PR: Hissing Viktor and Wacky Fallene

Posted on Aug 1, 2011 in Television

Viktor did the whole Hissing Bitch routine – you know, when someone who’s about as threatening as a makeup sponge narrows their eyes and tells the camera how all the competitors are going to fear them because blahblahblah – but after that, it’s like we never heard from him again. Which isn’t to say he won’t turn out to be the bitch he claims, just that the hissing stopped once he was on deadline.

We thought his rack was full of uber-FIERCE queen clothes, like a Christian Siriano on Red Bull, but he showed some range when the time came for it.

He had a leg up in that he had a decent amount of clothing and a workable, adaptable print. The trick was going to be how he used them.

And for the most part, he did really well in that regard.

Using the stripe of his old shirt to make a kicky, statement-making collar was a really smart way to go.

We also liked the way he utilized the black to make some interesting shapes that didn’t detract from the garment or make it less flattering. It all feels very organic.

And the fit is pretty fantastic, as is the execution.

The problem? Well, it’s not really a problem so much because the end result was really great, but if T Lo had been sitting on his shoulders in the workroom, like the little devils/angels we are, we would have warned him that making a dress primarily out of a sheet isn’t going to impress the judges in a challenge like this. That’s why such a pretty, well-made garment never made it into the Top 3. He could have just been aiming to skate by, which isn’t a bad idea this early; in which case using the sheet was a smart way to make something that the judges were sure to notice. We’ll see if he’s as devious as he claims.

ANGELA KESLAR 2.0, amirite, ladies? Give the girl a fleurchon!

We kind of miss Angela, now that we think about it.

She also had a decent amount of material but unlike Viktor, she had a print she really should have stayed away from.

But she’s a Wacky Gal, so of course she couldn’t resist.

Aside from that….

… we’ve got nothing to say. She made a dress primarily out of a sheet, just like Viktor did. The problem here is that the dress is poorly made, she used that puking clown when reasonable instincts should have told her not to, and she cut up her pants and made heavy strips that looked hot-glued to the top of the dress. It’s all pretty bad when you look at it for long. It’s just good enough to skate by, but we doubt the judges looked on this with any approval.

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Anonymous

I loved the puking clown. Just for the record.
- Anonymous
  
  me too!
  - http://www.joannao.blogspot.com JoannaOC
    
    me three!
    - Anonymous
      
      Me, four.
      
      She HAD to use it. If the challenge is to make an outfit out of a bed sheet and what you have on, and what you have on features a Puking Clown, that sort of obligates you to USE the Puking Clown and make it werk. Not using it would have been coasting.
      
      The Puking Clown is the ONLY thing that works on that garment…the rest is meh.
      - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2CNDPMVO4W23R5TVC2QMTJ5BZE Heather
        
        I think ‘Puking Clown’ needs to enter the TLo lexicon, much like ‘unborn fawns.’
      - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=12500056 Joseph Lamour
        
        She should have gone with that clown on the belt or on a purse or something, there’s a way to look cheeky without looking like you bought a sticker and slapped it on your outfit.
- Anonymous
  
  I thought it was top 3 for sure.
  - MilaXX
    
    Nothing where the sheet is doing the heavy lifting and the clothing is little more than trim would make it top 3.
- MilaXX
  
  I think it’s a bit Juniors. That’s not how you add whimsey top clothing for adults.
  - Anonymous
    
    That’s what I thought. A puking clown is hardly high fashion. Maybe Hot Topic.
    - Anonymous
      
      Or Deliah’s.
- Anonymous
  
  The puking clown is hilarious. I love Threadless shirts.
  - Anonymous
    
    I like Threadless too.
- http://twitter.com/annmartina Ann Harste
  
  The puking clown was great and I would wear it in a hearbeat!
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SOGESFWKW4IXQHI63W66NCVTXU sarah
  
  i also love that she used it
  and i just discovered this knitted version of that very shirt
  (as a long time threadless fan and knitting)
  http://www.threadknits.com/gallery/#92
http://profiles.google.com/gillianholroyd gillian holroyd

What is that tag on the yellow cumberbund, more wackiness?

Girl is trying way too hard.
- Anonymous
  
  Yeah, I just noticed that. Doesn’t look wacky at all. It just looks like the girl put the sash on the wrong way.
  - MilaXX
    
    I think it’s trying too hard. A tag can be snipped off in 2 seconds.
    - http://twitter.com/pinup_ghoul Pinup Ghoul
      
      Am I being unrealistic if I take issue with the fact that her ‘invisible’ zipper is clearly visible, way more than it should be? That’s just some sloppiness right there.
- http://twitter.com/mallorylaporte Mallory Laporte
  
  I thought the same thing. Also, on the puking clown close-up, it looks like there is a staple right under his nose. I don’t get it.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIFZ6A7BHP66M546AO77BWVQ4 Bonnie
  
  She is trying too hard-look at me, I”m quirky, irrevent, I’m wearing a barfing clown! Might I suggest this gal should step away from the Red Bull keg in the fridge?
  bitchybitchybitchy
http://twitter.com/maggie162 Maggie

I can’t zoom in enough to see for sure, but is that a tag hanging down from the belt on Fallene’s dress? If so, forget the questionable puking clown choice, that is a big fat freaking HELL NO right there.
Wendy Wetzel

Fallene… oh Fallene…. at least take the neck tag off the tshirt next time… or were you trying to channel Minnie Pearl?
- http://profiles.google.com/trashilove { edi } ilovetrash
  
  she doesnt know who minne pearl is. she’s too young. i barely know who minne pearl is & i’m almost old enough to be her mother.
  
