Is Olivier’s collection menswear inspired? There are some very wearable separates here, but that second look (black leather shirt, tan highwaisted leather pants) is just plain ugly.

Well, if there’s a new Star Trek series coming any time soon, Olivier is their designer and possibly their makeup artist.

I kinda love it… Those grey pants are kinda awful, but the rest is strangely appealing.

BTW, on the fact that Olivier spells his name oddly for its pronounciation:  My husband, who is Chinese-American, said that it’s probably just because he’s Asian.  He said in Chinatown you find all kinds of weird English names and spellings because the ESL parents don’t really know what they’re doing; they hear a word and think it would make a nice name.  Or they see a word and mix up the spelling.  That kind of thing.

That’s just a whole nation of ass right there…. From the clothes to the styling to those HIDEOUS EYEBROWS. Gross.

Who on earth wants to wear these clothes, Olivieieieieer? Homeless muppets?

what is up with Olivieieieier’s model’s eyebrows? hideous. not enjoying his or Viktor’s collection surprisingly.

Laura’s collection is pretty, but somewhat boring.  I don’t even know what to say about Olivier’s…seems to have some sort of zipper fetish.  I’m not liking his stuff at all.  And surprisingly, Viktor’s collection leaves me cold as well.  None of these three are doing anything for me.

These collections are as boring as the season has been so far.  The move to Lifetime really killed this show.

I’m going with Viktor.

Oh god, Olivier’s is a mess. Talk about dated!

Love Viktor’s.

Aren’t we done with sheer menswear shirts over lingerie yet? They were dated back in the days of Daniel Franco – and you can’t have a retro trend when the item in question never went away.

Aren’t we done with sheer menswear shirts over lingerie yet? They were dated back in the days of Daniel Franco – and you can’t have a retro trend when the item in question never went away.

I can’t even judge Olivier’s clothes.  The eyebrows are just too hideous!

Oliver. Meh. I’ve seen half of those outfits on Ten Forward.

LOVE Viktor’s!

Laura and Viktor look like finalists to me.  And can’t help it, I like ‘em both.

Laura’s isn’t speaking to me. Olivier’s is speaking, but saying all the wrong things. Some of Viktor’s I like a lot, but I wish he had eschewed the sheer.

Top 3 for me:  Bert, Viktor, Anya  Signed, Out on a Limb.

Seeing the rest of Olivier’s collection didn’t change my original opinion, which was negative, but I’ll have to give him this, it’s very cohesive with its design and color story, none of this *one of these things doesn’t belong with the others*. The poor fits and unflattering silhouettes turn me off. I think he’s a menswear designer for a reason, he has no interest in enhancing a woman’s body. He and Viktor must have fought over the same models. What makes me uneasy is that he could quite possibly make it to the Final 3, and if judged against, say Bert and Anya, be the winner. Because it’s different. There is a market I think for these kinds of looks, and it’s pretty damn far away from Gretchen. If this, admittedly, far-reaching scenario happens, I’ll be really unhappy. I have given up on trying to figure out what the judges will cream themselves over.

so far none of these people shouldve won anything. not one of them.

blenley has a couple nice pieces, oliver made a nice pair of shiny pants, viktor made a nice dress– the shorter one. the rorschach to my vagina {& perhaps points beyond} is an almost-ran. the gustav klimt if he made shirts for heidi above below that shorter one isnt bad, but the mary katrantzou pre-mortem mcqueens intermixed are so derivative theyre just– wow. i could do the same analyses on all of them, not just these three. less bert’s cos, while his stuff is gorgeous, it’s classic-generic. the rest of them are trying to be trendy & that is more trying of my patience.

i say: anya / viktor / anthony. i could be wrong, but right now thats what i think. in that order.
edited to add: maybe laura. but i dont think she has the crowd appeal of anthony, so i would think him instead.

have fun!

Well, I can’t tell who the decoys are because all of these collections are boring as hell.  Does not inspire me to keep watching the rest of the season.  Talent and creativity levels have gone waaaaaaay down since the beginning of this show.

SO far, Laura, Viktor, and Kimberly get my vote. Still not incredibly impressed though…on to Anya, Bert, and whoever else…

I’m thinking Laura, Viktor and either Bert or Anya. My guess would be Laura Viktor and Anya simply because the judges seem to really like her and classics, while never out, are also not “the next big thing” that PR is looking for, so I doubt Bert will be in the top 3.

I will say I have much, much higher hopes that Josh isn’t long for this competition-I can’t wait to see him leave (and I have a feeling Becky will be having a party and getting seriously drunk that night ).

