The designers each showed a collection of thirteen garments.
Any thoughts now?
Anyone want to make a film without the watermarks?
Saturday, February 11, 2006
The Collections Without Watermarks
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The designers each showed a collection of thirteen garments.
Any thoughts now?
Anyone want to make a film without the watermarks?
The designers each showed a collection of thirteen garments.
Any thoughts now?
Anyone want to make a film without the watermarks?
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I'm just concerned for Daniel based on his collection. Why would he not take risks, when he's done so with great success before? It just kind of seems like he wasn't trying.
I can't believe I'm saying this considering that I've never been a Santino fan (not even the outfits he made the weeks he won) but I LOVE his collection! There's only one outfit I didn't like and several pieces I thought were just fabulous!! His line is by far my favorite of the four.
Chloe's is a mixed bag to me, ranging from some that are just exquisite to a few total dogs. When the heck did she develop a satin fetish? And WHY??
Daniel's collection was attractive and elegant and totally boring. It looked like stuff you can buy off-the-rack at any decent department store. I expected more from him.
Kara...um...well...Kara used color. Kara used a LOT of color. And ruffles. And one of the more bizarre hat collections I've ever seen. Did Kara perhaps get into the psychedelic drug cabinet before beginning her designs?? Geeeeeeze.
jrt, I had the same theory! Are we sharing a brain??...lol
I thought that the last piece in each collection (being an evening gown and in 3 out 4 cases on their main model) might be the evening gown from the last episode and a jumping off point for the entire collection. Hence the name of the episode. I guess we'll see though.
And elaine, I agree about Kara! Just because they both had knitted hats does not mean it's a copy cat collection. The streetwear tendency aside, their styles are VERY different.
And I've officially dubbed Daniel V's collection "Sexy Secretary". I loved how each designers collection was so personal to them and individual in style.
Good idea jrt...
Santino- Agreed on the red dress! I loved it!
Chloe- The structured navy dress w/ long sleeves and a cut out back is stunning.
Daniel- I have to agree on the white pleated skirt outfit too, but I also REALLY liked the white coat and the white sweater/skinny pant combo with the sexy buttons on the leg. Also, I loved the long sleeved dark dress w/ the buttons all down the front. Am I allowed to have 4 favorites?...lol
Kara- By and large my favorite was the turqoise and copper dress, closely followed by the blue and purple long sleeved gown.
Thinking on the collectinos...Chloe and Daniel maybe shouldn't have been in the final 3...just my reaction.
concerning evening gowns
Usually when a designer presents their collection, the first pieces sent down the runway are Sportswear or more casual looks. The garments used to close their show are almost always Evening Gowns or outfits that are considered "Showstoppers". You always want to end on a high note.
Great idea, jrt! I think I'll start a new thread to see what people liked the best.
Here's what I'm seeing for the final results...
Decoy: Kara. Here outfits were just... They were very "wtf?" worthy, I'll leave it at that.
3rd place: Daniel. I'd been rooting for him to come in 2nd (behind Nick, of course, so he became my 1st place pick). A lot of his stuff was very blase... I wasn't crazy about it.
2nd place: Chloe. I've liked Chloe since the start, and I think she had some really nice designs on the runway at Fashion Week.
Surprisingly, I'm giving Santino first place. His stuff was incredible. Not Santino at all, but I love it. He clamed his style down a bit, and made some very elegant pieces.
In my analysis of Chloe's collection--I almost can't believe I'm saying that I analyzed Chloe's collection, maybe I need to get a hobby--oh, yeah...PR IS my hobby. Anyway--Chloe's collection did have recurring themes and patterns. The puffy sleeves, the shrugs and bolero jackets, the dropped waists, boxed pleats, and the sheath dresses with double seaming down the front. I can see where she started from a couple of ideas and created around them. Same with Daniel V. I don't get that feel from Kara or Santino. What I'm wondering is--do the rules require the designers to chose a finite number of fabrics and colors? Or is that just what the designers do as part of their inspiration process? Here I harken back to the Michael Kors Inspiration lecture where he created the board of Doris Duke beatnik/beach deal.
I think people's opinions regarding Daniel's collection are going to change once we've seen these on the show with a more clear close-up look.
However, it's cracking me up how diverse all the opinions are here. It just shows that we need them all to succeed to satisfy our different tastes.
Oh gosh, I totally loved Chloe throughout the show, but of the four in this final, I felt hers was the worst!
What's with all the freaking silk charmeuse (or whatever that satiny fabric is)? I mean, yes--its a lovely fabric, but not when it vomits all over an entire collection! And worse, the fabric looks so stiff! Like they were recycled curtains of some by-gone era. The curtain-offense was particularly egregious on the short gold dress with puffed sleeves jacket and pleated trim. I mean, doesnt that pleated trim remind you even MORE of curtains???
Even when the collection veers away from satin, those floral fabrics with the satin trim were also crying. I like mixing textures and all, but somehow these 2 fabrics just rubbed me the wrong way. One was screaming loose and easy going hippy-chick and the other was screaming strict-matron. I don't get it.
Lastly, the puffed sleeves. Speaking of which, those puffed sleeves are another story all together. Perhaps she is ahead of curve as far as her fashion-foresight is concerned, but I certainly hope to god that puffed sleeves are not the next big thing.
All told, this collection was so matronly it made me SO SAD. I only hate this extensively in this comment here because I ADORE CHLOE! I wanted her to win, but I can't say--with that collection--that she deserves to! I don't know what happened.. :((
Well, I've only seen photos so far. Maybe live and up close these designs look far nicer... I can only hope. SIGH
i just took a look at the video of ralph lauren's collection from FW - a lot of clean lines, classic, understated elegance and wearability (for lack of a better term). nothing in his collection jumped off the runway and grabbed me by the throat; yet, it was/is a sophisticated and beautiful line.
then i looked again at daniel's collection - i have to say it struck me much in the same way. nothing "grabs" you in a "wowsa" kind of way, but the technical aspects as well as the sophistication - the look on a woman's body - all that is there. it just looks chic and understated, but classy and well made.
i think he will grab the gold ring after all.
I liked Santino's collection the best - but - I think Daniel will win - not that he should win - but that he will
Chloe's collection really took things from the show - those puffy sleeves - or whatever they were on a couple garments - look, IMO, a lot like Santino's jacket from the clothes off your back garment or even Emmett's jeans used on clothes off your back - one of her gold dresses looks like it has the very same top as Santino's muslin challenge dress -
Don't like Kara at all - garish, clownlike -
This is nuts that I spend this much time thinking/analyzing a TV show -
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