  edited to add:
  sans iman’s being on television & the replays of modern love in the supermarket, she probably wouldnt even know who david bowie is. for the record.
  - http://twitter.com/pinup_ghoul Pinup Ghoul
    
    No way. I’m around her age and I was well aware of Mr. Jones as a very young girl, thanks in no small part to Labyrinth.
- Judy_J
  
  I was wondering about that tag myself.
- Anonymous
  
  Also, don’t staple applique next time. That’s for seven-year-olds making dresses for their My Twinns.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G65AD2RWIJUUOA7B5R54U7652E LE Molnar
  
  You know, that’s not even the neck tag, those are the washing instructions. Threadless prints their brand info inside the neck. So that’s just being really inattentive to detail.
Miranda Prince

I didn’t mind the puking clown, but I agree that the dress was kind of assy. I think it could have been a witty/wacky touch on a better dress. I loved Viktor’s dress, and I was wondering why it wasn’t in the top three, but TLo are probably absolutely right that the reliance on the bedsheet didn’t impress the judges. (My other favorite was Becky’s dress, which I would totally wear.)
Anonymous

Viktor’s dress looks like a real garment that came from a store. A conservative store (In 1992), I should have punched up the styling a bit. or made it shorter, or longer anything to get it out of so-so land.

Puking clowns are very funny to 10 year old boys. Maybe she could have taken a shapie maker and written *fart* on the back of the skirt, that would have been funny too.
- Anonymous
  
  Viktor should have died the sheet…it’s too matchy-matchy, 1992 with the black/white and that silhouette.
  
  Would have punched up the oomph factor on that well cut dress.
- Anonymous
  
  I love you, Sewing Siren. I don’t always share your opinion (though often I do), but I love reading what you say and how you say it.
- Anonymous
  
  LOL!
  
  I agree. Too juvenile. I’m getting tired of the trying-to-be-quirky types.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Lipinski/2201190 Brian Lipinski

I could actually see them asking why she didn’t use the puking clown if she had tossed it.
- Anonymous
  
  I agree. It would have been shirking the challenge. Make it WERQ!
BuffaloBarbara

I think her philosophy here was to show off what it was made from rather than disguise it. I have less problem with the puking clown and the care tag–both of which were jokey references to the challenge–than to the sloppy look of the garment itself. If you’re going to joke, keep it to the obvious jokes. Everything else has to be top notch.

I liked Victor’s dress a lot.
- Rebecca Zmarzly
  
  Like Laura Bennett’s “For Nuts Only” dress. The dress was impeccable, but the way she pleated the back to keep the words on the butt was priceless.
  - Anonymous
    
    yes, that was how to do humour correctly. that was awesome and made her seem less Bad Mommy.
  - http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz
    
    That’s what came to mind just now. “For Nuts Only” was smart. This was just silly and really added nothing.
  - MilaXX
    
    That’s how you do humor on adult clothing.
Anonymous

Fanelle clearly has issues with styling. Yeesh.
http://profiles.google.com/trashilove { edi } ilovetrash

i thought she was making yoga pants? can you imagine the {utterly deserved} invocation of circusy she wouldve gotten had she actually made that into a black & white striped outfit complete w/ barfing bozo? i hate barfing bozo. she had all that color to use somewhere in some pattern & all she did was stick on the dress like an everlovin forlorn appliqué.

even if he’d used a sophisticated color, any sophisticated color –think slate or something– instead of sheet white, it wouldve knocked the dress higher out of judy’s right before they closed. the inserts were a good idea.

as an aside to nothing but w/ nowhere else to put it, there is a tremendously wonderful article about oscar wilde in the new yorker today. i wouldnt ordinarily mention it, but it’s that good.

edited to add:
maybe she was wearing yoga pants instead of making them? i really hated her dress, just hated it, so maybe i was distracted by that.
Judy_J

Fallene’s dress is just plain ugly. Puking clown, exposed garment tag, hiddy stripes, frayed seams. Yuck.
Anonymous

Putting the clown there makes it look extremely juvenile. Like, five year old juvenile. Adults just look weird with clowns on their thigh, puking or not.
Anonymous

I call my son Victor-luna because he’s on a Stellaluna kick lately. I liked this Viktor Luna’s dress a lot. Maybe not Fashion-forward but cute, fit well and flattering. Which doesn’t seem to count anymore.
- Anonymous
  
  His dress looked great, and he has construction skills, but it was pretty much all sheet. I’m sure that’s not what the judges were looking for at this point. We’ll look forward to see what he does in the future, since we know he can sew. Falleen…not so sure (although her interview bloomers looked good).
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIFZ6A7BHP66M546AO77BWVQ4 Bonnie
  
  I’m liking Hissing Victor’s dress now. It isn’t earthshaking, but he turned out a well-made dress quickly, which demonstrates he has some skill. I’m curious to see what he does in the next challenge.
  
  btw, I like “Hissing Victor” – it sounds like some kind of odd nocturnal creature!
  bitchybitchybitchy
Dave Carter

She totally reminds me of whatshername from Work of Art. I am expecting some taxidermy next.
- Anonymous
  
  Ohh yeah! I can just see an evening gown with a stuffed owl on top, wings spread over the shoulders!
- http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz
  
  Oh, what was her name!? She of the unborn fawns!
  - Anonymous
    
    Peregrine
Anonymous

Nothing too earthshattering, but decent enough in execution. Skating by is probably the best strategy for someone with skills at this point. There are so many Amateur Hour designers still in play, the only way someone with an eye and tailoring skills is going home is by really going out on a cracktastic limb.