I’m pretty sure that I shouldn’t, but I REALLY like Viktor’s collection. Did Olivier have the funky eyebrows to distract us from the clothes? Because I caught myself not looking at the clothes, only the brows.

I’m pretty sure that I shouldn’t, but I REALLY like Viktor’s collection. Did Olivier have the funky eyebrows to distract us from the clothes? Because I caught myself not looking at the clothes, only the brows.

I don’t know if he is the overall winner but Viktor gets my vote for best choice of fabrics.

Olivier’s is just… aggressively ugly.  Ew.

I think I’m going to go ahead and solidify my rooting for Viktor, but I want Laura’s jewelry. All of it. I don’t care if she made it or not.

VIKTOR – if he is NOT the winner – was totally ripped off.   

Laura and OIliveieireore  – holy crap  – at least Wendy’s naked woman looked romantic!

Pick the whitest models and put them in very very sheer black – with no details or romanticism in the outfits.

Olllivvererywyruie – WTF with the eyebrows

Lauta – if I can ignore the sheer t-shirt tops – there were a few pretty nice looks (like the bronze geometric prints)

i’m not a big fan of viktor as a person — he’s the whiney kid who’s always saying “it’s not fair — they cheated”…. how many times has he whined about someone doing something that he thinks goes against the “rules”….  that said, i am really liking his designs.  i haven’t loved everything he’s sent down the runway, but some of my favorite pieces from this season have been his….

as for olivier — he seems to have a thing against pretty women.  those eyebrows are just fug…. he did the same thing on the pet challenge by having the hamster bedding applied to the model’s eyebrows.  he was criticized for it, yet here it is again.  then the clothes….. i have seen very few things from him that i like.  the jacket in last night’s episode is probably the one exception…

So far, my vote goes to Viktor as the winner of PR 2011!

I like a lot of Laura’s looks but hate a few, and I loathe her tendency towards peachy, grandma bathroom fantasies.

Olivier seems well-made but eh, it’s so tired it’s cliche. Really. Like between Margiela and Jil Sander and a thousand others, this territory has been beaten like the proverbial dead horse, and his garish, alien styling seemed appropriate on a few looks but highly gratuitous on the rest. Yawn. Sadly, I really fear this is the collection the judges would pick to win as long as Olivier is in the finale. Please God, don’t let him get that far.

I like Victor’s, but I’m not getting an overall message from it. His prints and colors are pretty and modern but I agree with whoever said it reminded them of Stella McCartney. And am I blind, or did he basically make two of the same shirt? (The mirrored sheer top paired with the black shorts and then later with the long purple print skirt and black blazer. So the neckline’s been finished different, and hell, maybe there’s a different sleeve treatment too, but it is essentially the exact same design.) Strange.

all of Olivier looks look oddly out of proportion.  I thought at first it was the styling of the models but I see other designers used the tight pulled up and bumped hair and their proportions look fine.

Laura and Viktor have some nice bits and pieces but nothing overwhelming in toto

Laura’s has potential, but overall it was a snooze-fest.  I did like the one black dress, though, but it seemed out of place, since it actually fit and had good proportion.

Olivier… Oh, my little Onew clone… Your styling is atrocious, and this collection, I am afraid, really needed some kick-ass styling.  I will cry the day they send you home, because even if you make the top three, this will not win it all. 

Viktor’s I kind of liked, surprisingly.  Though, if he ends up against Kimberly’s I would have to lean toward hers.  Also, at least one of his models looks like they ripped off the eyebrows from when they walked for Olivier, re-dressed them for Viktor and sent them out.

Begrudgingly like Laura’s. Olive oil’s are a snoozefest. Love Vicktor’s prints, not loving the sheer/black pieces

Laura? YIKES! what a sad mess of stuff. Mostly totally unwearable.  Olivier? Some great ideas there but,… Honey, no amount of tailoring skills are gonna save you if the clothes are cut to make a rail skinny 5’11″ model look like she weighs 240 pounds. Victor?  None of his work is ground breaking, but he showed the most range and the best wearability in his looks.  Very sellable stuff in the main. 

