a gastric sleeve last xmas and have lost 46 kg – that’s 101 lb for my American friends) I would put money on it that if Ashley was a little hottie in tight pants – she would be in the clic. Now that I am a skinny bitch I am treated so differently by the world – men women, even my employer. Ashley is sweet and a proven designer – there was no reason for her to be picked after the lame girls I am so uninvested in I have not bothered to learn their names.
I kind of agree with you. She was friendly enough, no other logical reason to exclude her. The same can be said for everyone who didn’t pick her as a teammate. Why else wasn’t she chosen?
Oh & congrats on your weight loss! Must feel fantastic ?
I agree. As I was sitting here reading I was thinking she was treated poorly due to her weight. It is one of the last forms of discrimination. People make jokes about fat people all the time and everyone laughs. It’s sad.
Agreed! I lost over 200 lbs and it’s amazing how guys open doors for me, how I am more accepted. Sorry but if you didnt like me then, I don’t care if you like me now!!
Mobile site is up and running! Yes! Kudos! (Or should I say Kadooze à la Ramona?)
I also know all too well the experience of being chosen last for the team. It completely SUCKS. But Ashley…come on, now…do I have to say it? You’re not here to make friends. This is a competition. No one will “have your back”; you have to have your own. This is also true in life in general. So put your, um, “big girl” panties on and get on with it! I’m worried that if Ashley can be so easily bothered, that she is in for a rough time ahead.
I’ve liked Laurie from the beginning. Her work has gotten lost in the shuffle a lot so far, but I think she’s one to watch going forward. I was VERY surprised that her outfit last week wasn’t in the top 3 – I liked it very much.
If I were one of the guys on this show, I would have SHREDDED Blake for his Precious Princess routine not getting involved or dirty in the paintball battle. You can’t make an effort to get good fabrics to work with? Fine. Work with crap and be unprotected from the wrath of the judges.
Your comment brings to mind, “This is not RuPaul’s Best Friend Race!” After how many years of reality TV competition shoes how the hell do these contestants continue to act surprised when their competitors are ass holes?
She should have said FU to the lot of them and made something that made the rest of them look like the crap they are.
Thanks for reminding me about kadooze.
Ashley seems like a genuinely nice person & it’s a hard lesson to learn. Doesn’t come natural for everyone to be “hard”, but I hope to see her grow up some through the season. Laurie is just so cute & precious, I could listen to her talk all day lol. I hope her & Ashley show these other bitches up!
Amanda makes the same ugly dress over and over and the cries I’ll do better. This kind of made me glad Blake beat out Candace last week. Blake may be irritating but at least he stuck up for Amanda.
Amanda really needed to go. All her clothes suck. Bitches..wish I could walk into my tv and beat the crap out of those mean girls.
WARNING – UNPOPULAR OPINION APPROACHING: Yes, the girls were a bitchfest. No, none of their looks were nice. However, Ashleys’ wasn’t either.
I feel like we have been set up from the beginning, even from Designers Houses, with the “Poor little fat girl nobody loved me I was unpopular but saved by fashion” routine.
Maybe they just don’t like you. Also you’re designs were not that good. Also you didn’t have the balls to speak up, that’s why no-one was scared to throw you under the bus. Remove the easy target without the weapons to fight back. Not nice, but human nature in competition. Everyone assumes the girls should be more compassionate, but they can be just as heartless as men when it comes to winning!
i just hate feeling like I’m being force-fed a sob story. We all went through shit when we were younger. Grow up, put the pie down (IF that bothers you – if not, eat some more cake, enjoy it and STFU about it; no-one cares, it’s YOUR life) and get some BALLS. It’s about designing, it’s not therapy.
But then, I’m commenting on reality TV. So comment invalid. Sorry. Rant over. 🙂
Also I think Laurie made a bad call. Oh, someone’s upset and feeling down? Right, instead of telling her to make herself heard, lets tell her EVERYONE is talking about her and they’re all gonna destroy her.