I wasn’t offended by the clown, but it does seem lame to center one’s design around an appropriated graphic image. I suppose LIfetime got rights clearance for it or we would have been subjected to The Blur over the image.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1344922354 Eric Scheirer Stott
  
  If she’d left if off the Duchess would have said “She left off the only interesting thing she was wearing!”
  - Anonymous
    
    You are so right! That’s exactly what he would say.
  - Anonymous
    
    You are so right! That’s exactly what he would say.
Anonymous

I never minded Angela – and in fact in the arguments I was generally on her side. I cannotr even look at the Fallen(e). BUt then againI literally cannot look at her print.

I think Viktor should have won. The original material did play an integral part in his dress even if not by volume. And by volume, Bert used the sheer for the entire skirt.
Anonymous

C’mon–you know she had to use the clown–if she’d left it out she’d have been criticized for avoiding it. I actually liked the design of the dress (sans clown) but the execution was sloppy. the black and white and yellow was really bright and I liked the intersecting lines. Viktor’s dress was lovely, and kind of what I would have expected from more designers (in quality) given that everything they had to work with was actually FABRIC!
- http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz
  
  True, they would have brought it up. But she had other options. Either work it into an accessory, like sew it onto a little bag. OR cut it into little pieces and sewed them on, mosaic style. Something like that. So she could still use the pops of color. But without the puking clown.
- http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz
  
  True, they would have brought it up. But she had other options. Either work it into an accessory, like sew it onto a little bag. OR cut it into little pieces and sewed them on, mosaic style. Something like that. So she could still use the pops of color. But without the puking clown.
Anonymous

Viktor’s dress was impeccable and looked great on his model. (How awesome is it that he got paired with a non-blonde, non-light-skinned model? I wonder if they did that on purpose.)
- Anonymous
  
  It was a really well designed and well made dress but I think TLo made the good point that it relied way to much on the sheet. His PJ’s were almost and after thought detail.
Lisa Bongiorno

Victors dress has been done before a million times. Reminds me of the umbrella challenge on PR Canada for some reason.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1344922354 Eric Scheirer Stott

Did Angela leave a TAG hanging from her shirt when she made it into a sash???
Tamara Hogan

I REALLY want Fallene’s bloomers. In black, please.
Anonymous

Back from a trip and catching up on the commentary. I had the BEST luck on my departing flight. The pre-show started as the plane took off and there was just enough time to see the season opener up until the moment before were going to announce the winner. I had a glass of red wine and popcorn. There was beautiful sunset outside the window. It was like a dream.
Anonymous

I own that tshirt. I’m all for it. I also like the drawstring effect. Maybe I have poor, juvenile taste… but I like it.
Anonymous

really? i like fallenes outfit quite a lot. yeah, the puking clown is… shall we say, questionable. but she used it to get some screentime, so i can accept that one element as the “reality tv part” of her design. other than that, we have a chic look that has only some slight execution issues. i particularly like the dangling thingy on the back.
http://profiles.google.com/drunkenhousewife Drunken Housewife

If they’d been judging the way they did last year, they’d have given Viktor the win. Last year we had to hear so much about how Gretchen’s clothes were so sellable, would fly off the racks, would sell so much, blah blah blah. Viktor’s dress is so flattering to the figure — those black shapes on the side whittle down anyones waistline — and so easy to wear.

If he’d made this same dress much, much shorter, just over the panties, I’ll bet the judges would have reacted very differently.

Unlike T & Lo, I was crazy about Fallene’s dress. Loved the splash of yellow. Loved the uneven black stripes. I especially adored the toggles on the sides of the hem, a nice, funky touch. I would have put the puking clown on the back, between the shoulder blades. But then again I loved Angela Kessler, too.
Anonymous

Fallene is confusing. There’s nothing even remotely similar in this design to the aesthetic she displayed in her choice of garments to display at the interview.
Anonymous

I REALLY liked Viktor’s dress. It’s very flattering and the workmanship is great. I wonder if he would have gotten more attention if he had dyed the sheet?

I thought the puking clown was epic. But WOW, this dress is really terribly made…decent at a distance, design-wise, but just bad close-up. Is that the tag of the tshirt on the sash, and is that a pin in the clown?
- Anonymous
  
  The puking clown dress was jast awfully made, a craft project at summer camp look. Viktor’s dree was very nice but it just didn’t do enough with the PJ’s and made too much use of the sheet. Dyeing wouldn’t have changed that, useing more of the stripe as details would have helped.
http://twitter.com/susanpcollier Susan Collier

Yeah, Fallene was way too enamored with the puking clown to question whether it belonged on the dress. But then again, I don’t think the Marilyn Monroe dress top belonged to the drawstring laundry bag dress bottom.
Liked Vicktor’s dress. Sure it was mostly bedsheet, but he used the PJ elements in an attractive way.
http://profiles.google.com/drunkenhousewife Drunken Housewife

The more I look at both of these, the more I love what these two designers did. Viktor’s dress is conservative — but my God, it seems like everyone else who had nice tank tops turned them into tank tops. Viktor should get bonus points for his transformation.
And Fallene’s dress — in profile, that halter/scarf looks delightful to me. It’s a cute and fun dress I think people would love to wear (without the clown vomit, of course). And again I just love those toggles at the hemline and the unevenness of the stripes.
Anonymous

Viktor has firmly established himself as a douchebag, but as you say, boys, it might be a persona he’s unable to maintain. But I have to say, ‘bag or not, I loved his dress, I would wear his dress, it was my favorite design after Bert’s. I don’t think there was anything wrong with his using the sheet as the body of the dress–not when he turned out such a fresh, well-executed piece with his own clothes used so imaginatively. I think he didn’t make the top 3 because this wasn’t cracktastic enough for judges who were beginning sentences with “I LOVE!” and ending them with “your design, Anthony.”