I’ve found Viktor’s collection the most polished, and the least RTW/boring of the bunch.  I picked Josh, Becky, and Viktor based on their pictures-and-paragraphs (a couple more, like Gunnar, didn’t get out of the gate or just barely)–since poor Becky is gone (I think there’s a market for her stuff, for sure, but she was everyone’s punching bag and was never going to be allowed to be a finalist), and Josh is rapidly disappearing up his own ass in a fart of glitter…

I’m going with Viktor FTW.  (and he should have won this week, IMO)

Laura: Well made pieces, on the fence here, could be a top three, or a pretty damn good decoy. Like the black gown with the gold cutouts on the bottom especially, and the brown print kimono looking dress. Liking the styling and accessories. Nothing earth shattering, but very nicely made pieces, Michael costello is jealous. I want to see the three pieces that are not here.
Olivier: I’m going to look at it again in a day or so. I LOVE the opening number, the plastic, the leather, the belt and boots, even the hair. Looks phenomenal. The rest ranges from the really good, to the plain unusual. With this kind of show it doesn’t hit me at first, so I’ll check in with it again in a day or so. Certainly keeps his aesthetic but doesn’t bore, IMO anyway, so it is a plus that fr Fashion Week, he needed to amp up the styling considering his minimal approach, props for that.
Viktor: One piece missing here, I’ll catch up on that, this to me looks like a top three. Beautifully constructed. LOVE that opening dress and the last two looks here, nicely made and constructed, urban too. But I still hate to big boxy shoulder pad looking things. I think this is possibly a top three but never know.

All three to me are a possibility at being a top three, all have high points and low points, but the high points are great in all of them.

Those Star Trek brows are DISTRACTING man!

I really like Laura’s presentation.  The clothes are wearable but still have a little something extra to make them distinctive.  I admit like like understated clothes unlike some of  the things that we’ve seen on this year’s show.

I really like Laura’s quite a lot. It’s clearly a collection and each piece is overall, or at least has something, very interesting. Hope she’s a real finalist. 
It’s the best one of all.

UNDERWHELMED. Extremely so…. like I went through these so fast it’s not even funny. 

Laura finally made something I like. . . if only she could make something I love. 

serenitynow02 observed that Olive Garden did a similar exaggerated eyebrow in the Pet Shop challenge (and the judges hated it.) 

Perhaps this means that Olive Garden is a decoy and the eyebrows are a big f-you to the judges? 

Disappointing. Am officially rooting for Viktor for the win.

Kinda loved Oliver’s collection, and Laura’s was great as well. I hope it’s Anthony, Oliver, and Laura!

Hmmm…. Laura’s dress with the writing is the most modern piece, but the rest of her collection stretches kind of far. Still, considering during the competition all of her pieces seemed to come from some zone of distress, it’s much better than I had anticipated. I wish Olivier had pushed the envelope a bit further in terms of design, and that he had gone whole hog avant garde and edgy. It stops short… and I’m not sure the restrained attitude works to its full advantage. Viktor’s clothes are well made and conceptualized. As I would have expected.

Viktor is the clear winner for me, his stuff is awesome.

My guess for the other two finalists would be Anthony Ryan and Laura. Maybe Anya…

hm.  A nipple shirt, and lots of high waisted there’s-a-tummy-control-panel-hidden-in-my-pants pants.

I am NOT impressed with anyone’s collection… These clothes are disgusting I don’t want any of it.. where is the talent this season? past seasons there were collections where I wanted every piece.. I don’t want any of this shit 

My guess for the 3 finalist are Laura, Anya & Anthony. I would give the win to Anthony, but I think the judges will give it to Laura. Those collections look more expensive and also have accessories like bracelets and necklaces. They probably had the final twist be that the designers make accessories for their collections to tie in the PR accessory show. I think Anya comes in 3rd. I also think the judges may have picked 4 and then had Anya and ________  show pieces to decide who goes to Fashion Week.

I’d call Laura and Viktor pretty close, here, and Olivier a contender but as an extreme long shot.

Surprised to say this but Laura looks like a contender for final 3. I’d say she’s about on the same level as Viktor, here,  on how many are striking or at least of interest, except I think her collection hangs together better than Viktor’s. I know they had a limited number of looks but his looks like two different collections, almost.  I like her color choices more than Viktor’s, in part because they were less varied. They both show some acquaintance with the shape of a female (model’s) body and how to make clothes to fit it, I think Viktor demonstrated as well as (or better than) anyone else but Bert that he can make clothes that fit.

I’d say Olivier deserves to be at least top 4 because he has a cohesive vision – and by PR standards it’s a *good* thing that it’s more unusual than say, Bert’s, who also has a recognizable look.  But despite there being very wearable pieces in his collection, I don’t think you become a winner on PR if your look + styling is both unusual right to the edge of sci-fi convention AND less than extremely well made. I suspect his materials were hard to work with, but there’s some wonky fitting and not-laying-quite-right going on that I don’t think is intentional. And, really,that shiny grey plasticky stuff. Just too shiny.