In my eyes, that’s a shady bitch, too.
I so hope Ashley pulls herself together because I want to see her create a plus size collection for fashion week. Come on girl, dust yourself off and realize that you have a target on your back because you could go all the way. Get your head in the game. How many times is Swapnil going to be in the top three before he wins one?
She will not be creating a plus size collection for MBFW.
And why not? That’s her girl. You would think that after 14 seasons, someone could do something different. I mean it’s Project Runway not a Marc Jacobs show.
This espisode pissed me off. I feel like the women’s team proved every stereotype of women working together – choosing their friends over talent, not being able to lead or follow, talking over each other, no listening, no collaboration and then stabbing someone in the back.
I would respect the women if they bonded against Ashleigh because she is the strongest competitor but they didn’t even do that. They ganged up on the one who is not part of the clique.
I wish Sharon would have waited one more person before she called them out of the bitchfest. Candice only chose Laurie because she couldn’t call out Ashleigh anymore. Plus Laurie spoke out against the clique.
I loved that Candice and Amanda were last. It was sooo done on purpose. Candace only chose Amanda because they were buddies even though Amanda design style is undeveloped. Having it be either or really tore their bond Part and Heidi seemed to be loving it. Bitches got what is coming to them.
I would agree that this is a bad representation of women, but this is the first season we have ever seen so many talentless batches. The girls team sucked and their fabric painting was more childishly done than a pre-k class. The clothes were all dreadful and they deserved to be ashamed of it. Merlons lucked out again by hooking up with a good team. I like this season, it has some drama and it is genuine drama. The heavy girl ( sorry) should have stuck her nose in the air when she was picked last. Instead she got angry. Prove them wrong with your work.
On the fashion side I think jake should have won. He really surprised me as I thought he would go home after Amanda as his work wasn’t that developed either. But he created this whole fabric texture and design as well as dipped Marlene’s coat and came up with the flower idea (even if Blake ended up painting them). I loved his cape it was simple and exciting.
Swapnil Lucci is in the top three again. He is consistently talented and creative. His incorporation of the laces was brilliant even if I wasn’t too into the corset. And his manipulation of the shirt puff/pocket was fantastic. I felt Edmond made a dress design that I saw before even if it was beautiful. That matronly guy did well too and moderned up.
I agree with Nina. It was the most cohesive collection ever on the show, I would have thought it was by one designer.
The women’s outfits were hideous. I though Laurie did well for the crap she was given. Ashleigh’s collar took a lot of work but was made out of ugly fabric. I could see the direction Kelly was heading in so I forgive the poor execution. At least the initial idea was different. The blond lady did okay and Amanda’s dress had great movement on the runway. But my socks are more stylish and exciting than anything she makes. She is so immature she blames her crap design on her teammates failing her.
Thank god she is gone.
I also look forward to candices reaction when she sees her best friends talking head where Amanda called candices work mediocre.
I agree that Laurie’s personal comments to Ashley are a wee bit suspect…
Are you British? Maybe Brits are way too sneaky and cynical…Because that came off the bitchiest (and most devious) way to put someone off their game to me.
So glad the “mean girls” didn’t get there way and send Ashley home. Their color pallete was horrible, but out of any of the girls designs, Ashley’s was the only one that I could actually call fashionable.
Swapnil had my fav this week. I liked Edmonds but more because it was different because of the print for that dress style. I do love him also but didn’t think this weeks dress was particularly amazing. Couldn’t stand the moo moo dress. Could have bought that to sleep in from Kmart. It was her time to go. I don’t really like the fashions from the blonde girl with glasses at all this year either. Nothing fashionable about them if you ask me.
Edmonds looked amazing, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that EXACT dress design on the cover of a 1950s-era Vogue. I mean, I’M no Nina Garcia, I’m just sayin’…
It was very cool and beautifully made.