Fallene. She is a wacky gal! A clown puking a rainbow. I’m reserving judgment on this babe.
Anonymous

Viktor may have made a dress from a bedsheet, but he did a damn fine job. I don’t think it looks dated, the general pattern (sans embellishments) has been around long enough to be a classic, at least since the fifties. I really like the way he brought it into contemporary style. Everything is sewn well, lines up and lays (lies?) properly, fits her correctly, no mistakes. The judges may have thought it too safe, but it’s good to see right out of the gate which designers actually have sewing chops. I think it’s quite sharp and flattering. And he ironed it.

Miss Tidy Bowl Rainbow Puking Clown (I cringe just typing that), on the other hand, created a dress with nothing but a cartoon, puckers and a sloppy hem. The golden sash is a good choice of color, but this could have been a thrift store discard. Workmanship honey, if you’re going to going wacky-cracky.
beckywelander

hey
Anonymous

i LOVED viktor’s dress. i thought it should have been top 3, for sure. creativity: yes. reinventing the wheel: not necessary.
aimee_parrott

A. Wasn’t Fallene the name of Bambi’s girlfriend?

B. Hahahahahahahahaha! We don’t have to GIVE her any fleurchons, sillies, I’m sure she has plenty of her OWN.
Anonymous

Fallene reminds me of Peregrine (sp?) from Work of Art. Not my taste at all, but a clear POV.
- Anonymous
  
  Heh, and isn’t Peregrine where the Precious Unborn Fawns refrain originated too? (Someone above remarked that Falline was the name of Bambi’s girlfriend.)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6416893 Jenna Kuhmann

Is the tag from her shirt still on that yellow band around the waist of the dress? Because that is ridiculous.
http://profiles.google.com/shannonlstewart Shannon Stewart

Honestly, I thought using the clown was smart. I think the judges gave her some credit for using it because it was a difficult element to work in, and she managed.
- Anonymous
  
  A clown puking up rainbow colors into a toilet while attached to a black and white dress totally makes sense to me. The yellow colored sash almost cancels out the joke though. The “ditty bag” laundry hem is clever too.
  I thought Viktor’s dress should have been in the top three for good execution, but his model’s shaggy flat-ironed hair looked so bedraggled. Was he referencing fifties and early sixties pre-Afro hairstyles? I hope it is not making a comeback, fried frizzled hair is so unattractive.
http://www.facebook.com/jmarrazzo Joe Marrazzo

I didn’t have a problem with using the puking clown, I just didn’t think she used it with any wit or sense of style. It just looks plonked on there like an iron-on.
Anonymous

I’m sorry, I was out the second I saw the puking clown t-shirt. What kind of “fashionable” adult buys that? Either #1) she has extremely questionable taste or #2) she bought it to be “ironic hipster” (see #1). Regardless, sticking it on what ends up looking like an old laundry bag you’re whipped into your outfit for the red carpet at Chuck E. Cheese does not bode well.
- Anonymous
  
  I would pay money (if I had any) to read TLo’s ripping of the red carpet at Chuck E. Cheese.
  - Anonymous
    
    Any carpet that I have seen at Rat Hell (aka: Chuck E. Cheese) has been the color and texture of what the clown is upchucking.
Anonymous

Yawn. Macy’s level stuff.

So when does the Chris March show begin?
PostsYouCanDanceTo

I really, REALLY want a men’s shirt version of Viktor’s look. I think it’s more classic than conservative.

I like Felline’s, so there. But I’m a juvenile, pro-puking clown kinda guy. And I still think it looks pretty damn good. I don’t think those stripes are too heavy. Better sewing and dyeing the fabric a more complementary color to army green would’ve been great, but I really enjoy the overall effect we have here.
Anonymous

I really liked Viktor’s dress, and thought he should have been top three.

Hated Fallene’s. I’m not offended by the clown, but I don’t like the messy dress and the plunked-on nature of the embellishment. What an unflattering shape that dress is!

For the commenter upthread who wondered about a Fallene-Bambi connection, Bambi’s mom’s name was Faline.
- Anonymous
  
  No!!! Bambi’s GIRLFRIEND is Faline!!!!!! His mom is just Bambi’s Mother. Faline is the little girl fawn – they meet as fawns and play, then re-meet at the end of the film when the characters are “teenagers” and are all twitterpated.
Anonymous

I like Viktor’s name: it’s so villain-y, Viktor Luna. His dress was quite lovely, but I agree about why it wasn’t seen by the judges as top three material. I also thought it was a bit conservative, and the styling didn’t help that. Nevertheless, given the challenge and the materials, it was a good entry.

The puking clown speaks for itself. Unfortunately, what it says does not bode well for Fallene. I think she has some ideas, some interesting ideas even, but I’m not sure she really knows who she is as a designer, or that her work is really fashion per se – and I’m almost positive that her work is not what the show is actually looking for. But I love a wacky one, so I want to see more of her.

