MF: “One Humongous Headpiece”

MANILA!!!!!!

I’ll be damned, but that has to be Manila Luzon in the second picture of the other entrants!!!

Chris’ work is actually stunning…and I agree that a headpiece you have to hold up with all your might isn’t a headpiece at all: it’s a large contraption you are attempting to balance on your cranium.

I totally agree that the sparse arrangement made this look.  It’s funny to hear Chris talk about how designs work best with a single voice.  The Team Fierce avant garde dress was one of his best contributions.

Something is no doubt brewing with Hairpiece Girl.  This is the second or third (out of what, 4?) episodes in which wigs were not used or rejected by the client(s), so she wound up doing intern-type work to stay involved.  I wonder how much of this is a natural team and how much is Bravo casting for the show.

His over-the-top designs are fun, but I hope we get an episode or two that deals with his more elegant designs.  From all his output, I think I most liked his simple, dark plaids from the All-Star show and the goth-style safety pin dress from his final collection.  Go figure.

is that our friend Manilla???

Our thought – if you had to hold it up it shouldn’t qualify. Stunning all around.

i really like this show, its just plain fun.  how can you not love even a grumpy sissy bear?  but i agree with some that if you had to hold the headpiece you shouldnt be a contender. 

Did the dress and the headpiece really even “go together”, other than both being floral?  The colors seemed off, the look in total was really busy…I just wasn’t feeling it. 

The headpiece that took the prize was one of the uglier ones to me.  And it took 2 hands to hold up and was still falling off.  Just sayin.

chris’ was by far the prettiest, based on the selection i see here… can’t wait to watch the dvr’d ep in its entirety later.

is that Manila is see??

Chris’ is really pretty! Yet to see the episode though…

Yeah, I didn’t really understand the winning look.  It was literally like she was holding a small tree over her head and the outfit didn’t add anything.  If she had put her hands down the whole thing would have fallen off.  Some of the tension may have also come from the fact that his floral designer won the last two years and lost this one…

I can’t wait for this show every week!  I hope someone from Bravo comes over here and reads the recaps and comments.

I really enjoyed this one, all the headpieces were amazing. Thanks for posting the pictures of the ones we didn’t get to see.

So which one(s) beat Chris’s?  (I like the show concept enough to read about it here but not enough to watch it myself).  I kind of like the big creation in the second-to-last photo, even though it clearly violates Chris’s “no hands” rule.

I didn’t watch this episode. Does anyone know which headpiece won? Is it pictured here? Where did Chris’ creation place? Thank you in advance!

I apologize if this is a duplicate: Am I wrong or is the second model Manila Luzon from Drag Race?

Loved the headpiece–so pretty. Thanks for including the other pictures!

Hmmm, I actually did think that Chris was a bit robbed–his showgirl model walked beautifully in that thing–so props for balance.  And I love the suspended butterflies–I wish there’d been some color variation and that the butterflies weren’t opaque–but it really was stunning.

I don’t think they were injecting tension–I think that was the real thing.  Chris is the boss and the designer–even if he and Max always dress in plaids together.  (Do that Bear thing, boys.)

I want a butterfly hat–Alexander McQueen started it, but now I really, really want one.  Halloween, Ascot–okay, off to find a millinery class.

I agree if they needed to hold it on, it wasn’t a head piece. I liked Chris’ but I like the one Manilla Luzon is wearing the best. Big props to Chris’s model. The winning one was cool, but way too big and the accompanying dress was stupid

I think there was a “Pepper” sighting in there inder all this flowers

Pointless, wretched excess.

Second from the bottom looks like Michael Cera in drag.

I have to say, I didn’t watch the show but I like Chris March’s headpiece the best. It really does have an otherworldly quality to it.

And Manila! Fabulous. Love that she’s working that headdress way more than any of the other contestants.

Wow, I can’t believe Chris didn’t win. Looking at the photos his looks by far the best to me. The only other ones I like almost as much as his is the crazy Cleopatra one, and the Madame Pompadour one, more for the overall look than the headdress alone.

The only thing that really shocked me, was that those black sticks in the headpiece weren’t painted in a flat black matte paint – instead of shiny (to absorb the light). Under spotlights, black matte (ie; velvet-like) would disappear and look like a black hole, and it would look like the flowers & butterflies were just floating there. That is how magicians make things disappear (by the strategic use of black velvet).

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okay, somehow this comment was lost. trying again.

if you go eleven down starting at the top pink & red pompom, you will see a jacket. if you have seen viktor’s collection on his website, you will immediately conjure the question: did viktor make that jacket?

elsewise, i love the dress made by chris march & his team. i wonder if it’s a true one off or if he’s got it for sale somewhere. i really do think it’s that pretty.

maybe the marching band i can hear in the background [for no reason i can name, but it seems like there must be a parade on sunset boulevard. i live maybe four blocks down]–anyway, maybe it confused me & my server enough to lose my previous post.

the other thing i’d asked & still would like to know the answer to is if there is available online a compendium of this year’s plantheads. i’ve seen them many times in the past but for some reason cant find the current year’s.

ps. i apologize if you see this twice. i cant get it to show up. i would just forget about it if this post did not have three questions to which i would truly like answers!

I thought that Nos. 14 and 15 – the two above the actual winner – were the ones to beat.  They were lovely and didn’t require hand support.  I liked Chris’s look, but the colors in the gown looked like they were trying to match the colors of the flowers, but were just off enough that it was a miss.  

Hello Everyone–I just thought I would stop by again to clear up what, of course, can’t be shown in 22 minutes of reality television. 
First, the headpiece was never supposed to have white feather (feathers are against the rules) butterflies all over the place–Golf made that decision the night before the event without consulting me. Yes I was pissed when I showed up and the headpiece looked nothing like when he auditioned it for us (with wild color combinations, and a flurry of those yellow ethereal orchids up to the ceiling–it was stunning!), plus, due to his refusal to use the specially created platform and fitted head I provided him with, the whole headpiece literally plunged to the floor the second I first walked in to the work room (!). We spent a lot of time fixing it, and since he brought no alternative to the butterflies, we were stuck with it. The filming of this episode was a nightmare from beginning to end, and it is actually difficult for me to watch. Let’s also just say that one of the main people in charge of this episode didn’t work on the show for much longer. Like the first costume, out the window. There is also confusion about who “won”…there are actually 3 categories at Tulips and Pansies, and we were in Most Beautiful. The one that won for that was, well, really not so beautiful, and they showed the winner from another category as the overall winner, as if we lost to that one. So, there you go. Confusing? Yes. I have been asked to participate in this event for years, and now I know why I never did. I was not particularly mad that we didn’t win (I have actually won very few contests I have entered, I always seem to come in second or third) I was mad at the way it played out and at some of the tricks employed to add drama to the episode. And yes, there are no judging guidelines for having to hold up your “hat”–ours was the only one that remained hands free–and 9 feet tall. Live and learn. Thanks for watching and supporting the show, (Bravo now follows the number of tweets we get as part of the “ratings”, so tweet us up if you want to show your support!! @chrismarchlol  @bravomadfashion  @bravotv  @bravoandy)                                                      –Chris March    

I don’t think any entry that force their models to show their armpits throughout the show should win. 

I think the fact that Chris’ client had won the previous two competitions may have had something to do with the judges choosing someone else this year.

LOVE the lilly pulitzer dress but it didnt go with the headpeice. Betsey Johnson shouldhave won!