Thanks for the recap, as I just watched it a bit ago & my DVR stopped taping right before before the loser was announced. ARGH!!!!!
I was hoping they would do a double eviction & send 2 members of the “Mean Girls “clique home. Amanda was the best candidate, though, to send home, and I’m glad to see her go.
I love Edmond because after so many years of being rejected by the show, he seems to have a greater appreciation of the opportunity, but if I had to choose a winner at this point, Swapnil is my choice.
I agree that Edmond and Swapnil are at the top. Their designs – and their behavior! – are so mature when compared to the women this season. The catty girls are just embarrassing to watch and I look forward to seeing them kicked off. Ashley’s the exception, but I’m afraid she’s too sensitive to handle this group and it may affect her work. As far as Blake …. well, I thought he was an annoying little weasel who shouldn’t have won last week’s contest, but — the way he stood up for Ashley was admirable and I’ll re-think my opinion of him.
Lindsey’s outfit is the worst. Baggy capri pants ala 1999. The proportion on the top is off too – straps are too low or something. Just looks bad. Candice said she wasn’t a fan of culottes, but I thought that was a longer pant like gauchos?
I agree. Hideous.
Personally, I hated the “bandage dress” the most it was hideous!
I loved all of the men + Merline’s looks. My favorite designer so far is Swapnil and Edmond next. I did not find Laurie’s warning to Ashley suspect . I think it would have been worst if she was caught off guard. The ladies were mean but Ashley got on my nerves too . Get over it you were picked last !
I agree. Ashley came across as a whiner. She would have been perfectly happy with Merline being picked last but not poor Ashley.
I thought Candace and Kelly had the worst looks. I thought even Amanda’s dress was better than those.
It was really hard watching those bitches gang up on Ashley. I like Ashley and really like some of the clothes she had made. I hope she wins this whole thing.
Kelly used none of the paintball canvas, created a tacky dress with bad sewing and was a member of team mean yet still made it through.
Wondering how long before her “taste level” is mentioned. She clings to the Jesery Show look and it shows in her design.
I was screaming at the TV while watching this and my dog & cat were really confused! I think Ashley has a sensitive artist type personality and those bitches bring up alot of old memories for her. I believe she said she was horribly bullied when younger. I’m predicting top 3 Edmond, Swanpil, and Ashley.They are really amping up the drama this season.
Team Blake now. Soo much dead weight on this show still. Lindsey and Merleene need to go. Same as the old fashioned chunkey guy.
OMG THANK GOD YOU CAN COMMENT NOW! I WAS SO WORRIED!
If I use my twitter account it seems to work perfectly. Didn’t think to try that until the fourth glass of wine.
I didn’t even know logging in with Twitter was a choice. You finally be able to comment has made my week.
Don’t get a big head, it’s been a REALLY shitty week..
xo
I wonder what the clique will have to say when they see how much trash Amanda was spewing during her talking head.
I was JUST going to type that quote about the DVR. LOVE IT! I was so pissed off about those evil little mean girls. Me and my sister were going off on how rude they were. I now have a new respect for Laurie. Great Recap….I am right there with you!
Interesting. Regards Laurie: I questioned her “true” intentions when she choice to tell an already upset Ashley what the other team members had discussed *while* Ashley was trying to finish her garment. The other thing that made me question Laurie ‘ s intentions was when she prefaced her “news” by saying, ” I don’t like to gossip but….” If she truly had Ashley ‘ s back, she would have kept that information to herself not share it with Ashley, who was yet again struggling with her confidence because she was chosen last and had her feelings hurt.
This *is* a competition. Ashley must toughen up if she hopes to survive to Fashion Week. Laurie will not make it to FW, her work is too inconsistent and she does not listen to the critiques she receives. I was so glad to see Amanda be sent home; she should have been sent home earlier, IMO. I think the final 3 will be Swapnil, Edmond and Ashley. However, Merline might make it to the final 3 also; her work is “different” in a good way and now that she has calmed down a bit, I like her.