Oh, but I kind of miss Angela, too. Only a truly creative person could ever come up with Jubilee Jumbles. I don’t think that explanation has ever been rivalled on any season of PR (probably not even PR Canada’s “intergalactic warrior just back from Saturn with a gun that shoots love rays”*).

* I swear I’m not making that up.
- Anonymous
  
  Was that the season that gave the world the immortal “No more ho trends!” from Iman?
  - Anonymous
    
    Indeed it was! Season 2. Oh how I love Iman.
    
    It’s a shame that was the last season, because it was great. There were some fantastic designs – and the judging was fabulous and usually spot-on (plus there was real debate between the judges). It’s funny to me: in addition to every season of the original, I’ve seen S2 of PR Canada, S2 of PR Australia (and the first four episodes of the thus far pretty bland S3), and S1 of PR Korea, and the only one that seems to have crazy judging is the original.
    - Anonymous
      
      I think S1 of PR Canada was way better, mostly because it didn’t have Kim Cathers, who was kept on waaaay longer than she should have been, and it had a bit stronger competition overall – it was pretty obvious it was going to be Sunny winning the lot quite early, but S1 could have gone to a number of designers. Still, it had Iman, who is obviously the best host in the series.
      - Anonymous
        
        I never saw the first season, so I have no comparison, but you’re right about Sunny being the clear winner. Although, Jessica’s final collection and some of her work during the series occasionally suggested he might have some competition. As annoying as someone winning all the time can be, it’s nice when the judges don’t try to spread the wins around just because someone’s already won.
        
        I responded positively to Kim, actually (and not just because I appreciate reconciliation and redemption arcs, and she had one, although only after she was sent home), and I don’t think there was a clear point where she should have gone home earlier than when she did. The person I always felt was on borrowed time was Genevieve.
        
        We’ve gone off on a tangent! But yes. Iman. That is all that needs to be said.
      - Anonymous
        
        Just to continue to the tangent for a liiiiitle bit longer, that weird hobo dress on the divorcee challenge would be where I’d have sent her home. The guy who did go home had an awful entry, but it wasn’t quite so hobo.
        
        It’s a shame that Iman’s on a competing show, she makes the judging so much better.
      - Anonymous
        
        (Tangenting even longer.) She definitely could have gone home on that challenge, but something about it was more interesting to me than the actual losing garment, which was just a pretty dress gone horribly unflatteringly wrong (he had the absolute best fabric to work with, too) – and the judges were (explicitly for once) grading on past work and potential.
        
        She really does. And it’s a shame that said competing show doesn’t showcase that as well.
http://profiles.google.com/sara.e.munoz Sara Munoz

Since watching this show, I am now getting banner ads for the puking clown shirt. Big Brother! Gah!
aussiegal77

I thought Viktor’s dress was nice but it also came off a bit heavy and nurse-y. Fallene’s shorts during the audition were fun but her runway look was decidedly not. I don’t mind the puking clown but I do mind the sack dress, it makes her model look like she’s got giant hips and just in general, was not well styled. And the stripes just look terrible, not well made at all.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661256074 Mars Tokyo

I really liked Victor Luna’s dress. I thought it was a standout even if the majority of it was undyed sheet. I thought he should have been in the top three. The puking clown– uh—not.
http://twitter.com/VicksieDo Vickie Lord

Angela wore those EXACT pants in Paris on her season, when she got booted.
- Anonymous
  
  This made me laugh out loud, because I think you’re correct.
Anonymous

Angela’s lucky there wasn’t a “bottom 4″. That is one puking mess of a dress. And damned unflattering to boot. How she managed to take a vertical stripe and have it make a runway model look thick through the waist and hips is truly an amazing feat of engineering.
Anonymous

Viktor’s dress was in my top 3. In fact, it was second only to Bert’s. Fallene’s looked like it was made by somebody named Fallene. And by that I mean it reminds me of some long ago comedy sketch about a hillbilly family with a ton of daughters whose names were all _____een. Like Lurlene, Darlene, Doreen, etc. Falleene would have fit right in, particularly if she was wearing that dress.
Anonymous

I HATE that cinchy hem thing Angela (no, wait, Fallene) did. HATE. HATE. HATE. it. Possibly because of his model, I could see Viktor’s dress working very very nicely on everyone’s favorite stylish current First Lady. But it’s got the same silhouette Shelley O goes for, and – especially if remade so it didn’t include anything anyone had slept in – it would look great on Madame First Lady. Fallene was weird as crap, and that puking clown was hideous, not edgy.
Anonymous

I’m trying to figure out why Fallene didn’t remove the fabric care tag!
- margaret meyers
  
  Yup. How hard would that have been? Or was she being i r o n i c ?
http://twitter.com/marignygirl Marigny Girl

I LOVE the puking clown.
http://twitter.com/marignygirl Marigny Girl

I LOVE the puking clown.
Logo Girl

Sigh. Fallene. I was so happy last year when I had Mondo to root for, representing CO.

sigh.
MilaXX

Nice effort from Vicktor and yeah, Fallene bugs. Not digging the I’m so precious vibe from her.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=610791985 Aniela Marie Perry

Anthropologie worshipping hipster dingbats makes me feel exactly like that clown.
Anonymous