I do think if his clothes were better fitted and made, he ought to be a top 3 contender – I don’t personally *like* his color scheme, but it works as a palette, I think, and if he’s derivative (because, after all, there’s not much new under the sun), at least it’s not of looks I can buy at at least 3 different stores and price points right now.

I like Laura’s collection best, but that might be because she has the human-looking models.

What a strange color pallette Olivier chose. It doesn’t feel modern and it’s all so fug. So disappointing.
I like Laura’s last dress and the Angelina Jolie dress. 
Viktor’s collection makes me feel mostly icky.

I like a couple of pieces from Olivier’s and Viktor’s collections but the rest is kind of boring.  Enough with the dressy shorts already!

In Oliver’s collection the women all look like boxy shapless 10 year old boys with a weight problem.  I mean seriously.  So far Viktor is the only one who has multiple pieces I think look good.  Laura had a few things I liked, but so far Viktor is my winner.

What was it, Botox day backstage?  I’ve seen more expression on the Sphinx.

Top 3 – Victor … Laura … Anya

Though I absolutely HATED Victor and Oliverrerrrers styling… wtf?  Those eyebrows were killin me… just not diggin the androgynous (sp?) look.  Big freakin hairy worms on your face are not cute!

Laura’s proportions are SO wonky! 
Oliver…is NOT my taste – and his models just need big hillbilly teeth to finish that look…..lawd
Viktor: J’adore more than half of it and like the rest…barring the suspenders and see through beach cover/lingerie(?) ato much lacey transparent period really. 

Um…did they all have to make titty tops?  Sorry I have a thing for alliteration. Oh booby blouses! I’ve seen more boobies looking over this season’s runway than I can remember having done before.  It seems to me that all of them were ready to wear.  There were no wows!

Laura- I liked it but that first dress looks like a death trap.  You can slit your wrists trying to put it on.

Olivier – wtf?!?  Does he have an eyebrow fetish?  I couldn’t stop looking at the eyebrows.  I had to go back and TRY to look at the clothes.  The boring ugly clothes except the black dress with the zippers.  I kinda like that.

Viktor- cute. wearable

It’s unfortunate Viktor’s hair and makeup styling was so close to Oliviererir’s.  I kept seeing groucho brows that weren’t really there.

What is with Olivier’s obsession with eyebrows?!

Did anyone else notice that Olive and Viktor’s model’s have the exact same hairstyling.  Also, O, V and L are pretty much using the same color palette.  Not bad, but interesting.  That said, overall not bad, all three have a nice sense of consistency and this is a line going for it, with some nice pizazz here and there.  Hey Oliver didn’t go all pale, there is a little vibrancy there.

Laura : very surprised by what I see here. She didn’t produced anything like that in PR before. Some pieces are lovely (helped by the jewellery), some not so much. I wonder if she’s top three.
Olivier : Yuck. Sorry, but the combination of men inspired outfits and androgynous-bording-on-manly styling doesn’t please my taste. Plus, I don’t know if it’s intentional but the fitting is… Odd. Most of whatever figure the models might have is being swallowed by the outfits. They all look bulky on the top and thick in the waist. not my cup of tea. Olivier definitely doesn’t design for women, he justs follows his own art.
Viktor : very puzzled. I don’t sense a high fashion created to wow judges and win the prize. Some pieces are lovely while some looks seemed directly extracted from Olivier’s collection. I’m afraid he’s not in the top three.

So, based solely on the pictures of the 9 remaining challengers, my guesses for the top three are : Anthony Ryan, Anya (not thrilled at the thought but it’s real TV, so…) and Josh or possibly (and hopefully) Viktor. 

OH MY GOD I FEEL SO BAD FOR OLIVIER’S MODELS. And thank god he didn’t make it to the final three, with this shitty collection. Restores my faith in the show somewhat.

Looking at these collections, I think my pick for the final three would be Anthony, Laura and Viktor. Anthony’s collection was kinda fun and interesting, Laura’s was surprisingly interesting and Viktor’s was really cool. I think those three could be amazing designers.

Looking over Laura’s collection again, I like it a lot more than I did the first time I saw it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s a finalist.

just saying that olivier’s not only are the clothes manly but the models were manly lookking and styled.

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What’s. With. The. Eyebrows?!