Viktor Luna has the best designer name of all of them, though.
RyzandShyn

I loved Viktor’s dress. I thought it was well sewn and the fit/flounce was good enough for a top three. I hear what you’re saying about it being mostly sheet though.
Puking Clown Girl seemed like fun for the first couple of hours, but quickly became annoying as hell. I blame the clown.
Anonymous

She should have been auf’d for keeping that puking clown alone. This is a fashion designer?
Anonymous

I thought this was the winner when I saw it. But, your comment about using mostly the sheet is well taken, so this is #2 after the Queen Mum’s.
Nicole Lee

Oh you guys. Clearly you don’t shop at Threadless!

http://www.threadless.com/product/282/The_Morning_After

This is a very popular Threadless t-shirt. I recognized it immediately.
- http://profiles.google.com/trashilove { edi } ilovetrash
  
  it’s not that no-one recognizes threadless. it’s that threadless is sometimes pointless.
  - Anonymous
    
    Only in the way that any popular pattern or fashion is “pointless”.
    - http://profiles.google.com/trashilove { edi } ilovetrash
      
      yep.
    - http://profiles.google.com/shannonlstewart Shannon Stewart
      
      “What is popular is not always right.” It may be popular, it may be cute, it may be fun, but one thing it is NOT is Fashion! Threadless has a lot of great stuff. That doesn’t mean it’s appropriate in THIS instance.
      - Anonymous
        
        It was a great graphic image and clearly displayed her point of view, therefore, IMO, she would have been remiss NOT finding a way to incorporate it into the design. I don’t much like how she did it (or the dress at all), but I think people who dislike the subject matter of the graphic are a little off-point. As always, the show likes designers who know what they like, and by extension know what they’re designing for. If Fallene is aiming for a graphic design-minded youthful demographic (like Threadless’s market) then utilizing the Threadless print is absolutely appropriate.
      - http://twitter.com/marignygirl Marigny Girl
        
        I agree! Clearly this girl has some whimsy and there are people, and I count myself as one of them, that can appreciate a little fashion whimsy. In fact I think that the biggest problem the fashion industry has is that they take them selves SO seriously. In fact wasn’t it our own Kors that said “lighten up, it’s just fashion?” Would I wear this out for cocktails? NO…but there is a definitely a market for it.
      - Anonymous
        
        There is definitely a market for it, but that doesn’t necessarily make it fashionable. It’s even more problematic for that to be the focal point of a dress – let alone that dress – when it isn’t her design.
        
        Besides, if that’s what sort of designer she is, she’s in no danger of winning. The show may string her along for a while, but that’s just not what they’re looking for. Heidi, Michael, and Nina are not going to hold up someone who staples a picture of a vomiting clown to a dress as the “next great American fashion designer” (however increasingly ridiculous that tag line becomes)*. Which makes it slightly cruel that she’s even on the show, except that what she brought to casting was completely different.
        
        *[Cut to, several months later, Fallene winning S9.]
      - http://twitter.com/marignygirl Marigny Girl
        
        So she can only make things that are on point with her portfolio? I think that would be limiting for anyone. The most interesting thing about her pjs was the puking clown, if she didn’t use it one of the judges would have mentioned that too. Also it’s hard to me to take this as a high brow competition, when they are going to a pet store for materials next week — although I know it will be fun, and someone will make something amazing.
        
        I don’t think she’s going to make it to the finals, but she has a different perspective and a sense of fun, and I think it’s great to have that on the show. She’s no Mondo or Seth Aaron , but they also had a sense of fun as well, they just knew how to use it a little better, maybe that will come with time. While certainly not the taste of the majority of fans, I LOVE it when they have someone a little quirky and fun … and her portfolio certainly shows she has talent. Again I don’t see why fashion has to be so serious all the time
        
        It’s not cruel to have someone who has a “different” vision on the show, even though they might not last very long, it’s cruel to send someone home when they’ve postponed their Icelandic wedding….
      - Anonymous
        
        You’re right – fashion shouldn’t be serious all the time and the show isn’t particularly high-brow in its approach, but I don’t think that tacking on someone else’s vomiting clown to your design is a whimsical approach to fashion. Or fashion at all. Nor do I think she would have been penalized for not using it, but I guess we’ll never know. I think there’s a difference between childlike and childish, and whimsical has more in common with the former – but that’s my personal taste. Her portfolio work was infinitely more whimsical than what she made in this challenge. (Now, the headbands that Mondo made last season in the activewear challenge – pure whimsy. Mondo in general was made of whimsy.)
        
        They let her on because of what she showed the casting panel, which was quite a bit different from what she showed in this challenge. There’s nothing wrong with making something different – new work should be different from old work. They didn’t let her on last season (perhaps she should be thankful!), because her work was deemed “super young, junior”. She took that criticism into account, her design aesthetic matured, and she came back with an interesting portfolio – but in this challenge she seems to have gone back to what kept her off S8.
        
        Having designers with “different” visions is great – I particularly love a wacky one. But the show actually wants designers with certain aesthetics and that makes it a little cruel to those designers with “different” visions to pretend that they have a chance of winning when they don’t – they’re being cast to fail, publicly. Then again, that is what they sign up for.
        
        But, yes, poor Serena…
  - Anonymous
    
    I don’t know — I’ve never heard of Threadless. But I’m old. Still, I don’t know why anyone would buy that clown TShirt.
Anna .

Viktor’s dress kind of looks like something Shelly O would wear.
http://twitter.com/ShelfAfterlife Shelf Afterlife

Is that her t-shirt tag dangling off the front of her yellow sash? Derp!
- Anonymous
  
  Derp, indeed!
margaret meyers

Fallene has no understanding of proportion: look at the stuff on her rack, look at her musketeer pants.
This dress just wasn’t bad enough to land in the bottom three. But she’ll be there.
- http://twitter.com/pinup_ghoul Pinup Ghoul
  
  Agreed. I don’t care about the clown, the dress itself is just so wrong in terms of proportion!
http://www.joannao.blogspot.com JoannaOC

Victor Luna’s dress would look GREAT on me because it’s a very flattering shape and well exectured. The DIY puking-clown dress would look great on my 16-year old/
Anonymous

Last season I thought Gretchen’s first runway entry looked like dollar-store fashion, and this year it’s the same for Fallene. Which means she’ll go to the finals (the judges have, ahem, taste issues).
spooki C

Love the t-shirt tag hanging from the sash… ugh.

Dress, not cute. Styling, not cute. She’s trying for whimsy and wacky and edgy and unique and it’s just coming off as run-of-the-mill-tries-too-hard terrible fashion.
Anonymous

Not taking anything away from the Queen Mum’s win, I thought that little dress of Victor’s was the best executed garment on the runway.

Having a visceral hatred of clowns, any clothing that incorporates a clown image, even a puking one, gets an immediate AUF from me.
Anonymous

I think that the puking clown is a generational thing, or maybe just a taste thing. My girlfriend turned to me and went “That’s a Threadless Design!” in extremely excited tones– the fact that she recognized and enjoyed the imagery says that it might be polarizing, but there’s a certain segment of the population (FTR, we’re in our 20s) that are more likely to look on that sort of print favorably. That said, the dress itself wasn’t very well-made, but it seemed kind of forgettable in any case.
Anonymous

Agreed that Victor was grossly underappreciated by the judges.

As for FAILene, the overall sloppy construction, raw seams, messy stripe appliqué, “ironic” tee shirt tag and of course her juvenile graphic element all should have landed her in the bottom three, and quite plausibly “auf.”
Wendy L Starn

I thought Viktor’s was by far the most marketable. I could see this in a store, and I could actually see myself wearing it.
http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/ Vic

Nice dress, Victor’s. Am still not watching.
Anonymous

I misread “puking clown” as “puckering clown.” Coincidence? Or Freudian statement on construction?
Anonymous

I misread “puking clown” as “puckering clown.” Coincidence? Or Freudian statement on construction?
Anonymous

Both Angela and Fallene are quirky, but Fallene seems a bit more fun. Angela could be pretty intense.
Anonymous

Both Angela and Fallene are quirky, but Fallene seems a bit more fun. Angela could be pretty intense.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Noeme-Ramirez/100002175594573 Noeme Ramirez

“We kind of miss Angela now that we think about it”…what’s that suposed to mean? I figured she probably won’t make it to the top three but if you guys are going to give stuff away I can’t keeping reading this blog until after the show. !!
- Anonymous
  
  Fear not. They are speaking of Angela from a long-past season.
- http://www.tomandorenzo.com Tom and Lorenzo
  
  You’re kidding; right?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Maguire/1286325876 Susan Maguire

I actually thought Victor had a top 3…i would wear it…
Anonymous

I kind of dislike Victor’s actually. It’s well made, yes, but it’s not very modern at all. It looks like a Simplicity pattern dress with a few little fun color elements.
Anonymous

I used to have that T-shirt.
http://twitter.com/pinup_ghoul Pinup Ghoul

I would wear Viktor’s dress. It’s a fun day dress that’s obviously inspired by classic American sportswear. Just my style!
Anonymous

I like Victor’s dress a lot, although I wish he’d dyed the sheet so that it wasn’t so blandly white.

Really didn’t like her dress. Just seemed really fussy and junior.
http://twitter.com/pinup_ghoul Pinup Ghoul

I don’t like the clown, which I think will become iconic of this season of PR, but I don’t mind it, either. What I do dislike about Fallene’s garment is that it was sloppily executed and just unflattering. In my mind, the dress could be vastly improved by retooling the entire top. If it had a straight bandeau top made of the bright yellow instead of a shapeless halter with the yellow sash, it would’ve imbued the dress with the youthful silhouette it needs. The skirt isn’t bad, but again, I feel like an empire waistline is much more suitable for this sort of look. Basically, just remove the halter and pull the dress up about 7 inches :p As it is now, it would be difficult for a woman of any age to wear because all of the elements are competing and the proportions are just all over the place. I just think that the clown would have worked more in her favor if the dress itself had a more youthful vibe to it, instead of just being a confused garment. But the initial challenges always seem to throw the designers for a loop, so I’m going to withhold any accusations of taste issues until I see more from all of them.
- http://profiles.google.com/trashilove { edi } ilovetrash
  
  the problem w/ the clown is less what it seems on the surface {puerile pukejoke subversion passé since just after aristophanes’ flea’s behind but regurgitated, if i may, thruout all time, forever & ever, amen, combined w/ a misappropriation & misinterpretation of the surface tropes of not-so-dead & terribly recent cultural movements that had quite a bit more depth than that of the hypercurrent. anyway} –anyway, it isnt that. that’s a problem inherent in the culture, not just w/ one garment.
  
  it’s that it’s somebody else’s very distinct image that she took & stuck onto her dress w/ a pin as the focus of her project. if someone else’s specific design is the focus of what is supposed to be yr own design, you arent thinking very much, to say the least.
  
  edited to add:
  ps. if you do not understand what i say, it’s probably cos you went to a whole lot less grad school.
  {i did not mean you, pinupghoul. i just know people are not gonna get a lot of it.}
  - http://twitter.com/pinup_ghoul Pinup Ghoul
    
    Don’t worry, {edi}, I always look forward to reading your posts. I didn’t go to grad school myself, but my fiance went for literature, so I was often used as a sounding board for his papers on objective violence inherent in language. I have heard, read, and seen more Zizek than any music major should ever be exposed to.
http://profiles.google.com/bratling2 Laura Davies

The shape on Victor’s also makes the model’s waist look smaller. The black tricks the eye that way.

Fallene, well, her absolutely juvenile tastes are coming through. Everything I’ve seen of hers has sloppy execution–even those much praised inspired-from-toddler-wear cracktastic bloomer pants were not all that well done.
Anonymous

Fallene’s “puking clown” obsession reminds me of something I’ve heard in a few writing workshops: you may write a scene you really love but if it doesn’t really work for the story you have to let.it.go. She should have pasted that stupid thing on her toolbox or something, not plunk it onto a dress that had nothing to do with it.
Anonymous

I just noticed that her shirt turned belt (or whatever) is inside out and has the tag showing. Is that supposed to be creative? A tip of her wacky hat? To me it is nonsensical. The clown had promise… it could’ve been very witty, like Laura B’s nut dress…but unfortunately, it loses its wacky appeal with its placement.
http://profiles.google.com/eszubert Elizabeth Szubert

YES. I couldn’t remember who exactly she was reminding me of but I knew it was season 3.

I agree with everything that was said – but I thought his dress should have been in the top 3. Not the win, but give the man some props. That’s something that I would buy for myself.
http://twitter.com/applecocola Stacy

I would wear Hissing Victor’s dress. In fact, i kind of really want it! it’d be great to wear to work or even on the boardwalk, it’s pretty versatile!
narita_rayna

wait a minute – what is that little tag on the yellow sash of fallene’s dress?? is that from the inside of the original shirt?!? what is that?? XD
Anonymous

Puking clown dress would go over really well here in Austin.
Anonymous

Puking clown dress would go over really well here in Austin.
Anonymous

I understand the reasoning behind Viktor’s not being in the top with regard to innovative design but honestly his dress was the best of all the entries from a style, wearability, execution stand point. That was definitely a sellable dress!
Anonymous

Even the styling of his model was outstanding.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=12500056 Joseph Lamour

If I recall, he’s the dude that said his ideal model would be “Size 2, long blonde hair, light-skinned, tall (6 feet), nice bone structure, a little figure (proportionally), LIPS and knows how to sell the garment.” I wonder how he feels that his model… well… doesn’t look like Barbie. She’s pretty fab tho.
http://www.facebook.com/john.ridener John Ridener

Oddly enough, the tag on the “sash” is not where a tag would ordinarily be (the neckline) Also, threadless.com typically screenprints the tags into the back of the neck. I’m betting that it’s actually a tag from the bedsheet she used.
http://www.facebook.com/john.ridener John Ridener

Oddly enough, the tag on the “sash” is not where a tag would ordinarily be (the neckline) Also, threadless.com typically screenprints the tags into the back of the neck. I’m betting that it’s actually a tag from the bedsheet she used.
sweetlilvoice

I just bought that shirt after I saw her with it. I hate clowns, but this is a clown in pain. I hope it helps me through my phobia.
Susan Crawford

I’m no stranger to weird prints, but the rainbow puking clown was definitely the HIGHlight of this episode. Where in the world did she get those sleep-pants? All things considered, she couldn’t do anything else but include the motif in her garment – and it was really the one thing about her creation that kind of saved it from banality, wasn’t it? But I can imagine what NinaGahcia wrote on her little note card about THAT image – must have been a doozie of a comment.
Anonymous

Well, just like skying-chinchilla girl, if she didn’t use the crazy puking clown print, she might just have been put in the bottom and called on it.
So, new rule in PR101 : don’t go in clothes with prints you would normally stay far away for your design.
The worst thing being : even if she was sure she wouldn’t be call on not using the print, she surely would have used it…
Anonymous

The clown should’ve been made into a pin cushion-like brooch, purse, or buckle. Tattily applied applique, not so much. Worst thing about her design is it makes her model (skinny adolescent model, people) look shapeless and a tad dumpy.

Victor’s was my favorite garment, though not as interesting nor as likely to entrance the judges as Bert’s. Bert deserved the win, hands down, by PR’s loosely applied inexact standards, but I was impressed by Victor.
Anonymous

At least Fallene (which sounds like Fullerene, as in Buckminster, as in bucky ball, to me) made an interesting silhouette. Executed poorly, but I love that shape. I really hate Viktor’s! It screams ‘skating by.’ An auf’ing for SHO if there were only 8 people left.
Anonymous

At least Fallene (which sounds like Fullerene, as in Buckminster, as in bucky ball, to me) made an interesting silhouette. Executed poorly, but I love that shape. I really hate Viktor’s! It screams ‘skating by.’ An auf’ing for SHO if there were only 8 people left.
Anonymous

I WANT VIKTOR’S DRESS. NOW. RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

That is all…
vmcdanie

Plugging fingers in my ears and singing when you criticize Fallene. I love her. I love her puking clown shirt. I guess the dress wasn’t good. I just do not care.

Angela Keslar. How dare you sirs! Well, ok maybe kind of and Lupe too but much less annoying than either of them.

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